The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-01
PACKERS CLAIM TO BE
 MAKING GOOD HEADWAY
OYER 1, 1000 EEW MEN ADDED TO
 FORCE YESTERDAY.

Many Skilled Laborers Arriye-LittIe
 Difficulty Experienced in Getting or
 dinary Workmen-strike Leaders
 Spend Most of Sunday in Preparing
 Statement to the Public-FataI
 Fight Between Non-Union Men.
 Chicago, July s1.-Both the packers and the strikers spent Sunday in strengthening any weak spots that could be found in their defenses pre- paratory to their week of effort to bring their opponents to terms. sNotwith- standing that it was Sunday, all the plants were operated during the fore noon in order to get rid of the live stock that had been left over from last week. The remainder of the day was spent by the employers in installing new men in the strikers places and arranging many of the small details which had been overlooked last week during the heat of the conflict. Over one thousand inew men were added to-day to the number already at work in the differ lent plants. Among to-night's arrivals were many skilled laborers, something the packers have been sadly in need of ever since the strike started. The em- ployers have experienced little difficulty in procuring all the unskilled men nec- essary to operate the plants to their full capacity, but there has been de- Ieided scarcity of skilled workmen, and for this reason the by-products of all animals killed have been let go to waste. Commencing tomorrow three of the firms announced tonight that lthey would be able to operate these di- Iyisions, enough skilled men having been procured i nthe past forty-eight hours to Justify the belief that all the by product plants will be in full operation by the end of the week.
 l The strike leaders spent the greater lpart of to-day in preparing a statement l to the public. Tn this statement the unionists explain their side of the con- troversy, declaring that it is the pack CTS, and not the men, who are responsi- ble for the present state of affairs in the packing industry. The public is asked to be patient with the men dur ti ing the struggle for supremacy, it be- I ing declared by the union leaders that l lit would be impossible for the men to return to work under the conditions which existed before the strike was lcalled. and that up to the present the, packers have shown no disposition to treat tte strikers in fair manner. Ac- cording to this statement, the men will lstay on strike under their unions are disrupted or until the packers surren- 1 der.
 l The Allied Trades council met to-day land considered arrangements for fur Ither supplying the families of the strik- CTS with food. As a result of the meet ling several more of these commissary Istores will be. opened this week in order land in need.
 In a fight at the Nelson Morris plant this afternoon between Andrew Sinnls land John Davis, both non-union work linen from New Albany, Ind, the for
 mer was stabbed and killed.
 The police and a mob of strike sym Ipathizers clashed tonight in the vicin- sIity of the stock yards. The disturb
 ance was caused by two non-union men who entered a saloon and asked for a drink where crowd of the strikers sI friends had congregated. When the bartender went to serve the strike breakers the other men in the place Iprotested and a fight followed. Several policemen ran to the saloon and suc- jceeded inc jecting the attacking party. The doors of the place were barricaded, but the rioters, being reinforced by sew Ieral hundred of their friends, returned to renew the attack. A riot call was lsent in, but before the patrol wagon
 with a squad of policemen had arrived
 the saloon had been partly wrecked. It Twas necessary for the police to fire . volley from their revolvers over the heads of the rioters before they desist- ed in their attack on the place. With Il the exception of bruises and scratches received during the disturbance no one was seriously injured.