The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-23
CHICAGO EMPLOYERS
WON'T ARBITRATE
Peace Movement i'm the Team
Sters' Strike FiattenS
Out

CHICAGO, April 22.-The employers
association of Chicago refused this aft
ernoon to accept the proposition of the
teamsters that all questions involved in
the Montgomery Ward & Co. strike be
submitted to arbitration, with Judge
TuIey acting as arbitrator. The propo-
sition of the teamsters was conveyed
to the employers through Mayor Dunno
and the employers replied to the mayer
that they were, as they had BEEN from
the first, willing TO arbitrate anything
connected with the strike of the team
sters alone, but they will under no cir
cumStances consent to arbitrate the
strike of the garment workers, which
began over four months before the
teamSters went out in sympathy
The mayor was informed by the en-
ployers that the strike was declared
not because of any difference between
the teamsters and Ward & Co., or be-
tween the teamsterS and any member
of the employers association, but be-
cause of a difference between Ward &
Co. and certain branch of labor which
is entirely foreign to anything affect
ing the teamsters.
Such being the case, the mayor was
Informed that the employers have done
all in their power when they offered to
arbitrate with the teamsters alone, and
they will do nothing further in the line
of arbitration.
Work of Grand Jury
This action by the employers asso-
citation discounted in advance the ac-
ton favored by some of the grand
jury which today commenced an in
vestigation of the strike and its cause
After witnesses had been examined
several Of the jurymen expressed
themselves as in favor Of closing the
investigation and adopting a report
that Judge Tuley be selected as one
of the board of arbitrators. A majority
of the jurors, it is said, favor arbitra-
ton, and it is said the investigation
will close Monday. 1t might have end
ed this afternoon but for the fact that
three of the witnesses subpoenaed had
not been heard from. These witnesses
were ordered to report Monday.
Cornelius P. Shea, president of the
international Brotherhood of Team
sters, was the only labor representa-
tive to secure admission to the Jury
room. Frederick w. Jobs, secretary of
the Employers association, was before
the jury an hour, and Robert Bourne,
manager for Ward & Co., was also in
the jury room a long time.
The employers and team owners who
Were called to testify expressed them
selves as disappointed with the course
of the inquiry made by the jury. They.
said they should be called to tell OF
such acts of lawlessness as they had
witnessed during the strike, but in
stead of this they found that the jury
had prepared list of questions and
most of them the witnesses We're un-
able to answer.
After Exact Cause
The members of the jury manifested
desire to ascertain the exact cause
of the strike, saying they would take
up the assaults and street disturbances
If the preliminary evidence offered
presented an urgent need of grand
jury investigation along those lines
What is believed to have been an
attempt to blow up one of Montgomery
Ward & Co.'s warehouses was thwart-
ed by heavy rainfall. Today small
bomb or dynamite cartridge was dis
covered in a pool of water in the rear
of the warehouse.
The bomb is three inches long, more
than an inch in diameter and weighs
nearly half pound. 1t has copper
caps on each end. Protruding from
one end of the cartridge was found a
small fuse, which connected directly
with the body of the bomb