The Bourbon news., 1904-08-02
STRIKE IS EXTENDING.
Meat Workers in New York Are
Ordered Out.
Probabilities of Settlement BY OPP
posing Interests in Chicago Are
as Remote as EVer-Packers
Will ignore Unions. lN


conference with the representatives
of the New York packers, Michael j.
Donnelly, president of the Amalgama-
ted Meat Cutters and Butcher Work.
men of America, has ordered strike
of all the members of his organiza-
ton employed in New York by Schwar-
schild & Sulzberger and the United
Dressed Beef Co.
The order, which was telegraphed
to New York Friday night, did not
go into effect until Sunday, as the
men in the eastern packing plants do
not report for work on Saturday. Tho
decision to extend the strike to the
east was not taken until after Mr..
Dohnelly and his associates had spent
the day in fruitless effort to arrange
a meeting with representatives of the
eastern packers who came to Chicago
Thursday night to acquaint them
selves with the situation here.
That the probabilities of settle
ment by the opposing interests in Chi
cago are as remote as ever was plain
1y demonstrated Friday when Henry
G. Wallace, of Des Moines, Ia, and A.
L. Ames, of buckingham, Ia, called
on the different packers with propO-
sition from the strike leaders offering
to concede the most important point
in the controversy if the employers
would agree to renew peace negotia-
tions. Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. AmeS
were told by the packers that there
was no possible chance for any further
conciliatory move and that the pack.
ers were now in a position where they
could ignore the labor unions and that
they proposed to do so. The packers
answer was delivered to the strike
leaders and the men from Iowa left
for home Friday night.
In one disturbance a mob captured
loaded meat wagon after it had left
the stockyards Friday, upset the wag-
on and threw the meat into the street.
The most serious riot of the day oc.
CURED in South Chicago, where five
men we're arrested for trying to pre-
vent the delivery of meat. Although
the strikers and their friends became
very boisterous when it became
known that President Golden had
been arrested and made all sorts of
threats, no one was seriously injured
in any of the many disturbances that
occurred. The police have the situa-
tion SO well in hand that before the
in their purpose they are scattered
by the blue coats in all directions.
Chicago, Aug. both the packers
and the strikers spent Sunday in
Strengthening any weak spots that
could be found in their defenses prep
aratory to another week of effort to
bring their opponents to terms. Not
withstanding that it was Sunday, all
the plants were operated during the
forenoon in order to get rid of the live
stock that had been left over from last
week. The remainder of the day was
spent by the employers in installing
new men in the strikers places and
arranging many of the small details
which had been overlooked last week
during the heat of the conflict. Over
1000 new men were added Sunday to
the number already at work in the
different plants. Among Sundays ar
rivals were many skilled laborers,
something the packers have been sad
ly in need of ever since the strike
started. The employers have expert
enced little difficulty in procuring all
the unskilled men necessary to Oper-
ate the plants to their full capacity,
but there has been a decided scarcity
of skilled workmen and for this rea-
/ fIO Nv
killed have been let go to waste.
The strike leaders spent the great
er part of Sunday in preparing a state
ment to the public. In this statement
the unionists explain their side of the
controversy, declaring that it is the
packers and not the men who are re-
sponsible for the present state of af-
fairs in the packing industry.
In fight at the Nelson Morris plant
Sunday afternoon between Andrew
Sims and John Davis, both non-union
workmen from New Albany, Ind, the
former was stabbed and killed. Simms
was employed by the packing COM
pany as a waiter in the improvised
dining room which has been fitted up
for the men employed as strike break
ers. Davis was employed as a cook
by the same concern. While eating
dinner Sunday they became involved
in a quarrel over the food. In the
fight that followed Davis was getting
decidedly the worst of it and, drawing
a knife, stabbed Simms three times
| Simms died in the hospital two hours
later and Davis was arrested