Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-21
PROSPECTS OF PEACE
CHICAGO STRIKE SITUATION
REPORTED MUCH IMPROVED.
Strikers Ready to Meet Now on a
More Conciliatory Footing-Mobs
Continue Demonstrations.

CHICAGO June 21.-Convinced that the
new strike committee of the teamsters'
Joint council cannot effect a satisfactory
settlement of the futile labor war, union
labor leaders today, for the first time,
discussed the practicability of calling off
the teamsters strike, ordering the men
who have been out of work foe many
weeks to get back their places If they
can, and making no effort to bind organ
ized labor to conditions with the employ
ing interests.
Before the unions will consent to
condition of settlement that forces them
to abandon the union button said Inter-
national President c. P. Shea of the
teamsters brotherhood, they will call on
the strike and permit the members on
strike to make individual efforts to re-
turn. The rank and file will never agree
to give up the union emblem"
1t is planned to have representatives OF
every local union involved in the strike at
tend a meeting tonight. The new commit
tee appointed by the joint council expects
to be able to report to this meeting some
progress made in negotiations with Chair
man John V. Farwell, jr., of the Chicago
Employers Association action committee
These committeeman also expect that they
will get a rousing affirmative vote on the
settlement proposition which they hope to
be able to present to the delegates. That
would mean the end of the strike.
Assistant States Attorney F. L. Fake to-
day resumed his labors with the grand jury
in the investigation of graft charges.
CHICAGO, June 21.-The teamsters' strike
today assumed rainbow prospect of peace
Employers and strikers were ready to meet
on a mere concliatory footing than at any
time in the past. The teamsters' joint
council has received the report of its new
tod
A mass meeting of teamsters will be held
tonight. The exact object of this meeting
is a mystery, but it is reported that it is
to feel the sentiment of the rank and file
of the teamsters in the matter Of accepting
the terms the employers have announced
as the only ones that will be considered.
The two features Of the employers propo-
sition to which the teamsters have objected
are the maintenance of police protection
and the discarding of the union buttons.
The teamsters, it is said, are willing to
waive the police question, which leaves the
buttons dispute practically the sole obstacle
in the way.
First Disorder for Some Time.
The first strike disorder in some time oc-
CURED today, when thirty wagons belonging
to the American Express Company, were
blocked by teamsters at Van Buren and
Clinton streets. deputy sheriff on one
OF the wagons took the reins and tried to
drive around the obstruction, but in the
sudden swerve Of the horses pedestrian
was knocked down.
A large crowd. which had gathered there
upon began to jeer and threaten the deputy.
He succeeded, with difficulty, in driving a
block north, but here the crowd had grown
so dense and threatening that the driver
was compelled to draw his revolver. This
held the mob in check until the arrival of a
squad of police. which dispersed the crowd.