Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-26
ALLIED TRADES QUIT
Chicago Has Greatest Strike
 Ever Known.
SPECTACULAR EXODUS OF WORKERS
Riot mt StoclSyards QueIled by P0. lice - Packers and Labor Un- Aonists Declare Fight Will
 Re to a Finish.

pathetic general strike at the stock yards, predicted by its leaders to be the greatest and most expensive this country has ever known, opened here when thousands of teamsters, cattle handlers and members of the me- chanical trades quit work and made grand rush for the gates leading from the busiest square mile of buildings, yards and pens in the world.
 The first street riot attending the walkout from the stockyards occurred in Asleand avenue. near one of the yard gates. Half hundred men and women took part, and score of po- licemen had all they could do to quell the disturbance.
 The origin of the riot was trivial. Stanislaus ZiAtrick had gone on strike against the wishes of his wife, Marie, and she was dragging him back to work. A crowd of strikers and their wives waylaid her, and soon every body was slugging everybody else all over the avenue. Mrs. Ziatrick was severely injured, and many others sus- tained cracked heads and bruised faces.
 While this riot was going on three thugs attacked Mrs. Anna Tickle, who has three sons on strike, and robbed her of a small amount of money. One of the sons, Leopold, was arrested.
 A meeting of butchers representa- lives aud. allied trades has decided to send a committee to call upon the packers. The committee is composed of the representatives of all the allied trades
 The first big detection came when TOO men, including the scalers and pen cleaners, employed by the Union Stock yards and Transit company refused to work further First to go were the handlers, and this eliminated the use fulness of the teamsters, and they fol- lowed. As they passed out of the big gates at Exchange avenue they were greeted with cheers by the thousands of, strikers gathered in the vicinity.
 Rrior to this spectacular exodus came small strikes in the various plants, in- cluding carpenters, firemen, elevator men, nachinists, etc, but. these did not have the effect of tying up the plants, since such action had been anticipated and as often as union man stepped out nonunion man, or union man who had deserted his organization, was there to take his place.
 Early in the day the allied trades and the committee of eight teamsters chosen last night to seek peace anew before permitting the teamsters to strike had been urged by President Donnelly of the meat cutters to declare the general strike and then seek fur ther conference with the packers.
 There was "a lively debate, President Golden, for the teamsters' governing body, declaring his belief that com mon sense campaign would end in peace. He pointed out the danger of shutting up the Union Stockyards and Transit company, which, he said, would be detrimental to the strikers friends, the independent workers, who were do- ing the big packers almost as much damage as anybody else.
 He uSged that the Stockyards com pany be permitted to continue under some kind of agreement, but his argu- nent had no weight with President Donnelly, who said: 'The time to strike is right now. Let us talk about the in- dependent concerns and about settle ments later" Then it was arranged that President sMardt, representing the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Barney Cohen, representing the Butch ers' union, should join the Teamsters' union committee to which had been added John Sheridan, business agent of the ice wagon drivers.
 There are 1,200 ice wagon drivers, and with their striking 1t is admitted the packers would have much difficulty getting ice to their refrigerator cars.
 Both sides to tae controversy have declared that they are perfectly satis- fled with the present state of affairs fight to a finish.
 A new phase of the strike situation developed when notice was given by the unions to the independent packers at the stockyards that their men would not be allowed to handle animals which had been handled in any way by nonunion men. 1t is necessary for these independent concerns to take all of their live stock into the yards over Union stockyards runways, where the stock must be handled by nonunion men, since the union men employed by the stockyards company in this line ot work were among the employees who
 have joined the sympathetic strike
 The ultimatum of the unions leaves the
 independent packers no alternative bat
 to receive their live stock directly from the country or to close business entire 1 ly. A meeting of the independent
 packers has been held to map out some
 plan of action, but no definite con clusion was reached.
 | nSm T,mR mRnw War Settled