The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-13
STRIKE NOT ENDED
CONFERENCES FAIL OF RESULT AT
CHICAGO.
RAILROADS ARE STUBBORN.
ONLY THREE DISPOSED TO MAKE
CONCESSIONS.

Even These Not Accepted by striI-
ers' Committees, Who Said They
Must Report Back to UniOn-Team-
sters Are Already in Active Sym
pnthy and Refuse to Handle
Freight to Railroad Warehouses;.
Food Famine Threatens Chicago
and Tons of PerishabIe STUFF Lie
ROtting on Wharves and in Rail-
road Yards.
Chicago, July 12.-Conferences be-
tween the striking freight handlers
and the managers of the railroads did
not produce any definite result to-day.
All the railroads. with the exception
of the Chicago and Northwestern, Erie
and Illinois Central refused to recede
from their position and declared that
the men must accept the terms offered
them on July 1. This means II cents
an hour and period of probation for
new men.
The demands of the men were Is
cents, time and one-half overtime, and
no period of probation, all men to re-
ceive full pay from the start. The
Northwestern road offered 171a cents
an hour, single time for overtime for
men employed by the day, but not
for men whose wages are paid by the
month The Erie offered II cents, sin
gle time for overtime and no period
of probation. The Illinois Central de-
clared that 1t had made an agreement
with it's employees since the Inaugural
ton of the strike, and that it would
do no more. The men must accept
that or remain on strike.
Although it had been the understand
ing of the members of the board of
arbitration, and that of the general
managers of the railroads that the
committees which were to call on the
railroad managers would have full
power to accept or reject all proposals
by the roads, the committees announc-
ed at the conclusion of the conferences
that they did not possess this power.
but were compelled to report back to
the officers of the union. They de-
clared they had been sent to the con-
ferences with instructions to demand
Is cents, but il that was found to be
impossible to obtain, to take i715, but
even this must not be accepted until
the officers of the union had been con-
suited. A general meeting of the
freight handlers will be held to-mor-
row night, at which the advisablity
of accepting the offers of the North
western and Erie roads will be dis
cussed.
Transfers to Decide To-day.
Numerous meetings of teamsters will
be held tomorrow to call a strike in
sympathy with the freight handlers,
but the officials of the organization de-
clare that no strike will be called by
the organization as long as they can
prevent it. While there may be no
official strike of the Transfers the con-
dition is the same as though one ex-
listed. The truck teamsters refused to-
day to accept freight for the freight
houses, and in many of the wholesale
houses they were informed by their
employers that If 1t was impossible to
deliver the freight they need not at
tempt to do so.
The railroads deprecate this attitude
on the part of shippers, and say that
they are prepared to handle freight If
II is brought to them. They claim
that the strike of the teamsters is n
matter between their employers and
the transfers, and that it is no af-
fair of the railroads, and they do not
see why they should make further con-
cessions to the freight handlers for
the sake of producing peace between
the shippers and their men.
May Call Out switchmen.
The freight handlers, who are now
fully assured of the aid of the team
sters, whether a strike shall be sane
toned by that organization or not,
announced tonight that they will make
an effort to call out the railroad
switchmen by appealing to them Lot
to handle cars of freight that are load
nounced at the headquarters of the
Freight Handlers Union that this had
been done, but Grand Master Hawley
of the Switchmens Union, who is in
the city on business having no con-
nection with the strike of the freight
handlers, said that he had received no
such request, and that under the rules
of his organization, it would be out
of the question for him to call a
strike and he did not believe there was
any prospect of the men going out
to aid the freight handlers.
The national convention of the long
shoremen is now in session here, and
Grand Master Keefe of that body said
tonight that he had not been APP
proached in the matter of a sympa-
thetic strike, but that the freight han
dlers could present their request to the
convention on Monday If they should
desire to do so. What action would
be probable in such an event, Mr..
Keefe declared ne could net guess.