The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-29
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Many More Thousands Of Men Will
Quit Work.
CLIMAX IN THE GREAT STRUGGLE.
Chicago Packers and Those at the Other
reat Meat Centers Preparing for a Long
Fight-Trains Filled with New Employees
Arrive at the Chicago Yards-Stockades
Erected for the Protection Nonunion Men.

Chicago, (SpeciaD Determined or
fight to a finish to inforce the de
mands of the striking butchers, a
sympathetic strike of all the union
workmen employed in the meat-pack-
ing industry throughout the country
with the exception of the teamsters
was declared Monday morning at :
o'clock. Sunday night the indications
are that the teamsters will join the
other unions on Tuesday in order to
bring the packers to terms. The
teamsters employed in the Chicago
plants at meeting Sunday declared
in favor of sympathetic strike. but
the joint council of the Transfers
Union at a meeting refused to sane
ton their decision and, instead, ap-
pointed committee to communicate
with the packers in an effort to
open peace negotiations. The SYM
pathetic strike of the other unions EN-
ployed at the yards will be called on
schedule time despite the action OF
the transfers.
No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor
leaders, or jointly, in all effort to
reach an adjustment of the contro-
versy. Both sides rested, apparently
waiting for Developments. Whether
or not the packers would make any
concessions to the demands of the
labor leaders in order to prevent a
general walkout of the trades at the
stockyards would not be discussed
by any of the packing-house repre-
sentatives today, but from the prepa-
rations going on at the different plants
during the day it was plainly evident
that the packers intended to fight for
their independence.
All the labor leaders declared that
they would await Mondays develop
ments before considering further nego-
tiations, and that the packers would
have to make the request for a re-
sumption of peace negotiations, as the
unions had no intention at the present
time of doing so.
New Men Arrive.
Preparations for the struggle are
being made at the different packing
plants all during the day and far into
the night. Dozens of representatives
of the packing-houses are scattered
all over the country in search of men
to fill the places of the strikers. Four
train loads of new employees were
taken to the yards before darkness set
in, to join the nonunion men already
established inside the plants. Clerks
were being initiated into new duties
and employees who had been promoted
from trades were returned to their
former work to take the places of the
regular workers who are expected to
quit work. Stockades have been
erected at all the different plants to
protect men whose work expose them
to danger from the mob violence.
All through the stock yards there
were not only evidences of prepare
ton for long and bitter struggle,
but superintendent of the packing es-
adjustments, police officers and union
leaders gave expression to anticipa-
ton of troublous times to come.
mo one knows what will happen:
The opportunity is here for one of
the greatest labor contests i'll the
country, and apparently there is no
hope for averting it. The police will
be able to handle the situation, how
ever, without outside assistance, no
matter what happens"