Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-22
THE MEAT PACKERS STRIKE.
ABOUT $4,000 MEN ARE IDLE IN
VARIOUS CITIES.
Strike sympathizers Fatally Injured
n-Unionist-Few Changes
in the Strike Stu
alton.

Chicago, July 19.-Another effort is
to be made to settle the stock yards
strike by arbitration. To-day Presi-
dent Donnelly, of the striking unions,
will send to the packers another letter
asking for conference. In this letter
Mr.. Donnelly will go over the history
of the strike, and will ask the packers
If in their judgment it would not be
better to concede the one point in con-
tention, the taking back of all the
, strikers, than to continue the strike.
The refusal of the packers to dis
charge the men they have employed
since the commencement of the strike
and to give their places to the strik-
, ers caused the breaking off of previ-
Gus conferences.
The communication to the packers
will also suggest that it is the belief
of the strikers that they are, as old
employees, deserving of this consider
alton. If this offer of the union is re-
| jected by the packers, Mr.. Donnelly
declared last night, the allied trades
at the stock yards, numbering in all
i about $4,000 men, will be called out
to-day in an effort to bring the pack
ers to terms.
Slugged into insensibility by a
dozen men and left for dead on the
tracks OF the Ashland avenue trolley
line at West Forty-seventh street, An
ton Bartusiakovis, an employe at the
Swift packing plant, is dying at the
county hospital. His injuries, in the
opinion of Police Inspector Hunt,
were inflicted by strike sympathizers
| anH tho uhaplc nf n trpl1 Tho
men. according to a witness who talk
ed to the police, set upon Bartusiako-
Wis as he was going home from work
When they could not make him join
the strikers they broke his skull, frac-
tured his jaw, kicked him about the
face, head and body and then threw
him upon the car tracks.
A flank movement by the strikers
developed Monday IN the announce
ment by President Donnelly that in
conjunction with William Sterling,
vice president of the Butcher Work
mems union; John Floersch, secretary
of the packing trades council, and
Philip Murphy, champion butcher Of
the world" recently employed by
Swift & Co., will start a small pack
ing house where union butchers may
secure supplies at prices which will
enable strikers to purchase meat with
out contributing to the profits of the
big packers. Cattle and hogs have al
ready been bought, said President
Donnelly, who also asserted that the
plant had been secured and that oper-
atoms would begin to-day.
The operating forces of the big
plants approximated about half the
normal strength yesterday, according
to reports given out. All did a great
deal of killing, it was claimed.
st. Louis July 19.-The effect of the
injunction issued by the st. Clair
county circuit court at Belleville, Ill.
restraining the striking union butch
ers and meat cutters from interfering
with the operation of the East St
Louis packing houses or the non-uniou
men employed by them, has served to
intensity the situation.
The strikers have taken it to mean
that the packers are determined to
open their plants at once with large
forces of non-union men and the PICK.
cts have been increased in the vicinity
of the packing houses.
st. Paul, Mimi, July 19.-The nex'
step in the strike situation at South
st. Paul will probably be an injunction
to prevent the strikers from picketine
the Swift packing plant.
1t is understood that the United
States court will be applied to for al
order dispensing the strikers.