Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
THERE'S NO PEACE
YET IN SIGHT
All Efforts to Settle the Chicago
Strike Prove Fruitless.
EMPLOYERS WON'T ARBITRATE
The Laboring Men Declare Their
Readiness TO Acquiesce in the
Plan of Submitting Contro-
versy to n Commission.

Chicago May 1.-Chicago had on her
working clothes Sunday, and to any
n without a knowledge of the fight
going on here between capital and la
Dor, an examination of the calendar
was necessary to make certain that it
was Sunday. From daylight in the
morning until dark at night, the down.
town streets were crowded with heavi-
1y-laden wagons and trucks, giving the
city a weekday appearance that was
witnessed here before on the first
day of the week.
Believing that the fight now going
on for supremacy between the Employ
Ners' Association of Chicago and the
union teamsters is to be a protracted
one, the business men of the city took
advantage of the suspension of regular
business to procure an extra supply of
material and supplies. Every available
team, and ever one-horse vehicles. was
brought into use during the day for
the purpose of replenishing coal bins
and to obtain other material necessary
to the transaction of business.
To-day being May /, which is moving
day in Chicago, the furniture vans IN
the residence district added to the
weekday appearance of the city. Fear
ing that the furniture drivers Eaigh!
become involved in the difficulty. the
majority of those who under normal
conditions would have sought their
new homes to-day, decided to take no
chances and made the change Sunday.
While all these preparations were
going on for an emergency, efforts
were being made in Mayor DUNES Of
flee in the city hall to bring about a
possible adjustment of the Transfers
strike. Early in the afternoon a com.
mittee, representing the Employers
association, met a peace commission
consisting of Bishop C. P. Anderson, of
the Episcopal church; Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, of All Souls church; DR.. Emil
G. Hirsch, of Sinai Temple. Miss Jane
Adams, of Hull House, and Cornelia
De Bay, of Neighborhood House.
At the end of this conference the
committee representing the unions met
the citizens committee and went over
the entire strike situation in an effort
to devise some means to bring about a
p%eaceable ending of the controversy.
The Chicago Federation of Labor was
also busy considering the strike situa-
ton, but no action was taken to spread
the strike to the affiliated unions.
The conference in Mayor DUNES
office lasted six hours. and the peace
commission appointed by the mayor,
Saturday, failed utterly in its efforts
to bring about a settlement of the
strike. The plan for an armistice of
As hours was rejected by both sides
early in the conference, as was also
an offer, later made by the representa-
tives of the labor men, who asked that
a committee of five citizens be ap-
pointed TO arbitrate the matter.
After the conferences. which were
held in secret. the peace committee is
sued the following statement:
THE members of this commission
hcllnS upon request VI Mayor Duhne:
regret to inform the public that, after
having heard representatives of both
parties to the controversy, no plan was
found acceptable to bring about an adj
justment Of the difficulty.
The representatives Of the employ
ers refused to accept any commission
or means of arbitration which was sug'
gested, while the laboring men de-
clared their readiness to acquiesce in
the plan of submitting the controversy
to persons commanding the respect and
oopfdenca of tho community"