Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-31
AFFECTS COAL YARDS
Spread Of tie 1eamster's
Strike in Chicago.
WORKMEN DISCHARGED
GUARD IN THE LUMBER DISTRICT
IS INCREASED.
Fears of Incendiarism Causes Extreme
Vigilance Night and Day-Slug-
ging Renewed Today

Three more coal yards were affected by
spread of the strike to the Henry E.
Weaver Coal Company In Chicago today.
The men refused to deliver fuel to the
American Express Company and were dis
charged. Their places were filled by men
from the Employers Teaming Company.
This is the first strike of coal teamsters in
three weeks.
Fears of incendiarism have caused police
to reinforce the guard at the lumber yards
of the Hines Company and other large
concessions. Particular care is being taken
of the south end of the Hines lumber yard.
An incendiary fired the yards of the s.
X. Martin Lumber Company during the
Debs strike, and no canoes are being taken
at present
Even a river patrol has been organized
and the surveillance IS being maintained
night and day.
CHICAGO, May 3t.-After twenty-four
hours truce occasioned by the general
closing down of business for the Decoration
day holiday, employers and teamsters re-
sumed the strike struggle today, with the
situation as it was Monday, and little pros
pect for any immediate change.
The Employers Teaming Company ec!ips-
ed it's previous records today, sending out
between 2,5O0 and 2,GG0 teamsters. Every
driver that could be spared was sent to the
lumber district in order to facilitate deliv-
cries by the lumber concerns involved in
the strike. and additional police protection
was asked.
Further spread of the strike among lum-
Der firms was looked for today. Firms
connected with the millmen's association,
employing 125 drivers, are pledged to make
deliveries to strike-bound houses, and it
was expected that several Of these concerns
would be affected today.
Court proceedings and legal steps in con-
nection with the teamsters' strike were re-
sumed today. In the federal court sixty
anen were cited by Judge Kohlsaat to ap-
pear and answer charges of violations of
inJunctions. In the contempt cases heard
last week, in which Bernard Mulligan and
John H. Donahue We're sentenced to terms
OF Imprisonment Attorney Geeting COM
pletea haheas corpus papers and prepared
exhaustive argument of the question of
constitutional rights. Demands by Attor-
neys Lebosky and Mayer, each for contempt
orders for the other, were scheduled to
come up before Judge kohlsaat. Others of
the interests involved in the strike in
Guiding strike leaders and members of the
employers executive committee were be-
fore the grand jury.
Question Of Ending Strike.
Discussing the rumors of an impending
referendum vote of the teamsters on the
question of ending the strike, President C.
P. Shea of the teamsters said today:
Neither the national board nor myself
has power under the teamsters' brother
hood constitution to say when this strike
Shall end. l cannot call off this strike:
neither can the board. We cannot call
strikes. We simply are the creatures of
the rank and file of our brotherhood, and
they alone can call off the strike when they
wish to.
The constitution of the brotherhood does
not provide for referendum vote on call
ing off the strike. 1t does provide, how
ever, that the men on strike shall decide
when they want a settlement. They only
can discuss finally the terms of settlement.
The only way that either the board or my
self can act officially is to secure some sort
of an offer of settlement and present 1t TO
the rank and file. All of this talk about
myself or the board calling off the strike
is foolish
Slugging Continued.
SIugging of strike-breakers continues.
James Spencer of Kansas City, who had
been employed a driver for a depart
ment store was reported to the police to-
day as having been attacked by three men
and left unconscious on the praires Ac-
cording to Spencer the three men forced
him to get on a Wentworth avenue street
car. Spencer protested and called to the
street car conductor for assistance. The
conductor however refused to aid. At the
end of the car line the trio took Spencer
from the car and beat him into insens-
biIity. Several hours afterward he was
found by pedestrian, who brought Spen-
Ger to hospital.