The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-20
| IS NOW
Up TO The
PACKERS
ED TO DISCUSS WAYS AND
MEANS OF SETTLING THE
SIG STRIKE.

CHICAGO. July 2o.-I, is for TIL:
packers to say to-day whether they
will hold another conference with rep
resentatives of organized labor reli
tive to the strike Of the butchers
meeting was submitted Tuesday even
| ing to the owners of the packing
plants of the Union leaders of Chi
cago.
| The labor proposition emanate1
not from the butchers but from a COM
| mittee representing many affected
trades, including the teamsters. 1t
consisted of a letter sent in duplicate
to the union on strike and to the pacl>-
ers, in which each party to the strug-
gle was requested to participate in
yesterdays meeting of employees AMI
all trades interested. The butchers
promptly answered that they We're
ready to go into the conference.
Pending the outcome of this at,
tempt to reopen negotiations the meu
in the mechanical departments and
the teamsters and stationary fremen
at the packing houses will remain st
work.
Assurances that they would go out III
a sympathetic strike as last resort
were renewed to President Donnelly
of the butchers.
Donnelly continued to advise
against the extension Of the struggle
Harrison announced that he would
postpone his annual summer vacation
until the end of the strike.
Packers Agre to Conference.
Representatives Of the packers
went into a hasty conference during,
the morning preparing their answer
to the demand of the allied trades fo-
a peace conference. 1t is said that
they would finally pass on their plan
to shut down the stock yards. Presi-
dent Donnelly, leader Of the striking
butchers, said that the other trades
could not be held in their places after
to-day and that unless the packers
face about, genral strike must come.
The gathering of the representa-
tives of the six large packing COM
panies began at $50 this morning al
the general Offices of Swift & Com
pany in the stock yards. 1t was eX-
pected that the secret session would
begin at. ten o'clock when the Sher-
man house letter of the allied trades
to the packers would be taken up and
an answer drafted.
Non-union labor continues to az
rive by train this morning.
AT o'clock, seventy-five men, thii
ty Of whom are colored, arrived on {.
Lake Shore train and were switched
over the "Y'' to Armours and other
houses. A heavy police guard was
present while numerous union men
and their sympathizers gathered about
jeering the latest recruits to the pack
ers' forces. There was no attempt at
violence of any kind, however.
AT 9:45 another train load of inn
ported help arrived and passed into
the yards to the accom- mpaniment only
of sullen looks and cat-calls.
The packers this morning claime,
that the situation was greatly i'm
proved and that there is more activity
in the yards than on any day since
the Inauguration of the great strike.
The estimated receipts of stock were
given as 5000 cattle, 10000 hogs and
5000 sheep. 1t also was claimed
that ten union butchers had returned
to work. Among the ':Y'' side talent
that is engaged in the killing beds this
morning is Dr. Rupert, Frederick Won
Kotsch, a surgeon for Swift & Com
pany, and said to be a member of a
German noble family.
At ten o'clock the following mem
bers of the alleged packing combine
were in consultation: L. F. Swift and
E. S. Swift, of Swift & Co., Edward TIL
den and W. F. Burrows, of Libby, Nc
Neill & Libby; Arthur Meekr and
Tom Connors, of Armour & Co.; Ira
Morris, Edward Morris and Tom Will
son, of Edward Morris & Co.; J. E
Maurer, of Schwarzchild & Sulz-
berger; Samuel McClean and J. B. Ly-
man. of the National Packing Com
pany. IA gi55 sS
Following is the letter of the pack.
ers to the unions: 5
Mr. Joseph Golden Chairman.
Dear SIR: Answe werin 81 our letter Of
July q 9ssswew Ill meet youS and thesrep.
resentatives men toned at the Office