Show CHICAGO STRIKE DRAGGING ALONG Will Become Aggressive Wednesday GRAND JURY INVESTIGATING HEARING BEFORE MASTER I iN 1 CHANCERY chicago May ed eness on the pert part of the employers In InH H teamsters strike Is expected on Taking advantage of the r gal holiday which will come tomor I w plans will be formed for extensive increasing the amount of deliveries n be made maae from fro the lumber distrIcts The downtown business bou houses es where about exIst have at present drIvers Th they can rot use on account of the Inability pf the police poUce department to furnish pro for them and on DC Wednesday these men will be sent to the firms in fh hc lumber whIch are in need and deter determined determined nf drivers and a mined effort will ill be made to Increase nf h volume of business done In that The lumber dealers had to today There was waa f teams ams In operation disturbance durIng the day and androne rone or of th the fi fights WAS sufficiently serf ezi nUS flus to call caU for the Interference of any larg body ot of police pollee Building Continues all of the teamsters em cm b by the hardwood dealers In the dIstrIct are noW out and th the theft ft lumber dealers are tied UP corn com cb speaking with the exception exception tion or of one firm finn which continues to do business wIth union teamsters Not Notwithstanding NotwIthstanding withstanding the shortage In lumber jumber the building contractors cx press themselves as highlY confident liat there wIll ibe be no strike of their mEn and no in the building in industry In this they are borne out by bythe the statement or of the business agents of the Various building trades unions are to the effect that no strike will be called by any unIon on account of the delivery of material by non nonunIon nonunion unIon men If the men object to work working ing with such material they are at lib liberty t erty to strIke If they do not object they are at liberty to continue at work In the event of a 8 strike however by number of men in the bUilding trAdes union theIr walkout will be their indIvidual act and will not be officially sanctioned by the unIon and men so quitting work will not receive any strike benefits Work of Grand Jury The May grand jury commenced to today today day an investigation Into the strike dl di meting reding its inquiry particularly to that feature which is said Mid to involve the payment of money for an attempt to bring about a settlement of the by a number of the labor Jabor leaders It was also proposed to Inquire into the of an alleged blacklist against again t striking express wagon drivers Tji general agents of the express corn com ranies were subpoenaed but aU all of thin informed the jurors that they had no nfl knowledge of the existence of a abla bla nor did they know or of any or that hAd been with rUh the vie view of preventing the employment of the striking drivers in other cities Th dA day failed to brin bring out any new MW or F and the jUry adjourned until Squabbling Lawyers In n the hearing before Master in ry Sherman T J CavAnaugh an official of Ute the Team Owners 50 elation denied Ute the statement made by bv Robert rt J 1 Thor Theme stant secretary of If Montgomery ry Ward Vard If Co and other Then men Interested d in the present strike to the reed effect that there was an under understanding standing or conspiracy between the tt teamsters and the members of the Tram Owners association The hearing bearing was marked as usual by numerous squabbles between the apposing coun eI I Arthur Dixon president of the Dixon Transfer company the most important witness of tM the afternoon declared that 95 per cent ent of his business is not af affected b by the strike and that he could not afford to ba have ve his infO walk out 1 pause the greater pert of hIs busin business iS 15 done outside of the strike zone |