The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-14
SETTLEMENT OF lFREieHTs HAN
Oilers DIFFICULTY APPAR.
EMILY REMOTE AS EVER
PROPOSITIONS SUBMITTED BY
EIGHT RAILROAD COMPANIES
Men Firmly Refuse to Accept Eighteen
Cents an Hour-Evidence That Sim
cerity Is Acknowledgements
Will Organize and May lnauguratc
an Independent Strike.

CHICAGO, July 13.-Final overtures
for the settlement of the strike we're
made at meetings of the two unions
tonight. At the instigation of the
members of the Chicago board of ar
bitration the freight handlers agreed
to send committees to all the rail-
ways tomorrow morning. This agree
ment was made after the board had
announced to the union men that eight
of the largest railroads entering Chi
cago had agreed TOT pay 1919 cents an
hour to truckers and pay for overtime
and to do away with the demand for q
probationary period Of service.
The general managers of two rail
roads agreed to no such proposition.
They agreed that when the committees
shall visit the railway offices tomorrow
morning the roads will offer them the
same terms as those which were re-
jected by the union men yesterday.
The statement of the general nlanag-
ers destroyed the hope of a settlement
of the strike tomorrow on a basis of
terms suggested by the general man
ayers of the railroads.
Even if the general managers had
position, it is not probable that {, set
tlement could be effected. The freight
handlers agreed to make another eff
fort to reach a settlement with the
railroads only to please the tea1nsters.
who previously had indorsed the at
tempt of the board of arbitration 10
settle the strike.
Lack of Sincerity.
There is an apparent lack of SINGER
ity in the attempt to make a serious
effort to settle the controversy.
President Curran, Of the Freight
Handlers union, stated tonight that
the committees tomorrow morning will
insist on the payment of is cents an
hour instead of 171a cents, which the
railroads are reported to have offered.
He also stated that the freight ham
dlers will make no more overtures and
hereafter will reject all proposals
which shall not stipulate for the pay
ment of the wage scale as formulated
by the union and the recognition of
the union.
With the general managers end
unions both maintaining these respec-
tive positions, it is believed that there
is slight chance for a settlement to-
morrow, and that when this opportun-
ity shall have vanished it will be a
fight to finish.
Livery IndC has IneI1-
bers handling freight in Chicago Voted
today to take tetams off the freig hi
depotS. .o
Long Too. 4ys
The longshoremen OF Chicago. who
have been only partially organized,
were formed into a union today. They
are in sympathy with the freight han
dlers, but may inaugurate an indie
pendent strike of their own if an ADJ
vanced scale for loading and unload
ling big lake steamers is refused.
Ice haulers have agreed not to ice
refrigerator cars nor to visit railway
yards. This is virtually a sympathetic
strike, and until the railways shall set
tie the trouble with the freight han
dlers the ice storage points along the
railway lines will have to be closed.
The coal teamsters, at a meeting to-
day, determined that no men of he
union shall go near the railroad freight
sheds during the strike. While there
is little likelihood of coal teamsters,bS.
ing asked to haul from the freight
sheds, they resolved to be prepared for
such a contingency by refusing to
touch any articles unloaded from
freight cars by non-union labcrers.