Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-23
Sympathetic WaIkOut Now
Seems a Ger
tainty.
A CONFERENCE FAILS
Employees Submit Entirely New
Schedule of De-
mandS.

Chicago, July 23.-Labor leaders
went into joint conference with the
packers today prepared to submit an
entirely new basis of settlement Of
the stock yards strike The new de-
mands call for the immediate rein
statement Of the killing gangs and
meat butchers in a body. They also
took up the demands of unskilled men.
Cases of minor disorder are numerous.
No new men were employed today.
Conference Fails
Chicago, July 23.-The joint confer
ence of the union leaders and packers
resulted in a disagreement. The un-
ionists left for headquarters to dis
cuss a sympathetic strike.
Prepare For General Strike.
President Schardt of the Federation
or Labor announced there will be a
general strike at the yards Monday
unless an agreement is reached be
fore that time. The packers imme-
dlatcly began hiring hundreds of non
unionists.
The receipts today were the lighteSt
in the history of the yards.
Discrimination Upset Agreement.
The strikers said the agreement of
Wednesday was rendered void by the
discrimination of yesterday and a new
agreement must be made. The packers |
would not agree to this and the labor |
leaders declared peace was not in |
sight
Failed to Agree.
Chicago. July ga joint confer |
eucc between representatives of the |
Meat Butchers union failed to reach |
an agreement last night in an effort
To adjust the stock yards strike and
another conference was arranged for |
today.
The conference between packers and |
workmen lasted hours but could not |
reach a working basis with which both !
sides could be satisfied.
Both Claim Good Faith.
Whether the difficulty can be satls-
factorily settled at today's meeting is |
a problem as both packers and strik- |
crs maintain that they are living up to |
the Wednesday agreement for set /
ticment by arbitration and that it is |
the other side that is responsible for
a renewal of hostilities.
No written statement of what trans
pired in the meeting was given out,
and the committee declined TO give
any further information except that /
another meeting would be held today.
Allied Trades to Strike.
r-.,1.... ., ..,,.1or,orf - raacbad today
the general belief is that a sympathetic |
strike of all the allied trades in the |
packing industry. which was threat
Cned last week to force the demands |
of the strikers will be called. All these |
unions have siEnified a Willingness to
stand to the butchers If they are called |
ON to assist in the struggle with the /
packers for supremacy.
Packers Violate Agreement.
President Donnelly issued a state |
ment last night in which he declared |
that the packers signed an agreement |
not to discriminate i'll rehiring the men.
that the union accepted this in good /
faith. but that when the men presented |
themselves active union men were sin /
gied out and refused employment. He 7
also alleges that the packers employed /
men in some departments who had not |
been employed prior to the strike.
Mob Sixteen-Year-Old Girl
Chicago. July 23.-NiolenCe on the |
day of the renewal OF the stOCkyards !
strike eliminated last evening in an
attack on Josephine Rominsky, 16years !
old. Nearly a thousand boys and girls |
were in the mob which stoned the !
young strike breaker and covered her
with mud