The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-19
Allied Unions May bs Called
 Out Today
ONE MAN FATALLY INJURED
Set Upon Presumably By Strikers and Beaten Into lnsensibility and Then Body Is Thrown on Street
 Car Track.

Chicago, July 1S-One more effort will be made to settle the stock yards strike by arbitration. President Donnelly of the striking unions will send to the packers another letter asking for a conference. In this letter Mir Donnelly will go over the history of the strike and will ask the packers if In their judgment 1t will not be better to coneede the one point in con- tention than to continue the strike. The one point to which allusion is to be made is the refusal of the packers to discharge the men they have employed since the commencement of the strike, and give their places to the men who walked out
 The communication to the packers will also suggest that it is the belief of the strikers that they are as old employees deserving of this consideration. If this offer of the union is rejected by the pack CTS, Mir Donnelly declared tonight that the allied trades at the stock yards. num- bering in all about 13 900 men, will be call ed out tomorrow in an effort to bring the packers to terms. Joseph Morton of the stationary h-emcn's union called upon the packers this afternoon and notified them that unless there is a speedy settlement of the strike his men will be compelled to quit work. While no definite answer was given MT. Morton by the packers, he was
 
 ner that he left the conference with the belief that there is still strong prob- ability of peace and the determination Of MT. Donnelly to once more open nego- tiations with the packers was the result of the manner in which Mir. Morton was received by them.
 One-half Normal Strength.
 According to representatives of the packers, the operating forces at the plants today were about one-half the nor nal strength, being fully 50 per cent larg CT than last Saturday. All the plants it was claimed, aid great deal of killing, and there was also a decided increase in the amount of dressed meats shipped out of the city.
 slugsed into insensipility by a dozen men, early today. and let- for dead on the tracks Of the Ashland avenue trolley line at West Forty-seventh street, Anton Partusiakovis an employe at the Swift packing plant, is dying at the County hospital His injuries. in the opinion of Inspector Hunt, were inflicted by strike sympathizers, and the wheels of a trolley car. The men, according to a witness who has talked to the police set upon Partusiakovis as he was going home from work. When they could not make him join the strikers, they broke his skull, fractured his jaw, kicked him about the face, head and body, and then threw him upon the car tracks.
 The motorman of a car approaching not long afterward saw the body in time to stop the car, but not before the wheels had crushed Partusiakovis' shoulder. The injured man was taken to the county hos pital. He has not regained consciousness. Mrs. w. Clifford, attracted to her window by the sound of men fighting, saw the attack, and declares she can identify sev- eral of Partusiakovis' assailants
 A flank movement by the strikers de- veloped today in the announcement by President Donnelly that in conjunction with William Sterling. vice president of the Butcher Workmen's union; John F'loersch, secretary of the Packing Trades council, and Philip Murphy. champion butcher of the world, recently employed by Swift & Co.,. will start a small pack ing house. where union butchers may se- cure supplies at prices which will en- able strikers to purchase meat without contributing to the pronts of the big packers. Cattle and hogs have already been bought, President Donnelly asserted, the plant secured, and operations are scheduled to begin tomorrow.