The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-14
BIG STRIKE
 WILL SPREAD Team Owns 3 Now With
 thHmpIoyers. A CIsH OF INTERESTS Bs Sides in the Struggle & Very Defiant. Mayor Dunne After a Conference With Advisers Announces Himself Ex-
 ceedingly Discouraged at
 the Prospect.

LGdHSleTS lS cApcCtcu tO oPtCo0 AoPfANS during the next week. At meeting held tonight between the teamsters joint council, which is the governing body of the local unions of the team sters, and representatives of the Team onwers' Association, the latter in formed the representatives of the team sters that the condition of their busi- ness made 1t necessary for them to makes deliveries to houses which had been boycotted by the unions, and that they would do so next week needless of the fact whether or not strike existed at such places.
 After an extended debate among its members the teamsters council decid- ed that it would not agree to the de- livery of goods to any of the boy cotted houses by union teamsters and that strikes would be called whenever a man was discharged for refusing to deliver goods.
 Among the members of the Team Owners Association are many of the largest firms in the city engaged In the transportation business and some of them employ several hundred team sters. The members of the association have contracts for the hauling of goods between the large businesses in the city and the railroads and they have heretofore rather sided with the teamsters than with the members of the Employers Association. The num- her of men now out is about 4,500 and 1t is expected that the strikes that are now sure to come next week will more than double this number.
 Will Re Called Out.
 At the meeting of the teamsters' joint council 1t was decided to inform the members of the Team Owners Associa- tion that if they made deliveries to houses employing non-unton teamsters their men would be called out at once. The team owners had expected this and announced that they were prepared to accept the situation. They will com mence at once to make deliveries on Monday and any driver who declines to take goods to any place where he Is ordered to take them will be discharg- ed immediately.
 The attitude of the members of the Team Owners Association last night in demanding that the union men agree to permit the delivery of goods to- boy cotted house by union teamsters brought the situation to the turning point. The members of the teamsterS joint council. the governing body Of the teamsters in Chicago, met tonight at the union headquarters to consider
 
 upon them by the team owners. Presi- dent Shea of the teamsters was defiant throughout the day. and went into the meeting with the declaration that the teamsters of the city would strike to man rather than agree to permit the delivery of goods to houses where strikes have been called.
 There was, however, a strong ele- ment in the union opposed to a general strike and many of the officials of the local unions went into the meeting with the aVowcd intention of prevent ing such a situation If 1t was possible. The meeting was in session until late hour.
 The employers. realizing this after noon that the strike was either won or just about to commence in earnest, drafted and mailed to 10000 business houses in the city statement of the strike as viewed from their standpoint. The document went over the causes of the strike and called on all the busi- ness men to uphold the right to send wagons through the streets without molestation and to join with the em- ployers association in refusing to yield to the dictation of labor unions in the control of our business"
 Breaks in Ranks.
 While the union leaders were pre- pairing for the meeting tonight there
 
 ranks of the men. A number of old drivers applied for their former posi- tions at the department store of Roths- child & Co.,, and union drivers in sev- eral cases delivered goods to the boy cotted firms without trouble.
 Mayor Discouraged.
 Mayor Dunne held a conference late this afternoon with a number of his advisers, seeking some method of bringing the strike to close. He went home greatly disheartened and declared that he could see no prospect of a settlement He said just before leaving his of1ce
 "The reports of a possible extension of the strike have worried me greatly and I have been trying to find some way to bring about an adjustment l called in my friends to see if they could not suggest something but none of us could think of a plan that has not already been tried without sue cess. Aside from the eminently desir- able settlement of the strike. the fi- nanciAl question that Is being thrust upon the city is the most serious. We have employed 1000 additional police men for the last ten days and that alone costs $2,500 per day. There is no appropriation for this and there are no funds from which to draw" The day was not without turbulence. A the Fair building this afternoon caused n panic among 1000 persons and led to an attack upon n Wells-Fargo Ex- press wagon. Bricks and stones were hurled and d number of persons, among them several women. were trampled upon, A riot call caused a patrol wag- onload of policemen to be hurried to the scene. The shot was due to the accidental discharge of a revolver which fell from the belt of Deputy sheriff T. T. Thompson. who was\on inc express wagon The idea was spread rapidly that the guards were firing upon the crowd. Almost in stantiy missiles of various descriptions began to fly toward the wagon. No nerson was struck by the revolver shot and aside from bruises resulting from trampling, no one Uas injured. No ar- rests were made In addition to this. there were a few isolated attacks up- on non-unIon men, but no riots of such l size that half a dozen policemen could not auell them in short order. The merchants made deliveries on almost a ! normal basis throughout the day. all