Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-07-17
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Small Hope for n settlement OF
Freight Handlers strike.

small hope Tor ~ Settieshchs "
Freight HandIcrs' strike.
Chicago, July 15.-Final oyertures Tor
the settlement of the strike of freight
handlers and teamsters were made at
meetings of the two MO last night
AT the instigation of the members OF
the Chicago board of arbitration the
freight handlers agreed to send COM
mittees to all the railways to-day. rms
agreement was made after the board
had announced TO the union men that
, eight OF the largest railroads entering
Chicago had agreed to pay II liz cents
an hour TO truckers and pay for over
time and TO do away with the demand
for a probationary period of service.
The general managers of W rail-
roads agreed to no such proposition.
They agreed that when the committees
shall visit the railway offices this morn
ing the roads will offer them the same
terms as those which were rejected by
the union men Saturday. The state
ment of these general managers de-
stroyed the hope of a settlement of the
strike to-day on a basis of terms sug-
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other roads.
Little Chance of settlement.
Even If the general managers had not
insisted upon maintaining their position
IL is not probable hat a settlement
could be effected. The freight handlers
agreed to make another effort to reach
a settlement with the railroads only 10
please the transfers, who previously
had Endorsed the attempt OF the ooarn
of arbitration to settle the strike. There
is an apparent lack of evidence OF
sincerity in the attempt to make a serl-
Gus effort to settle the controversy.
President Curran of the freight hand
lers union stated that the committees
will insist on the payment of Is cents
an hour instead of II 1-2 cents, which
the railroads are reported to nave Of
fer ed. He also stated that the freight
handlers will make no more overtures,
and hereafter will reject all proposals
which shall not ~stipuJate for the pay
ment Of the wage scale as formulated
by the union and the reorganization OF
the union.
With the general managers ana
unions both maintaining these respect
i've pOSlllOlS IL iS UcllCNCu Ihob NhSiS
slight chance for a settlement to-day,
and hat wnen this opportunity snail
nave vanished 1t will be
A Fight "a a Finish.
Every teamster union that has mem
bers handling freight in Chicago, voted
yesterday to take teams off the freight
depats. The longshoremen of Chicago
who have been only partly organized,
were formed into a union yesterday.
They are in sympathy with the freight
handlers, but may inaugurate an indie
pendent strife of their own IL an ad-
vanced scale for loading and unloading
big lake steamers is refused.
Ice haulers have agreed not to ice re-
frigerator cars o to visit railway
yards. This is virtually a sympathetic
strike, and until the railways shall
settle the trouble with the freight
h handlers the ice storage points along
the railway lines viii IA to be closed.
The coal teamsters at a meeting yes
terday determined that no men of the
union shall go near the railroad freight
sheds during the strike. While there
is little likelihood of coal teamsters
being asked to haul from the freight
sheds. they resolved to be prepared for
such q contingency by refusing to touch
any articles unloaded from freight cars
by non-union laborers.