Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-21
AGREE TO ANOTHER coNFEH
ENeE For THIS AFTERNOON n
AT CHICAGO.
DONNELLY NOT HOPEFUL
Presidents Of Butchers Union sayl
There Is As Yet No Prospect Tor 4
Settlements and That Packers VIII
Not Come Half Way. Al

Chicago, July 20. - A Joint
conference for this afternoon 20 "a.
tempt new settlement Of the
stookyards strike was agreed 70 by
the packers today.
A mob at the stockyards thla
afternoon procured rope and st.
tempted to lynch Thomas johnson.
non-unlonlst, hut he escaped
after receiving severe boating.
-
Omaha, heb., July 20. - Judge,
Munger, IN the federal court, today
lssued lnjunotlons against tho
strikers to Provont them from
"plcketlng" the packing house d1a
triot. The Injunction was grant
ed on petition Of the packing
house managers.
st. Paul, July 20. - Tho South
st. Paul butchers' union off,claIs
raised the strike blockade at th4
Swift Packing plant today pendlnu
further instructions from ChIca-
90.
Chicago, July 2o.-The represents.
tives of all the big packing houses
met today to consider the appeal
made to them yesterday by the strik.
ing butchers to arrange for q Joint
conference, probably this afternoon.
BIackomIthe Present Scale.
Two hundred and nfty blacksmiths
employed at the stock yards have sub.
mitted to the packers a wage scale
and demands Of their own and thus
have adopted q course eliminating the
sympathetic" feature.
More Hope for Peace.
The second week of the big strilss
brings more hope than hitherto for ,
peaceful settlement Of the labor war
at the yards. The packers say they
are daily increasing their operations,
Government Investigates.
1t is reported that an agent for tho
government has arrived to make an
investigation Of the strike. Com.
plants have been made, 1t Is said. BY
western farmers and cattle raisers'
that the packers are violating q fed.
eral Injunction and making special
rates to large shippers.
Strikers Stand Firm. !,
The packers have decided to adhero
to their original program - that new
non-union men and union men who de1
serted the strikers shall be retained in
case Of a settlement.
DonnelIy Not Optimistic. .
President Donnelly said: Unless
the packers meet us half way they
will find hard business roads ahead.
There are no prospects for peace to.
day that l can see."
President Watches Strike.
Oyster Bay, July 90 = President
Roosevelt is watching closely the de.
velopments of the beef strike In Chi-
cago and other cities. BY his express
direction the department of commerce
and labor is collecting all obtainable
information regarding the strike for
probable future use
The President deeply regrets the con.
flict between capital and labor and it
is known that he regards the situatiou
as grave.
Sympathetic Strike Put OF. I
Pending the outcome Of this attempt
to reopen negotiations, the men in the
mechanical departments and the team.
sters and stationary firem en- at the
packing houses will remain at work.
Assurances that they would go out In
sympathetic strikes as last resort
were renewed to President Donnelly
of the butchers. Donnelly continued
to advise against the extension of tho
struggle until it seemed necessary.
Mayor Harrison has announced that
he will postpone his annual summer
vacation until the end of the strike.
"We can never tell what will hap.
pen," he said, "and | will stay In Chi.
cago until peace is assured"