Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-05-08
SITUATION AT BUFFALO.
to Endcavor to Put nm End
to the strike.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May president
johnson, of the state board of mediation
and arbitration; II. d. Goulder, of Cleve-
land, attorney for the Lake Carriers As
ISOLATION and Mr.. Douglass. representing
the Western Elevating Association, called
on Bishop Quigley, of the Catholic diocese
of Buffalo, to-day, and asked him to endea-
vor to induce the grain shovelers to &C.
cept the proposition made by Contractor
Connors.
The result of the conference could not be
| ascertained. 1t is understood, however,
that Bishop Quigley requested time for
consideration and consultation with the
priests in whose parishes the trouble is
centered. The fact that Mr.. Goulder in
| tends to remain over in Buffalo until to,
morrow night is believed to indicate that
Bishop Quigley will make known his an
swer some time tomorrow.
Nearly all of the grain shoyelers are
4 Irishmen and attend the Catholic church,
\ 1t is thought therefore that a suggestion
coming from the bishop would carry with
| ii great weight.
The monthly men at the elevators held
big meeting this afternoon. Resolutions
were adopted expressing sympathy with
| the cause of the grain shovelers and il
was unanimously voted that whenever
there are any signs of growing strength on
the part OF contractor Connors, a strike
| will be declared.
The monthly men thought it would be
best to stick to their elevators SO long as
Mr.. Connors is unable to obtain sufficient
number of shovelers to unload the grain,
4 delegation from the Grain ShoVeIers'
| union was present at the meeting
Contractor Connors is beginning to i'm
port men from other cities 10 take the
| place of the striking grain shovelers One
| of his boss shovelers, Peter Dalton has
opened headquarters in a saloon at 46
| Bowery, New York, and is hiring men to
work on the docks here. Dalton started
$50 men for Buffalo at midnight Saturday
fGIsI Ia nhi n a Snrlx TI,a
put aboard a Delaware, Lackawanna &
| Western train.
On the way to, Buffalo a stop was made
and the men were given % cents each for
| breakfast. Only twenty-nine of the forty
| three came back to the train. When the
train reached Buffalo delegation of strik-
| ing of the New Workers, appeared at the
depot and enticed all but fifteen of the
were taken TO the Marine elevator in a
| bus guarded by two patrol wagons full OF
police No attempt was made to modest
| them.
Tonight a delegation of grain shovelers
waited on the superintendent of police, the
mayor and the superintendent of the poor
for the purpose of having the New York
ers sent home at the expense of the city
| Tonight they are lodged in the grain
shovelers' hall. They claim that the sit.
uation here was misrepresented to them
| and they have sent telegram to their
friends on the Bowery warning them rc
Keep away from Buffalo.
L ne SITUATION along the water front re-
mains unchanged Only seven elevat.
ors were working to-day. 1t is estimated
that when the big Duluth fleet, which will
begin to arrive tomorrow, is in, It will
take several weeks with full force OF
| shovelers to clear the harbor and catch ur
| on the work
Late tonight it was given out that the
grain shovelers will present an ultimatum
10 the Lake Carriers Association to-mor.
| row. The officers of the new union were
busy framing il this evening. The sub.
stance of the ultimatum will be that il