The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-02
CLAIM THEY WERE
OFFERED $4,000
Young and Shea Make Charges of
Attempted Bribery.
SAY THEY REFUSED MONEY
GRAND JURY is INVESTIGATING
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.
SAY THEY REFUSED MONEY

CHICAGO June Charges Of bribery
against an official of the Employers
Te9miuC company were made today
tu the grand jury by President Shea 'L
the Transfers union ana ny AiptiO
Young former president OF the same "i
Young and Shea claim that they were
offered $1,000 two years ago To nfihS
by Sears. Roebuck & Co. a rival "i
Montgomery Ward & Co They said thty
refused the money and the strike WAS
shea was the first witness and his tes-
tfrnouv covered the offering OF the brIee
and his statement that ne W2ul1 ilG S' -
was then called and gave similar testI-
Talked Too Much.
After leaving tho jury room Young
made statements TO the newspaper re-
portcrs going more into detail thsln tii''t
he had made before the jury lie was
again Subuooua"d and brought before tut
Jury a second time. lie refused 10 tel
where the meeting had taken place" OF
90 name the men who were present Wh'tt
the S1G 600 was said to have been offered
Young declined to give any good reasons
for refusing the IufOrmat ION ana vas
taken before Judge Barnes who was
asked for A ruling on the matter ASSIST
ant States Attorney Fake informed III,
court of Youns-s refusal to answer and
the court asked that the questions he
T-s4,cared before him The judge was in
formed that Young had admitted the pres
encc of himself and Shea at the meet
ms but declined to give the name OF
the business man who offered the money
or of the man who acted as his agent.
Questioned by the Court.
"Ou what grounds do. you decline TO
answer these questions demanded the
on the ground that I might incrimi-
nate myself" replied Young
0 hat lsv- l.
forming the jury of the place of meeting
as well as disclosing the identity OF the
two men ths th9 gsd a4 95D 9,T you'd IN
Yes. I do.= said Young
The judge 5hen asked number OF
/ questions and finally decided that Young
would not incriminate himself, and ne
ordered him to make answers forthwith
Young and the members of the grand
I jury then returned to the jury room and
! he was questioned for an hour He gave
/ the names of the men offering the
money but refused. after leaving the jury
room to discuss what had taken place
! States Attorney Healy declared that all
| persons connected with the inquiry had
/ been sworn TO secrecy. ana that nothing
/ of the proceedings would be revealed
| Other witnesses before the grand jury
! TODAY were the proprietCrS of several no.
4 tells. who declared that committees from
{ the strikers had called upon them ana
/ demanded that they force non-union men
[ TO leave Other evidence was gwen Dy
/ business men relating to various meetings
l hold with the labor leaders. but nothing
| Of importance was developed
Trouble for Team Owners
( The indications tonight are that the
! Team Owners association, which mas
/ managed to keep out of the trouble SC
| far will soon become involved In the
strike Tomorrow morning at 1889 o clock
I a committee representing this OTganlza-
! ton will meet with d~cOmmittee repre-
/ sentiDg the Teamsters' union in Mayor
| DUNES office to discuss the proposition
{ of the teamsters submitting the question
| of making deliveries to strike DounC
houses. The teamsters have all along
/ been opposed to such move by the Team
/ owners association. and it is not be
Heved that they Will agree to the SuS
I gestion. The officers of the Team own
ers' association stated today that they
had become tired of waiting on the team
sters to come to a decision on the mat
ter and that it made little difference wha
the teamers decided to do. the aSSO
citation had come to the conclusion tina
| they would make deliveries to all firm!
| REGARDLESS of whether they were involved
in the strike or not. Should the team
1 owners take this step against the wishes
of the teamsters it will mean d spread o
the strike