Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-22
Spreading Began Promntlr-

Spreading Began Promptly.
CHICAGO. May 22-Spreadng Of the
teamsters strike began promptly to-
day Thirty-siX temsters employed by
the Rittenhouse & Embree Company,
lumber dealers, and four by Edward Hines
Lumber Company were the first TO lie
forced into the struggle following the re-
fusal of the teamsters' joint council 20 in
dorse the settlement Professionally arranged
with the employers by President c. z. Shea
of the teamsters union.
Through the threatened -T-vtf1 q the
strii.e 10 lumber dealers every branch
of the building industry in Chicago was to-
day apparently facing paralysis. There are
only SO teamsters employed by lumber
firms but so close are the relations between
them and several other unions of men en-
gagged in hauling building material that the
Walkout of the lumber teamStcrS ii WAS
said, would doubtless lead to strikes iH
nearly every department of the building IN
dustry Indirectly dependent upon the build
ing material teamsters. 1t was estimated to-
day hung the employment of nearly 10000
men in yards, mills, factories and ou con-
strucuon work. 1t was not believed the
drivers strike would affect the wood in
dustry or building construction work gem
orally al first. If. however. the walkout
should go all along the line, as it threat
ened today TO do. all the lumber yards OF
Chicago would be tied up.
The same program was seemingly in store
tor the dealers and the industrial enterprises
dependent upon them The planning mills.
the sash and door factories. the box fac
tories and kindred plants would also soon
face shortage Of lumber supplies which
necessitate closing down.
Teamsters' Actions Decisive.
Action by the teams5ers today was de-
cisive. In a few moments the first forty
recruits to the strike had been increased 10
an even hundred Seventy of the total
We're employees of the Edward Hines Iarn-
Der Company, at the head Of which fs
former President Hines of the Lumber
Dealers Association. Mr.. Hines has been
particularly prominent among the employ
ers IN the recent negotiations for a settle
ment. Aside from his firm the RittefIloiIsa
and Embree Lumber Company wcr. fL.
first 20 feel the spread of the strike to3ay
Thirty teamsters employed by Rittcahousa
" Embree quit. The full force in each case
Sturck. The cause, as heretofore. VAS an
order 10 deliver materials to firms boEeol,ed
by the teamsteIs In the course of the long
hoStllties growing out 81 the strike of 4
small number OF garment workers ny2n,hs
ago.
Paradoxical as 1t might appear. President
Shea was reported today as not anxious
TO spread the strike He was understood.
furthermore, to take the ground ;hx the
strike would not be extended unless II were
that the actions of the other side made IL
necessary. If the team owners Insisted
upon delivering goods to the strike-bol.nG
houses. the tesmsters directly affected
would strike. but that otherwise no strike
would be called.
Initiative by Employers.
In the first strikes today the initiative
was taken by the employers Members of
the teamsters unions were discharged for
refusing TO deliver to boycotted firms Or
ders by the union for others to quit when
discharges had been made followed quickly.
AS an immediate result the yards Of two
big companies were completely tied up. Ed
ward Hines, president of the LUmbermens
s.fsaff n gfgv. a r14saF
yard in the city will before long be with
out drivers. 1T means complete stagnation
of business at a time when building opera
tions in Chica go are becoming to q greater
extent than had been known since lS92"
said Mr.. Hines. The supply of lumber on
hand will not last the building contractors
more than forty-eight hours. The factories
which depend upon boxes for shipping Will
be crippled, because they will be without
lumber.
.'If this occurs" he said, "the stockyard
packing industries will be especially dis
turbed, for they must have boxes to do
the shipping.
The express companies, whose attitude
Oh the question of reinstating their strik-
ing drivers caused the breah in the peace
plans, stood firm today, refusing to take
back any of their old men. The officials
of the express companies declared absolute
ly that none of the strikers would be rein
stated
Stand by the Children.
The arrest and prosecution of parents and
children connected with school strikes
following the use of colored non-union
teamsters in delivering coal at public
schools has aroused bitter feeling among
members of the labor unions. The Fedora
ton of Labor has passed resolutions as
follows:
Resolved That the federation pledges
itself to stand by those children, and. II nee
essary for their vindication to hold out
selves ready to withdraw all our children
from the corporation controlled schools.
Resolved That If these victims OF
vile and misdrected actions do not
that all are not Immediately released we
pledge the services of this organization &c
both children and parents who have beer
arrested or prosecuted by officials who ar,
SO easily blinded to the doings of sweat
shops and trust factories, but who ar