Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-18

Chicago, Aug. 16. - Early today The
packers sent committee to Mayor
Garter H. Harrison and informed him
that 1t would do no good to arrange
Tor a joint conference between them
and the strike leaders. The commit
tee commended that the packers have
| already won the strike and have NO
reason to meet the strikers.
Mayor Demands Action.
Mayor Harrison declared last night
| that conditions surrounding the pack
Ing house strike were rapidly becom
ing intolerable and he asked bott
sides to meet him with a view tt
bringing about settlement.
Secret Negotiations Off.
Secret negotiations that have beer
carried on since sast Friday were de
| clared at an end yesterday afternoon
| and the strike leaders turned their at
tention to raising funds for the sup
port of the strikers.
No Desertions Among Strikers.
There were no assertions among the
| skilled butcher workmen yesterda,
morning as expected by the packers
while the union men claimed that {
number of foremen had left the pac
ing house rather than instruct new
men.
Unions Aid Butchers.
| Many unions are responding to the
appeal for financial support, S4,37i
having been contributed in the pas
two days.
Run1ors Of Break.
Rumors Of a break in the ranks O.
the packers are renewed. The Cuda
by company and the 8. & S. company
are said to be contemplating q peace
move independent of the other pack
ers.
DonneIIy Refuses to Sign.
Donnelly refused to sign the propo
sition without first consulting the lead
ers Of the allied trades. The PROPOSE
| ton was in substance as follows
THAT all men and women now or
strike be reinstated as fast as trade
conditions warrant, and that the CUES
| ton Of wages and working conditions
| be submitted to an arbitration boart
composed of one man selected by the
union, one by the packers, and the
two to select the third
This was considered at two meet
ings of the allied trades conference
tion was addressed to Mr. Armour
which practically accepted the PROPOSE
ton, but added a clause that the de
- X ~ L.
conference.
j Packers Demand Examinations.
i This was taken to Mr.. Armour b,
Skinner, according to the stories, AM
was returned with the request that i
be addressed to all of the packers
that the clause pertaining to details b.
eliminated, and that it be signed by
trades as well as by President Don
nelly.
1t was to act upon this alleged re
quest of Mr.. Armour that the specia
meeting of the allied trades was calle
for Sunday morning, and there was
general row over the fact that the ne
gotiations had reached the newspapers
Each member of the committee accus
ed the other and it was agreed tina
all should deny any knowledge of ne
gotiations. AT the same time CON
mittee was authorized to make full
, Their proposition to the packers, an
what the terms Of this proposition ar
could not be learned. They were NO
acceptable to the packers, however, a
it was declared emphatically last nigh
! that nothing further would be done i
tnat direction.
Lively Times in Omaha.
) Omaha, Neb., Aug. is. - A car ca
rying strike breakers to the Swi1
packing plant at South Omaha wa
bombarded at Shelly station yeste
day and three of the inmates, name
unknown. were injured, one bein
Knocked unconscious with brick. Th