The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-05
Strike of Packing House Team
sters is at an End.
All the Men Return to Work
Pending Ratification.
PICKETS WITHDRAWN.
Settlement is in the Nature of a
Compromise.
All Night Conference After a
Day Of Sanguinary Struggle.

Chicago. June 5.-The packing team |
sters' strike which has disturbed the
peace Of the city for nearly two weeks
and which yesterday caused the most
serious rioting that has occurred since
the American Railway union strike OF
1894. came to an end at AIS o'clock this
morning as a result of secret confer
ence Of representatives of the packers
and teamsters at the Grand Pacific
hotel which had been. in session since
O'Clock last night.
The agreement reached is partial
victory for the teamsterss in that the
packers have declared that they viii
not discriminate against members Of
the union. The scale agreed upon is
two cents lower than that demanded by
the men. 1t is as follows:
Cart drivers. 18 cents an hour; single
wagon. 20 cents; two-hOrse, 221z cents
four-horse. 271s cents; six-horse' 30
cents.
The men are to be paid full time from
time of leaving barn until return. with
a deduction of half an hour for lunch
They will not be required to work on
Labor day.
Another conference will be held to-
day at which the agreement VIII be Tor
mally ratified. In the meantime all
VIII return to work.
Driven by men covered with dust and
blood many of them barely able from
exhaustion to hold the reinS in their
hands thirty-six meat wagons entered
the main gate Of the union stock yards
last night, amid showers of stones,
bricks, bottles and sticks. The wagons,
guarded by five police wagons hlled
with blue coats and two OmnibuseS
crowded to the fullest capacity with po-
lcemen, were on the return from de-
livery Of supplies to down town pro-
vision houses after one Of the nercesI
days IN the strike Of the beef packers
teamsters. Many Of the drivers, ofti-
tials at the packing houses, We're cut
ma bruised froEs ae q to 70, 4 The po-
lice We're in even worse condition. The
wagon drivers had been working from
8 o'clock in the morning and their pro-
gress from the stock yards into the
city's business district and back again
had been contested bitterly by mobs of
strike sympathizers-
At the very entrance to the stOckyards
after all seeming danger had passed. an
emplOye of the Anglo-American PACK
ing company was struck by a baseball
bat and knocked from his wagon seat
He was picked up unconscious and it is
believed may die.
Many others were struck at the same
time by shower Of stones, but the
police were too worn out to offer re-
sistance- More than a dozen battles
were fought during the day between
rioters and the police, and the hospitals
We're overcrowded with the injured The
fiercest battle Of the day took place al
Sixteenth street and Michigan avenue.
The rioters stood on the viaduct and
hurled rocks at the meat wagons pass
ing underneath. The mob was the most
formidable in numbers and in daring
OF any OF the crowds that gathered
during the day. Before the mob could
be dispersed the police were compelled to
use revolvers- More than 50 shots wer.-
ureos bullets passing over the heads OF
the crowd, which finally became fright
ened and scattered. but not until many
OF the rioters and policemen had suffer
ed serious injuries
TERMS OF SETTLEMENT.
Inc agreement as drawn up is as fol-
At a conference held at the Grand
Paetnc hotel on the night of June T.
1902. between representa- tives of Chicago
packers and their packing house team
5Leis, held at the suggestion Of Carter
II. Harrison, mayor, and the state
BOARD OF arbitration, it was agreed, af-
tst uue deHDefaJlOn to recommend to
the two parties to the controversy. now
existing between the said teamsters and
the said packers:
That a compromise of their differ.
ences be effected by making the follow
ing suggestions for a compromise.
J. There shall be no discrimination
against union teansters.
=. The scale of wages for team sters
shall be fair.
g No teamsters shall be compelled
TO work on Labor day.
4. ANY teamster receiving more than
lhe scale OF wages stated shall not suf-
Ter reduction of wages after this
agreement goes into effect
Inc above and foregoing provisions
We're agreed upon at said meeting The
following persons represented fba "a
Gpective interests.
Thomas J. Connors, Armour & CO..
Sonn Myer Armour teamsters,
LOUIS +. Swift, Swift & Co
w r. McNaughtOn. Swift taaro-fare
Lhomas E Wilson, Nelson Morris &
e 7. I4aid1aw. Morris teanostars
berger. iiiu e@ 9ul1-
Bert Glinn. schwarzchad & sulz.
perger's teamsters.
Edward rEdward TOidon. Libby. Mcneil &
+.aIsig.d aEdwsTd eastrieh. Libby. Mcneil
w. L. Mclean, n,Anglo-Ameriean Pro-
vision company.
DaXid l9a,ie T Gibbons. Anglo-American
Edward S. Robbins, Omaha Packing
rs15i Charles aries Miller. Omaha Packing com
~. j. Conibar Upton & Co
sters." q 20. team
Victims Of the riots were reported as
Delng Wen on the road to recovery. f1,1,5
rev VINO were taken to the hosnita Is
81 - - sileIe- Ihe most seriously injur-
- al sangulne Of being out within a
rev days and there is no likelibood of
Aatalltles so far as known
Cnle1 OF Police O'NeuI Is NURSING q
ulseu leg which had been hit in one
oI the Fifth avenue riots TnsDac+o1
Aunt, who led the police d,lrins5 tSej-. Fe5-
nine hours Of fghting. was III tb,as I1isls