Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-05-03
DESPERATE DILEMMA.
Five Team Owners Must Haul For
Bfycotted Stores
OR LOSE PATRONAGE.
"t atoms Have Extended the Strike
and Wy VIII simply GO Them
One Better and Extend It
Ourselves IL Necessary"

Chicago. sfay 2.-The outcome OF
the move 10 bring the teamsters' con-
nict TO a cHsis was eagerly awaited
Tuesday by employers and unionists.
The Employers association had deliv-
cred an ultimatum 20 Ave leading team
owners that they must make deliveries
20 the department stores as they have
been doing IN the past The answer Of
the teaming contractors. who proposed
20 meet and take up the matter. was
anxiously looked forward to- The team
owners quit making deliveries TO the
department stores when the teamsters
entered upon the strike. The team own
ers were Informed that they must eth
er deliver freight 10 the boycotted
stores or lose their business perma-
nently. To deliver the goods as de-
manded would cause n spread OF the
strike 10 5000 more drivers. The en-
2loyers seemed determined to force
the hght one OF them said: "The
unions have extended the strike and
we viii simply go them one better ana
extend II ourselves II necessary.
There's no use drifting along on the
defensive"
Among many detachments OF In
coming strike breakers" who arrived
Tuesday the largest single body per-
haps came on a Michigan Central train
from Detroit. Mich They numbered
seventy-fve and were escorted by
heavy guards OF police through the
streets.
The eordons OF union pickets sta
toned on the curblng In State street
and wabash avenue have been supple
mented greatly In numbers. with the
result that. In spite OF the vigilance OF
the police carriages and hacks are
stopped and drivers and their fares
warned against attempting 20 carry
purchases home from the boycotted
stores.
Store employees burdened With bun
dies are stopped and their parcels TAX
en- from them and torn open and
searched by the pickets and union
sympathlzers Co see II they are at
tempting 20 deliver goods 20 custom
ers or carrying their own property 60
their homes. After assuring the pick
cts that the contents of the bundles be-
long 20 them they are not disturbed
further.
In one instance hired carriage was
stopped IN wabash avenue and tho
occupant, a woman shopper. compelled
90 get out and walk Another woman
with both arms full OF bundles was
caught by the skirts and stopped as
she was about 10 step into a cab In |
State street The cab driver was
warned not 20 take her as fare. TN /
the shopper walked 70 an
other corner. where she hailed a Sec /
ond cab. Again she was stopped by |
the union sympathlzers Finally she I
boarded a street car.
only a few hacks or cabs venture /
10 drive up 10 the entrances 20 any /
N tho State street stores In most 4
rnscs the drivers request their passen-
gers 20 allght on the opposite side 81
The street and walk over 20 their des-
iination.
With one exception. none of the State
street stores attempted 20 make deliv-
sries In the residential districts yester-
sries In the residential districts Mon
assurances were freely
given that the wagons would start out
To-day. With few exceptions. the liv-
sries generally refuse TO carry passen-
gers 20 a boycotted store.
The sidewalks and the surface ana
elevated cars are thronged with men.
and children carrying bundles
u all sizes and descriptions.
one Of the liveliest diturbauces Of
occurred within a block OF
he Auditorium hotel Shooting was
10 by colored non union men
10 Harrison street and Wabash ave-
iue. Three wagons formerly owned by
he Edwin r. Daniels Coal company
we're being driven on South wabash
venue Al Harrison street large
'rowd gathered about the drivers and
yuaris. sticks. thing. broken bottles
md other missiles were thrown. many
missiles striking the negroes one
'olored guard named Carter whipped
,ut a revolver and shot at Henry
schultze. who. II r. alleged. was ap-
Carter. The bullet struck
IN the left side He ran a
,lock before he fell The crowd. thor
'ughly enraged at the action Of the
,egro. quickly closed In upon the non
and beat them fearfully. A
lot call was sent IN and seventy po-
lcemen under Inspector LAWN hurried
o the scene and dispersed the crowd
With vigor. Schultze was taken TO a |
iospital. Carter was arrested. tho
'ullet struck one OF SchultEe's ribs.
Ie viii recover. The shooting caused
much excitement at the Auditorium.
Women became hystericai and rushed Z
ack into the hotel For a time all !
raffic on the Wabash Avenue Cable
nd Indiana Avenue Electric railway ,