The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-01

THE WEAK SPOTS
Packers and Strikers Prepar-
ing For Desperate Struggle.
N0N-UNI0N MEN At WORK
NO INDICATION OF A SPEEDY
SETTLEMENT.
NON-UNION MEN AT WORK

/ - HICAGO, July 31.-BOth the packers
and the strikers spent Sunday in
Strengthening weak spots in their
defenses preparatory to another week Of
I efforts TO bring their opponents TO
terms All the plants were operated
| during the forenoon in order to get rio
of the live stock that was left over
| from last week. The remainder OF the
day was spent by the employers IN in
staning new men and arranging many
OF the small details that had been over
looked during the week Over l,oOo
/ new men We're added to the number al
ready at work in the different plants.
Among tOdays arrivals were many
| skilled lsborers, something the pack
| ers have been sadly in need of ever
since the strike started Because of
the lack of skilled labor the by-products
OF animals killed have been let go to
waste. Enough skilled men have been
secured in the last rcrty-eight hours,
however. to justify the belief that all
the by-product plants win be in full
{ operation before the end Of the week.
Strikers Issue Statement.
The strike leaders spent the greater
part of the day in preparing a state
ment to the public. In this statement
the uDiOnists explain their side of the
controversy. declaring that it is the
packers and not the men who are re-
sponsible for the present state Of af-
fairs III the packing industry. The pub
lie IS asked to be lenient with the men
during the strike, il being declared by
the union leaders that il viii be impos-
sibie Tor the men TO work under the
conditions which existed before the
strike was called and that up to the
present time the packers have shown no
~ H. n
fair manner. According 10 this state
ment the men viii stay on strike until
their unions are disrupted or until the
packers surrender
The allied trades council met today
and considered arrangements for fur
Their supplying the families of the strik
ers with food As result of the spe-
ciaI meeting several more of these COM
missary stores viii be opened during
this week.
Fatal Fight.
In fight at the Nelson Morris plant,
today between Andrew Sims and John
John Davis, both nOn-union wOrkmen
from Indiana, the former was stabbed
and killed. Simms was employed by
the packing company as a waiter IN
the imProvised dining room which had
been fitted up for the men employed as
strike breakers Davis was employed
a - q COOK by the same concern " il3te
eating dinner thev became involved IN
a quarrel over the food when Davis
sta bbed Simms.
The police and mob of strike sym.
pathizers clashed tonight in the Yicin-
ity of the stock yards. Two non-unlon
men had entered a saloon and asked for
a drink, when strike sympathizers pro-
tested against the bartender serving
them. Several policemen succeeded IN
ejecting the attacking men and the
doors were barricaded. The rioters, be
ing reinforced by several hundred OF
their friends. returned later to renew
the attack \ riot cal was sent IN,
but before the patrol wagon with
squad of policemen had arrived, the
saloon had been partly wrecked. Il was
necessary for the police TO fire a voliey
over the heads OF the rioters before
they desisted in their attack on the
place. With the exception Of bruises
and scratches, no one was seriously
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