The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-30
CHICAGO STRIKE
DRAGGING ALONG
Employers Will Become Aggressive
Wednesday.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATING
HEARING BEFORE MASTER IN
CHANCERY.

C,3icago Nav 29.-Renewed aggres-
.i,.arees ON the Dart Of the employers in
Tho taamsters' strike is expected on
wednesday. Taking advantage OF the
reraI holiday which viii come tomoT-
VOW. pIans viii be formed for extensive
r-- Increasing the amount of deliveries
IN be made from the lumber districts
The downtown business houses where
strikes exist have at present ABOUT 4OO
,lnerpIoved drivers These they can
not use on account Of the inability of
. me notice department to furnish pro
lection for them. and on Wednesday
tbesa men will be sent 10 the firms in
the lumber districts which are IN Eeed
Of drivers, and strong anu deter
mined effort viii be made 10 increase
the volume Of business done IN that
,ac+{or The lumber dealers had 200
teams. I'm operatiOn today. There was
1iffTe disturbance during the day, and
none of the fights was sufficiently Serl-
ous to call for the interference Of any
large body Of police
Building Continues.
Practically all Of the Transfers en-
Moved by the hardwood dealers in the
lumber district are now out, and the
soft lumber dealers ara tied up, COM
parativeIy speaking, with the eXCep-
ton of one firm which continues 10 20
business with union transfers MOI
yvfthstanding the shortage in lumber
deliveries the building contractors ex-
press themselves as highly confident
that there will be no strike of their
men and no tie-Up in the building in
duStry In this they are borne out Dy
the statement of the business agents
of the various building trades unions,
which are to the effect that no strike
viii be called by any union on account
of the delivery Of material by nom
union men. If the men object TO work
ing with such material they are at lib
erty to strike If they do not object
they are at liberty to continue at work
In the event Of a strike however, by
any number Of men in the building
trades union their walkOut VIII be their
individual act, and Will not be officially
sanctioned by the union, and men so
quitting work viii not receive any
strike benefits.
Work of Grand Jury.
The May grand jury commenced to-
day an investigation into the strike d.
recting its inquiry particularly to that
feature which is said to involve the
payment Of money for an attempt TO
bring about a settlement of the diff
Guilty by a number of the labor leaders
Tt was also proposed to inquire into the
existence of an alleged blacklist against
the striking express wagon drivers
The general agents of the express COM
pauies were SubDOenaed, but all OF
them informed the jurors that they had
no knowledge of the existence of a
blacklist, nor did they know OF any
measures or methods that had been
adopted with the view of preventing the
employment of the striking drivers in
other cities.
The day failed TO bring out any new
or. sensational evidence and the jury
adjourned until Wednesday.
Squabbling Lawyers.
In the hearing before Master in
Chancery sherman. T J. Csvauaugh,
an official of the Team Owners aSsO-
citation. denied the statement made by
OF Montgomery. Ward & Co. and other
the effect that there was an under
standing or conspiracy, between the
teamsters and the members of the
Team Owners association The hearing
was marked, as usual. 10y numerous
sqUabbles between the opposing Coun-
sci.
Arthur Dixon. president of the Dixon
Transfer company. the most important
witness of the afternoon, declared that
a. per cent of his business is not af-
fected by the strike. and that he could
not afford TO have his men walk out
because the greater part of his business
Is done outside Of the strike zone.