Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-23
ANOTHER TRY
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all along the line as II threatened. to


cago would be tied up. The same pro-
gram was seemingly in store for the
stone and the industrial enterprises de-
pendent uron them. The planning mills,
the sash and door factories, the box
factories and kindred plants will also
face soon a shortage of lumber sup
plies which would necessitate closing
down.
Action by the teamsters, today, was
decisive. In a few moments the first
40 recruits to the strike had been in
creased to an even hundred. Seventy
of the total were employees of the Ed
ward Hines Lumber Co., at the head
of which is Former President Hines of
the Lumber Dealers Association. Mr.
Hines has been particularly prominent
among the employers in the recent ne
gotiations for a settlement. Aside from
his firm the Rittenhouse & Embree
Lumber Co. were the first to feel the
spread of the strike, today. Thirty
Transfers employed by Rittenhouse &
Embree quit. The full force in each
case struck. The cause as heretofore
was an order to deliver material to
firms boycotted by the teamsters.
Paradexical as it may appear. Pres
ident Shea was reported, today, as
not anxious to spread the strike. He
was understood Furthermore to take
| the ground that the strike would not
be extended unless it were through the
| action of the other side. If the team
owners insisted upon delivering goods
| to the strike-bound houses. the team
sters directly affected would strike, but
| that otherwise no strike would be
| called.
Edward Hines, president of the Luin-
| Der Mems Association, declared that
| every lumber yard in the city would
! before long be without drivers. 1T
means complete stagnation of business
| at a time when building operations in
| Chicago are booming to greater ex-
| tent than has been known since 1892
said Mr.. Hines.
The express companies. whose atti-
| tude on the uHt-tion of reinstatlng
| their striking divers caused the break
| in the peace plans, stood firm, today,
| refusing to take back any OF their ola
men. The officials of the express COM
| panies declared absolutely that none
of the strikers would be reinstated.
| The arrest and prosecution of parents
| and children connected with school
| strikes following the use of colored
uon-unio transfers in delivering coal
at public schools has caused hi Ter feel
| ing. The Federation If Labor has
adopted resolutions as follows:
| "Ecsolved, That the Federation plcd3-
es itself to stand by these children, and
If necessary for their vindication, to
hold ourselves ready to withdraw all
/ <bilflrcp from, tha cCrpOrat ion
trolled schools.
| .I;esoIvcd, That if these victims os
servi!e and misdirected zeal are not M
Imediate,y released. we pledge the SER
vices of this organization to both chill
dron and parents who have been ar
|rested or prosecuted py officials who are
so easily blinded to the dOings of sweat
shops and trust factories. but who are
so ready to cast Il stigma upon the
highest type of childhood. today, and
we promise to secure their freedom ana
their rights even if it be necessary to
go to the supreme court OF Illinois -
accomplish it.
Resolved. That a committee of 1--WE
he appointed by the Federation of Lab
or to take such steps as may be nee
essary to give effect 10 these resola-
tiors."
| An incendiary fire. last night, at the
yards of the Rittenhaus & Embree Lum-
her Co., is suspected by the firm t"
Ihave connection with the strike. The
police declare they hav' clew to the
lircendiaries and expect to make arrests.
| As the day advanced. the strike grad
'ually snread. twenty-five teamslers
lcrA; Dyed ny the r. Wi1ce Lumber Co..
81 mex b, cause they had been expect I'd
20 make 4 delivery IL .. large depart
n, mt store. The lumber dealers were
said TO be opera ting under an agree
ment by which members undertook to
make deliveries for any struck" firm.
F.. E. Hooper, secretary of the sash,
door and blind association said, today:
1--WE do not propose to permit a part
of the Transfers Union to work and
| support the other part on strike. 1t is
| Il case of fight now with us. Every
thing points to d complete tie-up of
every branch of building in Chicago
| until we can get non-union drivers to
do the work."
| In order to cope with the situation.
| Sheriff Barrett, today, began to add to
| his large force of deputies. A call for
| 200 more patrolmen for special strike
| duty was made by Chief Of Police
| O'Neil. today. Chief O'Neil was author
| lied by a recent order to swear in 1000
| additional men, but up to today. he
| had only secured 500 of this number
The recruiting of men to serve as
| strike breakers has been resumed by
the Employers Association with in
| creased vigor Word was received, to-
day, that 300 men were due to Chjca-
go. tonight, from Buffalo and 200, to-
| morrow. from Kansas City, Cleveland
| and Cincinnati.
Members of a new grand jury which
was sworn in. today, in the criminal
| court were instructed by Judge Barnes
to pay particular attention to cases
growing out of teamsters' strike, par
ticularly assaults.
SHERIFF SHOWS FIGHT.