Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-05-26
WAR DECLARED
IN BIC STRIKE
All Prospects for Settlement
Have Entirely Disap-
peared,
IN THE CHICAGO STRUGGLE
Last Conference Looking Toward
Peace Of No Avail Express Com
panies Refu. to Come to Terms
With Striking Drivers.

Chicago, H., May 2l.-Al peace
negotiations have been declared Off
in the teamSters' strike and indica-
tons point that the struggle is TO go
on to the bitter end. Already the
industrial war has spread to the lum-
Der drivers. Nearly all Of the 1900
men in this branch Of industry have
either been discharged Or locked out,
and a general tie-up of all building
operations in the city is threatened.
This will mean the enforced idleness
of 10000 wage earners in mills, fac
tories and those employed in building
construction until the new drivers are
obtained.
With the union drivers employed by
the lumbermen's association on a
strike, it will be only matter of a
short time until outside unions will
become involved in the trouble. Just
as soon as the building material on
hand now has been used up and an
attempt is made to make deliveries
with nonunion drivers the other la
Dor unions employed on the work
will order their men to refuse to
handle the nonunion material. Un
less the strike is settled within a
short time the carpenters, stone
masons and other affiliated Organiza-
tons are bound to become involved
in the difficulty.
Chicago. May 25.-Final rejection
of nninD don, onIc nCnopia l1v fhncn nf
the express drivers, was officially an
nounced yesterday by the employers.
They demanded practically uncondi-
toned surrender. Neither side in the
strike made a direct step towards
peace and each was apparently wait
ing the next move of it's opponent.
The employers sent their goods ali
over the city, under police protection,
without encOuntering violence.
The strike in the lumber districts
spread yesterday with great rapidity
and practically all business Of that
kind is at standstill. Some few
lumber yards are still in operation
but their volume of business is so
small as to amount to practically MOTH
ing. A number Of planning mills and
sash and door factories were COM
PEELED to shorten operations and by
Friday at least will be compelled to
close entirely if the supply of lrm-
Der is not largely increased. The
lumber yards made little effort to
transact business and were waiting
for drivers to be sent them by the
Employers Teamng company. A
,1,cr Nf &c, will
be at work today and business will
be resumed in a smalrs degree at
least.
One cause for the lack Of energy
on the part of the employers in the
lumber district yesterday was that
the city was not able to afford them
police protection. Mayor Dunno pro.
vided against this contingency last
night by issuing call for 1000 extra
policemen, who will be sworn in as
rapidly as applications are filed by
suitable men. This will be the sec
ond 1000 of extra policemen sworn
in since the commencement of the
strike Sheriff Barrett yesterday
swore in several hundred deputies.
the largest number at any time since
the beginning of the trouble.
Chicago, May 26.-Cornelius p.
Shea, president of the international
Transfers union, was unheld yester-
day by Judge Kohlsaat OF the Federal
court in his refusal to answer cues
tons before Master in Chancery Sher-
man, which might tend to incrimin-
ate him. Shea is now under in diet
ment in the criminal court, and Judge
Kohlsaat decided that answers to some
Of the questions put to him might
prejudice the hearing of his case.
In the same decision the court ruled
that Bernard Mulligan, president OF
the Express Drivers Union, and John
Donahue, a member of the same TN
ion, had refused to answer questions
which could not in any way connect
them with any criminal proceedings,
and they were therefore in contempt
of court. He sentenced both men to
Jail, but allowed them to remain in
nominal custody in the hands of Unit
ed States Marshal Ames for five days
in order that the attorneys may per-
feet review on habeas corpus pro-
ceedings before another federal
judge. The men will be in hotel
for the five days in charge Of two
deputy marshals.
The strike did not spread to any
great extent yesterday and there was
no disorder.
SHEA DOES NOT FEAR TROOPS.