The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-26
Stockyards Struggle Devel-
ops Into Great Indus
trial Fight.
HOPE OF PEACE GONE
With Allied Trades Out'In Sympathy
One of Greatest Strikes In His
tory Is Now On.
Nearly 10000 Persons In Chicago
Alone Are Idle In Consequence
of Strike.

Chicago, July 26.-With all peace
negotiations broken off and with all
the allied trades unions employed at
the different plants, with the excep-
ton of .ne teamsters and the station
airy engineers, out on strike in SYM
pathy with the butcher workmen who
quit work two weeks ago, the stock
yards strike has settled down to what
promises to be one of the bitterest
fights between capital and labor in the
history of America. AS has been
threatened for some time, the allied
trades employed in the packing in
dustry quit work when called on to
assist the striking butchers in their
efforts to bring the packers to terms.
In several instances the men did not
wait for the official notification from
their leaders to 60 on strike, but
threw down .Aeir tools and quit work
Of their own accord. At 6 o'clock last
night the statement was made by
Michael J. Donnelly, president of the
butchers union, that every union en-
ployed at the stockyards with the ex-
ception of the teamsters and eng1-
neers, had responded to orders for
general sympathetic strike. The en-
gineers, he declared, would join the
strikers today and unless there was
speedy settlement of the difficulty, he
said the teamsters would undoubtedly
Join their brother workmen in their
struggle for supremacy. According to
Mr.. Donnelly, the sympathetic strike
swelled the number of men who have
quit work at the stockyards in Chi
eago alone to nearly 10000 persons.
Both sides to the controversy declare
that they are perfectly satisfied with
the present state Of affairs and that
they are wiling to make it fight to
a finish to determine who shall dictate
the terms of a settlement.
According to the packers the gen
eral strike was failure, it being
claimed by them that not over one
half the members of the allied trades
quit work when officially called out
by their leaders. The further state
ment was made by the packers that
should all the union men decide to
join the strikers it would make little
difference to the employers, as they
had sufficient resources to contest the
ground for an indefinite period. On
the other hand, the labor leaders as
sert mat all the union employees at the
different packing plants, together with
several hundred employees of the I'm
response to the general order for a
sympathetic strike.
A new phase Of the strike situation
developed late yesterday afternoon
when notice was given by the unions
to the independent packers at the
! stockyards that their men would not
be allowed to handle animals which
had been brought into the yards or
handled in any way by non-union men
It Is necessary for these independent
concerns to take all of their livestock
into their yards over Union stock
yards runways, where the stock must
be handled by non-union men, since
the union men employed by the stock
yards company in this line of work
were among the emrloyes who joined
the sympathetic strike.
The ultimatum Of the unions leaves
the independent packers no alterna-
tive but to receive their livestock d-
rectly from the country or else close
down business entirely. Before peace
negotiations had been entirely broken
off representatives of the transfers
union were in conference with the
packers in an effort to arrange some
sort Of settlement which would pre-
vent spread Of the strike. At this
meeting the packers were asked to
| concede that the first peace agree
| ment, signed last Wednesday and
| which was later repudiated by the
| strikers when a second strike was
called be declared null and void and
that the packers submit a new propo-
sition for peace terms. The commit
tee also notified the packers that the
striking butchers would stand by last
Saturdays demand, which was that all
men be reinstated within ten DAYS or
their cases be submitted to immedi-
ate arbitration; all butchers and cas-
ing men to be taken back within forty
eight hours after work was resumed
No progress towards settlement was
made at the conference, and the team
sters committee retired to consider a
new proposal.
Immediately upon the return of the
teamsters committee to union head.
quarters they entered into a confer
ence with the representatives of the
allied trades to consider proposition
submitted to the unions by the repre-.
sentatives of the packers. In the
meeting between the transfers and
the packers, the latter offered to
change the time Of reinstating all the
strikers from forty-fve to thirtv-fiye
hours. They made 40 concessions
other than this, and ths proposal was
submitted to lie allied trades commit
| tee President DonDal1v IF tbo h,,4aI