The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-09
THE CHICAGO STRIKE
HOPES OF SETTLEMENT FAR AWAY
 AS EVER.
One Futile Effort to End Trouble Made During the Day, Which win Probably He the Last for
 Some Time. t-

Chicago, June S.-The teamsters strike has reached the point where its further progress and further increase is dependent upon the action taken by the members of the Chicago Team Owners Association. This organization has frsn the first declined to make deliveries to the boycotted houses and has constantly urged the teamsters to arbitrate the question of making such deliveries The teamsters have posi- lively refused to deliver or receive goods.
 The members of the team owners asso- citation must either decide to deliver goods or allow the teamsters to nave their own way in the matter. Opinion among the members of the team own CTS associations is strongly divided and the result may be split in Its ranks Several of the largest team owners In the city have announced that they are going to make deliveries, while other members of the association are undecided as to their course of action. A meeting of the organization will pc held tomorrow night and the action taken at that time will largely deter mine the future scope of the strike. If the team owners association decides to make deliveries and discharge all of it's men who refuse to obey orders, the ranks of the strikers will be in- creased by about 5000 men. The strikers made another attempt today to force break in the ranks of the employers association. A committee called upon Edward Hillman, proprie- tor of a large dry goods house. and asked him to arrange another confer ence between the teamsters and the employers. Mir. Hillman positively re- fused. saving that unless the strikers had some new proposition to offer 1t was useless to attempt to reach any agreement. The public attitude, he said, was such that there could be no possible middle ground. This was the only attmept at adjusting the strike made today and 1t Is not probable that more efforts will be made for some | time to come. Peace in the teamsters strike seemed l today to be far away as ever. Settle ment with express companies and demand by the unions that police be
 withdrawn from wagons with the call | ing off of the strike were apparently insuperable obstacles to an adjustment I President Cornelius P. Shea, of the | Teamsters' Union took an active part | in the latest conference with the em- l ployers. although he was responsible 1 for blocking peace negotiations sev-
 eral days ago. after he had been out
 of a meeting between committee of
 employers and teamsters.
 Shea would have been excluded from
 the new conference if the employers
 had agreed to the demand of the un-
 ion officials that the employers attor-
 ney, Levy Mayer. also should keep away. This demand was refused
 promptly and Shea was then called in.
 He made a vigorous fight against ale
 tering the propositions of the team.
 ters to suit the demands of the em.
 ployers.
 With peace efforts again coming to
 naught the prospective spread of the | strike to 5000 truck teamsters em-
 ployed by members of the Team Cwn-
 CTS organization was today again a
 vital issue. Many of the owners were
 in favor of forcing matters with the
 drivers, but 1t was generally hoped that the neutral element in the asso- citation would make a hard fight to
 keep from becoming involved in the
 strike.