The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Unless Packers Agree to
Mems Terms.
1T is AN ULTIMATUM
Conferences Between the Employers
and Employees Prove Futile and Both
Sides Are Now Making Prepar-
atoms for Long
Struggle.
(By the Associated Press

Chicago, July 23.-Attempts to set
trade failed today, and tonight the
butchers union and allied organiza-
lions, after a long conference, sent
an ultimatum to the representatives
ment of the strike before Monday
morning, on penalty of general
Walkout of all union employees which
work in the stock yards at Z o'clock
Monday morning.
The conference between represen-
tatives of the allied trades and the
packers and butchers which adjourn
ed last night after failing to reach
an agreement, was resumed early this
morning. At noon the confereeS gave
up hope of reaching an understanding
and the deliberations were brought
to an abrupt ending, after the pack
erS had expressed a desire to live up
to the terms of the arbitration agree
ment reached last Wednesday, right
any wrongs that might have been
committed by their foremen and sup
erintendents and had announced to
the union men the name of Samuel
Mclean of the National packing
company to represent them on the ar
bitration board, provided for in the
agreement which settled the original
strike.
The Strikers Ultimatum.
The union men refused positively
to consider that agreement valid on
the ground that it had been broken
by the packers. They then retired to
the office of the federation of labor
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was prepared. The ultimaum
charges violation of the agreement by
the packers and declares that agree
ment null and void. 1t says
1--WE desire to emphasize our belief
in the principles of Cancellation and
arbitration, but to provide against
such violations in the future we again
offer the following propositions as
a solution of the present difficulty:
THAT all employees be hired back
within ten days. Any person not re-
employed at the end of that time his
or her case will be submitted to arbi-
tration.
THAT all killing, cutting and casing
department men be re-inStated In
their former positions within As hours
after the resumption of work.
1--WE regret to say that if the fore
going propositions are not acceptable
work Monday morning"
The reply of the packers to the ul-
timatum of the allied trades was de-
Iivered late tonight. 1t says there has
not been any violation of the agree
ment and says any deviation from IL
might have been readily adjusted. The
packers call attention to the agree
ment with their employees, including
the mechanical and, allied trades and
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Preparing for Long Struggle.
At the stock yards tonight the
packers are making preparations for
a long struggle. AS soon as all peace
negotiations were declared futile all
the heads of the different depart
ments in the various plants were noti-
fed to hire all the workmen they
could possibly obtain, from the prog
ress that had been made up to late
hour tonight the indications are that
fully 1000 new men Will have been
engaged by tomorrow night. 1t is the
intention of the packers to house these
men inside the plants Warehouses
are being filled with permanent hunks
and kitchens to accommodate total
of $3.50 men, who it is claimed by the
packers will be inside the plants Mon
day morning.
The strikers met at their various
union headquarters during the after
noon and night and listened to adj
dresses by their leaders in which the
general strike which seems already a
fixed program for Monday was the
only subject discussed.
Chief of Police O'Neill has sent
calls for men from every precinct in
Chicago to report at the stock yards
station tomorrow to get acquainted
with the surroundings.
Chief ONeill said tonight that the
whole police force of Chicago would
be at the call of the stock yards dis
trict Monday and that peace would
be maintained at any price.
Although the strikers were greatly
excited over the unsuccessful efforts
to settle the strike. there was little
violence throughout the district.