The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-29
FREIGHT HANDLERS MAY
 ALSO BECOME INVOLVED
ORDER 4FRCTIHG ALI ROADS
 ENTERING CHICAGO.

Issued Last Night and Later Recalled
 Now Held in Abeyance-Members
 Were Instructed to Refuse to Handle
 Any Freight Whatever for the Pack
 ing Houses-stIn Another Effort to
 Bring About Reopening of Peace Ne
 otiations-DonnelIy Comedies a
 Point.
 Chicago. July 2S-After issuing a general order that would have involved all the Chicago railroads in the stock yards strike Lawrence J. Curran, presi- dent of the Freight Handlers union, tonight reconsidered his action and is now holding his order in abeyance pending a conference tomorrow morn ing with leaders of the allied trades unions whose members are on strike. It is stated, however, that if President Donnelly, of the Butchers union, and the other strike leaders express a de- sire to have the order enforced, it will be put into effect at once. The central council of the Freight Handlers union was in session at midnight, and it is stated that all preparations have been made to put the strike order in force if 1t shall be deemed necessary.
 President Curran's order, if lived up to by the freight handlers, would work a severe hardship on the packers, as it explicitly directs that union men shall handle no freight for the big packing companies, either outgoing or incoming.
 President Curran's order to the men follwos: At meeting with the busi- ness agents of the local freight hand lers' unions to-day it was decided that all men under the Jurisdiction of our organization in the various railroads of Chicago be ordered not to receive or deliver any freight of the packers, whether this freight is delivered at the freight houses by teams or in cars
 The order, which was signed by Pres ident Curran and all ths business agents, was posted in all the railroad freight houses tonight.
 At the same time that this step was being taken by the freight handlers president the first move in an effort to bring about another conference between the packers and the strikers was being made. Henry c. Wallace, of Des Mcines. la, and A. L. Ames, of Buck ingham, Ia, president of the Corn Belt Meat Producers association, are the sponsors of the new movement for peace. They came to Chicago to-day 2and immediately went into conference with the strike leaders. MT. Donnelly and his associates were told by MT. Wallace of the hardship the strike was imposing on the livestock raisers, and they were asked if some concession be- sides those offered at the last confer- ence between the packers and the strike leaders could not be suggested in order to bring the present conflict to an end. Mir. Donnelly, who was made spokes- man for the labor leaders, said that he would welcome another conference with the employers and consented that the effort be made. He also informed MT. Wallace that the strikers were willing now to concede the time limit in which the men should be reinstated At the last conference with the packers MT. Donnelly had insisted that the men be rednstated within a specified time, which the packers refused to agree to do. MT. Wallace said tonight that he and MT. Anes would call on the pack ers' representatives tomorrow and en- deavor to bring about the desired con- ference.
 ITo-night both sides to the dispute at the stock yards were claiming a vic- tory. According to the packers, all the plants in Chicago are running at nearly the regular capacity, On the other 11and, the labor leaders declare that the packing industry in this city is com :, pletely demoralized and that business is almost at standstill. That the statement of the labor leaders Is not altogether true is evidenced by the fact that the packers are slaughtering thou sands of animals every twenty four hours. There were several assertions from the ranks of the strikers to-day, but this loss was offset by an equal number of strike breakers quitting their new positions.