The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-18
PACKERS REMAIN FIRM:
EMPLOYEES MUST GIVE In
WORKING FORCES ARE BEING
STEADILY INCREASED.

A Claim that Almost Normal CondItionn
Prevail at Some PIants--owners En-
couraged at This and Are Now De-
termined to Dictate the Terms Of SET
tIement--14,OOO Men of Allied Crafts
Becoming Restless.
Chicago. July 17.-There was little If
any change in the situation of the meat
packers strike here to-day. With Mi
chael Donnelly, the strikers leader. in
st. Louis looking after that end of the
difficulty, tlsare was no effort here to-
day to renew the peace negotiations
which lasted three days last week and
were terminated last night without re-
suit. Whether another attempt to reach
an adjustment OF the CONTROVERSY by
arbitration viii be made is problematic,
as the packers, believing they had the
better of the argument in last weeks
conferences, are little inclined to offer
concessions to the strikers One thing
is certain, the packers say, and that is
that they win not recede from the po-
sition they assumed in last weeks con-
ference and that the strikers win have
to conform to the employers ultimatun
before any further plans looking to
settlement by arbitration will be sue
cessful. To add to the packers de-
termination to stand firm is the fact
that they have steadily increased their
working force at the plants by the eri-
ployment of outside men. until to-day
it was said that things were in almost
normal condition at several Of the
plants. Under these conditions the
packers have assumed more inde-
pendent attitude. and are more deter
mined tonight than ever that they and
not the strikers shall dictate the terms
on which the controversy shall be ar
bitrated
AS the strikers declare that they
conceded every point possible in last
weeks negotiations, there is little liltli-
hood that any further conference for
the present, at least.would amount to
much toward satisfactory settlement
of the strike With both sides iii this
frame OF mind the out look for
speedy settlement is decidedly dark.
r'ne sticking point in the whole ques-
tioa of arbitration is the reinstatement
of the strikers. Mr.. Donnelly, at yes
terday's conference with the packers,
waived every demand he had made and
agreed to order the men back to work
and leave the adjustment Of all differ
ences to arbitration, If the employers
would take back all the strikers in a
body. This the packers refused to d.
maintaining that they had hired many
new workmen since the strike. whom
they could not discharge They proia-
ised, however, to take back the old eIn-
ployes as rapidly as possible, and in the
order in which their applications were
filed. The union officials declare that
they will never accept this proposition,
as they say it would mean the disrup
tion of the union inside Of three months
To complicate the. controversy still
more, the allied crafts at the stock
yards, numbering $4,000 workmen, have
become restless and are anxious to join
the men already out in a sympathetic
strike Whether these men will go on
strike or not will be decided to-rnorrcw
when Mr.. Donnelly returns from st.
Louis.
These unions. representing thirty Of
the mechanical trades in the packing
plants, have decided to quit work It
Mr. Donnelly says so, and should he
give the signal on his return to-mor-
row the $4,000 men will walk out.