The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-02
BIG FIRMS WORK
WITH UNION men
Truckers and Manufacturers Quit
Employers leaning Go.
and Deliver Goods.
VIOLENCE RENEWED IN
THE DOWNTOWN STREETS
Attacks by Strike sympathizers
Alarm the Women Shoppers,
Stopped by Pickets.

Stopped by Pickets.
Chicago, May 2.-Some of the larger
trucking companies of Chicago and
their allied interests today took stand
IN the strike situation unfavorable to
the Employers leaning company and
the Chicago Employers association.
These trucking companies, headed by
the Dixon Transfer company, Indicated
that they were tired of the strike, that
they did not believe the teaming COM
pany was improving the situation, and
that they were prepared to do business
with Chicago merchants with the best
and most available labor they could
secure.
The Chicago Employers association
was advised that the big trucking COM
panies were taking hauling contracts
wherever they could secure them and
were using union labor with which to
do the work.
In other words, the truckers were
not complying with the request of the
association that it be allowed to die
tate who should or should not be en-
ployed. The companies are prepared
to act as if no strike were on, or at
least as if they were not concerned
in it.
Firms Join the Break.
A determination Of the Gibbons box
factory, the Thompson & Taylor COM
pany, the Leslie Tea & Coffee interests,
the Central Warehouse company, the
Walsh-Boyle company, the Union Trac-
ton company, the Heyworth building,
the Morgan and Wright company, and
several other important concerns to re-
sumo the delivery of freight with
union labor, was taken by labor leaders
to be strong indication that Mr.. Dix
on, in common with many other truck
owners, had determined to oppose the
final purposes Of the Employers Team
| ing company.
! So important was this development
regarded by the executives of the team
ing company and the employers asso-
citation that meeting was called for
this afternoon to consider action.
| Work of the teaming company and
| the employers has been wholly along
/ the lines OF bringing every merchant
! handling freight, every teaming COM
pany doing trucking, and every railway
and large corporation having street
teaming, into the organization and to
have all teaming affairs conducted
thru its officials.
! Millions Invested.
Outside Of the teams and trucks
owned Dy Individual nleiCudHtS, GHo
truck companies or firms of the city are
estimated to have invested at the pres
ent time about $25, 100000 in horses,
barns, harnesses, real estate, etc.
It is understood that the Employers
leaning company proposes to take
over the properties of the. individual
firms at fair valuation, issue stock
antee an annual dividend on the stock.
A number of the larger teaming con-
Germs are said to be of the opinion that
the teaming company has undertaken
more than it can accomplish and that
the sooner peace is secured, the better
it will be for everybody concerned.
Business Lost by Employers.
Union leaders claimed that in proof
of the change of front on the part of
the teaning interests, the Peabody Coal
company, thru failure to make good its
contracts for delivery, had lost the bust
ness Of the First National bank, THE
Great Northern building, the City Rail
way company, Page Bros, and the
Union Traction company.
The Morgan & Wright company as
serted today that it proposed to get iti
coal thru the E. Puttkamer Coal com
pany which would deliver with unioI
teamsters. 1t had been securing it,
coal thru. the Standard Washed com
pany which is part of the Employers
) Teaming company's interests. Tbs
Heyworth building took the same posi-
: tion.
It is estimated that thru the seces
, sions today the Employers Teamins
company has lost the delivery of about
1000 tons of coal per day, all of which
i is henceforth to be handled by uniol
labor.
$ Employers Are Confident.
General Manager Reed of the EN-
ployers' leaning company said today
! GIVE have had at no time as man,
teams employed as today, and ! re
q gard the situation as exceedingl.
= good.'
! The employers seem determined t
:, force the fight. One Of them said ia
: day. J. MI ; h. ov+onaoa >,
strike, and we will simply go one bette
and extend it ourselves If necessary
i There's no. use drifting along on tn
:. defensive.
t. No Rifles for the Men.
4 Contrary to announcement no orde
i was issued today for the ear arming Of Il e
v tendent Reed of the Employers Team
ing company, said he did not kno,
# when the order would be issued and d,
q MED having said that such a NOV
II would be made. Secretary F. W. 10
# of the Employers association made
similar denial.
:, One of the obstacles to the use
: rifles is action taken by the city counc
: last night, directing the enforcement {
state statutes against permitting unal
thorized persons carrying rifles in tt
streets. There is also a law again,
brandishing weapon in threatenin
G manner.
j Assistant Chief Schuetler reported t
day that he had 1,150 men on stril
duty. This force he claimed to be alb
es to protect $50 wagons In caravan
ne Where single wagons are sent out
Il guard of six patrolmen is provided.
be Attack on Strike Breakers.
9. One of the picturesque sights wi
er messed today was a procession of 81
ct nonunion colored teamsters going fro
their lodgings to the Employers Teal
vs. ing company barns. The negroes we
rt. led by white man, Frank Curry, ft
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