New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-26
NEAT STRIKE SPREADS.
MANY MORE MEN OUT.
No Prospect Of Peace at Chicago
StOckymdS.

Chicago, July 25-With all peace negotiations
| roken off and with all the men of the allied
trades unions employed at the different plants
with the exception Of the teaInsters and the sta
tionary engineers-out on strike. In sympathy
with the butcher workmen who quit work two
weeks ago. the stocKyards strike tonight had
settled down to what promises to be a long. bit
ter fight
AS had been threatened for some time. the
men Of the allied trades employed in the pack
ing industry AT Chicago quit work when called
on to-day To- the striking butchers in their
efforts to bring the packers 20 terms. In sev-
eral instances the mer did not wait for of
fetal notification from their leaders to strike,
but threw down their tools and quit work Of
their own volitor. At Is o'clock tonight tho
statement was made by Michael J. DonneIly,
president Of the butchers union, that every
union man employed al the stockyards. with the
exception Of the teamstera and stationary en-
gineers had responded 10 orders for n genera,
sympathetic strike. The engineers. he declared.
would Join the strikers tomorrow morning. and
unless there was a speedy settlement of the dtf-
fculty he said. tho teamsters would undoubt-
edly Join in the struggle soor. According -
Mr.. DonneIly. to-day's strike swelle. the num-
Der OF men who have quiz work at the stock
yards In Chicago alone 20 nearly thirty thousan-
persons.
Both sides to the controversy declared to-
night that they were perfectly satisfied with tho
present state Of affairs and that they were will
ing to make # fight to Il finish to determine
who shall dictate the terms Of settlement
According to the packers. the general strike
to-day was a failure, it being asserted by then.
that not more than half the members OF the
Allied Trades quit work when officially called
out by the leaders this morning The further
statement was made by the packers that, should
all the union men decide TO join the strikers, 1t
would make little difference to the employers,
as they had sufficient resources to contest the
ground for an indefinite period
on the other hand. the labor leaders assert
that all the union employees at the different
racking plants. together with several hundred
employees Of the Union stockyards and Transit
Company quit work to-day In response to the
general order for a sympathetic strike.
TROUBLE FOR INDEPENDENT PACKERS.
A new phase Of the strike situation developed
late this afternoon when notice given by
the unions 10 the independent packers at the
stockyards that their men would not be al
lowed 10 handle animals which had been handled
in any way by non-union men. 1t is necessary
for these Independent concerns to take all o.
their livestock into the yards over union stock
Td
hv non-rnior men. since the unio-. men en-
ployed by the stockyards company in this line
of work we're among the employees who joined
the sympathetic strike to-day. The ultmatum
Of the unions leaves the independent packers no
alternative but 10 receive their livestock directly
from, the country or 10 close business entirely.
A meeting OF the Independent packers was held
tonight to map out some plan Of action. but m
definite conclusion reached Anothe- meet
ing will be held tomorrow to consider the
matter
Before peace negotiations had been broken off
to-day representatives Of the teamsters' union,
as had been agreed last night. were in
conference with the packers. in effort TO
arrange some sort of settlement which would
prevent a spread of the strike. At this meet
ing the packers were asked to concede that the
first peace agreement signed last Wednesday.
and which was later repudiated by the strikers.
when second strike called. be considered
null and void and that the packers submit a
new proposal for peace terms. The committee
also advised the packers that the striking
butchers would stand by last Saturdays de
mand which that all men be reinstated
within ten days or their cases be submitted to
immediate arbitration; all butchers and casing
men to be taken back within forty-eight hours
after work was resumed. No progress toward Il
settlement made at the conference. aho the
teamsters' committee retired to consider new
proposition
RENEWED NEGOTIATIONS FAIL.
Immediately on the return OF the teamsters'
committee TO union headquarters they entered
into . conference with the representatives of the
Allied Trades TO consider proposal which had
been submitted 20 The unions by the packers
In the meeting between the teamsters and the
packers the packers offered to change the time
of renstating all strikers from forty-hve days
thlrty-fve days. They made no concessions
other than this. and this proposal was submitted
10 the Allied Trades committee. President Don
nelly of the Butchers Union, however. refused
CoaiIrued fourth page