The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-16
STRIKE is SPREADING
DOCK SITUATION At BUFFALO NOW
WORSE THAN EVER.
Grain Sh~oveIers Joined by the Men
who Work Inside the Elevators
Bishop Quigley's Statement.

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uation is worse tonight than at any time
since the opening of the season. The
monthly men. the men who work inside the
| elevators, are out and nave agreed TO re-
main out until the grain shovelers' and the
| freight handlers strikes are settled. To-
| morrow every elevator here will be idle.
unless new men can be secured to take the
places of the monthly men, which is said
to be improbable.
Bishop Quigley and the leaders of the
| grain shovelers held a conference to-day
that lasted until Q o'clock tonight. The
grain shovelers claimed that Mr.. Connors
had violated all the essential provisions OF
the agreement that the Lake Carriers As
scciation had made with the union. The
bishop afterward addressed a big meeting
of the grain shovelers. He told them that,
I'm view of the course adopted by the con-
tractor. he would not advise them to re-
turn to work. 1t had been decided, he said,
that the only way to win a victory that
would nave any material results was for
all the laboring men employed on the docks,
including grain shovelers, monthly men,
freight handlers, coal passers, ore handlers
and hosting engineers, to unite and con-
tinue the contest until the grievances of
each had been settled. He also said that
no settlement would be effected until Con-
| tractor Connors agreed TO employ none but
members of the new grain shovelers' union.
If this demand was not agreed to, Bishop
Quigley said. the LAX Carriers Association
would be asked to abrogate the contract
Nc settlement of the difficulty will be
reached now until all the boss scoopers en-
ployed by Mr.. Connors are discharged. The
| freight handlers, monthly men and hosting
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| shovelers and the coal passers and ore
handlers will make the same agreement to-
morrow. The additions to the strikers TO,
day, beside the monthly men, were the local
branch of the International Union of En-
gineeTs, many of whom are employed on the
hosting engines along the dock. Tney
adopted a resolution to assist the grain
shovelers.
Bishop cuigley tonight appointed Tim
othy p. Donovan as inspector OF the docks
in accordance with the agreement entered
into by the Lake Carriers Association Mr..
Donovan will have access TO- all elevators
and vessels and his salary Will be paid by the
Lake Carriers Association.
Contractor Connors said tonight: II have
not violated the agreement made by the
Lake Carriers Association in any particular.
1 am not supposed TO employ more men than
l need. The statement that / required that
al men seeking employment should present
arrangement and did not sanction any such
action OIL the part Of my bosses"
PRESIDENT hecIe. Oh the lnIeTDdIlOIdl
Longshoremen's Association, has tele-
graphed that he is coming back to Buffalo
Immediately for the purpose OF afihating the
shoremen's Association. The members of
the State Board of Mediation and Arbitra-
ton also have been requested to return.
After hearing the report of their counsel,
Harvey d. Goulder. officers of the Lake
Carriers Association tonight gave out a
statement in which they say that after in
vestigating the strike they made the prop
ositiOn to the men embodied In the amend
ment of Mr.. Conners's contract agreed to
at Bishop Quigley's house Sunday night
last. There the part of the Lake Carriers
Association ends and IL retires from the
field assuring the people of Buffalo that
whatever the result of the contest between
the unions or between any union and Mr..
Connors 1t retains authority to see, and it
will positively see to ii, that whoever may
be employed shoveling grain at Buffalo, the
saloon boss system. with its attendant
evils, shall be abolished. and such safe
guards as are set out in the contract made
last night shall be provided for that pur-
pose.
Boss Scooper Novels was set upon to-
night, while returning from work. by a
crowd of boys. He drew a revolver and fired
two shots in the air. Before he reached
home a crowd of women, numbering over
one hundred. Joined in the attack on him,
beat him badly and took away his revolver.
He was rescued by the police. Trouble is
feared. although the strike leaders have
cautioned the men to remain orderly.
Governor Roosevelt stated, tonight, that,
at his suggestion. the state board of arbi-
tration would hold a public investigation
into the present strike trouble.
Protest Against Expulsion of Strikers
ST. LOUIS, May 15.-John Mitchell, presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, James Boston and Attorney E. G. Har-
ley, representing the same organization, had
a conference here to-day regarding the big
miners strike now on in Arkansas and In
dian Territory, There are $500 union min
ers. with their families, living in the Terri
tory. They have been on strike since last
March, and efforts are being made to have
them expelled from the Territory: President
Mitchell and his conferees decided to ap-
peal to Washington. and Mr.. Mitchell sent
the following telegram to the secretary of
the interior:
II understand application has been made
by representatives of the Interior Depart
ment to have miners who are members of
the United Mine Workers of America re-
jected from Indian Territory. We desire a
hearing before order is issued expelling