The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-14
BOSTON STRIKE AT AN END
EFFORTS OF LEADING lTERCAN-
 TILE FIRMS SUCCESSFUL.

Worked Hard for Settlement
 Pressure Brought to Bear on the Con
 soItdated Road.
 Boston, March 13.-Through the unit ed efforts of representatives of the onded by the chief executives of city and state, in conference with the rec ognized leaders of organized labor, the great strike of freight handlers and kindred trades represented in the allied freight transportation council was broken tonight Fully 10000 men who work in the morning.
 This result was attained at confer ence this evening at the office of Gov ernor Crane. The decision was at once read to the allied freight transpor- tation council at special meeting to- night and unanimously endorsed.
 The settlement was the result of an expressed determination of Governor
 
 Crane and those representing the mer- chants of Boston to bring all possible pressure to bear unon the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad company to adopt the rules in force upon the Boston and Maine railroad forbidding freight handlers to unload teams except at their own option. All of the men for whom places can be found will be taken back by the rail- roads tomorrow, but owing to the sud- denness with which the strike was end ed and the large number of new men who have been installed it is likely that many of the old employees will to-mor- row find no vacancies ready for them Eventually, it is believed, they all will regain their old positions, The team sters and 'longshoremen will find an unprecedented demand for their ser vices and traffic of all descriptions, which has been virtually at standstill for the past three or four days will be resumed tomorrow with rush.
 
 the loading and unloading of whose non-unon teams precipitated the strike of New York, New Haven and Hartford freight handlers, does not appear to have figured at all in the settlement of the present controversy and as far as that company is concerned. the senti- ment against it on the part of the la bor unions is as bitter as ever. Under the new arrangement, however, union men will not be required to load or un- load their teams. The following official notice of the termination of the strike will be pff.t- ed in the morning papers, and in addi- ton committees will endeavor to notify those of the strikers who cannot be reached through the press in time to begin work at their regular time:
 ITO All Members of Labor OrganiZa- | tions Affiliated with the Allied | Freight Transportation Council of | Boston and Vicinity-Greeting:
 ''Brothers-An agreement having been reached at a conference between all in- terests represented in the strike of the freipht industry of this city, which agreement has the endorsement of Gov ernor w. Murray Crane, Mayor Collins, Secretary R. M Easley, of the National Civic Federation, and a committee of this council and committee of Boston business men, the strike of the freight transportation organizations in hereby officially declared off All men who went on strike are hereby ordered to return to work this morning.
 "In issuing this order your represen tatives cannot speak in too warm praise ynry -SnjfitAd citizens who have so freely contributed their time and their ability in the in terests of peace.
 "We particularly desire Co thank these persons and the men in the labor movement who have so nobly stood for the principles contended for by the trades unions of Boston,
 (Siened) "Oscar F. Cox, "President Allied Freight Transporta- tion Council.
 Jeffrey Powers, "President Freight Handlers Union.
 William Hartnett,
 "President Team Drivers Union.
 "P. ODay,
 "Secretary of Strike Committee" Meetings of the Building Trades council and of the Boston Central labor union were held during the evening. At the former meeting President Cox of the Transportation council announced that the strike had been declared off 1 and after the meeting had endorsed a proposition to the effect that it's mem bers should handle no material deliver ( ed bv non-union men, it adjourned. The Central Labor union, upon receiving announcement of the termination of ( the strike adjourned without taking any action. Secretary Easley of the Civic Fedora l tion this evening expressed his pleasure with the satisfactory outcome of the t strike. A sympathetic strike, he said, I is like a confiagration, and there is no . telling where it will end, He said both I sides to this dispute were disposed to c be very fair and said that the state and t city were extremely fortunate in poss- e essing executives like Governor w. t Murray Crane and Mayor P. A. Collins T who took such deep personal interest in e the questions at issue. t
 Proceedings EarIier in the Day.
 Boston March IS. An official es O innate based on reports of individual E unions showed that 1885 men had q struck, yet the police force had an a easier time man for man, than on an d