The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-11
MEAT RETAILERS
STRIVE FOR PEACE
Chicago Dealers Send Envoy to
Packers in Effort to End
Strike.
BEEF TRUST FRAMES
ANSWER TO APPEAL
Head of Striking Unionists, Mean
while, Says War Will
Go On.

Chicago, Aug. 11.-With a view to
bringing about a peace conference be-
tween the opposing forces in the pack
ing-house strike, G. w. Foster, mem
Der Of the committee appointed by
the Retail Butchers and Grocers' as
packing firm of Swift & Co., today.
With the aid Of Mr.. Swift Mr.. Fos-
ter hoped to induce all the packers to
consent to another conference with
the labor leaders.
Immediately following the visit Of
G. w. Foster to the yards, representa-
tives Of the packers went into confer
ence. There were present, j. Ogden
Armour, T. j. Corners, j. P. Lyman,
Samuel Mclean, Edward Morris, Ira
N. Morris, Thomas Wilson and Ed
ward Tilden. The conference, it was
said, framed an answer to give the re-
tail meat dealers committee.
Donnelly Slzepical.
President Michael Donnelly Of the
Butchers union today said he had lit
tie faith in the retailers peace nego-
tiations.
1T looks to me as tho this is only
the beginning of the fight" he said.
ct will not stand now for the first
yond me. The allied conference
board will have to approve Of any
terms offered. I do not think the
packers will agree to terms
that I would insist upon now,
and of course the strike cannot
be settled unless terms are satisfac-
tory to all the unions in the allied
trades"
Ethelbert Stewart, representing the
federal department of commerce and
labor, had a conference with President
Donnelly today. Mr.. Stewart has been
in the city several days studying the
strike situation in conjunction with
During the life Of Senator Hanna,
Mr.. Stewart was active in the interests
OF the National 4 Civic Federation.
This fact gives rise to theory that
the federation is becoming interested.
Stockyards Plant Inspected.
Building Commissioners Williams in
spected the Schwarzchild & Sulz-
berger plant at the stockyards today
and found that $50 of the firms non
union workmen were housed on three
floors of the cooling building, and that
there was no ventilation except thru
two small doors. There is not win
dow in the structure. Mr.. Williams
ordered every cot taken out.
Aldermen Vending and John Joyce
made an effort to accompany the city
officials thru Armour & Co.'s plant.
They were refused admittance, as were
also newspaper men. Alderman
Vending, who is former butcher,
objected to being barred.
II am a city official and have a
right to take part in the investiga-
tion," the alderman declared. De-
spite this, the representatives of the
company refused him admittance.
The investigators visited first an
old storagehouse Of Armour & Co.,
where they found 900 beds on the
| third and fourth floors. When the
| investigators emerged, Commissioner
Williams intimated that the quarters
were crowded and that the freight
| ing apparatus was not adequate. -
Strikebreaker Mobbed.
A negro strikebreaker was mobbed
today inside the stockyards. He was
form while train was passing chutes
where a crowd Of cattlehandlers were
assembled. The handlers, who are
union men, but not on strike, began
yelling.
The negro drew a revolver and free
| four shots. Instantly s. a > hundred
| stockhandlers began chasing the
train. The negro jumped off and the
maddened cattlemen turned in pur.
suit of him, yelling Lynch him." The
negro ran in theopen for about a hun
bred yards, and then shot under {
| freight car.
/ The mob surrounded the cars, will
which that section of the yards wa
filled, and then drew in their line
4 gradually. They searched every nool
| and corner, but the negro had made
4 good his escape. No one was hurt.