Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
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of the teamsters' union. said the
strike call was being withheld for
the time being on the request Of
Mayor Jeffries and Governor Van
Wagner. pending the outcome of
today'S conference.
Howard T. McLees. manager Of
the Detroit Lumber Dealers Asso-
citation. stated:
by agreeing to confer with
the mayor and union heads we
do not necessarily mean that we
will negotiate with rho union"
Fred NJ. Sibley, chairman of the
committee said the lumber men
would cooperate with the mayor
in drawing up a set of rules as
to. how this argument shall be
handled"
The teamSter killed was Arthur
G. Queasbarth. Al. father of three
small children, of 9108 Louis
avenue. He died Of a fractured
skull in Providence Hospital, six
hours after he was beaten while on
picket duty at the Currier Lumber
Company'S yard at 1907 Van
Dyke avenue.
QueaSbarth, member of Local
DAT. had been employed as a
driver by the Cooper Supply Com
pany at 6480 East Eight-Mile road
for the last eight years.
The Queasbarths' three children
are Carol, IA; Ruth, 8, and Joyce,7
DELIVERIES CALLED OFF
His wife, Evelyn. said he was
assigned to picket duty when he
attended a transfers union meet
ing on Sunday. She said she had
tried to talk him out of going.
Queasbarth drove home. she con-
tinued, asked for cold towels fol-
his head, and became unconscious
an hour later. He never told her
who had hit him.
Inspector John O. Whitman oil
homicide squad, said:
This is a murder case"
He assigned Detective Lieut.
Thomas Hutchinson and Sergt
George Rose TO question Queas'
harth's fellow picketS in a full in.
vestigation of the smuggling. An au.
topSy performed today showed he
died of a skull fracture.
Patrick Currier, owner OF the
Currier Lumber Company, an
nounced this morning he would
temporarily make no further at
tempt 10 deliver. There is nc
strike at his company. he said. but
continued;
IS TIME CARDS OUT
Eve still maintain we have a
perfect right. morally and le-
gally, TO continue business and
deliver lumber peaceably.
I'VE are, however, willing to
waive this right temporarily in
the interest of public safety and
to prevent as far rs possible n
recurrence of such Tioting as Oc-
Cured yesterday"
Currier said all men taken off
delivery would be assigned to other
work and that all other operations
of the company would continue
Eight hundred and eighty-Sever
time cards were punched out today
out of the total 900 employees, Cur
rler said:
QUIT ASSOCIATION
OF Queasbarth's death, Curriel
said.
THE first news we had OF the
man who died was from the
newspapers. We didn't know
the man was injured and wo do
not know any OF the circum-
stances surrounding his injuries"
Currier explained that his Gem.
pany resigned from the lumber
dealers association two years age
and has no part in their contracts
with the union.
When CuITier announced he
would suspend deliveries. a picket
line estimated at $50 men moved
10 the Braun Lumber Company
1855 East Dawson avenue.
A spokesman for the Braun
Company announced soon after
that no deliveries would be at.
tempted from there.
Numerous other injuries were
reported. at least one of them
serious, as violence occurred in all
parts of the city when the Currier
Company attempted TO make de.
liveries under convoy of non-strik.
ing workers and police escort. Six
pickets were arrested. Convoy
guards are wearing football hel.
NETS.
In addition 10 lumber deliveries
where the strike centers. the team
sters' union also is refusing 10
haul other building supplies. The
Building Trades Council (AFL)
has called a sympathetic strike
with the truck drivers. ordering a
halt on all building except 20 de-
Tense building projects exempt
from the stoppage.
Some of these defense projects
however, are at standstill any
way because of the drivers strike
DEFENSE PLANTS DOWN
Among them are the Chrysler