Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-14
BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM
Freight Handlers to Make Final 0verturss
for Strike Settlement Monday.
PROLONGED CONTEST IF EFFORT FAILS
Fight TO Finish Probable IL ThiH
Attempt at Adjustment IL in
Vain, and other Unions
- VIII Participate.

CHICAGO, July 13.-Final overtures for
the settlement of the strike Of freight hand
lers and teamsters were made at meetings
of the two unions tonight. At the instiga-
tion Of the members Of the Chicago Board
OF Arbitration, the freight handlers agreed
to send committees to all the railroads to-
morrow morning This agreement was
made after the board had announced to the
union men that eight Of the largest rail-
roads entering Chicago had agreed to pay
17h cents per hour to truckers and pay for
overtime and to do away with the demand
for a probationary period of service.
The general managers of two Of the rail-
roads declared they had agreed to no such
proposition. They declared that when the
committees shall visit the railroad ofices
tomorrow morning the roads will oner
them the same terms as those which were
rejected by the union men yesterday. The
statement from the general managers de-
stroyed the hope Of settlement OF the
strike tomorrow on the basis of the terms
suggested by the general managers Of the
railroads.
Effort f. to Please TeRmsters.
Even IL the general managers had not in
sisted upon maintaining their position 1t Is
not probable that a settlement could be
effected. The freight handlers agreed to
make another effort to reach a settlement
with the railroads only to please the team
sters who previously had indorsed the at
tempt of the Board OF Arbitration to settle
the strike.
There is lack of evidence of their at
tempt to make a serious effort to settle the
controversy. President Curran Of the
Freight Handlers union stated tonight that
4 ba nnOruinR will in
sist on the payment Of Is cents an hour in
stead Of IN cents, which the railroads are
| reported to have offered.
He also stated that the freight handlers
will make no more overtures and hereafter
| will reject all proposals which shall not
stipulate for the payment Of the wage
scale as formulated by the union and the
| recognition of the organization.
Looks Like Fight to Finish.
| With the general managers and the union
both maintaining these respective positions,
1t is believed that there is slight chance
for a settlement tomorrow and that when
that opportunity shall have vanished, 1t
will be fight to finish.
Every teamsters union in Chicago that
has members handling freight voted today
to refuse to take teams to the freight
| depots.
Longshoremen of Chicago who have been
only in partially organized condition were
formed into a union today. They are out
now in sympathy with the freight hand
| lers, but tomorrow may inaugurate an in
dependent strike of their own, II a higher
scale OF wages for loading and unloading
the big lake boats shall be refused
The ice teamsters also have agreed NOT
to ice refrigerator cars nor to visit the
railroad yards. This is virtually a SYM
pathetic strike and until the railroads shall
settle the trouble with the freight handlers
the ice storage points along the railroad
lines will have to be closed
The coal teamsters at a meeting today
determined that 10 member of the union
shall go near the railroad freight sheds
during the strike. While there is little
likelihood Of the coal teamsters being asked
to haul from the freight houses, they de.
cided to be prepared for such a contingency
by resolving not to touch any articles un.
loaded from freight cars by nonunion la
borers.
Policeman Wounds Striker.
Though Sunday is day Of rest for tn,
freight handlers and teamsters there were
several clashes between the police ant
strikers. The most serious disturbance oc
CURED on the Randolph street viaduct owe
the Illinois Central freight yards whert
Neil Brown. a special policeman, clashe
with several strikers. Brown was badl,
beaten and in the affray he fired severa
shots, one of which wounded John Sche-
del, a striker, in the knee. Brown was ar
rested.
w. F. Kelly, teamster who was attacked
, by strikers on South Water street. fire.
, several shots into the crowd. Kelly wa
3 arrested
: large detail Of reserve police wa
massed at the city hall and at the Harrison
street station to be in readiness for posi-
: BILE rioting.