Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-06-01
WILL FIGHT
TO A FINISH
All Efforts to Settle the TeamsterS'
Strike in Chicago Result
in Failure.
LUMBER YARDS ARE TIED UP
Strike in the Lumber District Spreads
RapidIy-Union Leaders Are Held
for Contempt of Court by
Judge kohIsaat, of the
Federal Court.

Chicago, May 24.-All prospects of
peace in the teamsters' strike have
disappeared and it will be open war
from this time on. The last conference
looking toward a peaceable adjust
ment was held last night between
James b. Barry, business agent for the
Express Drivers union and the local
managers of the seven express com
panieS. The conversation was brief
and pointed. Business Agent Barry
opened the negotiations by saying.
Our position is this. | want all
the men reinstated except those who
have been guilty of violence. | can
not do anything different. That is
what the local union wants and that is
What the local officers have told me to
demand. That is all | can do. The
men told me they all want to go back
in body or they won't go back at all.
That is the position of the union and
the union officials"
The reply of the representatives of
the express companies was:
Our opposition to the reinstatement
Of the men will be the same four years
from now as it is to-day. We will not
take them back under any circum-
stances"
Chicago, May 25.-Final rejection of
union teamsters' demands, especially
those of the express drivers, was of
fcially announced Wednesday by the
employers, thus annulling any present
settlement of the strike The employ
ers demand unconditional surrender
The employers sent their goods all
ever the city under police protection
without encountering violence.
The strike in the lumber yards
spread with great rapidity and nearly
all lumber business is at a standstill.
number of planning mills and sash
and door factories were compelled to
shorten operations and by Friday will
be compelled to close entirely if the
supply of lumber is not largely in
creased.
Shea, president of the International
Transfers union. was upheld yester-
day by Judge Kohlsaat, of the federal
court, in his refusal to answer ques-
lions before Master in Chancery Sher-
man, which might intend to incrimi-
nate him. Shea is now under indict-
ment in the criminal court and Judge
kohlsaat declared that answers to
some of the questions put to him
might prejudice the hearing of his
case.
In he same decision which ex-
cused Shea, the court ruled that Ber-
nard Mulligan, president of the EX-
press Drivers union, and John Dono-
hue, a member Of the same union, had
refused TO answer questions which
could not in any way connect them
with any criminal proceedings and
they We're, therefore. in contempt of
court, He sentenced both men to Jail.
but allowed them to remain in nominal
custody in the hands of United States
Marshal Ames for five days in order
that their attorneys may perfect a re
view on habeas corpus proceedings
before another federal judge.
The strike did not spread to any
@reat extent yesterday and there was
little disorder A number of lumber
firms made a few deliveries. For the
first time since the commencemnt of
the strike a large number of coal
wagons handled by colored teamsters
passed through the down town streets
without police protection. None of
them were mOleSted.