Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-07-28
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Many More Thousands Of Men Will
Out Work.
CLIMAX IN THE GREAT STRUGGLE.
Chicago Packers and Those at the Other
.reat Meat Centers Preparing for a Long
Fight-Trains Filled with New Employees
Arrive at the Chicago Yards-Stockades
Lrccted for the Protection Nonunion Men.

Chicago, (SpcciaD determined or
4 fight to finish to inforce the de
mands of the striking butchers, d
sympathetic strike of all the unior
workmen employed in the meat-pack'
ing industry throughout the country
with the exception of the teamsters
was declared Monday morning at
o'clock. Sunday night the indications
arc that the teamstcrs will join the
other unions on Tuesday in order tc
bring the packers to terms. Ih,
teamsters employed in the Chicago
plants at a meeting Sunday declared
in favor of a sympathetic strike. bu,
the joint council of the Transfers
| Union at meeting refused to sane.
ton their decision and, instead, ap-
pointed a committee to communicate
with the packers in an effort tc
open peace negotiations. The sym.
pathetic strike of the other unions en-.
ployci at the yards will be called or
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the teamstcrs.
No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor
leaders, or jointly, in an effort tc
reach an adjustment of the contro
versy Both sides rested, apparently
waiting for developments. Whether
or not the packers would make any
concessions to the demands of the
labor leaders in order to prevent a
general walkout Of the trades at the
stockyards would not be discussed
by any of the packing house repre-
sentativcs today. but from the prcpa-
ratlons going on at the different plants
during the day it was plainly evident
that the packers intended TO fight for
their independence.
All the labor leaders declared that
they would await Mondays develop,
mcntS before considering further ncgo-
tiatonS, and that the packers would
have to make the request for re.
sumption of peace negotiations, as the
unions had no intention at the present
time of doing so.
New Men Arrive.
Preparations for the struggle are
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plants all during the day and far into
the night Dozens of representatives
of the packing-houses arc scattered
all over the country in search OF men
to hll the places of the strikers. -Four
train loads Of new employees were
taken to the yards before darkness set
in, to join the nonunion men already
established inside the plants. Clerks
were being initiated into new dutics
and employees who had been promoted
from trades were returned to their
former work to take the places of the
regular workers who are expected to
quit work. Stockadcs have been
erected at all the different plants to
protect men whose work expose them
to danger from the mob violence.
All through the stock yards there
were not only evidences Of prcpara
ton for long and bitter struggle,
but superintendent of the packing cS-
adjustments, police officers and union
leaders gave expression to anticlpa-
ton of troublous times to come.
mo one knows what will happen.
The opportunity is here for one of
the greatest labor contests i'll the
country. and apparently there is no
hope for averting it, The police will
be able to handle the situation, how
ever, without outside assistance, no
matter what happens"