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Show MAY TAKE BAD TURN Freight t Handlers May , Strike; : in -; Sympathy : With Teamsters. ' CHICAGO, April 17. Exasperating difficulties diffi-culties were experienced at every turn today to-day by the wagons of Montgomery, Ward & Co., whose .teamsters' ' and garment workers are on strike., 'At the Michigan Central freight house in South Watefl street the police escorting the Ward caravans car-avans met' with stubborn opposition on the part of the teamsters in sympathy with the strikers. The anti-Ward teamsters team-sters loaded or unloaded their wagons wlta provoking slowness, and told the police po-lice "we are not pleves of machinery." Many of the teamsters in the street leading to the freight houses Insisted that they had been waiting two hours and When the police made way for the Ward wagons to be loaded earlier than other wagons there was a loud complaint from each teamster. Members of the Freight Handlers' union gave indications that unless the police ceased to give the ward wagons the right . unload before teamsters team-sters who had been waiting ahead, a strike among the frejght handlers would be ordered. . The crowd at the West Side warehouse of Ward & Co. was so unyielding that when a string of the firm's wagons reached the place the police were forced to use clubs to make a passageway. |