The Bourbon news., 1904-07-29
FREIGHT HANDLERS.
They Refuse to Handle Nom
Union Made Meats.
Those at the Stockyards Station OF
the Chicago Junction Road Join
the Striking Butchers and Al
lied Trades Unionists.

negotiations DTOk0n OH anu WlLn all
the allied trades unions employed at
the different plants, with the exception
of the teamsters and the stationary
engineers, out on strike in sympathy
with the butcher workmen who quit
work two weeks ago, the stock yards
strike Monday night had settled down
to what promises to be one of the bit
terest fights between capital and labor
in the history of America.
Chicago, July 27.-The sympathetic
strike at the stockyards was complete
Wednesday morning. The belated
sanction of the teamsters joining their
brother wOrkmen in the general strike
was given Tuesday night by the Off
GERS of the International Transfers
union, and the 700 drivers employed
in the packing industry in Chicago
quit work.
Chicago, July 2S-An unexpected
complication arose Wednesday night
when the freight handlers employed
at the stockyards station of the Chi
cagO junction railroad went on strike.
The men gave as their reason for
quitting work their unwillingness TO
handle meat turned out by non-uniOn
worlImen in the packing plants
While the number of freight hanC-
lers employed at this station is only
40 men, still their decision to join the
sympathetic strike is a severe blow
to the packers, as the greater portion
OF the dressed meats shipped from
the yards to the local trade passes
through the hands of these men,
Should non-union men be engaged to
take the places of the strikers a
strike of the union switchmen may
follow. With the switchmen out il
would be only a matter of a short
time until the strike would spread to
the other employees of the railroad.
When the union teamsters went on
strike the Chicago Junction railroad
was depended on by the packers as
means of supplying their downtown
customers. The strike Wednesday
night, however, leaves the packers
without an outlet for supplying the
city trade unless non-union men can
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strikers, or non-union teamsters be
employed to make city deliveries. An
attempt to deliver meat with nom
union teamsters would without doubt
precipitate rioting, as the new men
would be harrassed by strike sympa-
thizers from the time they left the
yards until the time they reached
their destination. Two years ago, dur
ing the union teamsters' strike at the
stockyards nOn-union men were en-
ployed to make deliveries under DO
lice protection and some of the worst
riots in the history of Chicago took
place
1--WE had an agreement with Mr..
Donnelly's organization and the al
lied trades which they have failed to
live up to and under the circum-
stances we do not care to make any
further agreements with them.''
This is the statement which was
signed by the representatives of the
packers and handed to the members
of the board of arbitration Wednes-
day night at the end of conference
between the two bodies, held at the
request of the state board in an en-
deavor to bring about another meet
ing between the packers and the strik-
ers.
The packers received the state
board courteously and listened to
their arguments for a peaceable ad-
justment of the difficulty The an
nouncement that the packers were op-
posed to any further peace negotia-
tions with the strikers was handed to
the board by Arthur Meeker and
Thomas COnnor, both of the Armour
Co., who represented the packers
While from their statement it would
appear that the packers are opposed
to meeting the strikers again on any
terms. such is not the case At the
last conference between the strikers
and the packers the latter informed
the union leaders that any time they
expressed a desire to live up to the
original arbitration agreement, signed
week ago, which provided for the
reinstatement of the striking butch
ers inside Of 45 days and for all griev-
ances to be submitted to arbitration
the packers would be willing to re-
new the agreement.