The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-20
Today We Call Out the
Allied Trades.
AN EFFORT FOR PEACE
Is 1t Not Better, DonneIIy Asks, to Take
All the Strikers Back Than That
This Strike Should Go on
for an Indefinite
Time.
(By the Associated Press.)

Chicago, July 1S.-An effort is to
be made to settle the stock yards
strike by arbitration. Tomorrow
President Donnelly of the striking
union will send to the packers anoth-
er letter asking for a conference. In
this letter Mr.. Donnelly will go over
the history of the strike and will ask
the packers if in their judgment, it
would not be better to concede the
one point of taking back all strikers
than to continue the strike. The re-
fusal of the packers to discharge the
men they have employed since the
commencement of the strike and to
give their places to the strikers
caused the breaking off of previous
conferences. The communication to
the packers will also suggest that it
is the belief of the strikers that they
are as old employees, deserving of this
consideration.
If this offer of the union is rejected
by the packers, Mr.. Donnelly declared
tonight, the allied trades at the stock
yards, numbering in all about 10, 900
men, will be called out tomorrow in
an effort to bring the packers to terms
Another Strike Threatened.
Joseph Morton of the stationary
firemen's union, called on the Pack
ers this afternoon and warned them
that unless there was a speedy settle
ment of the strike his men would be
compelled to quit work. While no
definite answer was given to Mr.. Nor
ton by the packers, he was received
by them in such a friendly manner
that he left the conference with the
belief that there was still a strong
probability of peace. The determina-
lion OF Mr.. DOnnelly once more to
open negotiations with the packers
was the result of the manner in which
Mr.. Morton was received by the pack
ers.
a flank movement by the strikers
developed today in the announcement
by President Donnelly that in conjunc-
ton with illam Sterling, Vice-Presi-
dent of the butcher workmen's union,
John F'loerSch, secretary of the Pack
ing trades council. and Philip Muir
ply champion butcher of the world 4"
recently employed by Swift 81 Com
pany, will start a small packing house
where union butchers may secure sup
plies at prices which will enable strik-
ers to purchase meat without contrib
uting to the profits of the big pack
erS.
DcCuS Oh sIOtcnCc.
Slugged into insensibility by q doz-
Ell men early today and left for dead
on the tracks of the Ashland Avenue
trolley line at west Forty-seventh
street, Anton Bartusiakovis, an en-
ployee at the Swift & Company pack
ing plant. is dying at the county hos
pital. His injuries, in the opinion of
Police Inspector Hunt, were inflicted
by strike sympathizers and the wheels
of a trolley car.
A crowd of men concealed behind a
fence bombarded a Lakeshore train
which had on board fifty negroes
bound for the plant of Armour q Com
pany. The train was crossing Went
worth Avenue when Volley of bricks
and stones was hurled at the windows.
The negroes took refuge behind the
seats and no one was injured.
DonnclIy's Counsel.
President Donnelly today sent out
a new circular urging the men against
violence, as follows:
''Wes unjust win.
Because every American citizen
must have living wages.
Must have good home.
Must have the very best for the
children.
Must have recognition for the un-
ion.
1--WE can win.
eff you stick by the union.
eff we obey the union when it says
Modest no persons or property and
abide strictly by the laws of the coun-
try.
''MICHAEL DONNELLY."