The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-29
PROGRESS OF THE STRIKE.
Strikers Will Have to Make the Next
N.oxe for Settlement-Over
Thousand New Men Taken In Dur
ing the Day-Great Suffering on the
Strikers Families.

Chicago, ILL.,, July 27.-"We hal an
agreement with Mr. Donnellys organ
iza.ion and the allied trades whicn
thev have failed to live up to, am
uacer the circumstances We DO not
care to make any further agreements
with them"
This is the statement which was
signed by the representatives ol
] packers ana handed to the members
of the State Board of Arbitration to-
dag at a conference between the two
bodies, held at the request OF the
state board in an endeaVor to oring
about another meeting between the
packers and strikers.
While from their statement 1t
would appear that the packers are
opposed to meeting the strikers on
any terms, such is not the case.
After tonight's conference with the
State Board of Arbitration, Arthur
Meeker manager for Armour & Co.,
| said that the packers were still willing
| to live UP to the terms of the original
| agreement, but the initiative would
have to be taken by the strikers. Mr.
| Meeker also intimated that the sooner
tho strikers adopted this course the
better it would be for them. 1t Is his
| belief, if the strike should last much
longer, all the places Of the strikers
| would be filled by new men, and there
would be no necessity for the packers
| to wish to settle on amy basis with thelr
| old employees.
| Police rule was today declared in
| the stock yards districts. Beginning
| this afternoon. no one was allowed
| to traverse the streets in the vicinity
of the stock yards, unless good cause
could be shown for doing so. Thls
to a great extent put a stop to the
picketing by the strikers, which had
been going on all day up to the time
the order was given. When night
came the police were complete mas
ters of the situation in the district,
and no one was allowed to loiter in
the streets, and any person, whether
a striker or not, was stopped near the
entrances to the yards.
At least 1000 new employees were
taken into the yards today and put 70
work. A conservative estimate OF
| the number of animals slaughtereI-to-
day by different plants placed it about
| one-half the amount disposed of un-
der normal conditions
Kitty English, forewoman in the
sewing department of Swift & Co.'S
plant was mobbei and badly hurt by
a crowd of girl strike sympathizers
at Haistead and Root streets. Fully
| a dozen girls took part in the attack.
They beat the forewoman with their
! fists, tore her clothing, and finally
stabbed her with hat Lin. After a
desperate struggle, Miss English es-
\ canned No arrests wel-a made
Stock yards teamsters joined the
packing employees today. Seven
hundred of the drivers for the packing
companies refused to go to work, the
teamsters joint council having en-
dorsed the vote to strike and ordered
the members of every other local
union in Chicago to make no deliv-
cries TO the stock yards.
Despite the fact that a relief fund
of $4,000 was voted last night to ale
viate distress of strikers and their
families who are in want there was
little change today in the condition
in the thousands of poverty-stricken
strike sufferers huddled in the
sGuailed districts. Instead of COM
planning. there is disposition to con-
ceal destitution. lest the fact of the
impoverishment of the strikers be-
coming known might operate against
~AAS SONNCSS VI the uiuOIl ; Struggles.
Like the Spartan mothers OF old,
hungry wives and mothers Of strikers
SIT In silence in their spare homes.
purposely avoiding those who might
seek them out with charitable mo-
tyes. Two elements enter into the
silent. grim fortitude OF the women
LOYALTY to the unions and pride. Ap.
plications for relief are rare indeed.
although it is said that want con-
fronts hundreds. and scores are actu-
ally hungry now.