Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-13
{ H|CAGO SITUATION
Team Owners to Confer With
Drivers Tonight.
THE NEUTRAL BODIES
GENERAL BUSINESS RESUMED ON
A LARGER SCALE.
Wagons Moved With Smaller Police
Protection-Employ Bureau
Enlarges Scope.

| CHICAGO May 13.-Peter Coyle of Il Chi
.cago Team Owners Association denied tod 2 Y
! that the association, heretofore deemed neu-
! tral in the teamsters' strike had defini ely
| determined to abandon .ts corciliatory rol-
! ley Representatives of the association viii
go before the teamsters' Joint council to-
night and in the meantime will determine
whether TO demand that deliveries be made
by union drivers to boycotted concerns
II was reported last night that the MEM
| be-s of four ssoc'ations who had pre-
served a neutral attitude thus far lad
taken a positive stand and that either
settlement of the present strike or a
spread to far greater proportions was eX-
pec;ed by the early part OF next week The
team owners held a conference at the
Briggs House, after which President Shea
was sent for ard asked if he would :ermit
mis- union teamsters to deliver goods for
the team owners to boyco.ted houses. UTon
the refusal of Shea it was announced that
a committee Of team owners would go be-
fore the joint council. which is deemed a
more conservative organization than tie
strike committee.
Members of the Chicago Team Owners
Association, the Commission Team Owners
Association, the Van Team Owners Asso-
citation and the Lumbermens Association
were in the conference. The associations
represented employ approximately 5000
men. 1t has been represented to the team
owners that they must make deliveries in
order to live up to contacts. The commit
tee which transmitted the news to Shea
and the other labor leaders was composed
of I. j. Dixon, Edward Hines, Secretary L.
]. Cavanaugh of the Team Owners Asso-
citation and Peter Doyle. who today denied
that the association had definitely deter
mined to abandon conciliation. When the
Shea he is said to have responded: We'll
win. If they want to fight, let 'em come
on. We can still call out every member of
union in the city and paralyZe the
transfer business of Chicago. 1 do not say
this will be done, but we will do it rather
than give up"
Sentiment Among Teamsters.
Sentiment among the teamsters, unofh-
cially expressed. today was that efforts
to be made tonight by the team owners
committee to secure permission from the
teamsters' joint council to make deliveries
to the boycotted houses would be fruitless
A spread of the strike was looked for. As
sertions were made that it may reach gf-
gantic proportions.
Martin Lacy, a non-union colored team
ster, while driving wagon on Wentworth
avenue, was dragged from the vehicle by
six men and beaten into insensibility. Lacy
was taken to the Provident Hospital, where
it was found that he had severe wounds in
the head.
Business was resumed today on larger
scale than on any previous day since the
strike was inaugurated. Wagons moved
along the streets with smaller police pro-
lection that heretofore. At all the large
retail stores, however, as we'll as upon
wagons through the city, armed deputy
sheriffs were much in evidence. Stones
were thrown at non-union drivers who de-
livered coal to the Carter H. Harrison
School, 23d place and Wentworth avenue,
today. Twenty policemen escorted the
wagons from the Peabody Coal Company's
yards. Missiles began to fly soon as the
wagon approached the school building.
Crowds of the school children stood on the
corners asserting they would not go to
school Monday. Notwithstanding the stone
throwing. the coal was delivered. No ar
rests were made.
The death of Harry Grady at Provident
Hospital today added another fatality to the
list attributed to the teamsters' strike.
Grady and his brother William were called
to the rear of their home in the night, and
without apparent provocation, shot down.
A bullet entered Harry Grady's head, but
his brother escaped with less serious in
juries, and is recovering
Employers Association.
The employment bureau of the employ
ers' association is enlarging the scope Of
its operations. Victor W. Sincere, in
have a surplus of $50 men. Three hun
dred and fifty came in today from Toledo,
Cleveland and ST. Louis"
Union officials expect a big demonstra-
tion of sympathy tomorrow at the funeral
of George S: Pierce, union driver who
was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff F.
T. Waldorf. Arrangements for the funeral
have been made by the Department Store
Wagon Drivers Union. Services are to
be held at Pierce's home, where an ad-
dress is to be made by President Shea Of
the International Transfers.
Rumors of strike of the employees of
the Union Traction Company were re-
Vived today. The agreement between the
employees and the company expires during
the last part of this month. General Man
ager Roach of the traction company de-
MED that there was any prospect of a
strike, saying that there wSs no disa-
sides Despite this denial, the rumor was
widely circulated and was given credence
in labor circles.