The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-22
out of the strike of a small numbar ~
garment workers, months ago.
Employers the Aggressn.a

out of the strike of a small nI4rn bar -
garment workers, months ago
Employers the AggressoYs
Paradoxical as it might appear
President. Shea was reported TODAY as
not anxious to spread the strike II
was understood furthermore ~ +aI-e
the ground that the strike vorld not
be extended unless It were throre1,
the action of the other side. If The
team owners insisted on daIi1+a,.;l,o
goods 10 the strike pound houses. the
teamsters directly affected would
strike, but that otherwise No new
strike would be called.
In the first strikes called TODAY the
initiative was taken by the employers.
Most of the Ieamsters'- union were
discharged for refusing to deliver 10
boycotted firms. Orders bv the l1nion
for others to quit where discharges
had been made followed quickly As
an immediate result the yards Of two
big companies were completely tied
up. Edward Hines. president of the
Iunabermen's association, declared
that every lumber yard in the citv
would before long be without drivers
ct means complete paralysis of busi-
ness at a time when building opera tiOns
in Chicago are booming to a greater ex-
tent than has been known since 1892
said Mr.. Hines. The supply of lumber
on hand will not last according to con
tractors more than As hours. The fac
ming will be crippled by tonight. If this
occurs the stock yards industries will
he especially disturbed for they must
have boxes there to do the shipping
The express companies whose atti-
tude on the question OF relnstating their
drivers. caused the break in the peace
plans. stood firm today, refusing to take
back any of their old men.
Strike Continues TO Spread.
As the day advanced the strike grad
ualIy spread. TWENTY-FIVE teamsters
ennDIoved by the Wilce Lumber COM
pany struck. The men had been ordered
to make the deliveries which the team
sters of the Rsttenhouse & E1nabree COM
pany had refused to make. The deIiy-
cries were to have been made to a large
department store but the Wilce COM
pany encountered I& ecisely the same
tactics as the other firms attempting to
do business with firms that were strike
bound met. An incendlary fire at the
yards of the Rittenhouse & Embree
Lumber company is suspected by that
firm to have a connection with the
strike Last night fire was discovered
in three different parts of the yards
and before the flames were extinguished
several thousand dollars worth of luTn-
Der had been destroyed
The arrest and prosecution of parents
and children connected with school
strikes following the use of colored nom
union teamsters in delivering coal at
public schools has aroused bitter feeling
among members Of labor unions. The
federation OF labor has adopted resolu-
tions as follows:
resolved, That the federation pledges
itself to stand by these children and, if
necessary for their vindication, to hold
ourselves ready to withdraw all our
children from the corporation-contro
schools.
resolved, That if these victims of
serviIe and misdirected zeal are not i'm
nediateIy released we pledge the ser
vices of this organization to the children
and parents who have been arrested or
prosecuted by officials who are so easily
/ blinded to the doings. of 4sweatslIops and
trust factories, but who are 50 ready
to cast a stigma on the highest type OF
childhood today, and we promise to Sc
cure their freedom and their rights
even if it be necessary to go to the su-
preme court of Illinois to accomplish it
Resolved, That a committee of five
| be appointed by the president of the
federation with power to take such steps
as may be necessary to give effect t6
these resolution"
Complete Tie Up Expected.
| The lumber dealers were said to be
/ operating under an agreement by which
members undertook to make deliveries
! for any struck firm. z. E. Hooper
+ secretary of the Sash, Door and BLIND
association, said today:
/ w e 90 not DiOkJDSG " permit d PAL
Of the teamsters' union to work an6
support the other part on strike. 1t is
a case of fight now with US. Everything
points to a complete tie-up Of every
branch of building in Chicago until We
can get nonunion drivers to do the work
This will mean police protection fol
drivers and if that is not sufficient the
necessity for troops is inevitable
In order to cope with the situation
growing out of the spread of the strike
Sheriff Barrett today began to add tt
his large force of deputies. The polics
force will also be augmented. A cal
for 200 more patrolnaen for special strike
duty was made by Chief O'NeiH today
The recruiting of men to serve as
/ strike breakers has been resumed b1
the employers association with increas
ed vigor Word was received in Chi
cago today that 200 men were due t
reach here tonight from Buffalo and 30
more from Kansas City, Cleveland ant
/ Cincinnati.
/ Members of a new grand jury waicl
was sworn in today were instructed b1
/ Judge Barnes to pay particular atten
/ ton to cases growing out of the team
/ sters' strike He referred to the fre
/ quency of assaults and asked the co
! operation Of jurors in freeing the city O
/