The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-14
STRIKE MAY BE
SETTLED TO-DAY
Strikers Agree to Send Commit.
tees to All Roads.
BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM
TRANSFERS no STRIKE IF SET
ELEMENT Is NOT REACHED.

n HICAGO, July 13.-Final overtures
for the settlement of the strike Of
the freight handlers and team
sters were made at meetings of the two
unions tonight. At the instigation of
the members of the Chicago board Of
arbitration the freight handlers agreed
70 send committees TO all the railroads
tomorrow morning.
This agreement was made after the
board had announced TO the union men
that eight of the largest railroads en-
tering Chicago had agreed to pay 1715
cents an hour to truckers, to pay for
overtime, and to do away with the de-
mand for a probationary period of
service. The general managers of two
of the railroads declared that they had
| agreed to no such proposition. They
declared that when the committee shall
visit the railroad officers tomorrow
morning, the roads viii offer them the
same terms as those which were re-
Jected by the union men yesterday.
The statement from the general man
ayers destroyed the hope of d settle
nent of the strike on the basis of the
terms suggested by the general man
ayers of the railroads, Even If the
general managers had not insisted on
maintaining their position it is not
probable that settlement could be eff
fected. The freight handlers will make
| another effort to reach a settlement
with the railroads only to please the
teamsterS, who previously had endorsed
the arrangement to settle the strike.
To Be Final Meeting.
There is lack of evidence of their at
tempt to make serious effort to settle
the controversy. President Curran of
9 io1f tod
night that the committees tomorrow
morning will insist upon the payment
OF Is cents an hour instead of I7h
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
payment OF the wage scale as formu-
lated by the union and the recognition
of the organization.
With the general managers and the
unions both maintaining these respec-
tive positions, it is believed that there
is slight chance for settlement tomor-
row. and that after that opportunity
shall have vanished it will be a fight
to finish. Every transfers union
in Chicago that has members handling
freight voted today TO refuse to take
teams to the freight depcts
Longshoremen of Chicago, who have
been only in a partially organized con-
dltlon, were formed into a union today
They are out now in sympathy with the
freight handlers, but may begin an
important strike of their own If a.
higher scale of wages for loading and
unloading the big lake boats shall be
refused The ice teamsters also have
agreed not 10 ice refrigerator cars nor
to visit the railroad yards.
This is virtually sympathetic strike,
and until the railroads shall settle the
trouble with the freight handlers. ice
storage on the lines will have to close
The ice transfers, at a meeting today
determined that no member shall go
near the freight sheds during the strike
There is little likelihood of the coal
teamSters being asked to haul from
the freight houses, they deciding to be
prepared for such contingency by re-
SOWING not 10 touch any articles un-
loaded from freight cars by non-union
labOrerS.