Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-07

BRINGING THE CoNTENDING
PARTIES TOGETHER ABAND-
oNED.
Buffalo, N. Y, May THE Lake
Carriers Association tonight aband-
oned its efforts to settle the dispute be-
tween Contractor VIM. J. Connors and
the grain shovelers. The State Board
of Mediation and Arbitration will re-
main here for some time TO investi-
gate the grain shoyeling business and
ascertain what truth there is in the
charges made by the men concerning
the abuses of the contract system. The
board. however, has lost hope of ever
( being able to bring the contractor and
the men together
This hopeless situation was brought
| about by the action of the striking
grain shoveers union in rejecting the
proposition submitted by joint COM
mittee OF the State Board of Mediation
ard Arbitration, the Lake Carriers AS
ISOLATION, the Elevator Association, the
Merchants Exchange and the United
Trades and Labor Council and agreed
to by Mr. Connors. The proposition
was the result of conference among
the representatives of these organiza-
| tons which lasted from IL o'clock in
the morning until late in the afternoon.
Contractor Connors was called before
the conference committee and requested
TO state what concessions he would
make TO the men. Mr. Connors said
2 he would do anything that was fair, but
that he would refuse to abandon his
contract in compliance with the re-
quest of the strikers. At o'clock this
afternoon the committee announced
that an agreement had been reached,
hut declined TO give any information
concerning its terms until after IL had
been submitted to the grain shoyelers
Ii was not until 5 O'Clock tonight
I that the proposition in typewriter
form was laid before the grain shovel-
ers. At that time 1000 OF them had
assembled at their hall.
The proposition was to the effect that
Mr. Connors would agree 70 anolis = 1
saloon boss system, the dummies
would not be placed on the pay roll:
/ that representative citizen of Buffalo
would be appointed with power TO in
vestigate all complaints made by the
men in the future. and that the men
would receive Sl.S5 per ! 900 bushels,
which was the scale fixed last year.
President Mcmahon declared, imme-
diately after reading thu proposition,
I that he rejected Ii and would refuse to
submit it to the men. The committee
Of labor men urged him to permit the
men to vote on the proposition but
Mcmahon refused. Instead he walked
to the front OF the stage and said
"a fake proposition has been sub
mitted to us by the Lake Carriers AS
ISOLATION. AS il provides Tor a con-
tinuance of the contract system, have
rejected 1t in your behalf"
The grain shoyelers cheered the an
nouncement enthusiastically.
President Mcmahon then announced
that the men would have nothing more
to do with the Lake Carriers Associa-
ton, but would fight the matter out on
the docks
Mr. Goulder said:
THE Lake Carriers Association has
done all it can. We will now leave,
and let the men fight It out with Mr..
Connors."
President Johnson. OF the State
State Board OF G~diation and Arbitra-
ton. said.
The proposition was perfectly fair
one. The demand on the part Of the
men that the contract be abrogated Is
absurd. While the board will not leave
Buffalo, yet II appears as IL IL would
no f4a5Iggg 70 20 F.aY4 he
effect a compromise"
President Mcmahon claims that the
proposition was refused for the req
son that the contractors never kept
pledges in the past and could not do 20
in the future
a final effort will be made tomorrow
through Bishop Quigley, OF the Cath
Ollie diocese here. % induce the men 10
make terms.
I. was announced tonight that the
monthly men at the elevators and the
coal beavers on the docks would 20 o,r
on Monday. This will add nearly 600
Lien to the ranks Of the strikers
Persistent Tumors were current to-
night that Contractor Connors han
made arrangements 20 bring / 900 men
10 Buffalo from New York to take the
places ~ the strikers.
AF AOhnorS cenieH tniss but there IN I'M
doubted evidence that men are TO DO
brought here from some outside towns
and II this IS done serious trouble Is sure
10 follow.
There IS no notable improvement In tho
matter OF unloading the big feet Of grain
vessels now here. Men are working at
several elevators. but where 100 should
be az work, there are but nfteen or twenty
and progress II slow A big fleet from
Duluth - expected here daily and when il
arrives predictions are na.ie that the bar
Dor VII be completely blocked