Omaha daily bee., 1905-04-23
PEACE SCHEME AGAIN FAILS
Chicago Employers Refuse to Arbitrate
Strike on Basis Demanded,
GRAND JURY SUMMONS WITNESSES
Attempt Made to Ascertain Real
Cause of the Standardization of
Responsibility for Disorder
Not Investigated.

| CHICAGO, April 22.-The Employers AS
| sociation of Chicago refused this afternoon
| to accept the proposition of the teamsters
that all questions involved in the Mont
| gomery Ward & Co. strike be submitted
| to arbitration, with Judge Tuley acting as
| arbiter
The proposition OF the teamsters was
| conveyed to the employers through Mayor
| Dunno and late this afternoon the en-
| ployers replied to the mayor that they
were as they have been from the first
willing to arbtrate anything connected
| with the strike of the teamsters alone
but that they will under no circumstances
| consent to arbitratc the strike of the gar
ment workers which was over four months
| before the teamsters went out in SYM
pathy.
EmpIoyers' Position Explained.
The mayor was informed by the employ
ers that the strike WAS declared, not be-
cause of any difference between the team
sters and Ward Co., or between the
teamsters and any member of the en-
poyers' association, but because of diff
ference between Ward & Co. and certain
branch OF labor which is entirely foreign
| to anything affecting 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 that they will do
nothing further in the line of arbitration.
| This action by the Employers asgocia-
| ton discounted in advance the action
| favored by some members of the grand
| jury, which commenced an investigation
| of the strike and it's causes. After num-
Der of witnesses had been examined sew
eral members of the jury expressed them
ttv,,,f hn
investigation and adopting a report rec
ommending that Judge Tuley be selected
| to act as one of a board of arbitrators. A
majority of the Jurors, 1t is said, favor ar
bitration and it is reported that the in
| vestigation will close Monday.
GRIND Jury Does Little.
| The employees and team owners who we're
| called to testify expressed themselves as
disappointed with the scope Of inquiry
made by the jury. They expected that
they would be called to tell of such acts
of lawlessness as they had witnessed dur
| ing the strike, but instead of this they
| found that the jury had prepared a list
OF questions, and most of these the wit
nesses were unable to answer. The MEM
| bers of the jury manifested a desire to
ascertain the exact causes of the strike,
declaring that they would take up the
| assaults and street disturbances II the
| preliminary evidence offered established
any urgent need of grand jury investiga-
| ton along those lines
| Ten witnesses were summoned to testify
| before the grand jury.
| Among those subpoenaed on the side of
| the teamsters were: Cornelius p. Shea,
| president of the International brotherhood
! OF Teamsters; George w. Golden Of the
~ Ia(Ng
| ident OF the Truck Drivers union; and
! jeremiah Mccarthy, business agent or the
| Truck Drivers union.
witnesses for the dealers were: Fred
| Gardner of the Daniels Coal company,
Fred A. Forbes Of the Forbes Teaming
| company, Robert j. ThOrne, Montgomery
| Ward & Co.; f. w. Job, secretary Of the
Employers association; A. Sprague War
ner & Co. and W. L. Wedles of Steele,
| Wedles & Co.
Bomb Found Near Ward Building.
What is believed to have been an at
| tempt TO blow up one OF Montgomery Ward
| & CO.'S warehouses was thwarted by
! heavy rainfall Today a small bomb or
| dynamite cartridge was discovered In
| pool of water in the rear of the ware
house The bomb is three inches long.
| more than an inch in diameter and weighs
! nearly half pound. II has copper caps
on each end. Protruding from one end of
the cartridge was found small fuse.
which connected directly with the body of
| the bomb.
| Arbitration Wins I'm New York.
NEW YORK. April 22.-The joint arbi-
! tratlon plan between the Building Trades
Employers association and the unions of
I the Building Trades OF the city of New
! York was adopted at a convention held
here today by twenty-eight unions by the
! representatives Of the four remaining un-
ions as individuals and by thirty-one of
! the organizations in the Building Trades
| Employers association, The four unions
! that have yet to adopt the arbitration plan
are the stone cutters cement makers,
bricklayers, and the tile layers, The lock-
out declared by the Employers association
! against the local Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters will be practically withdrawn when
! charters are granted by the National
Brotherhood of Carpenters 10 the master
carpenters association Of the Greater New
! York carpenters.