The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-22
STRIKE GOES ON.
Settlement Which Seemed Near
on Saturday Failed.
Express Drivers We're the Cause
of Disagreement.
BUILDING INDUSTRY
Is Paralyzed by Wallout of
Lumber Drivers.
The New Movement Is Likely to
Involve 100000 Men.

80 nc SA54 eau LOQaY, a NUMBER OF
drivers for lumber firms stopped work
because they had received orders to
make deliveries to the boycotted
houses. It is feared that other indus
tries Will be involved. though negotia-
tlons for peace are still under way.
President Shea called on Levy
Mayer, attorney of the Employers as
soeiaion and it is understood that the
teamsters' joint council is to meet Mr..
Mayer tonigt.
Mayor Dunno had a talk with Gov
ernor Deneen over the long distance
telephone and the governor assured
nm that the militia would be ordered
out when called for.
Following a spread of the teamsters'
strike to the lumber drivers, an at
tempt TO resume peace negotiations
formed the chief developments TODAY
IN the long drawn out labor trouble.
PRESIDENT Shea and A J. Reed, sec
retaTy Of the Transfers district coun-
ell, met Levy Mayer. EMPLOYERS legal
representative, and sought to revive
the peace negotiations that were given
setback by the action of the team
sters joint council Saturday night It
was stated that they were attemptine
to md something on which another
proposition for the adjustment of the
trouble could be based. Robert T.
Thorne of Montgomery Ward & Co.,
joined the conference and it was said
representatives of the seven express
companies were expected to enter it
later.
In the presence of the strikers rep
resentative Attorney Mayer this after
noon said his conference with Messrs.
Shea and Reed had resulted in a de-
cision that new committee of five
members of the teamsters Joint coun-
ell he increased nv
addition of Shea and Reed, would
meet MIR. Mayer at the Auditorium
Annex tonight. Attorney Mayer said
he would not discuss whether any
new proposition had been considered.
Mr. Reed said: Il think the pros
peet for peace is very good"
Building Industry Tied Up,
Chicago, May 22.-Spreading of the
teamsters' strike began promptly to-
day. Thirty-six teamsterS employed by
the Rlttenhouse & Embree company
dealers, and four employed by the
Hines Lumber company We're the first
to be forced into the struggle following
the refusal of teamsters' joint council
to endorse the settlement Professionally
arranged with the employers by Presi-
dent c. P. Shea of the Teamsters' un-
| ion.
Through the threatened spread of the
/ strike to all lumber dealers, every
/ branch of the building industry today
)
/ only 800 teamsters employed by lumber
4 firms but so close are the relations be-
/ tween them and several other unions
/ Of men engaged in hauling building
material that the Walkout of the lum-
Der teamsters it was said doubtless
would lead to strikes in nearly every
/ department of the building industry
/ Indirectly dependent on the building
1 material teamsterS it was estimated to-
I day, hung the employment of nearly
i 100000 men in yards, mills, factories and
/ on construction work. 1t was not be-
/ ueved the drivers strike would affect
/ the wood industries or building con
/ structiOn work generally at first. If
/ however, the wall1out should go all
| along the line as it threatened today to
| do, all the lumber yards of Chicago
would be tied up.
/ The same programme was seemingly
| in store for the stone and the indus
/ trial enterprises dependent on them.
The planning mills, the sash and door
i factories, the box factories and kim
/ dred plants would also face a shortage
! of lumber supplies which would neces-
i state closing down.
Unexpectedly Saturday night it was
+ decided by the members Of the team
steTs' joint council which was in session
until midnight, to continue the strike.
The council met at s o'clock to hear
/ the report OF the negotiations that had
/ been in progress with the employers
/ throughout the day. They agreed to all
{ the SE1DuldLlO1lS Oh IIle GIllDIOYGIS WITH
! the exception of that which declared
that the drivers OF the express COM
panies should not be taken back This
was the rock upon which the peace
! programme was wrecked. After several
hours of debate it was decided that
| the teamsters' union could not leave the
/ express drivers to make a lone fight,
but must stand by them. It was de-
| cided to call off all negotiations, and
prepare for a further fight.
Violence Resumed.
After a crowd of strike sympathizers
had attacked Michael Fitzgerald, a
special deputy sheriff, and followed
/ him two blocks last night he turned
! on his assailants and shot and PROB
ably fatally wounded FRANK Noelkef'
y years Of age. Fitzgerald was on
his way to his residence when he was
assailed by Voelker and nearly
dozen other men. 1t IS sald they
/ tainted the deputy sheriff and struck
at him Fitzgeraid tried to get away
ana fnallv fred in self defense.
Voelker was taken to a hospital He
was a. press feeder When he fell his
/ companions ran away. fitzgerald
Action bv the teamsters today was
decisive. In a few moments the first
40 recruits to the strike mad been in
creased to an even hundred. Seventy
t If fqe total were employees of the Ed
| 71Tard Hines Lumber company at the
baad of which is former President
Hines. OF the lumber dealers associa-
ton. Mr.. Hines has been particularly
/ prominent among the employers in
4 the recent negotiations for settle
rnent. Aside from his firm, the Rift
tenhouse and Embree Lumber com
pany was the first to feel the spread
Of the strike today. Thirty teamsters
temployed by Rittenhouse & Fmbrae
tquit The full force in each case
struck. The cause as heretofore was
an order to deliver material to firms
boycotted by the teamsters in fhe
! tcourse Of the long hostlities GROWING