Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-07-27
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE ON.
Thousands of Men Employed by
Chicago Stock Yards Quit.
MAKE RUSH FOR GATES.

Chicago, Ill, July %. : The great
sympathetic strike, threatened for some
days, was declared on today.
These are the trades engaged in the
strike with the numbers OF men in each
who went out:
Firemen, $50; engineers, 200; electricians,
200; carpenters, 500; coopers, 600; box max
ers, 500; machinistS, 175; boilermakers, 1Vo;
blacksmiths, 100; car workers, 1000; can
makers, 25O0; livestock handlers, 800; steam
filters and helpers, 800. Total, $500.
The packers claim that the strike order
was not generally observed by the men
working at the plants. According to the
packers the sympathetic strike order
caused men to quit as follows: Swift
u Co., 42O Armour q Co., 200; Ma
tlonal Packing company, 10; Schwartz
child d Sulzperger, %; Nelson, Morris
strikers assert that the figures are IN err
ror, that a great many more men struck
upon the issuance of the order.
The issuing of the general strike order
was distinct surprise to President
Golden of the teamsters' union and other
members OF the transfers peace COM
mittee of eight. Mr.. Golden said when
he left the packers that while no progress
had been made towards q settlement,
there would be no general strike until
tomorrow nights meeting of the team
sterS body. When told that the order
had been voted by the allied trades and
had been put into execution he could not
believe II until he obtained Verlhcatlon
at his office.
The precipitation of the sympathetic
strike seemingly caused no CONSERVATION
among the packers. For days they had
been bringing into the city hundreds of
skilled men, many of whom have been
hut to arl- o,,I hold
Tomorrow morning Armour Il Co. will
receive from New York fifty more skilled
butchers and meat cutters. All are non
union men and it was said would be
closely protected, that the strike mis-
sionaries could not reach them in the
work OF PROSECUTING.
Chicago, H., July pa meeting of
butchers representatives and allied
trades decided this afternoon to send an
btheI committee to call upon the pack
ers. The committee which prepared to
call upon the packers is composed of
the representatives Of all allied trades.
Chicago, H., July 25.-After the ad-
journment of the peace conference the
fact developed that the sympathetic
strike had been declared officially author
lied by the proper boards of all allied
trades at the stockyards, with the ex
ception Of the packing house teamsters.
The engineers and hremen, to whom
word could only be sent with great diff
Guilty, were allowed to stay at their
posts until 6 p. N. In all other depart
ments the strike was actually in effect
for two hours or more before the official
sanction was made public.
1t developed that, learning the appar-
en- hopelessness of an agreement, the
representatives of the allied trades
urged by President Donnelly, adopted
resolutions commanding the chiefs Of all
affected unions to enter the yards and
call upon every organization man to quit
and join IN a general strike. 1t was
this condition that the teamsters' COM
mittee Of eight found when its members
returned from Morris & Co.'S office at
noon. Immediately there was another
conference between the committee Of
eight, the allied trades body and repre-
sentatves of the Butchers union. J.
was still the hope that arrangements
could be made for another meeting with
the packers.
Chicago, H., July 25.-The sympathet-
ic general strike at the StockyardS, pre-
dicted by it's leaders TO be the greatest
and most expensive this country has ever
known, began at 10 O'clock today, when
| thousands Of teamsters, cattle handlers
and members of the mechanical trades
quite work and made a grand rush for
the gates leading from the busiest square
mile of buildings, yards and pens in the
world.
Cheered by Strikers.
The first big detection came when 100
men, including the scalers and pen clean
ers, employed by the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company, refused TO work
further. First to go were the handlers,
and this eliminated the usefulness of the
teamsters and they followed. AS they
passed out Of the big gates at Exchange
avenue, they were greeted with cheers
by the thousands of strikers gathered in
the vicinity.
Prior to this spectacular exodus came
small strikes in the various plants, in
/ Guiding carpenters, firemen, elevator men,
machinists. etc, but these did not have
! the effect Of tieing UP the plants, since
such action had been anticipated. and as
/ often as union man stepped out nom
! union man, or union man who had de-
| serted his organization was there to take
! his place. The teamsters and cattle ham
! dlers, as a whole, employed by the va
rlous individual firms refused to join in
! the preconference movement SO much de-
! sired and ardently urged by President
| Donnelly CT the Butchers union, but at
! that q large number of them quit and
! quietly left the yards to attend a big
mass meeting called foT the benefit of all
who had refused to await results of fur
! Their conferences.
Conferences in Session.
! While these walk-outs were taking
! place a conference between strike repre-
sentatives and the packers was being
held at the offices of Nelson, Morris &
Co., at the yards, and the delegates rep
resenting the allied trades were in SEES
sion at Emerald avenue and Forty first
/ street.
Earlier in the day the allied trades and
the committee of eight teamsters, chosen
last night ito seek peace anew, before
permitting the teamsters to strike, had
been urged by President Donnelly of the
meat cutters to go on strike and then
seek further conference with the pack
ers. There was a lively debate, Presi-
dent Golden, for the teamsters' gov
erning body, declaring his belief
| that common sense campaign
would end in peace. He pointed out the
danger of shutting up the Union Stock
yards and Transit company, which, he
SAID would be detrimental to the strik-