The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-05
FULL OF FIGHT.
Neither Packers Nor Strikers
Show Signs Of Yielding.
No Hope of Peace This Week ls
Visible.
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
Are Offered to Induce Skilled
Men to Break Away.
St0ckyards' Officials Working
Hard for q Settlement.

Chicago, Aug. SIN the face of
persistent peace rumors, strikers and
packers alike gave evidence today of
grim determination to stand their
ground and carry the struggle over
into next week. There were indica-
tions that by that time both sides
would regard the offices of intermedi-
aries with favor unless either side
should develop weakness warranting
the other in holding out with re-
newed determination to fight the is
sue to an end.
To the strikers the approach of
Sunday loomed up as a menace be-
cause of difficulties in holding the
ranks together over the opening of a
new week. The strike leaders had
positive information that emissaries
of the packers were at work in all
directions quietly offering highly
skilled men tempting inducements to
break away. Pressure was also being
brought upon strikers wives through
direct individual appeal. To offset
this the leaders figured on the return
of President Donnelly to arouse en-
thusiasm and prepared a monster
demonstration for tomorrow with the
same end in view. While feeling sure
of the men, it was admitted that it is
not easy to hold hungry families in
line. Efforts were therefore espe-
cially directed toward impressing the
women with the VaStneSS and SOlidity
of the strike and with the necessity
of remaining firm.
Efforts to bring about a pacific
conference were today explained as
being due to the cattle shippers and
the Union stock yards and Transit
company, both neutrals who have
lost heavily through the strike. At
the instance of both General Agent
Iii, oF fIA CT ar1c c,T1xr
visited the strike leaders yesterday.
Finding the men receptive, he gave
attention to the packers. Little en-
couragement was met with from the
packers. Believing, however, that the
situation was not without possibilities,
he returned to the strike leaders, who
were awaiting him at the Transit
house. In the meantime the strikers
had attempted to bring pressure to
bear on the packers from other
sources, and in so doing had acquired
information from which the inference
was drawn that the strikers position
was stronger than it had been be-
lieved. In consequence when Mr.
Skinner returned he found the strike
leaders unwilling to make any marked
concessions. While Mr.. Skinner was
comforting with the strike leaders
representatives of the strikers casu-
ally appeared, giving color to an i'm
preston that important negotiations
were actually under way-an impress
fact that confidential men from the
packers shadowed every movement
of the strike leaders from that mo-
ment on. 1t was declared today, how
ever, that nothing tangible had de-
veloped tending to point towards i'm
mediate peace.
Strike breakers continued to pour
into the yards today. The new ar
rivals included another train load
of immigrants. The recruits were
frightened into Mysteries by a series of
terrific explosions caused by strike
sympathizers placing dynamite caps
and salt petre on the tracks. No
property damage resulted.
President Donnelly and Secretary
Wilson of the Ice Wagon Drivers
union conferred today on the subject
of refusing to deliver ice to retailers
who buy of packers whose plants are
affected by the strike.