The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-21
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ARBITRATION ENDS
BUTCHERS STRIKE.
Packers Yield at Peace Confer
ence and Men Go, Back
to Work
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Strikers Proposals Of Last Sat
urday Accented by Meat
Magnates.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service, 1888
Chicago, July 21.-Peace and har-
mony has been restored in the pack
ting gsar nas m stf 5ooe e5
butcher workmen in Chicago and
thruout the west return to their
posts.
The settlement is a compromise,
brought about thru conferences and
Cancellation. The wages and working
strike will be settled by an arbitration
board composed of three practical
packing house men.
The packers will reinstate all men
who went on strike as fast as posi-
BILE without discrimination. If any
five days he has the privilege Of
bringing his case before the arbitra-
ton board, altho the strike leaders
do not believe that such q contingency
shall arise.
The packers waived their original
demand that the strikers should make
application for reinstatement as In
dividuals and the workers go back in
body with their organization intact
Several times during the four hours
conference this afternoon the packers
and union leaders were on the verge
of split; On each occasion when it
seemed that the conference would
break up, President .Donnelly and
Thomas I. Kidd stood out for peace
and tried to smooth over the diff
culties.
A rupture would have meant a
sympathetic strike of all the mechani-
cal trades, not alone IN Chicago, but
President Donnelly has fought
against that move from the first
Immediately after leaving the con-
ference President sDonnelly sent tele-
grams containing the substance of the
settlement to his Meutenants and
once SO that the strike might be Off
cially declared off,. Replies were re-
ceived approving the settlement from
all of them.
The agreement reached is similar to
the proposal made last Saturday to
the packers by Donnslly, In satur-
/ days atiOn, Donnel1y in
sisted that the strikers all be taken
back to work within seven days. This
the packers refused. aftho they agreed
to accept every other demand made
by Donnelly.
Rejoicing in Stpckyards. s5<
Around the Chicago stockyards to-
day there was rejoicing among the
strikers as well as the stockmen and
packing interests. The unionists
4 who had looked forward TO seeing tax
Estrike spread this nae rning TO IA sym
pathetic movement Involving salI the
sE:necha nicals trad es ard erilaps sst1le
4 teamaters and fire fNeSa, learned witt
relief that instead A fhe greater
strikestheEe Ysas ITO n4 peaealn Pack.
ingtoWn. MaIly of thIe strikers. how;
lever expressed disa Up ointment tha3
4 their strike, after causing them t
i lose sight and a half days wages, haf
4 failed to decide their demands fol
higher wages or to make 1t certain
that all would be reinstated withou
greater loss Of time. $50
/ Mr.. Donnelly issued call for spe
cials meetings of the various loca
unions Of the .AmaIgamated Meat Cut
ters' and Butchers workmen, to bs
held tonight, at which meeting in
structions will be given the men abou
returning to work. Meanwhile he ar
4 ranged to have talk with the pack
ers and learn from them what depart
ments are to be reopened tomorrow
morning.
Thousands Of 1aborers who have
been on strike appeared at the yard
: today with their lunch pals and ap
piled for work, thinking, since thu