Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-03-20
MEN ARE WINNERS.
Big Strike of BostON Freight
Handlers Is Ended.
Railroads Yield Obnoxious Rules
which Caused Men TO StrIk ABB
rOgated Through the Efforts
ofGOv. Crane and Prom
inent Merchants.

inent Merchants.
Boston, March 14.-Through the
united efforts of representatives of
the great mercantile bodies of the
city, seconded by the chief executives
of the city and state in conference
with the recognized leaders of organ,
lied labor the great strike of freight
handlers and kindred trades repre-
Scnted in the Allied Freight Trans
portatiOn Council was broken last
night. Fully 10000 men who have
been idle for four days will go to
work to-day.
This result was attained at a con-
ference last evening at the Office of
Gov. Crane. The decision was at
once reported to the Allied Freight
transportation Council at a special
meeting and unanimously endorsed.
All of the old men for whom places
can be found will be taken back by
the railroads, but owing to the sud
denness with which the strike was
ended and the large number of new
men who have been installed it is
likely that many of the old employees
will find no vacancies ready for them
now. Eventually, it is believed, they
all will regain their old positions.
Transfers and longshoremen will
find an unprecedented demand for
their services, and traffic of all de-
scriptiOns, which has been virtually
at a standstill for the past three or
four days, will be resumed with a
rush.
The Brine Transportation Co, the
loading and unloading of whose non
union teams precipitated the strike
of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford freight handlers, does not
appear to have figured in the settle
ment of the present controversy,
mad as far as the company is con
cerned, the sentiment against it on
the part of the labor unions is as bit
ter as ever. Under the new ar.
rangement, however, union men will
not be required to load or unload
that companys teams.
The freight houses are blocked
with goods which gangs of Italians
brought from many places by the
New York, New Haven q Hartford
and Boston & Albany roads, and
strapping young countrymen gath
cred in by the Boston & Maine road,
had been unable to dispose of.
Boston, March 15.-The labor situ-
alton in Boston is extremely perpleN-
ing. To give weight to statements
of labor men who spoke without an.
thority that harmony is not restored,
is to make the outlook far more criti-
cal than at any time since the Allied
Freight Transportation Council be-
gan its fight against the X. S. Brine
Transportation Co. On the other
hand, GOV. Crane and the state board
of arbitration believe that the prob
lem is being solved quite rapidly, con.
sidering the immensity of the strike,
and only ask for time and patience
from both laboring and business men
to remove all obstacles for Il resump.
tion of freight traffic under custom.
airy conditions.
As a matter of fact, the strike was
completely broken yesterday. al
though trouble cropped out in many
quarters, some of which was settled
without delay and others dragged
along in an unsettled condition, Sc
that they came in for consideration
by the various labor bodies last
night. During these meetings.
Judging from what was argued by
She men, Independent strikes of
bodies seemed impending, but the
leaders in the strike just ended are
sanguine that they stiI hold control
of the entire organized labor body
and will not again order strike OF
the freight handlers,
The special side of the strike
breaking Friday presented an army
of workingmen rushing to get their
old positions back. There had been
more than 10000 places vacated, but
fully ten per cent. of the union men
found their places filled. This was
the reason for friction all day, for
concerns were too busy raising the
embargo of goods in their keeping to
talk of unfairntss.
With the breaking of the strike,
employers of freight handlers, team
drivers or Jumpers rushed into print
with calls for more help. Even
concerns which heretofore have been
bound to unionism seem to hav
grasped the opportunity of hiring
whom they liked.
The real battle yesterday was be-
tween the men who controlled the
strike and the representatives of
great interests who had been pre-
vailed upon to consider certain propo-
sitiOns as n way to a settlement OF
the trouble.