The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-07-25
Indications Are That Even Team
stefs VIII Join the Packing
House Men Tomorrow
BOTH SIDES PREPARING
FOR GIGANTIC STRUGGLE
Hundreds of Non-Union Men Are Be-
Ing Employed and stockades Are
Built to Guard Against
Any Violence.

Chicago. July 24-Determned on nght
to a finish to enforce the demands Oh 'ne
striking butchers. sympathetic strlAe
of all the union workmen employed IN tne
meat packing industry throughout lne
country. with the exception of the team
sters. will be declared tomorrow morning
at o'clock.
Instead of joining In the sympathetic
strike tomorrow the ,teamsters will make
another effort to bring about an adjust
ment OF the controversy by arbitration.
This deciison was reached late tonight at
a meeting of the joint council OF team-
sters' unions throughout Chicago, who
met to consider the Endorsement of de-
cison reached this afternoon by the pack
ing house teamsters union to quit WORK
I with the other allied unions.
RE decisions of the stoekyards team
sters was almost unanimous in favor of
striking, but as 1t is necessary according
to the rules of the teamsters union for
the joint council to sanction any strike
movement all the union teamsters in
the employ of the packers will remain at
work during the struggle, or until the
joint council gives their permission to a
strike should their efforts to settle the
matter BY eoneiliation tomorrow prove
futile.
VIII Communicate With Packers.
The committee appointed at tonights
meeting were notified to get into COM
munication tomorrow morning as early as
possible with the packers. Whether the
teamsters efforts for peace will prove sue
cessful none of the packers representa-
tives who were communicated with to-
night would say The decision to make
another effort for peace was reached at
such late hour tonight that it was i'm
possible for the packers to get together to
decide on what answer would be given to
the intermediary committee tomorrow.
The reason given by the teamsters coun-
Gil for their action is that they have
rever before been consulted in the pres
ent trouble, and that before they would
sanction a strike of the stockyard team
sters they wished to make an official in
vestigaton of the trouble before asking
the international officers of the union to
officially order the men on strike.
No Conference Held Yesterday.
No conferences were held today, either
by the packers or the labor leaders, or
Jointly In an effort to reach an adjustment
of the controversy. Both sides rested to-
day, apparently waiting for tomorrow
developments. Whether or not the pack
ers would make any concessions to the
demands of the labor leaders in order
z to prevent a general walk out of the
trades unions at the stock yards, would
not be discussed by any of the packing
house representatives today, but from the
preparations going on at the different
plants during the day 1t was plainly evil
dent that the packers intended to fight
for their independence.
All the labor leaders declared that they
would await tomorrow's developments be-
fore considering further negotiations and
that the packers would have 10 make the
request at the present time of doing so.
Packers Getting Ready for Struggle.
Preparations for the struggle which is
expected to reach a climax tomorrow
morning were being made at the different
packing plants all during the day and
far into the night. Dozens of representa-
tves of the packing houses were scat
tered all over the country today in search
of men TO fill the places Of the strikers.
Four train loads of new employees were
taken to the yards before darkness set
In, to join the non-unon men already es-
tablished inside the plants. Clerks were
being initiated into new duties, and en-
ployes who had been promoted from the
butchering trades were returned to their
former work to take the pIaces or the
regular workers who are expected to
quit work tomorrow.
Stockades have been erected at all the
different plants to protect men whose
work exposes them to danger from mob
violence. All through the stock yards
there we're not only evidences of prepar-
ations for long and bitter struggle. but
superintendents of the packing establish
metns, police officers and union leaders,
rave expression to anticipation of troub-
lous times to come Chief Of Police
O'Neill. who spent the day making plans
for tomorrow, said:
Police Can Handle Situation.
mo one knows what will happen The
npportunity is here for one of the great
psf contests in the country. and appa-
rently there Is no hope for averting 1t.
The police will be able to handle the
situation however without outside as
5:stance. no matter what happens .
In addition to the four trains filled with
non-union men brought into the yards
,odav under police protection, many other
trains loaded with men who had been
,ao,red during the past twenty-four
hours were scheduled to arrive before
daylight. With the number of men al
roadv installed within the stock yards
and the assistance of clerks and office
men work will be resumed in all the
,lants tomorrow morning on as extensive
a scale as possible.
By-Products Will Go to Waste.
Temporarily. the packers will attempt
onlv "a handle dressed beef, pork and
mutton, allowing the by-products to go to
waste. They say, however, that as fast
ps the necessary workmen can be OBJ
tained. these departments wrere the by
PRODUCTS are taken care of will be opened
up for business.
Another handicap the packers will meet
with IN the moring Is a scarcity Of live
stock. Commission men for the past week
have Hooded the country with messages
advising shippers not to send any stock
to the market 1t also developed today
that commission men during last week
bought all the livestock they could, and