The Bourbon news., 1904-07-26
A FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Allied Unions, Except Teamsters,
Join Striking Butchers.
Four Train Loads of New Employees
Were Taken to the Chicago Stock
Yards Sunday Before Dark
ness Had Set In.

Chicago, July 25.-Determined on a
fight to a finish to enforce the de-
mands of the striking butchers, sym
pathetic strike of all the union work
men employed in the meat packing
Industries throughout the country with
the exception of the teamsters was
declared Monday morning at o'clock.
Instead of joining in the sympathet-
ic strike the teamsters will make an
other effort to bring about an adjust
ment of the controversy by arbitra-
ton. This decision was reached late
Sunday night at a meeting of the joint
council of teamsters unions through
out Chicago, who met to consider the
Endorsement of decision reached
Sunday afternoon by the packing
house teamsters union to quit work
with the other allied unions. The de-
cision of the stock yards teamsters was
almost unanimous in favor of striking,
but as it is necessary according to the
rules of the teamsters' union for the
joint council to- sanction any strike
movement, all the union teamsters in
the employ of the packers will remain
at work during the struggle or until
the joint council gives their permis-
sion to strike should their efforts to
settle the matter by conciliation Mon
day prove futile
The committee appointed at Sun
day nights meeting were notified to
get into communication Monday morn
ing as early as possible with the pack
ers. Whether the teamsters' efforts
for peace will prove successful none
of the packers representatives who
were communicated with Sunday
night would say. The decision to make
another effort for peace was reached
at such late hour Sunday night that
it was impossible for the packers to
get together to decide on what answer
would be given to the intermediary
committee Monday. The reason Civ
en- by the teamsters' council for their
action is that they have never before
been consulted in the present trouble
and that therefore before they would
sanction strike of the stock yard
fetal investigation of the trouble be-
fore asking the international officers
of the union to officially order the
men on strike.
No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor
leaders, or jointly, in an effort to reach
an adjustment of the controversy.
Both sides rested Sunday, apparently
waiting for Mondays Developments.
Whether or not the packers would
make any concessions to the demands
of the labor leaders in order to pre-
vent general walkout of the trades
at the stock yards, would not be dis
cussed by any of the packing house
representatives Sunday, but from the
preparations going on at the different
plants during the day it was plainly
evident that the packers intended to
fight for their independence. All Ia
Dor leaders declared that they would
await Mondays developments before
considering further negotiations and
that the packers would have to make
the request for a resumption of peace
negotiations, as the unions had no in
tention at the present time of doing
so.
Preparations for the struggle which
was expected to reach a climax Mon
day morning were being made at the
different packing plants all during the
day and far into the night Dozens of
representatives of the packing houses
were scattered all over the country in
search of men to fill the places of the
strikers. Four train loads of new en-
ployes were taken to the yards before
darkness set in to join the non-union
men already established inside the
plants.
Stockades have been erected at all
the different plants to protect men
whose work exposes them to danger
from mob violence. All through the
stock yards there were not only evi-
dences of preparations for long and
bitter struggle, but superintendent of
the packing establishments, police Of
lcers and union leaders gave express
sion to anticipation of troublous times
to come. Chief of Police ONeill. who
spent the day making plans for Mon
day, said:
No one knows what will happen.
The opportunity is here for one of the
greatest labor contests in the coun-
try and apparently there is no hope
for averting it. The police will be
able to handle the situation, however.
without outside assistance, no matter
what happens"