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Show WHO SETTLED TOE STIUHE? i ."We would not if we could take one laurel from . the brow of Hon. B. H. Roberis, but when the News treats him as "The man and.fthe hour,!' the great pacificator ,who, when all else. ,had failed, came to the rescue and settled "the strike"; that is claiming for Mri Roberts what, we think,-Mr. Roberts would .' : not claim for himself. The strike was practically settled in the Commercial club.' The strikers had accepted ac-cepted the terms and Mr. Bancroft merely requested until 10 o'clock yesterday morning to give. his decision. deci-sion. The terms were the terms finally agreed upon;' had Mr. Roberts been on a mission the strike would have been settled at 10 a. m. yesterday instead of at midnight the previous night.. He, did. not fix the terms, he was but a messentrer. "We suspect that Mr. 9 - Spencer persuaded Mr. Bancroft not to wait until 10 o'clock but to give his adherence to the terms ten hours earlier. Possibly had the committee of the club not interfered Mr. Roberts would have succeeded, suc-ceeded, but it required some hours of hard work by the committee to get in writing from the carmen what they would do. . . .. It is all right, because all that was wanted was a v settlement and no one engaged . in trying to make the settlement cared a penny about it except to have it settled. His Honor, the Mayor, worked hard, but had not succeeded. The Commercial club secured in writing from. the carmen the terms finally accepted, and had obtained from Mr; Bancroft the promise of an answer to be given at 10 a. m. yesterday. |