Arizona republican., 1904-07-16
STRIKING STILL
Packing House Difficulty
 Remains UnadiuSted
NO ARBITRATION BASIS
Proposals and Counter Proposals Leave the Parties to the Quarrel not Wide Apart, but Yet Apart = There May be Another Conference Today.

Chicago, July 15.-Negotiations for peace in the butchers strike are at standstill tonight and the strike will continue until one side or the other abates its demands made up to the present time
 Both sides are anxious for a peace able settlement, but a stumbling block to a final adjustment is that neither side is prepared to allow the othe: to dctate the basis of arbitration
 This afternoon the packers consider ed Donnelly's reply to their proposal last night and found it unsatisfactory The union officers were advised that it would De impossible to reach an agree ment along the lines suggested by Don nelly. In their answer to Donnelly the packers declared themselves wiling t. arbitrate, but stipulated that arbitra- tion should include the entire scope or the strike and not be limited in ally way. This communication of the pack CTS was identical with the one sent yesterday by them to Donnelly, and to which his counter proposition of today was the reply.
 With the reply of the packers was sent a note to Donnelly advising k5nl that they would be ready for his au- swer tomorrow and that if he desired another conference with them they would be pleased to meet him in an other effort to reach a basis of arbi- | tration. No arrangements have been made for another conference but the reply of the union to the last note of the packers will be sent tomorrow morning, after which Donnelly vii. leave for St. Louis, where he will ad- dress a mass meeting of strikers or Sunday afternoon.
 Donnelly's latest proposal to the packers is as follows
 'All grievances will be submitted to arbitraton; all strikers will be rein l stated in a body; men employed by | packers since strike may be retained if use can be found for them; temporary wage scale will be that in effect pre- vious to May 2S. This means that un- 1 skilled labor is to- be paid. pending q decision of the arbitraters, IS 1-2 cents instead Of b to IT 1-2 cents. the prices paid since May 2S."
 The following is the reply oj the packers to the proposition of MT bon nelly:
 All grievances to be submitted to arbitration: strikers to be re- employed as rapidly as places can be found for | them, preference to be given st 'ikCr5 l in the order of their application fer work: all men now at work to te re- ta.ned and temporary wages to Oe n accordance with the schedule iu effect al the time of the strike"
 The allied trade unions at the stock yards are becoming restless and unless | 9 settlement is reached in the near fu- ture they may decide to stop work in | sympathy with the men already ont. The members of the allied crafts at the Chicago stock yards number some r. = 900 men, and most of them belong to unions. A mass meeting of these will be held tomorrow night, when the question of their quitting work will be 1 discussed.
 Work in the packing plants in Chi cago was continued today on much larger scale than at any time since the strike began. Many new men have been employed among whom, it is said, are many skilled workmen, and the packers. declare that they are doing better than they expected they would be able to do at the time the old em- ployes quit work.
 With the increase in the working l able to fill all orders. Slaughtering was done on a sufficiently heavy scale to warrant some buying at the yards in the morning. The workmen who have taken the places of the strikers were not molested while in the yards, and as long as they continue to work, the | packers declare a meat famine can be avoided for many weeks.
 Around the stock yards today al opinion was expressed that the strike would last well into next week. Com mission men and feeders who are gen. erally in touch with the situation sent dispatches to their shippers throughout the country advising them to hold their ] live stock until later and warning them especially to refrain from sending. the usual heavy shipments on Monday morning.
 A non-union workman was assailed today by a crowd as he emerged from the stock yards. He was beaten, kick ed and stoned, but managed to reach street car and escape. The crowd threw stones at the car and injured a striker who was aboard.