The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-10
CONTRACTORS MUST GO.
Shovellers Will Listen
to Nothing Else.
Carriers Association Offers Liberal
Concessions.
They Are However De-
clined Positively.
No Change in Buffalo Strike
Situation.

Buffalo, NY, May 9.-While the strike
situation remains unchanged after day
of great quietness, there is still hope OF
q speedy settlement of the trouble. Inc
grain shovellers still persist that nothing
will satisfy them except they succeed In
aboiishing the existence of contractors
and middlemen. They assert that they
can furnish bonds to guarantee that they
themselves can handle all of the grain
transported by the lake carriers associ-
alton.
Tonight 1t was learned that the lake
carriers association and Contractor Con-
nors are willing to make more radical
concessions to the scoopers than any yet
announced Bishop Quigley. who was
chairman of the conference, held last
night, said tonight that hs had bis re-
port of the proceedings prepared and that
1t contained no suggestions from him
other than those which occurred at the
conferences and that 1t would be made
public tomorrow.
Tonight at big meeting of the grain
shoyellers President McMahon made q re-
port of the doipgs of the conference com
mittees. He stated that the proposition
submitted by the grain shovellers has
been laid on the table by the representa-
tives of the lake curriera' association and
that the latter had made counter propo-
sition. The lake carriers, MIR. McMahon
said. had agreed to. accept all Of the terms
contained In the proposition OF the grain
shovellers with. the exception OF the
abrogation of the contract which Mr..
Connors held. They had agreed to take
the entire supervision of the work out Of
Mr.. Connor's hands to let Bishop Quigley
appoint superintendent, to &ive the
power to the grain shovellers of appoint
ing their own boss scoopers and they
agreed to the appointment OF local
board of arbitration. In other words,
the lake carriers had agreed that hereafter
Mr.. Connors would be contractor In
name only and that he would have moth
Ing to do with the mon or the work with
the exception Of drawing his i've cents
per 1000 bushels.
President Mcmahon announced that the
committee of the strikers had refused to
they would have nothing to do with the
work until MIR. Connors was relieved Of
the contract altogether.
The grain shovellers unanimously ap-
proved Of the committees action.
This afternoon Bishop Quigley, to
wh0m was delegated tne TASK OF ptepal-
ing report of the proceedings of Monday
nights conference telepboned the sub
stance of the report to the representatives
of the lake carriers at Cleveland. Later
the Bishop was notified by the lake oar
riers that his report was accepted and
approved. No intimation was received
from Cleveland, however, as to what the
future course OF the lake carriers would
be. 1t was stated here today upon excel.
lent authority that meeting of the lake
carriers association will be called In
Cleveland within day or two for the
purpose Of reviewing the report Of the
work done by the associations represen
tatives in the efforts to settle the tt ouble
here and that the proposition made by
the grain shovellers will be laid before
the association at that meeting.
The situation on the docks has not
changed. Mr.. Connors claimed to have
more men at work now than at any other
time this season. He gave out state
ment today furnished by the Western
Elevating association, showing that he
had elevated more grain from May to
May 8 this year than during the oorre-
sponding period last year.