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Show LEND NO AID TO INQUIRY Strikers Won't Answer Questions, Take Refuge Behind Grounds of Possible Self-incrimination. Storms Drive Pickets From Their Po?ts and Street Disturbances Yesterday Were Few. I CHICAGO. May 11 The teamsters' Strike today was practically without Incident In-cident Driving Rtorm.M of v.lnrl and rain which swept tho street at frequent In-tervals In-tervals hnd the effect of driving the majority ma-jority of tho pickets from their posts nnrl there were practical no divergencies Qf .my kind On the outskirts however there were a few attacks upon the drivers of delivery wagons, but with the exception excep-tion of one colored man who was knocker senseless hy a stone, nobody was Injured. Strikers on Witness Stand. The most Important part of the strike developments was the examination ol witnesses wit-nesses this afternoon before Master In Chancery Sherman who Is taking testimony testi-mony relative lo the aliened lolation of the Federal Injunctions granted In favor Ol the Employers' association and of the sever express companies Adolph Phcll. for eh v. n years an employee em-ployee of the United States Express company, com-pany, but now a striker, refused to an-swer an-swer Questions on the ground that he might Incriminate hlm.lf The queries put to him by the attorney for the Employers' Em-ployers' association covered the grounds of tho cause of the strike and whether or not the officials of his union ordered or advised him to strike. Attorneys Wrangle. To all of these questions Attorney Lc-boskey, Lc-boskey, for the defendants, made strenn-0U8 strenn-0U8 objections, with thr result that there occurred between him nnd Attorney Mayer acting for the plaintiffs, nulberous alienations on or which Attorney Mayer declared that in stating nviit'-r- to the Mast.r. Attorney Leboskey had been unfair almost to the point of dishonesty. The wrangles were finally terminated by the statement f th Muster, that the matter WOUld be ertltled to the Federal court as to Whether Or not the witness had proper grounds on which to,ba.-e hN refuse.! to answer questions. Attorney Maver s.ihi Hint he would not take the matter before tho eouft right away, because be-cause ho expected more occurrences In tho future. i hi non-union drivers testified concerning concern-ing assaults and threats by strik-r- Thc hearing before Master in Chancery Sherman will be continued tomorrow. |
