Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1905 — NEGOTIATIONS ARE BROKEN OFF [ARTICLE]

NEGOTIATIONS ARE BROKEN OFF

No Present Prospect of Settling Big Strike at Chicago. \-_iV ... ... ' , ■: } . TWO SIDES COULD NOT AGREE \ Teamsters Wanted the Garment Workers' Strike Included in Arbitratidn. Y Meanwhile the Klota in the Streets Continue Whenever Wagons of Montgomery Ward A Co. Are Moved. Chicago, April 13.—A1l negotiations for a settlement of the teamsters’ strike were declared off at noon, after the failure of employers and ' labor men to come to an agreement The break-up occurred at the Grand Pacific hotel, where a meeting was held between the committee from the Commercial exchange and the labor committee. The former body refused to grant arbitration of the garment workers’ strike, while the union leaders declared that any arbitration plan must include the garment workers. The employers wanted to arbitrate the teamsters’ strike alone. President Shea of the teamsters said this would be utterly Impossible, and that negotiations might as well be declared off. The labor committee was composed of the same members who made up the committee the previous day. Coal Will Be Delivered. The coal team owners held a meeting In the Garden City block and discussed the question of making deliveries to Montgomery Ward & Co. It is said they determined to deliver the coal, despite the strike. A general meeting of team owners also was held. The worst blockade of the teamsters’ strike occurred at noon, when nine loaded wagons from Montgomery Ward & Co. attempted to enter the Illinois Central and Wisconsin Central freight yards at the foot of South Water street. Fully 200 teams of other concerns were in the jam. Women pickets from the garment workers were responsible for the trouble. The women, having learned the destination of the caravan, carried the information to the freight houses. The news of the coming of the big caravan spread from mouth to mouth, and the teamsters in the vicinity hastened to tangle up their wagons. Wheels Locked, Teams Abandoned. At South Water street and Central court, just at the entrance to the Wisconsin Central freight houses, a jam of 200 teams had been formed by the strike sympathizers, who hurried ahead of the caravan, and for a time it seemed that it would be absolutely hopeless to attempt to break through. Wagons had been abandoned by teamsters. horses unhitched, nuts taken off the axles, wheels locked, and everything done that could be done to render the breaking of the blockade as difficult as possible. Assistant Chief Schuettier put fifty patrolmen to work and after some strenuous efforts they succeeded in opening a lane sufficiently wide to permit the Montgomery Ward teams to enter the driveway. Hissed by Women Shoppers. A caravan of wagons was hissed by women shoppers at State and Washington streets. Another caravan came near being blockaded at State and Van Buren streets, where the street is torn up. Henry Derrick, driver of a Jefferson ice wagon, was pulled from his seat by the police”and locked up. At the TVelftli street viaduct the police bad to disperse the crowd for fear missiles would be thrown. At and Washington streets a procession of wagons met trouble. Several teamsters had tied the wheels of their wagons with chains, and it took nenrly twenty minutes to break the blockade. The police were forced to draw their ciubs and threaten many teamsters. A crowd of nearly 1.000 persons Jeered the police and drivers. Several stones were thrown, but no arrests were made.