The San Francisco call., 1905-05-14
Governing Body Refuses to
Permit Owners Association
to Make Any Deliveries to
Houses Under Unions Ban
STRIKE is LIKELY
TO SPREAD RAPIDLY
1t Is Now Greatly Feared
That Chicago'S Supply Of
Food Will Be Seriously
Curtailed During Trouble

CHICAGO, May 1s.-The strike Of
teamsters is expected 10 spread rapidly
during the next week. At a meeting
held tonight between the teamsters'
3oint council, which is the governing
body OF the local unions OF the teams
tiers, and Of representatives Of the
= Team Owners Association the latter
Informed the representatives Of the
tesmsters that the conditions Of their
business made il necessary for them
60 make deliveries to houses which
have been boycotted by the unions and
that they would DO so next week, heed
less Of the fact whether or not a strike
existed at such place. The council was
urged to agree 10 this procedure and
avert a general strike.
After an extended debate among its
members the teamsters' council de-
eidsd that il would not agree to the
delivery OF goods TO any Of the boy
cotted houses by union teamsters and
that strikes would be called whenever
q man was discharged for refusing to
deliver goods.
Among the Team Owners Associa-
ton are the largest firms in the city
engaged in the transportation business
and some Of them employ several hun
dred teamsters. The members Of the
association have the contracts in large
measure for the hauling Of goods be-
tween the large business houses in the
city and the railroads and they have
heretofore sided with the teams
tiers rather than with the members Of
the Employers Association. They de-
eided last night however, that they
could no longer refuse to make such
deliveries and when the Teamsters
Union refused to agree TO this the mat
ter was laid over one night, TO be
placed before the joint council Of the
teamsters This body having decided
tonight that no deliveries shall be
made by union men the situation has
reached a point where practically all
Of the team owners in the city are
lined up against the Teamsters Union.
FOOD SUPPLY THREATENED.
The number Of men now out is about
. $500 and II is. expected that the strikers
that are sure TO go out next week will
more than double this number. II
means that practically all Of the truck
within a few days and that deliveries
between many houses not now affected
by the strike viii be cut off. There is
also great danger that the city's supply
Of food may be seriously curtailed for
the reason that the members Of the
Team Owners Association do the
major part Of the hauling for the COM
mission houses in South Water street,
~ lie 4
Of fresh vegetables.
The arguments in the meeting Of the
4esmsters' Joint council when the ques-
tion Of acceding or denying the pro-
position Of the Team Owners Associa-
ton was I'D for settlement were at
times heated but only on the question
Of whether or not it was advisable to
call a genral strike of all the $4,000
teamsters in the city or allow the en-
pioyers to force such a condition by in
sisting upon deliveries to boycotted
houses. The latter plan was finally de-
cided upon, and a messenger was at
once sent 10 inform the members of
the Team Owners Association that If
they made deliveries to houses employ
ing non-union teamsters their men
would be called out at once. The team
owners had expected this reply and
announced that they were prepared to
accept the situation. They viii com
naence at once to make deliveries on
Monday. and any driver Who declines
70 take goods TO any place where he is
ordered 10 take them viii be discharged
Immediately.
STRIKE WILL SPREAD.
Mem bers OF the teamsters' council
announced after their meeting that
? they confidently expected that the
strike would now spread until IL in
volved every union teamster in the
city.
IN addition to refusing the demands
OF the team owners association. the
4eamsters' Joint council tonight took
action that may cause a general strike
of all the carriage and hearse drivers
In the city. The Liverymen's Associa-
ssov 2 n o--ca TlizatiOr Of EMPLOYERS re-