The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-15
Efforts, However, Are Being Made to
Avert Renewal of the BUSH
ness Disturbing Conditions.
SEVERAL CONFERENCES HELD
AT WHICH GOVERNOR CRANE AGAIN
ACTED AS MEDIATOR.
No Places for Many of the Men who
Quit work-RaiIways Will Not
Discharge New Employees.


in Boston tonight is extremely perplexing.
| To give weight to statements of labor men
who spoke without authority that harmony
| is not restored, is TO make the outlook far
more critical than at any time since the
Allied Freight Transportation Council be-
gan its fight against the R. S. Brine Trans
| portation Company. On the other hand,
Governor Crane and the State Board of Ar
bitration believe the problem is being
solved quite rapidly. considering the i'm
mensity Of the strike, and only ask for
time and patience from both laboring men
| and business men to remove all obstacles
| for resumption Of freight traffic under or
| binary conditions.
AS a matter of fact, the strike was COM
pletely broken to-day, although troubles
cropped out in many quarters, some of
which were arranged without delay and
dragged along in uncertain state that
they came in for consideration by the vari-
| Gus labor bodies tonight. During these
| meetings, Judging from what was argued
! by the men, independent strikes of bodies
! seem impending, but the leaders san
! guine that they still hold control Of the en-
tire organized labor body and would not
| again be obliged to order a strike of the
freight handlers, or its more serious accom-
paniment, sympathetic strike of affiliated
bodies. Tomorrow will show more clearly
| the conditions in this respect.
The special side of the strike-breaking to-
| day presented an army of workingmen
rushing helter-skelter to get their old
! positions. There had been more than 10000
! places vacated, but fully 10 per cent. of the
men found their places filled. This the
reason for friction all day, after seeing only
| the men themselves, for concerns were too
| busy raising the embargo on goods in their
| keeping to give heed to talk of unfairness.
| Freight began to move at docks, freight
| sheds, from and to wholesale houses and
/ factories and upon the streets and by night
great inroads had been made upon the four
| days accumulation of goods. 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 have grasped the OPP
portunity of hiring whom they liked. 1t is
on this point, of all Others that the critical
phase of the situation hangs.
CRANE WAS ARBITER.
The real battle to-day was between the
men who control the strike and the repre-
sentatives of great interests who had been
prevailed upon to consider certain PROPOSE
tons as a way to a settlement of the
trouble. AS for three days past, it was
Governor Crane at his office in the State
house who stood between the parties at is
! sue.
| The Governor received many delegations
/ during the afternoon, and by great exer-
| tion got together President John NJ. Hall,
| of the New York, New Haven & Hartford
| Railroad, President futile, of the Boston
d Maine, and Samuel Hoar, general coun-
! sci for the Boston & Albany, at the State
/ INr,G ct oil l. LII.
general manager of the eastern division
| of the New Haven road, was also admitted
/ into the executive chamber. These gentle
men were with the Governor for an hour
and half In the meantime a number of
/ the labor leaders, who had been holding
conferences with the State Board of Arbi-
rived and were taken into the. council
! chamber. For an hour the Governor had
alternate interviews between employer and
employee. During these conferences Secre-
tary Easley, of the Civic Federation, came
into the waiting room and saw the Gov
ernor. He was accompanied by Frank P.
/ Sargent, or Cleveland, president of the
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and
George E. Mcneil. of this city.
ACTION OF 'LONGSHOREMEN.
Mr.. Easley said that he had attended
a meeting of the 'longshoremen during the
afternoon and spoke there with Mr.. Sar-
gent and Mr.. Mcneil. The meeting was a
hot one, but at the close the men all voted
to sustain the officers and to return TO
work. The several conferences ended early
this evening, the men leaving before the
railroad officials
The Governor then granted an interview
| TO the newspaper men. He said: 1.-The
situation looks very much more encourag-
ing than last night. The railroads have all
| agreed to take back as many men as posi-
BILE, without discrimination So far as the
! steamship lines are concerned understand
1nf - m nOH IrxrG
| all of them. The railroads will not con-
| sent to discharge men whom they have
hired in place of the strikers, but they are
| well disposed to the men and are anxious
| to take back as many as possible The
! question of the loading and unloading of
teams, while it came up incidentally to-
| day, was not very much discussed 1t will
! be taken up next week" The Governor
further said that both President futile
| and the Boston q Albany officials had used
| every effort TO get the men back
NOT PLACES FOR ALL.
At East Boston, where ninety of the Bos-
| ton & Maine men went out, all had been
! taken back. At the same place. where 12O
| of the Boston & Albany men went out los
| had been given places by the railroad COM
| pany. In the case Of the New Haven road
he said. the company would be willing 10
| take back many possible, but the
| question of requiring the men to sign an
| agreement has not yet been arranged. In
sincerity
| I'm service will have the preference. The
| Governor said that in his talk with the
| men to-day some of them wanted the rail-
| roads and steamship companies To take
| back every one who went out but there
| were others of the labor leaders who said
/ they would be satisfied if a majority of
/ them were given their old places at once
| provided the company made every effort
! to find places for the others. He had ad-
! vised the men TO go back 10 work even
| though some unable. as vet To find
| positions on the whole he considered the
/ situation encourag ing.
The freight handlers formerly EMPLOYED
I by the New York. New Haven & Hartford
I and the Boston d Albany roads after a
/ very animated meeting voted not TO return
To work unless they were taken back in
/ a body. The wool handlers took similar
Z action.
The eXpressmens union was addressed
by George lnnes, OF Detroit. secretary of
| the National Transfers Union and other
labor leaders, who advised those OF the
men who had not already returned TO work
10 do so in the morning. The men finally
| voted 10 go back Tomorrow
The freight handlers OF the Boston e.
Maine Railroad voted 10 return in the morn
ing, but inasmuch the company mas al
ready number OF men at work in their
places and is reported having two hum
bred more new men TO put on il is not lust
/ clear how many OF the old employees will
succeed in regaining their positions.
The members OF the O'Connell Assembly
! 'Longshoremen's Union. OF CharIestown
| expressed their determination 10 apply for
their old jobs tomorrow, although their
meeting took no formal vote on the matter