The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-05
STRIKE OF 10000
HANGS ON FARLEY
Team Owners and Teamsters
Must Agree or Huge Strike
Will Follow.

Chicago, June Acknowledgements of
utmost significance in the teanlsters
strike hinge on the outcome of arbi-
tration negotiations between the team
next few days. Both sides are in an
aggressive mood and failure to reach
an agreement, it is predicted. will force
q walkout of 10000 more teamsters and
bring idleness to thousands of work
men in other crafts. y
If the members Of the Chicago Team
owners association force the issue with
of other teaning organizations is prac-
tically certain.
If the teamsters agree to s:rbitrate
the question Of the right Of the team
owners to make deliveries to strike
bound houses, the decision will be in
favor of the teamowners, whose con-
tract with the drivers provides that
they shall further the interests Of their
employers. With the teamowners maxi
ing deliveries to all the concerns in
volved in the struggle, the strike. 1t Is
asserted. would lose its force at once.
Garment Workers Aroused.
practically has been regarded as dead
Issue. has unexpectedly reared Its head
and threatens to become an obstacle
in future negotiations looking toward
the settlement Of the transfers war.
In the Chicago Federation Of Labor
meeting, delegates from the ta1lors'
union attacked the strike 6eo committee
workers. out Of sympathy for whom the
,teamsters went on strike. The fedora
ition was forced to acknowledge that
the two strikes were inseparable and
that one of them could not be settled
without the other.
Charges were made that, thoussands
Of dollars, contributed weekly by labor
sters' benefit, while tht garment work
ers, according to statement, are starv-
ing. Teamsters who were present Wig.
orously denied the assertions.
i; President Dold of the federation
placed himse1f on record as saying the
strike committee never would conse9t
to the settlement Of II be . transfers
pute had been satisfactorily adjusted,
Dold Quits Strike Board.
Charles Dold, president Of the Chi.
cago Federation Of Labor, has resigned
from the teamstersr strike committee
the fact that for several weeks he has
neglected the affairs of the Piano. ano
Organ Workers union, of which he Is ar
official.
Non-union men are still being pur
sued by sluggers. Albert johnson, be
Elieved to- be a non-union teamster, was
severely beaten today at Fourteenth
street and Ashland avenue. Wher
found by the police he was insensible
and was bleeding from a wound in the
head. He was taken to a hospital
where it was found that several Of hi
: ribs were broken. He will probably
die.
Dunno Replies to Jury.
Mayor Dunno has replied to criti
cisms Of himself in a report Of tn.
grand jury. The mayor ASSERTS tina
the report is grossly unfair and I'm
Just. Denial is made'to the charge tina
the mayor failed to exert full author
tity. He says:
eff the grand jury means that I hav,
failed to call in the militia, I answe
that until I fail to get wagons thru tn
streets and maintain law and .orde
with the police, I have no right, legal
ly or morally, to- call for the assistane,
of the militia. I do not intend, unit
it becomes necessarily, to deal Chicag'
and its business, interests that fata
blow
Gompers to Return
President Gompers Of the American
Federation of Labor is coming to Chi
cage. again to supplement the work h
did during his previous visit here.
The managers of the railway expires
companies will not yield, still holdin
the key to the situation. The tear
L owners association still believe they wi
be permitted to make deliveries to tn
boycotted houses. e. a