| Show EFFORT OF MAYOR DUNNE TO SETTLE TEAMSTERS STRIKE UNSUCCESSFUL Chicago April 12 An effort made to today today today day by Mayor or Edward F Dunne to th have the e controversy between Mont Montgomery Montgomery gomery Ward Co and their striking employee submitted to arbitration was unsuccessful and the indications to tonight toI I Inight night are that the struggle will be con until one or the other submits to a u compromise Upon the solicitation of Mayor Dunne the executive committee of the Chicago Employers association the organization tion which is taking the leading part in inthe inthe inthe the fight of the striking teamsters vis yin visited visIted the city hall hail this afternoon and was wa urged by the mayor to agree to a settlement of the strike by arbitration Mayor Dunne offered of red to act as media mediator mediator mediator tor but the proposition was declined by bythe bythe bythe the committee The committee ex cx explained x to the mayor that the teamsters had broken their agreement with Mont Montgomery Montgomery Montgomery gomery Ward Co by b ordering the sympathetic strike in order to bring about a settlement of the garment workers difficulties and that therefore nothing could be done toward a settle settlement settlement ment of ot the trouble by b mediation Earlier in the day the employers and the labor leaders were in conference trying to agree upon UDon some me basis of or a settlement The employers offered to arbitrate the tile teamsters strike alone I but not that of the garment workers The teamsters declared declared this thia would l be utterly impossible ibl and the negotiations were wre declared off I I There were several clashes today toda be between between tween the police and strike sympathizers sympathIzers who blocked the streets and aud ha harassed harassed I the nonunion teamsters who ho have taken the places of the strikers No one was seriously serious hurt however and tonight Montgomery Ward Co declared that they had been be n more suc sue successful successful today toda in making deliveries than at any an time since the strike began |
