The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-28
A LONG CONFLICT
Is Promised In the Big Strike
at the Chicago Stock
yards.
ARBITRATION REFUSED
Packers Reject Further Offer on the
Part of the Illinois State Board
of arbitration.
ARBITRATION REFUSED
They Say They Had an Agreement
With the Men Which Was BrOk-
en- and They Are Through.

Chicago, July 28-"We had an
agreement with Mr.. Donnelly's organ
ization and the allied trades which
they have failed to live up to, and
under the circumstances we do not
care to make any further agreements
with them"
This is the statement which is
signed by the representatives of the
packers and handed to the members
of the state board of arbitration at
two bodies, held at the request Of the
state board in an endeavor to bring
about another meeting between the
packers and the strikers.
The packers received the state
board courteOusly and listened to their
arguments for peaceable adjustment
of the difficulty. The announcement
that the packers were opposed to any
further peace negotiations with the
strikers was handed to the board by
Arthur .heeKer and Thomas Connor
both of the Armour company, who rep
their statement it would appear that
the packers are opposed to meeting
the strikers again on any terms, such
Is not the case. At the last confer
ence between the strikers and the
packers the latter informed the union
leaders that any time they expressed
q desire to live up to the original ar
bitration agreement, signed a week
ago, which provided for the reinstate-
ment of the striking butchers inside
of fOrty-five days and for all griev-
ances to be submitted to arbitration,
the packers would be willing to renew
the agreement.
The contention of the packers is
that this agreement is still in force,
| and as they are unwilling to offer any
| further concessions to the strikers,
| they say renewal of peace negotia-
tiOns with the hope of securing better
terms would be useless. The labor
leaders claim that when the butchers
went on the second strike because of
alleged discrimination by the packers
! in re-hirlng the old employees, the ar
| bitration agreement was nullified and
that it Is necessary to sign a new
agreement before a settlement can be
reached.
| After the conference with the state
board of arbitration, Arthur Meeker,
manager for Armour & Co., said that
the packers were still willing to live
| up to the terms Of the original agree
| ment, but that the initiative would
have to be taken by the strikers. Mr.
! oil
the strikers adopted this course the
better it would be for them, as in his
belief il the strike should last much
| longer all the places Of the strikers
| would be hlled by new men and there
would be no necessity for the packers
to wish to settle on any basis with
their old employees.
"Police rule" has been declared in
the stockyards district. No one is al
| lowed to traverse the streets in the
| vicinity of the stOckyardS unless good
| cause can be shown for doing SO.
This, to great extent, has put stop
to the picketing by the strikers, which
had been going on up to the time the
| order was given. The police seem
| complete masters of the situation in
the district. No one is allowed to
loiter in the streets and any person,
whether striker or not, who stops
near the entrances to the stockyards
Is sure to be told to "mOve on"
An unexpected complication arose
last night when the freight handlers
employed at the stockyards station OF
the Chicago Junction railway went on
strike. The men gave as their reason
for quitting work their unwillingness
to handle meat turned out by non
union workmen in the packing plants
Their decision to join the sympathetic
strike Is severe blow to the packers
as the greater portion of the dressed
meats shipped from the yards to the
local trade passes through the hands
of these men. Should non-union mer
be engaged to ta4-e the places of the
strikers q strike of the union switch
men may follow. With the switchmer
out 1t would be only a matter of 6
short timo until the strike woult
spread to the other employees of the
railroad. This last strike leaves the
packers without an outlet for supply
ing the city trade unless non-unior
men can be obtained to take the place
\ of the strikers, or non-union teamster.
be employed to make city deliveries
An attempt to deliver meat with non
: precipitate rioting.
r To Prevent Strike.