Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-05-23
SPREAD or STRIKE
THREATENS CHICAGO
Hitch In Peace Negotiations Is
Causing More Trouble.
100000 MEN MAY BE EFFECTED
Teamsters of Lumber Dealers Refuse
to Deliver Goods to Contractors and
the Entire Building Traces May Be.
come Involved.

to Deliver Goods to Contractors and
the Entire Building Traces May Be.
come Involved.
Chicago, May 22.-spreading of the
teamsters' strike began promptly to-
day. Thirty-six teamsters employed
by the Rittenhouse and Empree com.
pany, lumber dealers, and four by Ed
ward Hines Lumber company, were
the first to be forced into the struggle
following the refusal of the teamsters'
joint council to endorse the settlement
Professionally arranged with the en-
ployers by President Shea Of the team
sters' union.
Through the threatened spread of
the strike to all lumber dealers every
branch of the building industry in Chi
cago was today apparently facing pa
ralysis. There are only 500 teamsters
employed by the lumber firms, but so
close are the relations between them
S4Au oCF CA al OIIICI uIllOuS OI Ul6H CH-
gagged in hauling building material
that the walkout Of the lumber team
sters, it was said, would doubtless
lead to strikes in nearly every depart
ment Of the building industry. Indi-
rectly dependent upon the building ma
terial teamsters, it was estimated to-
day hung the employment of nearly
10000 men in yards, mills and fac
tories and on construction work. 1t
was not believed the drivers strike
would affect the wood industries or
building construction work generally
at first, II, however, the WalkOut
should go all along the line, as it
threatened today to do, all the lum-
ber yards of Chicago will be tide up.
The same program was seemingly
in store for tire stone industries, and
the enterprises dependent upon them.
The planning mills, the sash and doors,
the box factories and kindred plants
would also face soon a shortage of
lumber supplies which necessItates the
closing down of factories.
In the first strike today the initia-
tive was taken by the employers. Mem
bers of the Transfers union were dis
charged for refusing to deliver to boy
cotted firms. AS an immediate re-
suit, the yards of two big companies
were completely deserted w. P. Hines,
president Of the Lum'bermen's associ
alton declared that every lumber yard
in the city would, before long, be with,
out drivers. 1T means compete stag
nation of business at time when
building operations in Chicago are
booming to greater extent than has
been known since 1922 said Mr.
Hines. The supply to lumber on hand
will not last, the building contractors
say, more than 48 hours The fac
tories which depend upon boxes for
shipping will be crippled, because they
will be without lumber ''If this oc-
curs,' he said, "the stock yards pack
ing industries will be especially dis
turbed for they must have boxes there
to do their shipping"
The express companies whose atti
tude on the question or reInstatine
their striking drivers caused the break
in the peace plans, stood firm today,
refusing to take back any of their OH
men. The officials of the express
companies declared absolutely that
none of the strikers would be reinstat-
ed in their employ
AS the day advanced. the strike
gradually spread. twenty-five team
sters employed by the T. Wilce Lum-
ber company struck The men had
been ordered to make the deliveries
which the teamsters of the Ritten.
house &, Fmbree company had refused
to make. The delivery was to have
been made to large department stores
but the Wilce company encountered
precisely the same tactics as the strik,
ers had employed on other firms at
tempting to do business with concerns
that were strike-bound.
Nobody can help being born stupid,
but anybody can help becoming stu.
pider than he was born.-Lady Helen
Forbes.