Arizona republican., 1903-05-14

St. Paul, Minn., May 13.-No strike
 was declared upon the Great Northern railroad tonight and affairs have as sumed a much more encouraging as pect. Negotiations between the com mittee representing the men and offi-
 cials of the road which were broken off on Tuesday have been renewed, and
 the outlook tonight is for an amicable settlement. Neither side will say what concessions, if any, have been offered
 by the road, but that concessions have been offered and that they are more favorable than any 90 far made is evil denced by the fact that the calling of strike has been deferred until the conference tomorrow morning.
 The committee of business men from
 St. Paul and Minneapolis that last night secured the consent of the griev- ance committee to attempt the bring ing about of an amicable arrangement of the difficulty is understood to be
 largely responsible for the happy turn
 that affairs have taken. They held q conference with grand officers and the general committee during this morning and part of the afternoon. The de mands of the men were fully discussed
 Mcssrs. GarretsOn and Newman. repre- scrting respectively the Conductors association and the Trainmen's broth erhood, fully explaining their side.
 The stand they take is that all trans continental roads have granted the de- mands upon them by the unions with reference to the running of double headers and that ii the Great Northern is given greater concessions in refer ence to this matter than have been granted the other roads. the latter will charge breach of faith on the part Of the grand officers. The business mems committee urged the men to refrain if possible from tying up the road. point ing out the disastrous effect such a move would have upon the business in terests of the northwest and recom- men6ed Q spirit of mutual concessions.
 Mir Garretson, on behalf of the men. declared that they would not allow any one to exceed them in yielding. once. a spirit of yielding were shown by the company. He further stated that all preparations had been made for the declaration or strike. and that unless some tangible offer was made on behalf of the company looking to concessions Of satisfactory character. a strike would be declared after six o'clock. After their conference with the men the business men's committee waited upon General Manager F. F. Ward. and listened to the company's side Of the case. Then conference was arranged between the general manager and the grievance committee, at which mem bers of the business mems committee were also present. This conference lasted until 6:25 p. m. and upon it's breaking up Chairman Cooper of the business mems committee. announced that MT. Garretson had given assur- ance that no strike would be ordered tonight and that the conference would be resumed at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. with every prospect of a sue oesstul termination.
 While all of those who were present at the conference were extremely re- ticent, it is learned from an authcrita- tive source that concessions satisfac- tory to the men had been offered by the road and that all that remained to be done was to decide certain matters of detail What has been the result of the entire matter so far as the officials of the road are concerned, has been the fear that to cOnoede the demands of the 1 men on the double-header question l