Arizona republican., 1904-07-26
The Sympathetic Strike
 Went Into Effect
THE GREATEST IN AMERICA
The Movement Has Not Fully Spread in Kansas City Where the Packers Say the Situation Is Satisfactory and Becoming Normal.

Chicago, July 25.-With all peace ne cotiations broken off and with all the allied trades unions employed at differ ent plants with the exception ot the teamsters and stationary engineers, out on a strike with the butcher workmen who quit work two weeks ago. the stock yards strike had settled down to- night to what promises to be one or the bitterest fights between capital ana labor in the history of America.
 As has been threatened for some time the allied trades employed in the pack ing industry quit work and were call ed on today to assist the striking butchers in their efforts to bring the hackers to terms. In several instances the men did not wait for official notifi- cation from their leaders to go on a strike. but threw down their tools and quit work on their on golition. At $ o'clock a statement was made by Mi chael J. Donnelly, president of the butchers union, that every union man employed at the stock yards, with the exception of the teamsters and engin- eers, hal responded to orders for a general sympathetic strike.
 The engineers, he declared. would join the strikers tomorrow morning, and unless there is a speedy settlement of the difficulty, he said, the teamsters would undoubtedly join their brother workmen in their struggle or suprem- acy According to MT. Donnelly, to- days strike swelled the number Of men who have quit work in the stock yards in Chicago alone to nearly 3OO0O persons.
 Both sides to the controversy tonight declared that they were perectly satis- fled with the present state of affairs and that they were willing to make it a fight to the finish to determine who shall dictate the terms of the settle ment-
 According to the packers the general strike today was failure, it being claimed by them that not over one-half of the members of the allied trades quit work when officially called out. The further statement was made by the packers that should all the union men decide to join the strikers it would make little difference to the employers as they had sufficient resources to con- test the ground for an indefinite period. On the other hand, labor leaders as- sert that all the union employees at the | different packing plants, together with several hundred employees of the Union Stock Yards company, quit work today | in accordance with the order.
 | A new phase of the strike situation | developed late this afternoon when TO- | tlce was given by the unions to the in | dependent packers at the stock yards | that their men would not be allowed to handle animals which had been brought | into the yards or handled in any way | by non-union men. It is necessary for | these independent concerns to take all of their live stock into their yards over | the Union Stock Yards runways, where
 the stock must be handled by non-un-
 ion men, since the unions employed by [ the Stock Yards company in this line | of work were among the employees who | joined the sympathetic strike today.
 The ultimatuTn of the unions leaves the l independent packers no alternative but Ito receive their live stock directly from l the country or else close down business entirely A meeting of the independent l pa ackers was held tonight to map out some plan of action, but no definite conclusion was reached. Another meet | ing will be held tomorrow to further consider the matter.
 | Before peace negotiations had been
 broken off entirely today representa- | lives of the teamsters unioni as had
 been agreed upon last night, were in conference with the packers in an effort | to arrange some sort of settlement
 which would prevent a spread of the
 strike. At tEis meeting the packers were asked to .concede that the first
 peace agreement signed last Wednes-
 day and which was later repudiated
 by the strikers, when a second strike
 was called, be considered null and void,
 and that the packers submit a new
 proposition for peace terms. The com
 mittee also notified the packers that
 the striking butchers would stand by
 last Saturdays demand, which was
 that all men be leinstated within ten
 days or their cases be submitted to inn
 mediate arbitration, all butchers and
 casing men to be taken back within IS | hours after work was resumed. No
 progress toward a settlement was made
 at the conference and the teamsters'
 committee retired to consider the new
 proposal.
 l Immediately upon the return of the
 teamsters' committee to headuarters
 they entered into a conference with ! the representatives of the allied trades
 to consider a proposition submitted to
 the unions by the representatives of
 the packers. In the meeting between
 the teamsters and packers the latter
 offered to change the time of reinstat-
 ing all the strikers rom forty-five days
 to thirty-flve days. They made no con | sessions other than this and this prop 1 osition was submitted to the allied | trades committee. President Donnelly.
 or the butchers union, however, refus-
 cd to consider the proposal and all
 hope of an immediate settlement was lost. President Golden, of the team
 sters' union, strongly urged that the proposition be considered and that an- other effort for settlement be made.
 The sentiment of the meeting was ov-
 erwhelmingly against him, and the
 committee adjourned without attempt
 ing to arrange any more meetings with