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Show STKKE ML I if SPREAD I III Take in All Union I Teamsters. I Team Owners' Association ! Will Deliver to Boycotted Houses. Great Danger That Chicago's Food Food Supply Will Be Seriously Curtailed by Action. ' CHICAGO, May 13. The strike of team-Iters team-Iters Is expected to spread rapidly during tho next week. At a meeting held to-night to-night between the Teamsters' Joint coun-ell. coun-ell. which Is the governing body or the local unions of the teamsters, and repre-Sentatlvea repre-Sentatlvea Of the Team Owners' associa-Hon, associa-Hon, the latter Informed the representa-Uvea representa-Uvea of the teamsters that the comll-tiona comll-tiona of their business made It necessary for l hem to make deliveries to houses which had been boycotted by the unions, and that they would do so next week, heedless of the fact whether or not a strike existed at such places Council Won't Agree The council was urged to agree to this procedure and avert a general striki After an extended debate imong Its m. -rubers the Teajnsters' council decided that It would not agree to the delivery of good6 to any of the bovcolted housed bv union teamsters, and that strikes would bo called whenever n man was discharged for refusing to deliver goods Heretofore With Teamsters. Among the members of the Team Own-ers" Own-ers" association arc many of the largest firms In the city engaged In tho trans-portatlon trans-portatlon business, and some of them em-ploy em-ploy several hundred teamsters. The members of the association have the con-tracts con-tracts in larg: measure fe.r the hauling g.'ociH I .'tween if,,. Iotl.- business bouses in the city and the railroads and they havo heretofore rrther sided with the teamsters rather than with the mem-be-rs of the Employers' association They decided Inst night, however, that they could no longer refuse to make de-llverl de-llverl s. and when the Teamsters' ur.lon refused to agree (0 this the matter was laid over one night, to be placed before the Joint council of tho teamsters. Lined Against Union. This body having decided tonight that no deliveries shall ho made by union men. the situation has reached n point where practically all of the team owners In tho city are lined up against tho Teamsters' The number of men now out Is about 4S0O, and it Is expected that the strikes that tire now sure to come next week will more than double ihls number. It means tii it practically all of ho truck drivers in the city will be o,, strike within a few days, and that deliveries between manv houses not affected bv the strike will be sH off Food Supply in Danger. There Is also great danger that tho city s supply of food ma.v be serlouslv curtailed, for the reason that the mem-bers mem-bers of tho Team Owners' association do the major part of the hauling for tho ommlson houses In South V ater street. through which passes the city's supply of fresh vegetables Tho arguments in the meeting of the Teamsters Joint council, when the que-tion que-tion of acceding or denying the proposr-tlon proposr-tlon of the Team Owners' association was up ror settlement, were at times heated, but only on the question or whether or not It was advisable to call a general strike of all the 35,000 teamsters In the cltj cir allow the employers to force such a condition by Insisting upon deliveries to boycotted houses Will Let Employers Force Strikes Tho latter plan was finally decided up- jH on and a messenger whs at once sent to Inform the member of the Team Owners' association that if they made do-llv.-rl. s to hull- s .. itiidc... ii.g n.in-unloB teamsters their men would be e-allcel out at once. The team owners had expected this reply, and announced that they were pre-pared pre-pared to acoept the situation. They will commence at once to moko deliveries on Monday, and any driver who declines to take g.ii.ds to ii u place where he Ik ordered to take it will bo discharged 1m-mediately 1m-mediately Will Involve All Unicn Drivers. Members of tho teamsters' council announced an-nounced after their meeting that thev confidently expected that the strike would now spread until It involved every union teamster In the city. In addition t.. refusing the requests of the Team Owners' association the Team-sters' Team-sters' Joint council tonight took action that may cause a general strike of all th- carriage and hearse drivers In tho city. JLny Attect Hearses. The Llverv men's assi clailon, an organl-zatlon organl-zatlon of employers, requested the council to oilier the drivers to deliver passengers nt their destination Instead of stopping at some distance from a store The i mm-ell mm-ell refused to do this and anhounced that If the liverymen did not recede- from their position n general strike of all drivers. 1 Inclhdlng hearse drivers, would be called; H Icemen's Strike Threatened. The lec dealers of Chicago, who liav-o been requested by tho Icemen's union to grant an In. rssse of $10 a month, tonight H tl. , I. led to lt'ln.-e thi' demands Thoy H have offered to pay the same wages as B heretofore and make an agreement for two years. A strike is expected. 1 Ccal Drivers Are Stoned. Stones were thrown at non-union drlv- H its who 1 I i it d com I to tho Carter II. Harrison school. Twenty-third place and B Wentworth avenue, t..da six policemen escorted the wagons. Crowds of school HBhJ children stood on the corners assarting JBs they would imt go to school Monday. HBa Notwithstanding tho stone throwing, tho s coal was delivered No arre-sts were IBV The death of Harry Grady at Provident J honpitnl y add. .1 another fatality to Ihe list attributed to the teamsters Strike. BflJ Grady and his brother William were called to the rear of their homo In the nlgni. V nod without apparent provocation shot VI d w n a bullet entered Marry Grady's V head but his brother escaped with less serious injuria. BBH Ivumors of u at:ika ai. t1 Bmnlcniias of. ihe Union Trnctlon company wore reeved re-eved iodaj Dragged From His Wagon. Martin Lacy, ri non-union odorcd '(itn-stir. '(itn-stir. Is a now victim of .trlko violence, While 'iruiuff n wagon on Wentwortn avenue he wuj3 lragi;ed from tho vehicle by six mr-n anil beaten into Insensibility. Ho was taken to a hospital, whore, it was found ho had severe wounds In the head. Business was resumed toflay on a larger scale than on any previous day since the Mrlko was Inaugurated. Wagons moved hi,ni? tho streets with smaller police protection pro-tection than heretofore Shot Causes a Panic. A shot fired In Dearborn street, near the l ir building this afternoon. cAusod a pfinlo among 1000 persons and led to an attack upon a Wells.-FargO express w.ir-on w.ir-on Bricks and stones vwre hurled and a number Of persons, among them several women, wero trampled upon Tho shot wan duo to the accidental flls- hirg of a revolver. No porson was -truck bv the revolver phot and aside frrm rruies resulting fmm trnmpllnR:. no ,.ne wns injured. No arrests wero made |