The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-16
WILL
RETURN TO WORK
Freight Handlers For Several
Roads Accept Terms.
STRIKE APPARENTLY BROKEN
POLICE UNABLE TO PROTECT
TEAMSTERS.

4 4 'A1iC<AcOi July ID " I'm d5ieetilellS
reached between four railroads
and their employees, the great
strike Of the freight handlers and
teamsters, that has paralyzed the in
dustries of Chicago for a week, is APP
parentiy broken. A majority of the
strikers are expected TO return to work
4 tomorrow. Some OF the more radical
unionists may refuse TO accept the
terms accepted by the representative
committees. but apparently they viii
Dc able to WELD little influence with
he majority Of the strikers.
a mass meeting of the freight ran
dlers has been called for tomorrow, and
1pon the action taken at this meeting
VIII depend the attitude of the striking
transfers. Their national president,
a. l.. Young. ordered them back to
work tomorrow, but If the freight han
dlers refuse to declare the strike of.
8 oificially, some of the teamsters may
& refuse TO work.
u is conceded that their officers ex-
4 ercise little absolute authority. The
brst railroads that entered into agree
ments with their men tonight were the
Lake Shore a Michigan Southern. the
Chicago * Northwestern. the Nickel
Plate and the Illinois Central. OF the
tour, the Northwestern and the Illinois
4 Central accepted the proposition made
upon advice of the Transfers board Of
arbitration. The Nickel Plate and
Lake Shore succeeded in getting their
men 10 sign the scale presented by the
roads July l.
Consequently. neither the freight
handlers nor the railroads claim a vic
tory. As the employees Of the Lake
Shore were the first to sign, however,
the railroads are expressing the great
est satisfaction over the break in the
strike The freight handlers will return
20 work without having obtained recog-
milton or their union, time and a half
Tor overtime or the adjustment of the
probation period. On the other hand
4 the freight handlers have obtained in
creases in pay, the smallest increase
being 70 cents per day, being gained
: by the truckers
While the signing Of the agreements
breaks the strike. it does not end It.
II is still in progress so far as twenty
OF the twenty-four railroads in the city
are concerned. President Curran and d
rev OF his supporters are still I'M
4 reconciled, and state that they viii not
recognize any Of the agreements. The
tact remains, however, that a majority
of the freight handlers are seemingly
4 TO work. It is probable that they will
DC given an opportunity to do so to-
MORROW, for all the railroads are eager
and ready to sign agreements similar
TO that made by the Lake Shore rail-
j way.
This agreement was signed tonight
q after all hope OF break in the strike
appeared to be at an end. All OF the
roads had refused 10 accept the de-
. mands originally made by the commit
4 tees Of the strikers. which had waited
on them in the morning. Business men
were meeting and determining to de-
j liver freight under police protection to-
morrow Mayor Harrison had called
a conference of railway officials, strik-
efs and labor leaders for tomorrow
morning. Manufactures and merchants
were declaring that unless the police
could afford protection to drivers the
militia should be ordered out and the
4 strike situation appeared to be more
serious than Il ever had been before.
Crisis Averted.
While affairs were thus annarentIv
reaching crisis. several of the COM
mittees appointed by the freight han
dlers had accepted invitations issued
4 by some of the railroad managers to
enter INTO discussion of the strike
4 situation. In six of the offices. those
of the Michigan Central, the Wiscon-
sin Central, the Illinois Central the
Lake Shore, the Nickel Plate and the
Chicago x Northwestern. the confer
ences were in progress. The executive
committee of the Freight Handlers
union was meeting with a COMMITTEES
of officials OF the Transfers unioD
who were attempting TO compel them
! to settle the strike.
Chairman Job of the state board of
Earplttation was still endeavoring to
4 bring .he railroad officials and the
! strikers together. Then came the nm
expected announcement that the en-
8pioyes of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern had accepted the scale offered
by the road on July l. While n meet
Hing of the Freight Handlers union was
considering the news of the signing of
the Lake shore scale, the committee
which had visited the C'hicago e
Northwestern officials reported They
declared that the Chicago & North
western would pay 17ia cents an haur
i to truckers. do away with the proba-
Etionary period. and pay straight time
FLOR overtime. This was what the COM
lmittee had asked for. but acquiescence
lof the officials was considered a vic
|tory.
President Curran put the question of
|wages TO vote. and the 17lb-cent an
|hour rate was accepted When the
news of the signing of the agreements
|was impaired to the strikers there was
|much grumbling. They declared that
There was a conspiracy to break the
strike. and refused TO admit them
1seives beaten. Some of the members
|of the executive committee counseled
the men to accept the terms of the
railroads. They told them that the
struggle had become a hopeless one.
land asked them to declare the strike
lon. A majority Of the men ag,reed With
1.-THE speakers, but a minority of radi-
|cals WAS with President Curran. and
|shouted down the majority
An adjournment Was taken until to-
morrow morning. when another meet
|ing will be held. At this meeting a
|nnal vote win be taken on the propo-
|sition of going back 20 work. There
Is q strong chance that the meeting
will decide against peace. This action
Ion the part of the meeting would have
little effect on the strike situation.
however. Twenty-Five per cent will
have returned by tomorrow morning.
The railroads have men to an the
|pfaces Of those who still refuse 10 sur
render. and II the teamsters return 10
work in accordance With the mandates
|of their national officers, the strike is
seeraingly as good as over II the
stin refuse 10 deliver or
handle freight. a determined EFFORT viii
he made BY business men Of Chicago TO