New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-24
PEACE TALK AT AN END.
SYMPATHY STRIKE NOW.
Butchers Plan Great ITe-Up-
Packers Hiring Non-Union Men.
[BY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE. !

Icy TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNEl
Chicago July 23.--It is to be a fight to a finish
between the packers and their striking
pIoyes. That much determined by both
sides to the struggle when the last efforts
reach peaceful understanding were made to-
day and failed Neither party viii yield the
slightest. and the contest promises to be the
worst ever known in the history of organized
labor in the West. 1t is said by prominent
labor leaders that the fight. if the sympathetic
strike, which is expected to begin Monday. is
ordered, will probably exceed in excitement
violence and prostration of business and indus
tries. any since the y. r. L. trouble of 1894.
All negotiations between the packers and the
strike leaders and labor officials were declared
off after "a conference, held this morning be-
tween representatives of both parties to the
controversy. At the conference the strikers in
sisted on th> reinstatement OF all the employees
now out. without any discrimination whatever
The packers held firmly to their original propo-
sition. refusing to bulge in the least. After long
arguments. IL which each side accused the other
of bad faith. the labor representatives drew up
a ultimatum, declaring that all strikers. skilled
and unskled. must be taken back inside of ten
days. ard that all skilled hog and cattle butchers
must be reinstated within forty eight hours
The packers rejected this ultimatum. They
said that they considered the arbitratioo agree
strikers insisted that the packers had violated
the agreement Of last Wednesday and that the
strikers no Ionge- bound by it, but at
liberty to demand whatever new terms they saw
lit. To this the packers responded that. while
there might have been some confusion in re-
employing the workers FRIDAY morning. there
had been no intentional Discrimination. More
over they asserted that only fifteen minutes
had been given TO them in which TO show their
fIaf
nelly had violated the arbitration agreement by
calling the second strike. They now willing
correct whatever unintentiOnal discrimination
had taken place on Friday. but further they re-
fused go The packers To show their good
faith. named ce-Presdent Samuel A. Mclean
Of the National Packing Company their
choice for the arbitration board. The strikers.
however not satisfied with the explana-
tions and offers of the packers, and the confer
ence ended.
THE PACKERS REPLY.
The reply Of the packers follows:
Your communication OF this afternoon has
been received and carefully noted. We most
emphatical!y deny that there has been any vio-
lation OF the agreement part. our
planation, after investigating every supposed
case, should have satisfied every one present at
the last two conferences that there
deviations but what might be expected in put
ting TO work such large body of men at
time and but what could have been readily ad-
justed had the organization desired To do so
We regard Mr.. Donnelly's action entirely un-
justified in calling the second strike
tional and misleading reports within aver
age OF thirty minutes from the time the men
ordered to work, ana before il possi-
BILE for any considerable number to have been
placed without making the slightest effort TO
verify such reports TO have them remedied
If found TO exist.
We have "A definite agreement with our en-
ployes, the having been signed by their
representativ and the representatives of all
the mechanical and allied trades, and stand
ready part to see that II is carried out.
The reply was signed by representatives OF
Armour & Co Swift & Co, Nelson Morris & Co.
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger. the National Pack
ing Company, Libby, Mcneil & Libby and the
Cudahy Packing Company.
Late in the afternoon meeting of all the
allied trades at the stockyards was called for 7
o'clock Monday morning. when. If the packers
fail to respond to the strikers ultimatum
garding the reinstatement of their old workers,
a genera! sympathetic strike will be called,
which will cause ten thousand more en-
ploves at the stockyards to quit work. Notice
also sent to the packers that o'clock Mon
day morning is the limit of time for them to re-
ply to the ultmatum. All the unions OF the
allied trades expected to take favorable ac-
tion on the sympathetic strike move before the
time set Monday morning
Meantime, the packers, believing that there is
absolutely hope of making satisfactory terms
with the strikers. stirring themselves and
have instructed their superintendent to hire /
as many non-union men can be got anywhere J
and everywhere. The wires have been kept hot /
between Chicago and all large cities. and it is
expected that by Monday thousands of new men |
will begin pouring into the stockyards. Late |
this evening trains already bringing hun /
dreds of negroes, who were hurried TO the pack /
ing plants
SERIOUS RIOTING FEARED.
That the extension of the strike TO all kinds !
of workers at the stockyards will lead to /
serious rioring Is much feared by the au- :
thoritles that Mayor Harrison. who started on (
vacation trip to Michigan yesterday morning, /
is hurrying back to Chicago TO assist in meas |
ures 10 guard against disorder. Police Chief
o. Neill is also alive to the threatening dangers,
and Is taking prompt steps to utilize the entire
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