Arizona republican., 1904-07-28
DOORS CLOSED
Packers Refuse to Further
 Deal With Strikers
THE OLD BASIS OR NONE
The Chicago Disturbance Threatens to Spread to the Railroads - The Sympathetic Strike Out of Chicago Has Not Made Great Headway-

Chicago, July 27.-''We had an agree ment with MT. Donnelly's organization and the allied trades. which they failed to live up 10, and under the circun- stances We do not care to make any further agreements with them"
 This is the statement which was signed by the representatives of the packers and handed to the members of the state board of arbitration tonigh; @ the end of a conference between the two bodies, held at the request of the state board in an endeavor to bring about another meeting for a settlement of the butchers strike between the packers and striker..
 The packers received the state board cautiously and listened to their argu- ments for a peaceable adjustment Of the difficulty. The announcement that the packers were opposed to any fur ther peace negotiations was handed tO the board by Arthur Meek and Thomas Connor, both of Armour and company, who represented the packers.
 While from their statement it would appear that packers are opposed to meeting the strikers again on any terms. but such is not the case At the last conference between the strikers and the packers the latter informed the union leaders that any time they ex- pressed a desire to live up to the orig inal arbitration agreement, signed a week ago. which provided for rein statement of the striking butchers in i side of forty-five days, and for an -arbi- 1 tration of all grievances. the packers would be willing to renew the agree ment.
 The contention of the packers is that l this agreement is still in force and as they are unwilling to offer any further concessions to the strikers they say a renewal of peace negotiations with the | hope of securing better terms would be uselesss. Labor leaders say that when the butchers went out on the second strike because of alleged dis crimination by the packers in rehiring | the striking employees. the arbitration agreement was nullified and that it is necessary to sign a new agreement be- fore settlement can be reached. After tonight's conference with the state board of arbitration. Arthur Meeker, manager for Armour and com I pany, said that the packers were stilI willing to live up to the terms of the original agreement, but that the initia-
 
 ,strikers. MT. Meeker also huimated that the sooner the strikers adopted this course the better it would be for them, as in his belief if the strike should last much longer all the places of the strikers would be filled by new men and there would be no necessity for the packers to wish to settle on any basis with their old employees
 Notwithstanding today's failure to bring the contesting parties together. another attempt, it Was said tonight. would be made tomorrow 70 arrange conference between the packers and the strikers. James H. Walker. a l grain broker on the Chicago board of trade, is the man who proposes to do what the state board of arbitration failed to accomplish. MT. Walker was in consultation tonight with the les ders of the allied trades unions and several of the packers. He said he had made considerable progress toward the desir- ed conference and that it was his firm belief that before tomorrow night he would be able to announce that his mission had been a success.
 Police rule" today was declared in the stock yards region. During the day there were several minor disturb ances in spite of the police but when , night came Chief of Police O'Nei said ne was master of the situation. At least one thousand new employees were taken into the yards and put to work
 Clarence Hall is the first victim to die as result of the strike. He was
 passing on wagon during a riot
 near the yards and received a bullet
 wound. Joseph V. Haram was found today suffering from several knife , wounds. Upon regaining consciousness
 he said he had been attacked by stl lik- . CTS. Two arrests were made.
 Despite the fact that a relief ft,ud
 or S6OOOO was voted last night to all
 :eViate the distress of strikers and
 their families who are in want. there Il was little change today in the condi- ton of thousands of poverty stricken
 strike sufterers. Applicants for re-
 Ilef are rare although it is said that y want confronts hundreds and scores,
 are actually hungry now.
 Tonight forty freight handlers em-
 pIoyed at the stock yards station Of
 the Chlcago Junction railroad went y on strike. The men said they were unwilling to handle meat turned ou. by non-union workmen. Should non- union men be engaged to take tba
 places of the freight handlers. a strike
 or the union switchmen may follow,
 With the switchmen out the stril-a might spread to other employees oi !. various railroads
 l. When the union t-amsters went ou u strike the Chicago Junction ra,ro,d . was depended on by the packers as a means of supplying their dowl, town '" customers. The strike tonight how ' ever, leaves the packers without ,r T outlet for supplying the city trade nm
 less non- union men can be obtaine5
 An attempt to deliver meat with non-
 union teamsters would without douh,
 preclpitate rioting. as the new mon :. would be harrassed by strike svmp, < thizers from the time they left fine