River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-05-25
TERMS ARE
AGAIN REJECTED
5ETTLEMENT OF CHICAGO STRIKE
MEETS WITH CHECK.
TRANSFERS WAR TO SPREAD
Determined Stand of Express Conn
panies Not to Reemploy Their
Striking Drivers Blocks
All Plans.


suddenly have arisen in the transfers
strike situation that threaten the over
throw OF all peace negotiations and the
precipitation of a general strike. The
Transfers Joint Council, at an hour
when the calling off of the strike was
looked for, rejected the proposition
for settlement agreed to by the en-
ployers and the union leaders, and
voted to continue the struggle. The re-
fusal by the express companies to re-
employ any of their old drivers was
the cause of the joint councils action.
The arbitration that the Chicago team
owners requested several days ago, re-
garding the right of teamsters to re-
fuse to make deliveries to strike-bound
firms, also was turned down in the re-
Eewed manifestation of the war spirit.
Strike May Spread.
The situation, therefore. has been
put back exactly where it was before
peace negotiations were begun last
week, following the arrival of Presi-
dent Gompers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. This situation, however,
promises to become aggravated to-day,
when lumber and hay and grain inter-
ests will attempt to deliver their prod
ucts to bOycotted houses. The inevi-
table result, unless other means OF
bringing about settlement are found,
will be the adding of thousands more
to the ranks of striking and locked-out
;eamsters.
With spread of the strike may
come troops to cope with the law and
end of the situation. This is regarded
as certainty, and Sheriff Barrett, who
had been awaiting the outcome of the
Joint council meeting at the Sherman
House, a few doors away, announced
his determination of taking immediate
action.
Terms Voted Down.
The terms of the Chicago Employ
erS' association, formulated at a con-
ference in Levy Mayors office after a
series of peace negotiations through
48 hours, and which were voted down
by the joint council, were:
/. The unions to fix a date for the
end OF the strike.
2. The employers to announce the
evening before how many men would
be reinstated the following morning.
3. Policemen, special guards, detec-
tives and private operatives to be re-
moved from the barns and Wagons
within 80 minutes after strike is set
tied.
4. Employers to take back employees
without discrimination.
5. Wages, hours and working cendi-
tons to remain unchanged.
6. No agreements to be signed on
either side.
Z. Agreements to apply to depart
ment stores, furniture dealers, coal
firms and all other strike-bound firms
except railway express companies.
More Bloodshed.
Seeking to avenge the murder of
Enoch Carlson, the eight-year-old boy
who was shot and killed in front OF his
home, Twenty seventh street and
Princeton avenue. last Tuesday night,
by a negro, scores of men armed with
determined to drive the nonunion
teamsters from the district. Negroes
leaving. the branch yards of the Pea
body Coal company at Twenty-sixth
place and Canal street were followed
and assaulted, and as result two riots
occurred. in which one man was shot
and probably fatally wounded, many
others were hurt and six were arrested
and locked up at the Twenty-second
street station on various charges. The
police fear the threatened race war has
begun, and in consequence Inspector
LAWN and Capt. Backus made plans to
prevent the outbreak becoming general
if possible.
Curry Urged to Send Men.
Kansas City, Mo-, May Pr. G. Curry,
the strike breaker, who has been in this
city for several days recruiting men,
received telegram Sunday night from
the secretary of the Chicago Employers
association instructing him to send to
Chicago all of the men he can secure.
Curry had been instructed Saturday.
when settlement of the teamsters'
strike seemed likely, not to send any
more men. Curry sent several hundred
men to Chicago early last week. The
men are offered $3.50 day with board
and protection from violence. Only
white men were sent.
Plans for Mckinley Tomb.
Canton. O., May 22-On September