The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-15
JUST HALF A CENT
DIFFERENCE IN TERMS COSTING
CHICAGO $1,000, 700 A DAY.
BOTH SIDES ARE UNMovED.
mo CONCESSIONS" CRY OF RAIL
ROADS AND STRIKERS ALIKE.

| Half a Cent Per Hour Per Man, De-
manded by Strikers and Refused
by Roads, the TrIhing Difference
That Holds ChicagO's Wholesale
Trade by the ThrOat-Managers and
Union Officers Obstinate and Den-
ant-Business Men Growing Res
tive-Police Unable to Guarantee
Full ProtecttOn-StriI<ers Follow
and Attack Delivery Wagons on
the Street.
Chicago, July 14.-While the whole
sale business of this city is almost COM
pletely paralyzed and it's business men
are suffering loss of 81 900 900 per day,
the striking freight handlers and the
railroads are in a deadlock. and an
nounce their determination to fight to
the finish over the question of one-half
a cent per hour per man, or a total
of about $500 for every "a hours; this
sum being divided on one side between
"a railroads, and on the other between
10000 men.
The situation tonight is more seri-
Gus than at any time since the COM
nencement of the trouble, and at no
time since the walkout have the points
at issue been so obstinately maintained.
Three times to-day the freight han
eral managers, and three times they
came back without result.
Committee Denied II Hearing.
The committee that went to the Mil
waukee and St. Paul road came back
bearing the information that they had
been refused admission, and were in
| formed that their former employers
! did not care to receives them; that
| they had all the men necessary in
| their business, and that hereafter no
| populations would be received from
! employees who had gone on strike. The
officials of the road declared late that
| they will maintain this position.
President Curran then announced
that the egat was On to a frish ard
that hereafter VIXEN the railroads had
| any overtures to make or wished to
do any business with their employees,
they would be compelled to transact
| such business through the officers of
the Freight Handlers Union. Both
sides now declare they have reached
the, limit, and that absolutely nothing
will be conceded. The men demand
/ 17h cents, the managers say that they
| will not, under any circumstances, pay
| more than II cents.
business Men Predict Ruin.
The business men of the city, par
| ticularly those who deal in perishable
goods, are growing FESTIVE. 1t is cost
| ing them more than either the strikers
l or the railroads, and they say that if
| I'LL ~ Ia
| week, many of them will be badly
| crippled. To bring about an end to the
blockade, which is maintained by the
| strikers and their friends, the team
| sters, the commission men of South
| Water street, met this afternoon and
determined to drive their own wagons
to the depots tomorrow and remove
| from them all the goods that had been
| consigned to them, much of which is
being rapidly ruined. Mayor
Harrison promised them ample
police protection. Just then.
| however, word was received
that President Young of the Transfers
| National Union, had arrived in the city,
| and that a meeting of the executive
officers of that body would be held to-
night to consider the advisability of
| ordering the men now on strike to re-
| turn, or of calling out every teamster
in the city who is affiliated with the
| union. The merchants then decided to
await the result of this meeting. A
mass meeting of the commission men
| will be held tomorrow morning to take
action. 1t is not likely the teamsters
will return to work even if ordered by
| their officers.
Police Can't Protect Transfers.
The police say that It Is impossible
| for them to place man on every wag-
on that is seeking the freight depots,
! and say they will not attempt this
| They declare they will keep the way to
| the freight houses open, and suppress
| all disorder around the depots. The
| danger to the men who deliver freight
| is not so much at the depot as it will
| be from the men who will follow them
when they leave the depot and attack
them when they are not in the vicinity
| of the police.
There were but few such cases to-
! day as nobody attempted to deliver any
| freight. One driver took two small
| packages to the depot of the Pennsyl--
! vania road and at last accounts he was
| still besieged there. Many pickets were
waiting for him and he was afraid to
leave the depot
The firm of j. v. Farwell & Co., to-
| day attempted to take some cases of
| dry-goods from their warehouse to
their store on Market street, and a
! crowd of men and boys surrounded the
wagon, cut the traces and refused to
allow the wagons to proceed. The wa
| CONS had not been near a freight de-
| pot and were not bound for one The
| strikers would give no reason for their
attack in this case.
Charge of Bad Faith
Charges of bad faith were numer-
Gus between President Curran Of the
Freight Handlers Union, Secretary
Driscoll of the Chicago arbitration
| board, and some of the railroad man.
ayers. these triangular accusations
were made after the various commit
tees appointed to-day had gone to the
railroad manages with an amended
schedule of wages and with power to
| act.
The amendments contained these
| three propositions: First, no proba-
ton; second, straight time for all
work done by men paid by the month
| outside of the ten-hour day; third.
truckers to get 1715 cents an hour.
Committees which went to the San
ia Fe. Chicago and Northwestern, IL
| linois Central and other railroad man
| ayers are said to have asked for a
| scale of IS cents an hour This was
| half a cent above the schedule the
manager had been assured by both
the State Board of Arbitration and the
Chicago Business Mems Board would