Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-07-21
THE MEET PACKERS STRIKE.
ABOUT $4,000 MEN ARE IDLE IN
VARIOUS CITIES.
Peace Negotiations Are at a Stand
still, Although Both Sides Are
Anxious for Settlement
Few Disturbances.

Chicago, July G1.--Negotiations for
peace in the stock yards strike are
practically at a standstill and the
strike will continue until one side or
the other abates something of the de
mands made up to the present time.
Both sides are anxious for a peace
able settlement, but the stumbling
block to a final adjustment is that
neither side is prepared to allow the
other to dictate the basis of the arbi-
tration.
Friday afternoon the packers con-
sidered Mr.. Donnelly's reply to their
proposition of Thursday night, but it
proved unsatisfactory and the union
officials were notified that it would be
impossible to reach an agreement
along the lines suggested by Mr.. Don
nelly. In their answer to Mr.. Don
nelly, the packers declared them
selves willing to arbirratc, but stipu-
lated that the arbitration should in
clude the entire scope of the strike
and not be subject to restrictions of
any kind. The communication of the
packers was identical with the one
/ sent on Thursday by them to Mr.. Don
nelly and to which his counter propo-
sition was a reply.
With the reply of the packers was
sent a note to Mr.. Donnelly notifying
him that they would be ready for his
| answer to-day 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 as
yet been made for another conference,
but the reply of the unions to the last
note of the packers will be sent this
morning, after which Mr.. Donnelly
will leave for st. Louis, where he will
address mass meeting of strikers
on Sunday afternoon.
The following is the reply of the
packers TO the proposition of Mr.. Don
nelly:
All grievances to be submitted to
arbitration; the strikers to be re-
employed as rapidly as places can be
found for them, preference to be given
the strikers in the order of their appli-
cations for work; all men now at work
to be retained and the temporary
wages to be in accordance with the
schedule in effect at the time of the
strike.
The allied trades unions at the
stock yards are becoming restless and
unless a settlement is reached in the
near future they have decided TO stop
work in sympathy with the men al
ready out The members of the allied
crafts at the yards in this city number
between $4,000 and 1900 and a ma
jority of them belong to the union. A
mass meeting of these men will be
held tonight, when the question of
their quitting work will be discussed.
The work in the packing plants in
this city was continued Friday on
much larger scale than at any time
since the strike has been declared.
Many new men have been employed
among whom it is said are many skill
ed workmen, and the packers declare
that they are doing better than they
expected they would be able to do at
the time the old employees quit work.
A non-union workman was assailed
by a crowd as he emerged from the
entrance to the stock yards. He was
beaten kicked and stoned, but man
aged to reach street car and es-
cape. The crowd threw stones at the
car and injured a striker who was
aboard.
St. Paul, Mimi. July 16.-Several
hundred strikers lined up in front of
the main entrance to the Swift Pack
ing Co.'S plant at South st. Paul yes
terday and refused to let the office
force and other employees into the
building. The strikers had learned
of the operation of the plant Oh
Thursday and concluded that the of
fee men must have been employed on
the killing floor and determined to al
low no one to enter the grounds.
Mayor Lyttle was appealed to by
the company and consented to lead
the office force in an effort to get
through the gates.
The strikers refused to admit the
mayor and party. Gov. Van SAINT has
'efused to call out the militia.
New York, July 16.-The East Side
Butchers association of this city met
Friday and resolved to sell no fresh
meats for week.
At the meeting of the strikers,
James P. Holland and Joseph f. Ham
mill, general organizers respectively
gineers' unions, announced they were
ready to order their men on a sympa-
thetic strike as soon as non-union
men are put to work in the plants In
case they go on strike, the plants
would be shut down until the places
of the men were supplied.
Convicted of Fraud.
jamestown, n. Y, Jdly 16.-Frank-
lin A. Booth, of Rochester, was con
victed in the federal court yesterday
of fraudulent use of tho mails and was
sentenced to Is months imprison-
ment In the trial of Stamates Bias
for using false naturalization papers,
indirect evidence was produced show
ing that 80 of such papers had been is
sued from a bureau operating at
Youngstown, o.
More Strikes are Ordered.