The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-18
SITUATION is SERIOUS
TWENTY THOUSAND MEN IDLE
BUSINESS TIED UP.
Thirty Cars of Ferishable Freight
Abandoned on the Tracks-Ship-
ping at a Standstill-Commission
Will Act and Have Been Prom
ised Protection-New Proposition
to be offered Tuesday.

Fo
Will Act and Have Been Prom
ised Protection-New Proposition
to be offered Tuesday.
Chicago, July 15.-While the whole
sale business of Chicago is almost par
alyzed, and business men losing 81, OO0,-
900 a day, the striking freight handlers
and railroads are in a deadlock and an
nounce their determination to fight to
a finish over a question of half a cent
per hour per man. On one side are ar
ranged "a railroads and on the other
10, 900 men.
The situation tonight is more serious
than at any time since the commence
ment of the trouble, and at no time
since the walkout have the points at
issue been SO o~bstinately maintained.
Three times today the freight handlers
sent committees to meet the general
managers and three times they came
back without results.
On the first call the committees were
unable to find many of them. for the
reason that the managers were having
u AANNNAAiS VI ~ y" StNOLlb
call produced more effect, as several of
the committees saw the managers, but
nothing definite resulted. The last COM
mittees were sent out at the demand of
the teamsters, who wanted something
attempted toward settlement. All the
committees reported as before, that
they had failed of any result.
A committee that went to the Mil
waukee & st. Paul reported they had
been refused admission and were in
formed that their former employers did
not care to receive them, and that they
had all the men necessary in their busi-
ness. and that hereafter no Populations
would be received from employees who
had gone on strike. The officials of the
road declared later that they would
maintain this position.
After this was reported at the head
quarters of the strikers, President Cur
ran announced the fight was on to a
finish. Both sides now declare they
have reached the limit, and absolute
~ nothing al be conceded. Business
men. particularly those dealing in per-
iShable goods. are FESTIVE. and declare
they can endure the situation but a
short time longer. 1t is costing them
more than either the strikers or the
railroads. and they say if the strike is
not settled within a week many of them
will be badly crippled.
President Young Of the Transfers
National union arrived tonight. and
commission men decided to await the
result of his conference with members
of the union before finally deciding to
go to the depots themselves and haul
away p~erishable freight. 1t is not be-
lieved the teamsters will obey the or
ders of the union officers to return to
work.
The Erie road has been promised
ample police protection should the mer-
chants make an effort to get tn eli goods
out of the depots.
There were few ~disorderly cases to-
day. Tarwell & Co. attempted to take
dry goods from their warehouse to the
store. A crowd cut the traces and re-
fused to allow the wagons to proceed.
The wagons were not near a freight
house nor bound for one.
Charges of bad faith were made be-
tween the unions arbitration board and
railroads, and triangular accusations
were frequent. This grew out of the
amended demands said to have been
presented by the handlers, in which it
is said IS cents an hour was demanded
by some committee instead of II 1-2
cents as agreed upon. This angered
both the railroads and the arbitrators.
Now the board of arbitration declare
they will have nothing more to do with
the handlers.
A statement issued by the railroads
tonight reviews the situation since the
original advance of wages by the rail
roads in April and covering the present
conditions or negotiations. They also
cite the pressure brought to bear on
hem to settle the strike, and affirm
they are as much interested in the city's
welfare as any other interest. The
statement is quite lengthy and goes
over the ground thoroughly from the
railroads point of view. 1t invited at
tention, too, to the contract made by
the teamsters in the settlement of their
recent strike, and which they now seem
to disregard. In conclusion, the state
ment says:
This situation must have its discour-
aging aspect to the law-abiding rank
and file among the labor unions, so
many of whom, as individuals, realize
the absolute necessity of maintaining
the integrity of contracts and agree
ments, and must deplore their W in
ability to maintain such agreements
with their employers when made, as in
this case, through the intervention of
the uniOn