The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-27
STRIKE SPREADS.
Action of Chicago Employers
Association Yesterday
Has Involved Several Other Big
Firms in Trouble.
ALL TRANSFERS QUIT
When One Is Discharged for
BOycOtting Ward & Co.
Express Drivers and Coal Haul
ers Ready to Quit.

Chicago, April 27.-Instead of being
settled. as was predicted, the strike of
the teamsters at the esta blishment Of
Montgomery Ward & Co. has spread
to other firms. and the indications
are that before the controversy is
finally adjusted a general strike of the
union teamsters employed throughout
the city will be called.
The demand of the Chicago en-
ployers' association that all teamsters
deliver goods to Montgomery Ward &
Co, under penalty of instant dis
charge, resulted in the spread of the
strike to four other business establish
nents. These are Carson, Pirie, Scott
& Co., Marshall Field & Co., J. v.
FarWel & Co, and the Forbes Carriage
company.
The first teamsters to be drawn into
what promises to be a general strike
were As employed by J. V. 'Farwell &
Co. These men quit work when one
of their number was discharged for
refusing to haul a load of merchan-
die to the store of Montgomery Ward
& Co The same procedure was fol-
lowed at the esta bIishment of Marshall
Field & Co. ano Carson, Pirie, Scott
& Co, where several drivers were dis
charged for a similar refusal The
men of the Forbes Carriage company
went out when one of their men was
QlSCDdISEQ lOI refusing TO take a load
of goods consigned to Ward & Co., in
all about 500 men are involved so far,
the Forbes company having lost half
Of the total number. The spread of
the strike threatens to continue. An
understanding, it is said has been
reached among all the union teamsters
in the various barns throughout the
city that whenever a member of the
union is discharged for not making de-
liveries to Ward & Co all the men in
the harm will o1Iif he
bers of the department store drivers
union have also agreed to strike if any
of their number are discharged. 9th
or unions, including the express driv-
ers, truck drivers and coal teamsters,
it was asserted. contemplate the same
action.
The packing firms at the stock
yards are also among the interests that
promise to become involved in the diff
dculties. George Golden, business
agent of the packing house teamsters'
union. said the strike would be de-
clared against any of the packers that
endeavor to make deliveries to Ward
& Co. While these events were paw
ing the way for the general strike of
the union teamsters, rioting broke out
afresh in several parts of the city.
NOnunion drivers of the employers
teaming company were assaulted and
stoned and their horses cut out of the
traces. The police were kept busy in
quieting disturbances and it has been
decided by the police authorities to de-
tail an increased number of men on
the strike in an effort to suppress
these disturbances
AS a result of the spreading of the
strike heavy trucks and city delivery
wagons were kept behind locked doors
in Fields LaSaHe street barn and at
the Carson, Piri1, Scott & Co.'S barns.
The reason assigned was to prevent
pickets learning what preparations
were being made.
Drivers for the railway express COM
panies refused today to haul or de-
liver goods to the firms against which
teamsters had struck. One hundred
and ninety drivers of the A. NJ. Forbes
Carriage company struck.