Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-07-27
STRIKE HAS BEEN RENEWED|
BUTCHERS UNIONS AND PACK
ERS WILL FIGHT IT OUT.
Sympathetic Strike Of all Union Work.
pen in Meat Packing Industry
Throughout the Country With Excep.
tion Of Teamsters, in Full Swing
Trouble is Looked For.

Trouble is Looked For.
ChicagO.-The stockyards strike.
which was renewed Friday morning in
Chicago and all other points where
the big packing companies have
branches because the strikers were
with the manner in which
the employers proposed to reinstate
their former employees pending set
tlement by arbitration, will continue.
Chicago, July 25.-Determined on a
fight to finish to enforce the demands
of the striking butchers. a sympathetic
strike of all the union workmen EN-.
ployed in the meat packing industry
throughout the country, with the ex.
ception of the teamsters, begun Mon.
day morning at o'clock.
No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor lead.
ers, or jointly. in an effort to reach
an adjustment of the controversy
Both sides rested. apparently waiting
for Mondays developments. Whether
Or not the packers would make any
concessions to the demands of the la.
Dor leaders in order to prevent a gen.
eral walkOut of the trades at the stock
yards woula not be discussed by any
of the packing house representatives.
but from the preparations going ON at
the different plants during the day II
was plainly evident that the packers
intended to fight for their independ-
ence. All the labor leaders declared
that they would await Mondays de.
velopments before carrying ON further
negotiations and the packers would
have to make the request for resump.
tion of peace negotiations. as the
unions had no intention at the present
time of doing SO.
Stockades for Protection.
Preparations for the struggle which
is expected to reach a climax Monday
morning were being made at the diff
ferent packing plants all during the
day and far into the night. Dozens
of representatives of the packing
houses were scattered all over the
today in search of men to tili
the places of the strikers. Four train
loads Of new employees were taken into
the yards before darkness set in. to
join the nonunlon men already estab-
lished inside the plants. Clerks were
being initiated into new duties and
employees who had been promoted from
trades were returned to their former
work to take the places of the regular
workers who are expected to quit
work.
Stockades have been erected at all
the different plants to protect men
whose work exposes them to DANCES
from mob violence. All through the
stock yards there were not only evi.
dences Of preparations for a long and
bitter struggle, but superintendent OF
the packing establishments, police Of
ficers and union leaders gave expires.
sion to anticipated troubles.
Police are Ready.
Chief of Police O'Neill, who spent
the day making plans for Monday.
said:
mo one knows what will happen
The opportunity is here for one of the
greatest labor contests in the country
and apparently there is no hope Of
averting it, The police will be able to
handle the situation. however, without
outside assistance, no matter what
happens"
Later.
Chicago, July 26.-With all peace
negotiations broken of and with all
the allied trades unions employed at
the different plants, with the exception
of the teapsters, and the stationary
engineers, out on strike in sympathy
with the butcher workmen who quit
work two weeks ago, the stock yards
strike has settled down to what prom.
Ises to be one of the bitterest fights be-
tween capital and labor in the history
Of America
As has been threatened for some
time.. the allied trades employed in the
packing industry quit work when call.
ed on to assist the striking butchers in
their efforts to bring the packers to
terms. In sereval instances they did
not wait for the official notification
from their leaders to go on strike, but
threw down their tools and quit work
IN their oyNn volitiOu
M. j. Dnonelly. president Of the
butchers union states that every union
man employed at the stockyards. with
the exception Of the teamsters and en-
gineers, had responded to orders for a
general sympathetic strike.
The engineers he declared, would
join the strikers later, and unless there
was speedy settlement Of the difficult
ty, he asid, the teamsters would un-
doubtedly join their brother workmen
in their struggle for supremacy. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Donnelly's statement
the strike has swelled the number of
men who have quit work at the stock.
yards in Chicago alone to nearly 3O,.
Onn uov-aous