The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-31
SIXTY men CITED.
To Appear Before Judge Kohl
saat and Answer
To a Charge of Violating In
junction of the Court.
TRY HABEAS CORPUS.
Attorneys for Those Sentenced
Argue Constitutional Rights.
Slugging of Strike Breakers Is
Still Going On.
TRY HABEAS CORPUS


Chicago, May 31.-Court proceed
ings and legal steps in connection with
the. teamsters' strike were resumed to-
day. In the federal court sixty men
We're cited by Judge Kohlsaat to ap-
pear and answer charges of violation
of injunctions.
In the contempt cases heard last
week in which Bernard Mulligan and
John R. Donahue were sentenced to
terms of Imprisonment, Attorney
Geeting completed habeas corpus pro-
ceedings and, prepared exhaustive
argument of the question of constitu-
tional rights. Demands by Attorneys
Lebosky and Mayer, each for con-
tempt orders for the others, were
scheduled to come up before Judge
Kohisaat Others of the interests in
volved in the strike, including strike
leaders and members of the employ
ers executive committee were before
the grand jury.
slugging of strike breakers con-
tinues. James Spencer of Kansas
City, who had been employed as a
driver for a department store, was re-
ported to the police today as having
been attacked by three men and left
| unconscious on the prairie According
to Spencer, the three men forced him
to get on a Wentworth avenue street
car. Spencer protested and called to
the street car conductor for assist
ance. The conductor, however, re-
fused to aid. At the end of the car
! line the trio took Spencer from the car
and beat him into fnsensibility. Sew
eral hours afterward he was found by
a pedestrian who brought Spencer to
a hospital.
Incendiarisn Is Feared
4 Three more coal yards were affected
/ by a spread of the strike to the Henry
3. Weaver Coal company today. The
! men refused to deliver fuel to the
American Express company and were
I discharged. Their places were filled
by men from the Employers Teaming
company This is the first strike OF
coal teamsters in three weeks.
Fear of incendiarism has caused po-
lice to re-enforce the guard at the
1 lumber yards OF the Hines company
and other large. concerns. Even a
river patrol has been organized and
! the surveillance is being maintained
night and day.
Discussing rumors of an impending
referendum vote OF the teamsters on
the ending of the strike, President
Shea of the teamSteIS, said today:
Neither the national board nor my
self has power under the teamsters
brotherhood constitution to say when
this strike shall end cannot call of
this strike: neither can the board We
are simply the creatures of the rank
and file of our brotherhood and they
alone can call off the strike when they
wish to. The constitution of the
brotherhood does not provide for a
referendum vote on calling off the
strike. It does provide. however, that
the men on strike shall decide when
they want a settlement. They only
can discuss finally the terms of settle
ment- The only way that either the
board or myself can act officially is to
t secure some sort of an offer of settle
ment and present it to the rank and
/ file. All this talk about myself or the
board calling off the strike is foolish. .
No Strike in New York.
New York, May 31.-Positive an
nouncemant has been made that there
will be no sympathetic strike in New
York to help the Chicago strikers.