Chicago Freight Handlers’ Strike Continues

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 30.

Chicago Freight Handlers’ Strike Continues

The strike of the Chicago freight handlers continues, neither the railroads nor the strikers being willing to yield their positions. The strikers are asking for a rate of 18 cents an hour, which the managers of the railroads have declared they would not grant. There is also a sympathetic strike of the teamsters who haul the freight, and the ice haulers have refused to deliver ice to the railroads' refrigerator cars. The Chicago longshoremen are also on strike, partly in sympathy with the freight handlers and partly on their own behalf for an increase of wages.