Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-17
CHICAGO STRIKE SITUATION
The Railroads Declare They Will
Offer the Men the Same Terms
That Were Rejected.
OTHER UNIONS BEING DRAWN INTO IT.
A General Belief That There Are But
Slight Chances For an Early settlement,
and That 1t VIII BE a Fight to the Fin
ish-Every Teamster Votes to Not Han
die Freight,

Chicago, July 13.-Final overtures
for the settlement of the strike OF
freight handlers and transfers were
made at meetings of the two unions
tonight. At the instigation of mem.
bers of the Chicago board of arbitra-
ton the freight handlers agreed to
send committees to all the railroads
tomorrow morning. This agreement
was made after the board announced
to the union men that eight of the
largest railroads entering Chicago
agreed to pay IVA cents an hour to
truckers, and pay for overtime and
to do away with the demand for a
probationary period of service.
The general managers of the rail-
roads declared they had agreed to no
such proposition. They declared that
when the committees shall visit the
railroad offices tomorrow morning
the roads will offer them the same
terms as those which were rejected
by the union men yesterday. The
statement from the general managers
destroyed the hope of a settlement
of the strike tomorrow on the basis
of the terms suggested by the gem
eral managers of the railroads.
Even if the general managers had
not insisted upon maintaining their
position it is not probable that a set
Element could be effected. The freight
handlers agreed to make another eff
fort to reach a settlement with the
railroads only to please the team
sters, who previously had Endorsed
the attempt of the board of arbitra-
ton to settle the strike.
There is lack of evidence of their
attempt to make a serious effort to
settle the controversy. President
Curran of the Freight Handlers
union stated tonight that the COM
mittees tomorrow morning will insist
IN the payment of 1S cents an hour
instead of 17h cents, which the rail
roads are reported to have offered.
He also stated that the freight
handlers will make nc more over.
lures, and hereafter will reject all
proposals which shall not stipulate
for the payment of the wage scale
as formulated by the union and the
recognition of the organization.
With the general managers and the
unions both maintaining these re-
spective positions it is believed that
there is slight chance for a settle
ment tomorrow, and that when that
opportunity shall have vanished it
will be a fight to a finish.
Every transfers union in Chicago
that has members handling freight,
voted to-day to refuse to take teams
to the freight depots.
Longshoremen of Chicago who have
been in only partially organized con-
dition were formed into a union to-
day. They are out now in sympathy
with the freight handlers, but to-
morrow may inaugurate an independ-
cnt strike of their own if their scale
of wages for loading and unloading
lake freight boats shall be refused.
The ice storage employees have also
agreed not to ice refrigerator cars
nor to visit railroad yards. This is
virtually a sympathetic strike. and
until the railroads shall settle the
trouble with the freight handlers the
ice storage points along the railroad
lines will have to be closed.