Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-21
RESUME TOMORROW
$4,000 Butcher Workmen to
Return to Their Posts.
STRIKERS REJ0ICING G
QUESTIONS AT ISSUE TO BE CON-
SIDERED LATER.
Wage Proposition Left for Arbitration
-i-Same Position as When
Strike Began.
STRIKERS REJOICING G.

CHICAGO. July 21.-Fifty thousand
butcher workmen who quit work July II.
paralyzing the meat industry of the coun-
try, will go back to their posts tomorrow
morning. While they continue peacefully
at work board of arbitration will pass
Judgment upon the contentious OF the labor
ers for higher wages and less arduous
working conditions and the decision of the
arbitrators will settle the issues of the
great strike.
President Donnelly of the Butchers Union
had today promptly received the approval
of all of the executive board members ex-
cept two. The points yet to be heard from
were Syracuse and San Francisco.
Around the Chicago stock yards today
there was rejoicing among the strikers as
well as the stock men and packing interests.
The unionists who had looked forward to
seeing the strike spread this morning in
sympathetic movement involving all the
mechanical trades and perhaps the team
sters and firemen, learned with reiief that
instead of the greater strike there was 10
be peace in packing town. Many or the
strikers however. expressed dlSappoiHl-
ment that their strike after causing tnem
TO lose eight and a half days of wages, had
failed to decide their demands for higher
wages or to make it certain that all would
be reinstated without greater loss OF time
One Remaining Formallty.
Only one formality remained today to
make the end OF the strike complete and
that was the process of having the agree
ment ratified. President Michael DonneIly
telegraphed members of the executive
board of the Amalgamated Meat cutters
and Butcher Werkmen last nights result
of the conference, and recommended That
they approve 1t. Donnelly, who occupies
commanding position in the union, was
certain that the ratification OF the entire
executive board would be received IN CHI
cago today. =
Mr. Donnelly .ssued call for special
meetings of the various local unions or
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butch
ers' Workmen, to be held tonight, at which
meetings instructions will be given the
men about returning to work Meanwhlle'
he arranged to have talk with the pack
ers and learn frem them what departments
are to be reopened tomorrow morning.
Thousands of laborers who have been on
strike appeared at the yards today WIN
their lunch pals and applied for WORK,
thinking, since the strike had been declared
off there remained nothing to be done ex-
cept to go back to their old places. Ihey
were told at the time keepers offices of the
different plants that they would not De
taken back until tomorrow.
After waiting snort time TO near from
Syracuse and San Francisco, Mr. Donneily
announced that the last formaNty OF the
truce had been ended. He based the an
nouncement on the fact that a majority OF
the executive board members have tele-
graphed approval of the terms.
Skilled Men Put Back to Work.
Superintendent Conway of Armour &
Co. said:
practically all of the skilled men Will
be put back TO work tomorrow, but not all
of the laborers will be taken back now.
Throngs gathered about the entrances to
the yards to discuss the settlement, and
there We're murmurings against its terms.
Some workers wanted to go back without
delay. and few could understand, appar-
emily, why the question of wages, so vital
TO them, had not been decided.
I'VE are exactly in the same position
we We're when we struck" said one man
wearing the button of the cattle butchers
local. THE laborers had been cut from IS
cents to 1T1a cents hour, and the union
voted to strike to get back the agreement
that expired May 2S. Now the go
back to work-or as many Of them as can
get back-and the wage question is to be
left TO arbitration after ALL
During the day nearly 500 of the strike
breakers employed in the various .plants
ceased work and were paid off. The men
quitting work apparently feared TO work
with the union men who Will be returning
tomorrow.
The receipts of hogs We're heavier today
than at any time since the strike started.
Thirty thousand hogs We're unloaded at the
were 5000. and 5000 cattle were received