The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-23
Packers Are Accused of
 Bad Faith.
HITCH Is OVER THE
 RETIRING OF STRIKERS
The Enthusiastic Union Men
 Are Not Wanted.
Conference VIII Be Held This Morn ing. and 1t is Possible That . Satisfactory Adjustment
 win Be Had.

Chicago, July 22.-The stock yards strike which was rers~Sed this morn ing in Chicago and all the other points where the big companies have branch es. because the strikers were dissatis- fled with the manner in which the em- pioyers proposed to reinstate their for mer employees pending a settlement, by arbitration. will continue for another day at least. joint conference between repre- sentatives of both sides to the contro- versy and representatives of the allied trades in an attempt to bring about peaceable adjustment of this second strike, was unsuccessful and the meet ing was adjourned tonight at S:30 o'clock with the understanding that an- other conference would be held tomor- row morning at o'clock. At today's conference, which lasted five hours a committee of ten. consist ing of five representatives of the pack CTS and five representatives of the meat cutters. union. was appointed to go over the whole situation, but the com mittee was unable to reach working basis with which both sides would be satisfied.
 Each Charges violation. Whether the difficulty can be satis- factorily settled at tomorrow's meeting is problematical as both the packers and the strikers maintain that they are living up to Wednesdays agree ment for a settlement by arbitration and that 1t Is the other side that Is re- sponsible for the renewal of hostili- ties.
 After tonight's adjournment no writ ten statement of what transpired in the meeting was given out. Unless a settlement Is reached to- morrow. the general belief Is that a sympathetic strike of the allied trades in the packing industry, which was threatened last week. to enforce the demands of the strikers. will be called All these unions have signified theis willingness to stand by the butchers If | they arS called on to assist in < the struggle with. the packers for suprem- acy.
 In the following statement given out tonight by Mir. Donnelly. president of the butchers union, the reason why the strikers refused to return to work today is given:
 statement by DonneIIy.
 '"The packers signed an agreement that there would be no discrimination in the re-hiring of the men. This was accepted by the officers of the organ ization in good faith. On the return of the men this morning they were lined up like cattle. The foreman and superintendents through the line would pick out a man and say. You come up The next man would be pushed out of line and told that he could not be used. and 1t was always the good, active union men whom they could not use.
 We understood the agreement per- fectly and the strike was only called after the packers had violated it. This has been their system in the past and that was our main reason for insisting on the time limit in the agreement, but in spite of this, the packers inten- tions are to hire only such men as were favorites. They also hired men in some of the departments who had not been employed prior to the strike.
 Superintendent Pension of the Ar- mour cannang department addressed the employees in the following lan- guage this morning: You went away. like cattle and we will take you back like cattle
 This language was used both to men and women.' said Mir. Donnelly
 Renewal of the Strike.
 The packing house strike was or dered renewed in Chicago, and all other cities.
 The. following telegram was sent by President Donnelly to all employees of various packing houses in the different cities affected by the previous strike:
 "Order out all the departments again Companies violated agreement.
 Michael Donnelly. President International Meat Cutters
 and Butcher Workmen.'
 Today 5000 cattle butchers reported at the stockyards here for work. Only half of them were given places. There upon all refused to work. They re- ported in a body at their union head quarters. The general order for re- newal of the strike was soon forth coming.
 While the immediate provocation for renewal of the strike was apparently the failure of the packers to take back a larger proportion of the strikers who reported for work today the real cause of the rupture was inferred to be cir cular issued yesterday by the packers. The circular purported to explain to the public the agreement entered into with the labor leaders. Seemingly the circular could be taken as implying that the agreement did not bind the packers to re-employ all of the men who walked out
 Construction of Strikers.
 The construction the labor leaders had placed upon the agreement was that all should be re-employed within forty-five days.
 When the 5000 butchers and their helpers went into the yards here to- day to take their old places the gen. eral greeting received was:
 We cannot take back more than half the regular foroe." Immediately there was a woeful display of chagrin and disappointment. The men held a conference of an impromptu nature and reached an agreement to act as a unit oY not at all.
 You must take us all back or none' came the reply of the union men, who saw performing the tasks they had done before numbers of non-uuion workmen. The packers refused to ac- cede to this and a committee was sent to see President Donnelly. The latter was quickly in communication with his advisers. Within an hour and a half the decision was reached to reopen the strike. President Donnelly's tel-