The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-13
HAD SMALL RESULTS
RAILROADS DECLINE TO RE-
CEDE FROM POSITION.
Conferences Between Striking
Freight Handlers and the Man
agers-Latter Say Men Must
Accept Terms offered.

Chicago, July 12.-ConferenceS between
the striking freight handlers and the
managers of the railroads did not pro-
duce any definite result today. All the
| railroads, with the exception of the Chi
cago and Northwestern, the Erie and the
Illinois Central, refused to recede from
their position and declared that the mer
must accept the terms offered them on
July /. This means IL cents an hour and
a period of probation for new men.
The demands of the men were is cents
per hour and one-han of that amount
for over time and no period of probation.
all men to receive full pay from the start.
Tie Northwestern road offered IL IL
cents an hour, single time for over time
for men employed by the day, but not for
men whose wages are paid by the month
The Erie offered II cents, single time for
over time and no period of probation.
The Illinois Central declared that 1t
had made an agreement with its employees
since the Inauguration of the strike, and
that 1t would do no more. The men must
accept that or remain on strike. Although
1t had been the understanding of the
n. embers of the Board of Arbitration and
that of the general managers of the rail-
roads. that the committee which were to
cal! on the railroad managers would have
full power to accept or reject all proposals
from the roads, the committees announced
at the conclusion Of the conferences that
they did not possess this power. but were
compelled to report back to the officers of
the union. They declared they had been
sent to the conferences with Instructions
to demand IS cents, but IL that was found
to be impossible to obtain, to take IL IL,
but even this must not be accepted until
the officers of the union had been con-
suited. A general meeting of the freight
handlers will be held tomorrow night, at
which the ACCESSIBILITY of accepting the
offers of the Northwestern and Erie
roads will he discussed. Numerous meet
ings of Transfers will be held tomorrow
to call a sympathetic strike. but the Of
ficals of the organization declare that no
strike win be called by the organization
as long as they can prevent 1t. The
condition. however. is the same as though
one existed. The truck teamsters refused
today to accept freight for the freight
houses. and in many of the wholesale
houses they were informed by their en-
ployers that If 1t was impossible to de-
liver the freight they need not attempt
to do so. The freight handlers announced
tonight that they would appeal to the
railroad switchmen urging them not to
handle cars of freight that are loaded by
non-union men. but Grand Master Paw
here, said that he had received no such
request and that under the rules of his
Organization. IL would be out of the
question for him to call a strike and he
did not believe that there was any pros
pect of the men going out to aid the
freight handlers.
The national convention OF the long
shoremen Is now in session here, and
Grand Master Keefe of that body said
tonight that he had not been approached
in the matter of a sympathetic strike but
that the freight handlers could present
their request to the convention on Mon
Gay IL they should desire to do So What
action would be probable in such an
event Mr. Keefe declared he could not
guess.
Heavy pressure was brought to bear
on the Chicago Federation of Labor Of
ficials tonight, and a petition calling for
a special meeting on Tuesday night was
received and acted upon by President
J. H. Bowman. Before this meeting is
called, the Executive Committee of the
Federation will again try to bring about
a settlement, and that failing. will rec
ommend a call for a sympathetic strike
in all branches of trade which affect the
railroads. The mcmbers of the ice driv-
ers' union hauled their last loads of ice
to the railroads tonight. The officers of
the union tried their best to have the
men continue at work. but the drivers
refused. Their action leaves all the re-
frieerator cars now standing n the city
without ice, all the railroad cold storage
houses without supply and deprives all
passenger cars of cold water until they
reach some outside point.