Show STRIKE MAY BE SETTLED TODAY I Strikers Agree to Send Commit Committees Committees tees to A All I Roads t BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM TT TO o STI IF I SET SETTLEMENT TN IS NOT HOT BEACHED H 4 I July ul 13 Final overtures CHICAGO li for the s settlement of ofte the strike of I the freight handlers handler and nd team teamsters teamsters were made at meetings meting of the two tW unions tonight tonight At the Instigation of or the members of the Chicago board bOd of arbitration the freight handlers handler agreed to send committees to all al the railroads tomorrow morning This agreement was wa made after the te board bard had announced to the union men that eight of the larest largest railroads en entering entering entering Chicago Chicag had agreed to pay 17 cents an hour to truckers to 19 pay for overtime and to do away with the de demand demand demand mand for a a probationary period of f service serice The general managers manager of two of the railroads declared that they had agreed to no such proD sUon They declared that when the committee shall shaU visit the railroad officers tomorrow morning the roads will wU offer ofer them the same terms as us those which were re rejected r rejected d by the union men yesterday t rda Je The statement from the general man managers managers agers tigers destroyed dest ed the hope of a a settle settlement sette settlement ment of the th strike on the basis of the terms suggested sted by the general man managers manager managers agers ager of the railroads Even if the general managers had had not insisted on maintaining their position it is not probable that a a settlement could be ef effected effected The freight fright handlers will wl make another effort efort to reach a settlement with th the railroads only to please the teamsters rs who previously had endorsed the arrangement to settle sette tile strike To Be Final There is lack lac of evidence of their at attempt attempt tempt to make a serious serous effort efort to settle the controversy President Curran sette of ot the the th Freight Fight Handlers union stated to tonight tonIght tonight night that the committees tomorrow morning moring will wJ insist upon the payment of 18 cents an hour instead of 17 which the railroads are reported to have offered He also stated that the freight handlers will make no more overtures and hereafter will i reject all aU proposals which h shall not stipulate for payment of or the wage scale as formu formulated formulated formulated by the union and the recognition of or the organization Wih With the general managers man and the I unions both maintaining these thee respective respective tive positions it I is believed that there ther i Is slight chance for a settlement tomor tomorrow tomorrow row and that after that tt opportunity shall have vanished va shed it will wl be bea a fight to a finish Every E ery teamsters union in Chicago that has members handling freight voted today to refuse to take teams to the freight depots depot Longshoremen of Chicago who have i been only In A partially partly organized con con diton were formed fame into a union today They are out now in sympathy with wih the te I freight handlers but may ma begin an at I important strike of or their own If a a higher scale of wages ages for loading and I unloading the big lake boatS shall be refused The Ice teamsters also have hav I agreed not to ice refrigerator cars nor non to visit the railroad yards This is virtually a sympathetic strike and until the railroads shall fettle eWe the th trouble with the th freight f handlers h ice IC storage on the lines will have to close los The he ice ic teamsters at ata a meeting today tOy o determined that no member m shall shU go gc gOnea C near nea the freight fight sheds during the ie strike There Tere is Js little likelihood of the th coal coa I teamsters t being asked aske to haul from the freight houses they tey deciding to be b prepared ared for tor such sch a a contingency by re ye resolving r I solving not to touch Jauch any articles un loaded from freight t cars cam cas by nonunion 1 laborers I |