St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 2, 1907

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HARRIMAN SAYS HE RAISED $200,000 C ROOSEVELT’S REQUEST; “THAT'S A _ ee i

| CONFERENCES ARE OFF: BREWERIES RUN OPEN SHOP , »

A. __ 7 od After Unions Fail to Accept Terms Offered Employers Agreed They Would Held No More Consultations With the Strikers and Would Employ Men to Work in the Breweries Regardless of Unions. : the.

THE ENGINEERS HAVE SIGNED NEW . WAGE SCALE FOR FIVE YEARS

Last Proposition Presented to the Men More Advan- tageous Than That of Saturday, Giving Larger Increases of Pay—Locals Hold Sessions During Morning and Ask for The brewers of St. Louis declared open shop at 1:30 p. 1 More Time. n, to- day, announcing that all negotiations with their 2600 strikng em- _ployes were at an end. This action followed denial of a request from representatives of the striking unions for more time to consid- er a compromise wage scale submitted by the employers. The brew- ers had announced that if the strikng locals did not accept. their terms by noon Monday they would further be recognized, and their action was in accordance with this ultimatum. ( Norman Jones, chairman of the committee representing the brewers tn the conferences, said at the conclusion of the session: “The locals have refused ea accept the very. fair terms we offer them, and we have fulfilled our statement that we We are rtising for any laborers who will ‘pdve Pe iy for wus. Negotiations are at an . in ‘The engineers signed a five - years’ eontract with us at the terms we ffered, which were an increase from a week to $223 for those paid the min- imum ‘amount, and they wil Icontinue at work. 5 drivers who accepted our offer. of a 5 per cent increase will also continue in our employ. No rther Time Granted, “Just after 12 ——— ag ery ao — us a uest for further time to con- alder ihe offers we made. We decided that we ¢ould not grant. this.” Secretaries Kempner and Huebner of the INnternational. Brewery .Workers’ T’nlon, who were sent to St. Louis to attempt to bring about peace between the boss brewers and‘the employes, an@ who represented the unions in the con- ferences, were in ignorance of the de- cision of the brewers at 1:45 p. m., and at that time said they intended to "meet the executive committee representing the brewers at 4 p. m. for further con- ference. They had an engagement to ‘meet the firemen's local at 2 p. m. at their headquarters at Tenth and Arsen- : with yer lodal, e ers’ loda the . assemble at. 9 a. m., eral impression with them was that bas. y would resume work at noon Wednesday. May Establish Oper Shop. Thé last proposition submitted to ir employes by the owners ffered to t brewers and -.malsters $16.59 a week, an advance of 50 cents over the . Others of the unlon were t $17.50 instead of $17 a . of the bottling rooms ffered day for eight hours’ nen “instead of “31.70 for a day of nine Corkers and fillers were offered $2.25 Instead of $2 a day; the firemen 30 cents oF hour for eight hours’ work, instead $15 a week; the freight Handlers $2 day for eight + cag of nine hours’ Be nog the same wages of of labor daily; the en- Sef a week; the oilers $15 a ck “for ots’ hours’ work a day, in- a month and 10 hours a oe the laborers $2 a day for eight urs, instead of $1.89 for nine hours; carvers and stablemen, who, with the neers, refused to strike, were of- increases from $16 to $17.50, in- of from $14 to $15. Strikers in Session. The Bottlers’ local was in sess vesday morning at Bohemian Hall, inth and Allen avenues, the Brewers d meeting at Concor- nth and Arsenal streets: landiers at inth and d the other organi- bed Tu is part of ion S - gations at the Workers’ Club, Thirteenth ptreet and Cheuteau avenue. . 8 bottling works of the Anheuser- gst A we. in full operation ' Bays The President, after furnishing the letters to the press, dictated es

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RWOOSEVPLT 4... “ 4 —_ for the office o®% President. President, ker’s —President Roosevelt, Nov. 4, 1904. rx Trusts Furnish Money—FParker; It’s Attociously .False— Roosevelt JUDGE PARKER’S CHARGES. As I have said before, and I déem it my duty to say it again, the trusts are furnishing the money with which they hope to control the election. I am sorry to be obliged to say. not say it to gain the presidency or any other Alton B. Parker, in a spéech Oct. 29, 1904. ) THE PRESIDENT’S. DENIAL. Certain slanderous accusations as to Mr. Cortelyou and myself have been repeated time and again by Judge Parker, candidate of his party, Mr. Parker's charges are in effect that the President of the United States and Mr. Cortelyou, formerly Mr. Cleve- land’s executive clerk, then Mr. MclKinley’s and my secretary, Secretary of-Comerce and Labor, now chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee, have been in conspiracy to blackmail Mr. Cortelyou using his knowledge gained while he-was Secretary of Commerce and Labor to extort. money from the corporations, and I, the having appointed him for this «special . purpose. is not one particle of truth in the statement as regards anything that has gone on in the management of the Republican campaign. Mr., Par- accusations against Mr. Cortelyou and me are monstrous. statements made by Mr. Parker are unqualifiedly and atrocilously false. mee: ong eh ne me ake ; sn “After writing ese letters to j assured that Mr. Harriman had not made the statements. whie cea credited him with making. Inasmuch major part‘in the letter of Mr. Harri@an ne pot pu " it proper that the letters ~ thigy Con gressman now themase! ves be made p wa JX ZAM DISLIKES ROOSEVELT, In the first letter reference is made to a on: man and Mr. Sherman which was repeat ea | Harriman is said to have given as a. : President, partly the latter’s determina tion th fact that after 7 If it were not true, I would earthly reward.-uces of raueh Hyde. nalaabue of them had written wSates thee on learni did rr wish to be understood as antag The President, it appears, was unwi as Ambassador,‘ and also left unchanged concerning the interstate commerce law, criticlams by Mr. Harriman@of the Pre pressed in certain letters which Mr. Harriman, wrote to the THIS IS THE LETTER WHICH IS_ | BRANDED A LIE BY ROOSE VEL® By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatthe | NEW YORK, April 2.—Edward H. Harriman, ‘who : oral following letter in the latter part of December, 1905, last eve then recommendations corporations, ee course But there The

MACHINISTS ASK FOR HIGHER WAGES Employes of St. Louis and Nearby Illinois Cities Seek 10 Per Cent Advance. The Machinists’ in St. Louis, East St. Louis, Belleville, Edwardsville and Litchfleld a request | for an increase of 10 per cent in the) effective May 1l.. A statement to this effect was given | wages of machinists, to the Post-Dispatch Tuesday by Ed- ward J. McCulien, one of the business | The proposed in- The re- agents of the union. crease affects 10 workmen. quest, mum wages for machinists in 8t. Louis to 33 cents an hour. The scale here is said to be slightly higher than in other towns. A letter was presented to each em- ployer, according to McCullen, simply asking for the wage increase and without introducing a controversiai element. The Union has asked that its committeeman in each shop obtain an answer from April il. eCullen said he thought the request would be granted. He stated it was the general sentiment among the em- ployers that the machinists were en- titled to a higher wage. No intima- tion of any action to be taken by the wnien if the request is not granted was made in the letter. The er aor of the union ig Dis- trict No. e International Asso- ciation Nas Machinists. Arrested on Repeating Charge. James Dolan, who lives at Albert's Hotel, 2100 North Broadway, Was arresi- ed by police and loék up in the North Market Street oo on a charge of repeating. F. W. Bleckmin, the Republican challenger of the Third Precinct of the Second Ward, claimed that Dolan went to the polling place at 2205 North Broadway and voted Bleck- man’s name. Later, it was charged, he returned and voted the name of Jamos O'Neill, whereupon he was arrested.

| BALMY. SPRING Temperature to Rise, > With admitted its authofship, saying that when he wrote it he went f ther into the subjects than appears in the letter as printed b “Mr. Sidney Webster, 245 East Seventeenth Street, New York: . “Dear Sir—I am glad to see that you are in town, end: hope soon to | an opportunity of talking matters over with you. “I had printed copies of the testimony sent you in novos ‘that Hoh ote after reading them, give me some idea of where I stand, for I confess feel somewhat at sea in the ep ingurance matter. The trouble © in my allowing myself to be drawn ifte other people's affairs, from a desire to help them and at the!r request. I seemed to we u fellow who got in between the man and his wife in their quarrel. 7 “As to my political instincts to which you refer in your tetter ¢ ber, I am quite sure I have none, and my being made at all p WILL.RETURN South Breezes. TEMPERATUBES. alluring

* Union Monday pre- | sented to the employers in all the shops if granted, will bring the mini- | his employer by the political situation is entirely due to ‘President Roosevelt and my taking an active part in the autumn of 1904, at his urgent his taking advantage of conditions then created to further his owns ests. If it had been a premeditated plot it could not have been better or carried out. “About a week before: the election in the autumn. of 194, when it | certain that the State ticket would go Democratic, and was do ful ap Roosevelt, himself, he, the President, sent me a request to go to W to confer upon the political conditions In New York State. I c he told me he. understood the campaign could not be successfully a {without sufficient money. and asked if I would help them in raising #2 funds, as the National Commitee, under control of Chat y t , had utterly failed x therm, and there was a large | rom them to the New York State Committee. dees 2 MEN OPPOSED REPEW. pros p ect of warmer weath- er was held forth Tuesday by the forecast- er, who says that Wednesday is to be cloudy, but not rainy, and, what is more important, not so cold, T he official forecast: ‘Fair tonight, fo Il lowed by §in- YES. 1M GOING To VOTE, But

~— : ned n that f understood the ¢ifficel re" being un to support (i 1s al Tt t Mens - creasing cloudi- néss on Wed- nesday ; rising t e m perature; southerly winds,” East of the M is s | ssippi Valley unsea- sonable 10 Ww t e m peratures it e3

still prevail, and snow has fallen in the New England States and Michj. gan. Frost is reported from points as far south as the Carolinas. An area of low barometric pressure in the West | has caused warmer pe typ oi and this is expected to come St. Louis Wednesday. WEATHER INDICATIONS. fair Tuceday night and) Wedmecday’ rising qillincle Partly cloudy Tuesday night and ; FH: i

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