Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-07-28
PACKERS STRIKE
IS RENEWED
Chicago Packers Accused of
Discriminating on
Labor.
DONNElLY ISSUES THE ORDER
Calls Out Every Workman-Agree-
ment to Arbitrate Now Falls Flat
and Former Situation Is Resumed
in Chicago and Other Points.

Chicago, July 23.-The packing
house strike yesterday was ordered
renewed in Chicago, and all other
cities. Violation of agreement by the
packing house proprietors is assign
ed as the reason.
Order out all departments again.
The packers violated agreement
Michael Donnelly, President lnterna-
tional Meat Cutters and Butchers
Union"
The above telegram was sent by
President Donnelly to all the employees
of various packing houses in the diff
rent cities affected by the previous
strike:
Yesterday 5000 cattle butchers re-
ported at the stock yards for work.
Only half of them were given places.
Thereupon all refused to work. They
reported in body at their union head
quarters. The general order for re-
newal of the strike was soon forth
coming.
While the immediate provocation
for renewal of the strike was appar-
emily the failure of the packers to
take back a large proportion of the
strikers who reported for work yester-
day. the real cause of the rupture
was inferred to be a circular issued
Thursday by the packers.
The circular purported to explain
to the public the agreement entered
into with the labor leaders. Seeming
ly the circular could be taken as i'm
MI q 10 did hind
the packers to re-employ all of the
men who walked out. The construc-
ton the labor leaders had placed upon
the agreement was that all should be
re-employed within forty-five days.
When the 5000 butchers and their
helpers went into the yards here yes
terday to take their old places, the
general greeting received was: I'VE
cannot take back more than half the
regular force" Immediately there
was a woeful display of chagrin and
disappointment. The men held a con-
ference of an impromtu nature and
reached an agreement to act as a unit
or not at ALL
You must take us all back or none"
came the reply of the union, who saw
performing the tasks they had done
before, numbers of non-union work
men. The packers refused to accede
to this and committee was sent to
see President DonneIly. The latter
was quickly in communication with
his advisers. Within an hour and a
half the decision was reached to re-
open the strike. President DOnnellys
telegram was accordingly sent to all
unions.
The breaking of the agreement, as
alleged by President Donnelly, on the
part of the packers and the ending
of all peace plans on the part of the
unions came as violent surprise to
the public, despite the widespread
knowledge that the men were far
from satisfied with conditions conse-
uuent upon the signing of the terms Of
peace.
A joint conference between repre-
sentatives of both sides to the contro.
versy and representatives Of the allied
trades, In an attempt to bring about
a peaceable adjustment of this second
strike was unsuccessful and the meet
ing was adjourned last night at $3.50
o'clock with the understanding that
another conference would be held this
morning at 8 o'clock. At yesterdays
conference which lasted five hours
a committee of ten. consisting of five
representatives of the packers and five
representatives of the meat cutters
union, was appointed to go over the
whole situation, but the committee
was unable to reach working basis
with which both sides would be salts.
fed Whether the difficulty can be
satisfactorily settled at today's meet.
ing is problematical, as both the pack.
ers and the strikers maintain that
they are living up to Wednesdays
agreement for a settlement by arbL
tration and that 1t is the other side
that is responsible for the renewal Of
hostilities. After yesterdays adjourn
ment, a committee appointed for the
purpose merely announced that the
peace negotiations yesterday had fail
ed. butt that there was still hope that
an agreement could be reached in the
near future. No written statement OF
what transpired in the meeting was
given out, as has been customary at
ter former conferences, and the COM
mittee declined to give any further
information except that another meet
ing would be held today. -, .
Unless a settlement is reached to-
day, the general belief is that SYM
pathetic strike of the allied trades in
the packing industry, which was
threatened last week to enforce the
demands OF the strikers, will be call
I'd. All these unions have signitied
heir willingness to stand by the but
,hers if they are called on to acsist
n the struggle with the packers for
supremacy.