Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-15
TO FIGHT THE STRIKE
Chicago Business Men Decide
to Use Force.
TODAY ONE OF GRACE
LITTLE HOPE SETTLEMENT WILL
BE REACHED.
If Not, Then a Struggle to the Finish
Will Begin Tomor-
TODAY ONE OF GRACE

Will Begin IomOT-
CHICAGO, July 1.-THE faint hope of q
settlement of the freight handlers strike
entertained this forenoon was dashed away
shortly after noon when President Curran
received word that the Erie ana Santa Re
II ads had refused to entertain the COM
promise proposed in petitions presented by
committees of the strikers. There was
only the barest possibility that the other
roads might prove less firm, for it had
been repeatedly stated that the roads would
take identical action. However, the NORTH
western, the Wabash and the Wisconsin
Central roads told the committees to re-
turn later in the day. 1t was believed the
delay was wanted in order that conference
might be had with the other roads The
Erie and Santa Fe arrangements told the
men they would accept no other settlement
than that proposed July /. This is a stifer
stand than they have made any time since
the date named
The proposition made by the committees
TO the managers was that the scale of July
1 be adopted, plus the following important
concessions:
illumination of the term of probation
before advances should be effective.
ployes charged for loss of time
3.-Seventeen and one-haif cents an hour
for truckers.
Perishable Goods Moved.
BY noon the good effects of the presence
Of President Young of the Transfers
Union in the city was apparent. Through
the efforts of Mr.. Young. the teamsters
working fer South Water street commits
sion firms were persuaded to carry perish
able freight from the Straight cars BY
straight cars is meant cars containing
one Kind of freight only, and consigned TO
one firm.
The objection Of the teamsters to hand
ling freight touched by the non-union men
now in the warehouses was overcome by
having the teamSters take the freight di-
rect from the cars themselves. In this
way much periShable goods reached the
street during the foreloon. and the situa-
ticn partially relieved. Many cars of vege-
tables nd fruit, however. still remain in
the railroad sheds, as the teamsters will
not touch II after the non-union ware
hcusemen have once handled it.
Another result of Mr.. Young's efforts
Was the abandonment of the plan 10 man
the teams with their owners in an ATTEMPT
TO move caravans under police protection
IN and out of the freight yards. At the
meeting Of commission merchants this Dlan
was held in allegiance pending the success
Of Mr.. GOunsS efforts.
4 little ordinary merchandise it is said
tSamEterS
Plckets of the freight handlers did not IN
teTfere, so far could be learned They
knew from the determined tones of the
meeting over which Mr.. Young presided
late last night that interference would
anenate the sympathy of the drivers on
whose steadfastness their success admitted
" relies.
Relief to Chief O'Nein.
The temporary relief afforded by the COM
pliance of the teamsters with the orders of
OF relief from Chief of Police O'Nein. but
ne did not relieve any of the reserve men
of their present duties.
That the teamsters would continue to do
even the little hauling they did TODAY
should the conference fail was a matter of
doubt The consensus of opinion was that
th'E would rot, although their officers
might order them to.
This opinion was expressed at y rneetiro
"i merchants held during the forenoon AT
TINS meeting plans were made for an as
ETessiVe night in the event of the failure Of
todays negotiations \ committee was an
pointed to visit President Young and ask
hun what would be his attitude should to-
DAY negotiations fail He said to them in
answer.
4 will order all the men 10 90 to tho
b&fns tomorrow morning and to do all work
assigned TO them. including the hauling of
helght l Will order them to i've up to
their agreements. | will not however ask
them 10 work if physical violence threatens
them
Should the strike not be settled tomorrow
and the teaInsters attempt to carry out Mr
4oungs orders. II is believed violence would
almost certainly result. President Curran
OF the Freight Handlers Union was in a
determined mood today. His anger over
the action Of the teamsters' officers last
night. and the accusations of bad faith
charged against him. had not cooled.
Heavy Police Reserve.
Eight hundred r,oIiceroa, ora boId l. -.
serve at downtown stations or at the rail-
read houses this morning in anticipation of
possible attempt to raise the embargo
on freight oCcasiOned by the freight-han-
dlers' strike and the sympathetic waIkout
o. the teamsters
The situation was regarded as even more
serious than yesterday. as the failure of
Conferences scheduled for today was beIiev-
ed To mean that the merchants. who are
suffering over a million dollars loss every
day OF the strike. would assume a deter
mined attitude. At meetings held yesterday
houses IL different lines of business but
especially those handling perishable goods
declared their intention Of manning their
trucks and attempting TO take freight from
the warehouses Of the railroads. After the
meeting Of the teamsters after midnight
laSs night. when IL was arranged that the
freight handlers should make one last prop
osltIon to the managers the merchants
changed their plans OF action the first thing
TO-DAY TO await the result of the confer
eEceS
rev were found to express hope that
these meetings between the men and their
former employers would result in peace The
men were instructed, among other things to
ueihdhd ltl2 cents an hour for truckers
ana on this point the railroads have taken
decided stand Secretary DriscoU of the
Team owners Association is quoted as
stating that eight Of the railroads were
"Hhhg TO pay ii12 cents, but this beiua,
true there would remain eighteen still
pledged 10 pay more than IL cents
Prospect of Trouble
The extra large force of reserve men on
hand at police stations this morning was a
reflection of the feeling that today. more