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Show WILL VOTE TONIGHT ON THE PROPOSITION OF ENDING THE STRIKE CHICAGO, June 26. Steps to be taken ta-ken todaky by the conservative leaders in the teamsters' ranks are expected effectually to check. a growing sentiment senti-ment among the more radical element in favor of .a general strike of all teamsters team-sters in Chicago and to encourage a prompt ending of the existing struggle, either by accepting the employers' terms or calling off the strike. At the present time the main portion of the teamsters' army is intact, only 4000 out of 27.000 being on strike. A general gen-eral attack upon employers, it was declared, de-clared, could result only in general disorganization dis-organization and a call for the militia. This move also .would result in the drivers cutting loose from their main base of support the teamsters who are employed. Meetings will be held tonight by the department store drivers and the railway rail-way express drivers to vote on the question ques-tion of accepting the peace terms of the employers. According to M. C. Cork, chairman of the peace committee of the Teamsters' Joint council, a favorable vote by these two locals would mean and end of the strike, as the other unions would follow. The terms practically are the same as were1 offered three weeks ago. Some changes of the phraseology have been made at the request of the teamsters' committee. One alteration, it Is understood, under-stood, was in the article concerning the wearing of union buttons, in order to have it made clear that no employer objects to the wearing of union buttons provided they are not exposed. MM1U II HH |