| Show GREAT STRIKE Ii OVER Chicago Freight Handlers Have Returned to Work WHAT THE TROUBLE COST Business Men of the Windy City Figure Fig-ure Their Loss at Ten Million Dollars Dol-lars nnd in Order to Guard Against Such a Contingency They Are Prepared Pre-pared to Begin nn Educational Campaign in Opposition to Sympathetic I Sympa-thetic Strikes On Other Hand Labor La-bor Unions Are righting Scheme Chlcnrco July 10 Renewed activity on the part nf Chicago business men followed the acttlcmcnt of this freight I handlers and teamsters strike today and at the close or business hours tonight to-night thousands of tons of freight had been sent to and from the various freight depots Every one of the 1NOOO strikers who could obtain employment had returned to work by 2 oclock In the afternoon The strike It Is estimated cost the business men of Chicago 510000000 and In order to guard aprnlnst such a contingency i con-tingency In the future they are prepared pre-pared to begin an educational campaign In opposition to the sympathetic strike The labor unions will be asked to forego the UHC of this potent weapon The business Interests which suffered through the strike will join In pledging themselves It Is said not to sign union agreements which dont guard them against these strikes On the other hand the labor unions are fighting to secure the right to abrogate ab-rogate agreements for the purpose of ordering sympathetic strikes The freight handlers blame the national na-tional officers of the teamsters for the loss of he strike They declare that the strike shows the necessity for incorporating in-corporating in all agreements a reservation reser-vation which will permit strikes Credit for the settlement rests with the State board of arbitration It was the adoption of the suggestion of that board which led to the I action of the freight handlers union In declaring the struggle with the railroads rat an end At the same time It Is possible that I even had the State board IIOt made Ha suggest Ions the fight would have been practically over tomorrow as the majority ma-jority of the freight handlers had returned re-turned to their work before the mans meeting at which the strike was called off oillcially had convened it was a knowledge of this fact that had much to do with the action taken by the union However the J101SltIOil made by the State hoard of arbitration enabled en-abled the freight handlers to retire gracefully from the Held |
