The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-12
STRIKE AT
 STANDSTILL Elements Take Hand in
 the Situation. WIND AND RAIN STORMS Alleged Violation of Federal
 Injunction. Master In Chancery Sherman Taking Evidence of witnesses--Only One
 Person is Injured in the

strike today was practically at stand | still. Driving storms of wind and rain which swept the streets at frequent in- | tervals had the effect of driving the majority of the pickets from their posts and there was practically no dis | turbance of any kind in the business section of the city. On the outskirts. | however, few attacks were made upon drivers of delivery wagons, but with the exception of one negro who was knocked senseless by stone, nobody was injured.
 The most important feafura of the strike situation today was the examina- tion of witnesses this afternoon before Master in Chancery sherman who Is taking testimony relative to the alleged violation of the federal injunctions granted in favor of the Employers As- sociation and of the seven express com panies.
 Adolph Pfiel. for eleven years an em- ploye of the United States Express Company, but now a striker, refused to answer questions on the ground that he might incriminate himself. The queries put to him by the attorney for <he Employers Association covered the grounds of the cause of the strike and whether or not the officials of his union ordered or advised him to strike. To all of these questions Attorney
 
 strenuous objections with the result that there occurred between him and Attorney Meyer acting for the plaint- ifs, numerous altercations in one of which Attorney Meyer declared that in stating matters to the master. Attorney Laboskey had been unfair. almost to the point of dishonesty. Pointed Him Out.
 Charles Brown, an employe of the TTpl fat nv fled that he had been beaten by strik- CTS On cross examination Attorney Laboskey attempted to learn why the non union men were armed with re- volyers and from whom they procured the weapons. The witness said that a MT. Copely had issuee' atme Of the. weapons and when asked if the man was in the room he pointed to him.
 Edward Buckley, a former union driver, but now on strike told, of be- ing ordered by officials of his union to put his wagon in the barn and when asked why he did not continue at work replied:
 Because I did not want to be kill ed"
 "why, did you stand in fear of death of you went out?" he was asked. Buckley hesitated for some time and then said: Because there were riots on the streets and I would not sacrifice my life for a job"
 The hearing will be continued to- morrow.
 John Bernard, a union teamster, was shot in the hand and thigh tonight by a negro employed as driver at the store where Bernard was employed be- l fore the strike. Since the commence ment of the trouble Bernard has been picket around the place. l Break Alleged. A break in the ranks of the strikers | today Is alleged to have occurred in a | refusal of the hay and feed drivers to | observe the boycott. Deliveries are be- i ing made by union drivers to all the struck" firms. The excuse on which | this action is being taken Is that hu- manity demands 1t. The feed drivers claim they do not wish to stand by and see the horses starve to death. 1t is declared by others, however, that this is merely a subterfuge to cover the real attitude of the drivers who do not favor the strike and are anxious to go on with their work.
 The deliveries by the feed teamsters are being made in the face of an ulti- matum given by their business agent, to the employers. in which he said that any attempt to force the drivers to de- liver the unfair" houses would be met by strike The deliveries were forced. but no strike was called. The union officials winked at the affair and said nothing.
 Police protection was ordered sent today to the Hendricks public school, West Forty-third Street and Shields Avenue, in consequence of strike" of mill pupils who refused to go to school because non-uniOn drivers for the Peabody Coal Company had taken coal to the building. The pupils gath cred in the streets today near the building and discussed whether they should go back to their studies. Final ly about half of them decided to return. Some who refused said they had heard rumors that the building was to be set on fire Others professed to believe that there was dynamite in the coal and that the school was to be blown up.
 New Annoyance. Cab men today added a new annoy ance to the list of discomforts suffered hv women as a result of the strike. While torrents of rain deluged the streets women passengers in order to reach the larger retail stores were forced to leave hired conveyances, in some cases, block away. At Marshall Fields's six energetic and rain proof pickets warned all union drivers not to approach the car riape entrance. The carriages were stoned at the curb before an adjoin-
 ing building and the unfortunate women occupants. many without um- brellas, waded ankle deep through DooIs and under beating rain. Expen- sive costumes were ruined in a minute, nodding plumes were rendered limp and unsightly and flashing gowns hung beavv with water. Old and feeble wo- nan were among the victims of this