Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-02
Possible Outcome of Confer
ence of Leaders Today
WITH CHICAGO'S MAYOR
ISSUE RAISED BY THE TEAM
OWNERS OVER DELIVERIES.
Grand Jury at Work Probing BribO
Stories-Rioting Broke Out in
Lumber District.

mayor OfflCe today to see IT the
teamsters were willing to submit to
arbitration the question OF permit
ting the team owners association 10
make deliveries to the boycottcd
stores.
The contract with the teamsters
provides that disputed matters shall
be submitted to arbitration Before
a decision was reached President
Shea had to obey call of the grand
jury. The conference will be re-
sumed as soon as possible. In case
the decision is adverse, it is said the
teamsters will have to call the strike
off or have an addition of 5000 to
the ranks of the strikers.
The 400 drivers of the Parmelee
Transfer Company threaten to strike
unless they get an increase OF wages
and the stablemen employed by the
same corporation may also go out
for the same reason. The company
is making preparations to do busi-
ness in the event of a strike.
The grand jury is still investigat.
ing the graft charges, but i: ap-
pears that some of them are barred
by the statute OF limitations. The
books of the reamsters' union have
been called for to see if they confirm
the allegation of President Shea
that $4,000 in benefits were paid by
coal men during the strike growing
out OF the attempt to substitute coal
for gas as fuel in the large office
buildings.
CHICAGO June Upon the outcome OF
a conference in Mayor Dunns office today
between committees representing the team
owners and teamsters at which tie latter
We're asked to give definite answer res
garding their willingness to submit to ar
bitraton, the right of the team owners to
deliver merchandise to struck firms de-
pended upon developments that might
Many of the teamsters say that as a re-
suit of the teamsters' failure to settle the
question whether the members of the
Truck Drivers Union should be compelled
to abide by a clause in their contract pro-
viding that all disputes should be SUBJ
mitted to arbitration. they ready for
decisive action on their part. even
though it directly involves them in the
strike.
1t was the purpose of the team owners
to inform the representatives, of the team
sters that they desired immediate and
decisive answer TO their request for arbi-
tratlon. Should the teamsters deny the re-
quest a meeting of TIE team owners would
be called at once and vote taken the
question of making deliveries to struck
concerns With the team owners making
deliveries the teamsters would face the al
tentative of calling off the strike or seeing
it spread TO 5000 more drivers.
Grand Jury Probing Bribe Stories.
Members of the grand jury are endeavor.
ing today to gather more complete and
later details of the bribe stories told by
President c. Z. Shea of the teamsters'
union and it's former president. Albert
Young. AS the statute of limitations has
run against most of the alleged bribery
matters, concerning which Shea and Young
testified, the investigators are prepared to
search for later overt acts connected with
the so-called "outlawed' consDiracies
To this end the grand jury has directed
the docket clerk to issue subpoenas for the
records of the coal and other teamsters
unions. Shea and Young testified that rec
ords would show proof of their statements
that prominent coal men paid $4,000 in
strike benefits when the downtown build
ing owners substituted coal for fuel gas
More Rioting.
Roting broke out afresh today in the
+ri. hap
the Rittenhouse & Embree Company was
attacked by a crowd of lOJ persons at 32d
street and Center avenue. The mob threw
stones and pieces of coal at the non-un.on
teamsters. Two policemen who We're guard
ing the wagon were hit by the missiles
and slightly injured. The police were
obliged to fire several shots into the air
in order 10 keep the crowd at bay. Upon
the arrival OF additional police the crowd
quickly scattered. No arrests were made.
Grand jury subpoenas for John G. Dris-
coll, former secretary of the associated
teamng interests, We're today still waiting
service. At Driscolrs home no Information
of his whereabouts could be obtained Dris-
coll s testimony is desired to alleged offer
of $4,000 to officials of the teamsters union
if a strike was called against Sears, Roe
buck & Co. The bribe Is alleged TO have
come from a business rival.
Strike of Michigan Railway Employees.
SAGINAW. Mich, June BY unani-
nous vote the employees of the Saginaw
and Bay City street railway systems and
of the interurban line connecting the two
cities. at meeting held here early today,
de cded to strike. The employees had asked
for an increase in wages and the adoptloU
O. the two turn system of hours, both ~
quests being refused by the company. Press
ent wages on the city lines are IL and ~
cents per hour, and on the interurban line
II cents. The men demanded IL cents and
p cents for the city employees and 20