Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-06-22
TO REMAIN NEUTRAL
chlesga Team Owners TO Keep Out Of
Strike Trouble.
EIGHT THOUSAND MEN AT WORK.
Peace Negotiations in Transfers
Strike Abandoned-Desire of Labor
Leaders to Hold National orsanI-
cation Responsible.

Chicago, June 49, The Chicago
Team Owners Association, an organi-
cation employing 5000 union team
sters, has decided to remain neutral in
the present labor struggle now in
progress in Chicago. Ever since the
commencement of the teamsters'
strike the Team Owners Association
has been anxious to have the question
of making deliveries to strike-bound
houses submitted to arbitration. The
teamsters by unanimous vote refus-
ed to agree to the proposition, and for
time it was believed that the team
owners would force a strike of these
5000 drivers by ordering them to
make deliveries to firms involved in
the strike.
In an effort to learn the sentiment
of the members of the association re-
garding the matter it was decided to
take a referendum vote on the ques-
ton. This vote was completed today
and resulted in 1856 of the members
voting to remain neutral during the
trouble and in three members voting
to compel the teamsters to obey or
ders. The decision reached by the
owners means that there will be no
strike of these men, and the threaten
ed expansion of the trouble in this
direction has been averted.
The Team Owners Association will
hold meeting tomorrow night, when
an official announcement of the re-
suit of the referendum vote will be
made.
Negotiations for peace, which prom
ised for time last week to be sue
cessful, have apparently been aband-
oned for the present at least, as both
sides are SO far apart on any plans of
settlement by mediation that further
efforts in this direction are believed
to be futile.
The employers declare that they
have conceded every point possible.
The strikers assert that a settlement
along the lines proposed by the en-
ployers would mean "dishonorable
surrender" and this the officials of
the teamsters' union emphatically de-
clare they will never do.
One of the causes of the prolonga-
ton of the present strike is said to
be the political ambitions of several
Chicago union leaders. At least three
of the Chicago labor leaders desire
to be president of the national organi-
cation of the teamsters.
President Shea is also DESTROYS of
reelection, and these four men, it is
asserted, have been making every eff
fort possible to control the Chicago
delegates to the next convention,
which will be held in Philadelphia
August Z. Seven of the local unions
elected delegates to the convention
today OF these delegates three were
instructed for Shea and the other
four were uninstructed.
With the election of these delegates
out of the way, it was said by labor
leader tonight that the union leaders
would get together and bring about a
settlement of the strike. When ask
ed in regard to this matter tonight
President Shea declared that there
was no truth in the story, and that
all the union men were perfectly sat
isfied with the way in which he has
managed the strike.
There will be no settlement of the
strike" said Shea, until the employ
ers show some disposition to offer us
reasonable terms"