Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20
PEACE TERMS FIXED
Tentatively Accepted by
Teamsters' Joint Council.
RATIFIED BY SHEA
NOW UP TO JOINT COUNCIL,
WHICH MEETS TONIGHT.
Unless Plans Fail Most Of Strikers
Will Return to Work Next
Monday Morning.
What the Strike Cost.

The teamsters' strike is nominally still on,
but the official ending is expected tonight.
The attorney of the employers association
said today:
"a union committee has accepted terms
of peace, and this statement was confirmed
by an official of the union. The joint coun-
Gil is to take final action tonight
Committees representing the teamsters
visited a number of the employers and
made inquiries as to the reinstatement of
old drivers All will not be re-employed; no
law-breaker will be given a position.
There was no interference with deliveries
to boycotted stores and no rioting.
Little Time Lost.
Little time was consumed by the strike
committee in Attorney Mayors office In an
noUncing their acceptance of the employers
terms in general. A long debate ensued,
however, over the attitude assumed by the
seven general agents of the railway express
companies.
A transcript of the several propositions
submitted last night to the teamsters joint
council includes the following points: The
strikers are to be reinstated wherever va
cancies occur, except that the employers
Will not consider applica tionS of men con-
viCted of violence violation of the law;
the settlement does not include the express
companies; union men must deliver to the
express cOmpanis when ordered to do SO;
the Employers Teaming Company to con-
tinue hiring non-union men-the open shop
to prevail; working conditions, wages and
hours to remain the same as before the
strike.
CHICAGO. May 2O.-Peace terms tenta-
lively accepted by the teamsters' joint coun-
Gil were ratified by International President
G. +. Shea today. The acceptance has still
to be fully indorsed at a meeting of the
joint council tonight. Unless well-laid
plans for termination of the struggle are
overthrown by radicals In the ratification
meeting. the teamsters, it is expected, will
be back to work on Monday-as many Of
them as can find work.
That the union committee, A. ]. Reed
secretary of the Furniture Drivers Union !;
President c. p. Shea and President w. J.
Gibbons of the Teamsters Joint Council
did not represent all of the elements within
the teamsers organization was a report
current today about labor headquarters.
Express Companies Decision.
Formal conclusion of peace in the team
sters' strike waited today upon the efforts
of President c. p. Shea and Associate A. ].
Reed to secure terms of some sort for the
former employees of the railway express
companies, all other matters in controversy
having apparently been settled. The express
drivers had been fatty refused reinstate
ment in even a single instance.
At the solicitation of the union leaders the
express company representatives here had
agreed, however, to communicate with the
officers in New York as TO possible conces
sion.
This phase of the situation threatened
today to prove a rock upon which possibly
the peace plans might be wrecked.
Anticipating a refusal by the New York
officials of the express companies TO modify
the stand taken nv Chicago a tiypS
# was conjectured that the labor leaders
might endeaVor to center fight upon the
express companies, lifting the ban from all
other concerns. No definite steps In that
direction were taken, however pending Il
reply from the higher officials of the ex-
press companies.
Policeman Patrick f. Blackwell died to-
day at Mercy Hospital. His death is the
tenth ascribed to the teamsters strike.
Blackwell was injured while guarding a
Wells Fargo express wagon.
Opinions vary as 10 the number of strik-
erS who will be reinstated, now that the
teamsters' strike practically is ended but
the general belief is that 80 per cent is a
conservative figure. This estimate came
largely from union sources.
The employers, maintaining that the EN-
ployers Teamlng Company was a perma-
nent institution, placed the percentage of
strikers who would get their old places
bach at even lower figure. The Employ
eTs' Teaming Company will employ no
union men at all. The total number on
strike, including 500 helpers, at the end is
3,II2 From the most trustworthy esti
mates 1900 of these will get their places
back In the course of time, leaving 2,472
who Will have to seek other employment
Today committees from the various local
lions of teamSters visited the employers
to make the best terms possible regarding
reinstatement. committee of coal team
sters called on the officers of the Peabody
Ccal Company, another committee visited
the office of the Commercial Exchange the
organization of wholesale grocers still an
othe- committee made call upon the ex-
press managers. The various department
store managers received committees from
the delivery wagon drivers.
President Gompers of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor returned to Chicago today
His arrival in accordance with an
ncuncement that he would come back to
aid II possible in the settlement of the
strike.
The only point on which the strikers
committee was tenacious was that pertain
Ing to express companies. The latter had
expressed determination not to take back
strikers. asserting that by striking the lat
! ter had broken their contract In agree
| ing TO a settlement the union representa-
tiVes were understood to waive the question
of reinstatement of employees of the express
companies.
'I have not heard a more pleasant piece
OF news for sixty days. l congratulate the
public and the whole community on the
settlement of the strike" This was the
statement with which Mayor Dunno greeted
the Information that Mr.. Mayer attorney
for the Employers Association, had decIar-
ed that the strike is ended and that the
teamsters had accepted the terms of the
employers. The mayor received no official
notification of the settlement, but accepted
the statement of Mr.. Mayer as an indica-
tion that the entire dispute had been ad-
Justed.