The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-30
MEAT STRIKE EXTENDED
 TO THE METROPOLIS
PRESIDENT DoENELLY ISSUED
 THE ORDER LAST NIGHT,

Unable to Get Conference With Rep
 resentaiyes of New York Packers Now
 in Chicago, the Men of schwarzschiId
 $ suIzberger and the United Dressed
 Beef Company Are Told to Cult.
 Chicago. July 2s.-Unable to arrange conference with the representatives of the New York packers. Michael J. Donnelly, president of the Amalgamated
 Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen
 of America, has ordered a strike of all
 the members of his organization em-
 ployed in New York by schwarzschild
 & Sulzberger and the United Dressed
 Beef company. The order. which was
 telegraphed to New York tonight does
 not go into effect until Sunday. as the
 men in the eastern packing plants do
 not report for work on Saturday.
 The decision to extend the strike to
 the east was not taken until after MT.
 Donnelly and his associates had spent
 the day in a fruitless efforts to arrange
 meeting with representatives of the
 eastern packers who came to Chicago
 last night to acquaint themselves with
 the situation here. The general belief was that the New York packers had
 come west to make terms with the butchers, but if such was the case
 they changed their minds after investi- gating the progress that had been made
 here in working the plants with non- union employees, Late this afternoon when Homer D. Call, secretary of the National organization of the Butchers Worlxmen, made a final appeal over the telephone to the representatives of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger for meet ing between the members of that firm and the officers of his union, he was told that the eastern packers had noth- ing to offer the men should such a nlAeting be arranged, and that the con- ference would only be a waste of time. When this announcement of the eastern packers had been communicated to MT. Donnelly he decided on the strike order. That the probabilities of a settlement by the opposing interests in Chicago are as remote as ever was plainly dem-
 orlstrated to-day when Henry c. Wall lace of the Des Moines, Ia, and A. l.. Anaes of Buckingham, la, called on the
 different packers with proposition5
 from the strike leaders offering to con-
 cede the most important point in the
 controversy if the employers would
 agree to renew negotiations. MT. Wall
 lace and Mr. Ames were told by the
 packers that there was no possible
 chance for any further conciliatory
 move and that the packers were now in
 a position where they could ignore the
 labor unions. and that they proposed to
 do so. The packers answer was deliv-
 cred to the strike leaders and the men
 from Iowa left for home tonight.
 From astatement made by President
 Donnelly tonight it would appear that
 the men are becoming anxious to get
 back to work.
 We shall be glad to confer with the representatives of the packers at any fiIne,'' said MT. Donnelly. While I cannot say that our position is in any way changed, we are not anxious to keep tip a running fight and shall be glad if a settlement can be effected" Following the arrest of George Golden, chief of the Packing Teamsters' union, for picketing, riots became more frequent in the vicinity of the stock | yards this afternoon. In one disturb aa1ce a mob captured a loaded meat wagon after it had left the stock yards, upset the wagon and threw the meat into the street. The most serious riot
 of the day occurred in South Chicago, where five men were arrested for try ing to prevent the delivery of meat. Although the strikers and their friends became very boisterous when it became known that Golden had been arrested and made all sorts of threats, no one was seriously injured in any of the many disturbances that occurred. The police have the situation so well in hand that before the would-be rioters can get fairly started in their purpose they are scattered by the blue coats in all directions.
 More business was done to-day by the packers than at any time since the strike began. With to-day's additions
 to the new employees obtained from out side sources the statement was made tonight by one of the packers that fully
 1S,000 men are now at work in the seven
 plants where the union men are on
 strike, This is nearly half as many men
 as went on strike.