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The Cincinnati Daily Star
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
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In Baltimore, MD, on Aug. 2, a conference between Chesapeake & Ohio Canal officials and striking boatmen failed to resolve the dispute. Coal companies refused to attend until the blockade ends and boatmen explain burning a canal boat in Cumberland. Canal company acts as arbitrators.
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BALTIMORE, MD., Aug. 2.—A conference meeting was held here yesterday. Arthur P. Gorman, President; Stephen Gambrill, Secretary and Paymaster and Judge Hamill and John Humbird, Directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and a committee of boatmen, relative to the strike of the latter. It was thought by the boatmen that the Presidents of the coal companies would have been present at the meeting. These companies have stated that they will hold no conference with the boatmen until the blockade is broken, and the boatmen come to Cumberland and make satisfactory explanation as to their recent outrage in burning one of the canal boats at that place. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company are acting merely as arbitrators between the boatmen and the coal companies. No satisfactory adjustment.
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Baltimore, Md
Event Date
Aug. 2
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no satisfactory adjustment; one canal boat burned in cumberland
Event Details
A conference meeting was held yesterday between Arthur P. Gorman, President; Stephen Gambrill, Secretary and Paymaster; Judge Hamill and John Humbird, Directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and a committee of boatmen, relative to the strike of the latter. Boatmen expected Presidents of the coal companies to attend. Coal companies stated they will hold no conference until the blockade is broken and boatmen come to Cumberland to explain burning one of the canal boats there. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company acting as arbitrators between boatmen and coal companies.