The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-15
UNCERTAINTY FAS TO STRIKE -OutcOme of Matter Hangs
 in Balance. TRYING TO COMPROMISE Possible That Adjustment
 May Occur. Team Owners Give Employees Until Tuesday to Make Final Decision
 Regarding Ultimatum of the

Chicago, May l4-Unless compro- mises are effected by all the opposlhs interests in the fight now in progress | in Chicago between capital and iabor, the teamsters' strike may spread many | fold during the next forty-eight hours The refusal of the teamsters 1oinl council, representing thirty-hve thous- and union drivers, to accede to the de- | mands of the Chicago Team Owners | Association to handle merchandise Tor | all business houses having contracts with the members of the owners or ganization, without discriminating against the firms involved in the pres ent strike. has brought the controver- sy to a point where a speedy settle | ment will have to be made to prevent an extension of the trouble
 There is a possibility. however that the whole trouble may be satisfactori- | ly adjusted without resorting to dras- | tic measures. After receiving the an- nouncement of the teamsters joint council, refusing to obey the ultima tum of the Team Owners Association. meeting of the later organization was held and it was decided to give tbe teamsters more time to consider the proposition. At first 1t was the intention of the owners to put their ultimatum into effect tomorrow morn ing, but, believing that the teamsters l minds, they were given unth Iuesoay to make final answer.
 l That last nights decision of the | teamsters will be reconsidered was eVl- denced tonight when call was sent | out for a meeting of the teamsters joint council for tomorrow night. In addition to this meeting of the officials of inc teamsters' union, another call was issued today for meeting on | Tuesday of the executive committee or | the International Brotherhood or Team- sters This committee is the controll- ing body of the teamsters' organiza- tion, and it is this body that orders, or has the final word in the settlement of. a strike of their members.
 Lfverymen Inv0ivea.
 .issss1sae Chicago Join Liverytuen's Asso- ciation has become involved in the trouble and a strike of the 2,OOO driV- CTS employed by this organization is imminent. The trouble was brought about by the union carriage drivers re- fusinR to carry patrons of the assocla- tion 10 the strike bound department ! stores A statement was given out ny the Association tonight that, commence ing tomorrow, the drivers would be or dered to carry all patrons to their des- l tination and that a refusal meant im- mediate discharge. The officials of the cab drivers union declared tonight that | their men would all be ordered on a strike if even one member or thclr union was discharged for refusing 10 obey the command of the association should this strike be called, 1t will in- volve the hearse drivers, and, 1t was l said tonight, would necessitate the use of mounted guards to escort funerals to outlying cemeteries should it be neces- sary to use non-union drivers.
 l Another death was added to the list of strike victims today. In contro- yersy arising out of the strike between ! John Cahill and two companions with James Jennings. negro. the latter was shot in the head and killed. Ca | hill who did the shooting and who IS under arrest, declares that ne Killed ! the negro in self defense. While ar guing over the merits of the strikers and strike breakers Cahill says Jen- ! nings rushed at him with club and ! knocked him down. Cahill says the negro was about to strike him again when he drew revolver from his pocket and fired. The bullet struck Jennings in the face and he died in stantly.
 H. La Grogoris, owner If a lunch wagon in front of which the shooting | took place, was attacked by friends Of Jennings later in the day and beat un- til he was unconscious, La Grogoris's condition is serious and he probably will die.
 Strike Victims FunernL
 Marching with draped banners and | muf1ed drums more than 2.000 union men followed the remains of strike victim George s. Pierce from his late home to the union station here today. The body was taken over the Pennsyl- vania Railroad to Louisville. Ky, for l burial
 No funeral services were held here but the escorting of the body to the station was made the occasion of a labor demonstration in which not only the teamsters union but organized la bor generally participated. The prog
 ress of the cortege was withour~ incl dent. The men. marching four abreast, l each wore upon his coat lapel a white button with the inscription in black: We mourn the loss of a murdered | brother"
 Even the spectacle of coal wagons | manned by non-union negroes near the | Union station elicited no more than mutterings the column filed by. The ! only break in the serious mien of the men occurred when a patrol wagon. | called in anticipation of trouble by two policemen in charge of the coal wagons. galloped to the scene. Then cheers and hand clapping. mingled with shouts of derision. broke out along the line l for a block, but there was no work for the police.
 Pierce was an employe of Rothschild and Company as driver on a delivery wagon. He was shot by Special Deputy Sheriff F. T. Waldorf. He is l the only union man who has lost his | life during the strike and Is regarded by other union men as a martyr to the | cause Pierce is said to have assault | ed a non-union driver in the presence of Waldorf Waldorf was exonerated | by a coroner's jury.
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