The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-26
MEAT STRIKE WILL BE
 FOUGHT TO A FINISH
ALL PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NoW
 BROKEN OFF.

All They Would Do Was to Reduce by
 Ten Days the Limit of Time for Re-
 instating the striIxers-This Not Sat
 sfactory-Independent Packers Af-
 feeted by New Order.
 Chicago. July 25.-With all peace ne- gotiations broken off and with all of the Allied Trades Unions employed at the different plants, with the exception of the teamsters and stationary engin- eers 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 long bitter. fight.
 As has been threatened for some time tie allied trades employed in the pack ing industry at Chicago quit work when called on to-day to assist the striking butchers in their efforts to bring the packers to terms In several instances the men did not wait for the official notification from their leaders to strike but threw down their tools and quit work of their own volition. At 6 o'clock tonight the statement was made by Michael J. DonneIly, president of the Butchers union. that every union man employed at the stock yards. with the exception of the team sters and stationery engineers, had re- sponded to orders for a general sympa- thetic strike. The engineers, he de- clared. would join the strikers to-mor- row morning and unless there was a speedy settlement of the difficulty, he said, the teamsters would undoubted- ly join in the struggle soon. According to Mir. Donnelly to-day's strike swelled the number of men who have quit work at the stockyards in Chicago alone to nearly 10000.
 Both sides to the controversy declar- ed tonight that they were perfectly satisfied with the present state of af- fairs and they were willing to make 1t g fight to the finish to determine who shall dictate the terms of settle ment.
 According to the packers, the general strike to-day was a failure, it being as- serted by them that not more than half the members os the allied trades quit work when officially called out by the leaders this morning The further state n1ent was made by the packers that should all the union men decide c join the strikers it would make little difference to the employers as they had sufficient resources to contest the ground sor an indefinite period.
 On the other hand the labor leaders assert that all the union employees at the different packing houses, together with several hundred employees of the Union Stock Yards and Transit com- pany, quit work to-day in response to to the general order for sympathetic strike.
 A new phase of the strike situation developed late this afternoon when notice was given by the unions to the independent packers at the stock yards that their men would not be allowed to handle animals which had been handled in any way by non-union men. It is necessary for these Independent concerns to take all of their live stock into the yards over Union Stock Yard runways, where the stock must be handled by non-union men, since the union men employed by the stock yards wereamong the employees who joined the sympathetic strike to-day. The ulti- mafum of the unions leaves lhe inde- pendent packers no alternative but to receive their live stock directly from the country or close business entirely. IA meeting of the independent packei.s was held tonight to map out some -1plan of action, but no definite conclii- sion was reached Another meeting will be held tomorrow to consider the matter.
 Before peace negotiations had been broken of to-day representatives of the tealnsters union, as had been agreed on last night, were in confer- ence with the packers in an effort to ar- range some sort of settlement which would prevent spread of the strike. At this meeting the packers were asked to concede that the first peace agree rnent, signed last Wednesday,, and which was later repudiated by the strikers, when second strike was call- ed, be considered null and void and that the packers submit a new proposition for peace terms. The committee also advised the packers that the striking butcfes would stand by last Saturdays demand, which was that all men be re- instated within ten days, or their cases be submitted to immediate arbitration; butchers end casing men be taken back within forty-eight hours after work was resumed. No progress toward a settlement was made at the confer ence and the teamsters' committee re- tired to consider new proposition.
 Immediately on the return of the taamsters' committee to union head quarters they entered into conference with the representatives of the allied trades to consider proposal which had been submitted to the unions by the packers. In the meeting between the teamsters and the packers, the packers offered to change the time of reinstat-. ing all strikers from forty-five days to thirty-fiye days They made no con- sessions other than this and this pro- posal was submitted to the allied trades committee. President Donnelly of the Butchers union, however, refused to consider the proposal and all hopes of an immediate settlement was lost.
 President Golden of the teamsters' union strongly urged that the proposal be considered and that another effort