The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28
BUTCHERS RENEW
THE BIG ST R|KE
PACKERS ARE CHARGED WITH
BREAKING AGREEMENT.
UNION MEN ORDERED OUT
President Donnelly Alleges Discrim-
ination Against Strike Leaders
When Men Present Them
selves for Work.

serves Tor Work.
Chicago, July 23.-The stockyards
strike is on again. On the charge that
the packers were discriminating against
certain persons in the unemployment
process the union officials Friday or
dered their men to quit work, and the
situation at the yards is as bad as ever.
The strike was renewed in other pack
ing centers also Strike leaders de-
clare that unless the employers change
their attitude at once, all the allied
trades workmen will walk out and that
complete stoppage of work at the pack
ing plants will ensue. To consider this
the labor leaders met in the afternoon.
At the meeting held by the strike lead
ers and the officials of the allied trades
at the Chicago Federation of Labor
headquarters President Donnelly made
the specific request that strikes be or
dered in all the trades at the yards not
yet affected.
Conference with Packers.
1t is believed that the allied trades
officials will do as Mr.. Donnelly asks
unless an understanding is reached at
another joint conference with the pack
ers This was held later in the after
noon Mt the downtown offices of Swift & |
Co.
Meantime the police guard at the |
yards has been strengthened by hun
dreds of men, and they are prepared to
check any outbreak.
Places for Only Half.
When the men reported for work In a /
BODY early in the morning they were
met by the announcement that it would |
DE impossible at present to take back
more than half the force The workers
met this announcement sullenly, not
withstanding the clause in the agree
ment which gave the packers As days in
which to supply work for all the strik-
ers. The strikers said: You must take
us all back or none of us will go toI
work"
Many Of them did go to work, how
ever, but little later the leaders APP
peared, and on discovering that some of
the men who were turned away had been
prominent figures in the strike they de-
clared that the packers were employing
revengeful discrimination" and the /
strike was declared to be on once more. '
Ordered Out Elsewhere. lii
President DonneIly, after conferring +
With other leaders. gave the order for n
he strike and then sent this telegram b
20 union o''1ciaI0r for a ssA.Ss@auI. bi,
S5IIi}r sa-s.@ix. AL packing CEN
IerS8SA f1e%ountry: Packers already Z
have violated agreement by discrimina- $
lion. Order men out" b
When the word that another strike Fl
vas ordered reached the workmen who
lad gone to the different departments toI
'egfn their labor, they finished the :
york Immediately in hand and thenl :
marched IN bodies out Of the yards, TAX :
ng their tools with them. y
Donnelly Issues Statement. =
President Donnelly's first action whenl >,
the crisis came was to telegraph to theI :
strike chiefs throughout the country .
them to keep their men or \
derby and to report Immediately by tele- .
graph regarding local conditions. This !
done, he gave out formal statement in
which he accused the packers of acting
In bad faith. He said: ...,.
The packers agreed to replace men v
without discrimination. They agreed d
that all men should report for work an6
be taken back. Instead of being fur t
nished with checks this morning when a
the men went back to work they werei F
met by superintendent or policeman, i
who picked out certain men and told i
them TO go and get their checks. They @
told others to go home, that they did not n
know when they would be needed OF
whether they would ever be needed. This
was plain violation of the agreement
called up Mr.. Connors at Armour's and ]
told him the agreement had been flag. l
rantly violated; that men would refuse l
10 go back to work. did that as soon \
as the men had reported from the yards e
what was being done there. Mr.. Con. I
nors wanted me to come Immediately
TO see how they had violated the agree
ment. / told him the violation was sc
glazing that there was no chance to dc s
business with him until the other trades ]
involved had been represented"
Byers to Represent Butchers.
Kansas City, Mo, July 23.--George
Byers. the first president of the Meat q
Cutters union, has been offered and has l
accepted the place on the strike arbitra-
ton committee to represent the butch q
er strikers. Mr.. Byers, who is 80 years 8
old, is an all-around butcher He has q
worked in many of the packing houses I
of Kansas City and has been in the
meat business for himself j
Crime Of a Miner. y
Grangeville, Idaho, July 23.-7 Rudolph a
svaftar q Calrnon rivar Yoipar eho+ aoS 4