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Show Employers Refuse to Arbitrate Strike Will Have Nothing- to Do With Plan of Settlement Involving Garment Workers. CHICAGO, April " 22. Tho Employers'! association of Chicago refused thlB'after-noon thlB'after-noon to accept tho proposition of tho teamsters that all questions Involved In tho Montgomery -Ward fc Co. strlko bo HUbmltted to arbitration, with Judge Tuley acting as arbitrator. Employers Give Ultimatum. The proposition of the teamsters was conveyed to tho employers through Mayor Dunne, and late this afternoon the employers em-ployers replied to the Mayor that they wero, as they have been from tho first, willing to arbitrate anything connected with the strlko of tho teamsters alone, but that thoy will under no circumstances consent to arbitrate tho strlko of tho garment workers, which was over four months beforo tho teamsters went out on a sympathetic strike Grievance Foreign to Teamsters. The Mayor was Informed by the employers em-ployers that tho strlko was "declared not becaueo of any difference between the teamsters and Montgomery "Ward & Co., or between tho teamsters and any member mem-ber of the Employers' association, but because of a difference between "Ward & Co. and a certain branch of labor which Is entirely foreign to anything affecting tho teamsters." Such belnjj tho case, tho Mayor was Informed In-formed that tho employers had done all In their power when they offered to arbitrate with the" teamsters alone, and that they will do nothing further In tho lino of arbitration. Jury Favors Arbitration. This action by tho Employers' aseocla-tion aseocla-tion discounted In advanco the action favored by some of tho members of tho grand Jury, which today commenced un Investigation of tho strike and Its causes. After a number of witnesses had been examined several members of the Jury expressed thomselvea as in favor of discontinuing dis-continuing tho investigation and adopting a report recommending that Judge Tuley bo selected to act as ono of tho board of arbitrators. A majority of tho Jurors, It Is said, favor arbitration, and It Is reported re-ported that tho investigation will close Monday. Disappointed at Inquiry. Tho employors and team owners who wero called to testify expressed themselves them-selves as disappointed with the scopo of tho Inquiry mado by tho jury. They expected ex-pected that they would bo called to tell of such acts of lawlessness as thoy had witnessed during tho strike, but Instead of this found that tho Jury had prepared a list of questions, and most of these tho witnesses wero unablo to answer. Take Up Assaults Lator. 'The members of tho Jury manifested a deslro to ascertain the exact causes of tho strike, declaring that thoy would tako up tho assaults and street disturbances If tho preliminary evldenco offored established any urgont need of grand jury Investigation Investiga-tion along theso lines. What Is believed to havo been an attempt to blow up ono of tho Montgomery Ward & Co. warehouses was thwarted by a heavy rainfall, to havo been an attempt to blow up ono of tho Montgomery ward fc Co, warehouses ware-houses was thwarted by a heavy rainfall, Todav a small bomb or dynamite cartridge car-tridge was discovered in a pool of wa levin lev-in tho rear of the warehouse. The bomb is three inches long, more than an inch in diameter and weighs nearly half a pound. It has copper caps on each end. |