The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-14
SPREAD OF THE
STRIKE CERTAIN
Transfers and Team Owners Fail to
Reach Agreement.
CONFERENCE LASTED LONG
FIGHT TO A FINISH is NOW EX-
PECTED.

Chicago, May 13.-The strike Of the
teamst rs Is expected to spread rap
idly during the next week. At meet
ing held tonight between the Teams
tiers Joint council, which is the gov
erning body of the local unions of the
teamsteTs, and representatives of the
Team Owners association the latter
Informed the representatives of the
Transfers that the conditions OF their
business made It necessary for them
to make deliveries 10 houses which had
been -bOycOtted by the unions, and that
they would DO so next week. needless
of the fact whether or not a strike
existed at such places The council
was urged 10 agree TO this procedure
and avert a general strike. After an
extended debate among its members
the teamSteTs' council decided that II
would not agree TO the delivery OF
goods TO any of the bOycOtted nous
by union teamsterS, and that strikes
discharged for refusing to deliver
goods
Compelled 70 Take d Stand.
Among the members Of the Team
Owners association are many Of the
largest firms in the city engaged in
the transportation business and some
sters. The members of the associa-
ton have the contracts. in large meas
Ure, for the hauling Of goods between
the large business houses in the city
and the railroads, and they have here
tOfOre sided with the teamSteTs
rather than with the members
of the Employers association They
decided last night, however, that they
could no longer refuse to make de-
liveries. and when the transfers union
refused TO agree to this the matter
was laid over for one night. to be
placed before the joint council of the
teamsteTS. This body having decided
tonight that no deliveries shall BE- made
by union men, the situation has reached
a point where practically all of the
team owners in the city are lined up
against the JedmSterS' union The num-
I bsT Of men now out IS about 4.500,
and 1t is expected that the strikes that
are now sure to come next week viii
more than double this number. It
means that practically all of the truck
drivers in the city will be on strike
within a few days, and that deliver
les between many houses not now af-
feCted by the strike will be cut off.
There is also great danger that the
City's supply Of food may be seriously
curtailed, for the reason that the
members of the Team Owners assOci-
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ing for the commission houses in South
Water street through which pass the
City's supply Of fresh vegetables
The arguments in the meeting Of
the Transfers Joint council when the
question Of accediug or denying the
proposition of the Team Owners as
ISOLATION was up for settlement were
at times heated, but only on the CUES
ton Of whether OF not it was advis-
able 70 call a general strike of all
the $4,000 teamsteTs i'm the city or al
low the employers to force such a con-
ditiOu by insisting upon deliveries to
bOycOtted houses The latter plan was
finally decided upon, and a messenger
was at once sent to inform the MEM
bors Of the Team Owners association
that If they made deliveries to houses
employing nOn-UniOD tpamSters their
men would be called out at once. The
team kwneTs had expected this reply
and announced that they were pre-
pared TO accept the situation. They VIII
commence at once TO make deliveries
or Monday and any driver who de
Clines 10 take goods TO any place where
he is ordered to take them viii be dis
charged Immediately.
Members OF the Transfers council
announced after their meeting that
they confidently expected that the
strike would now spread until It in
NyANCL FN~t- Nltltil ttrttlNL-I lIl lIlF
city.
In addition to refusing the requests
Of the Team Owners association. the
Transfers Joint council tonight took
action that may cause A general strike
OF all the carriage and hearse drivers
in the city The Liverymen's assoCi-
alton. an organization Of employers. re-
queSted the council to order the driv-
ers to deliver passengers at their d5s-
tinatiOn instead of stopping at some
distance from q store The council re-
fused to do this, and announced that
i the iverymen did not Tecede from
their position a general strike Of all
drivers. including hearse drivers, would
be called.
The ice dealers OF Chicago. who have
been requested by the Icemen's union
to grant an increase of SO a month.
tonight decided 10 refuse the demand.
They have offered TO pay the same
wages as heretofore and make an
aEre ment for two years. A strike is
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