The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
MEAT STRIKE STILL ON:
 FAILURE TO SETTLE IT.
THE CONFERENCE LAST NIGHT
 COMES TO NAUGHI.

Representatives of All Sides Present
 and VIII Meet Again This Morning.
 Packers Claim They Are Living Up
 to the Agreement of Thursday
 workers Charge Rad Faith and Dis
 crimination.
 Chicago July 22.-The stock yard strike, which was renewed this morn ing in Chicago and all other points where the big packing companies have branches, because the strikers were dissatisfied with the manner in which the employers proposed to reinstate their former employees pending a set tlement by arbitration. will continue for another day at least. A joint con ference between representatives of both sides to the controversy and represent ntives of the allied trades. in an att tempt to bring about an adjustment of this second strike. was unsuccessful, and the meeting was adjourned to- night at s:sO o'clock with the under standing that another conference would be held tomorrow morning at o'clock. At to-day's conference. which lasted five hours, committee of ten, consist ing of five representatives of the pack CTS and five representatives of the meat butchers union was apointed to go over the whole situation, but the com rlittee was unable to reach working basis with which both sides would be satisfied. Whether the difficulty can be satisfactorily settled at to-morrow's meeting is problematical, as both the packers and the strikers maintain that they are living up to Wednesdays agreement for settlement by arbitra- tion, and that it is the other side that is responsible for the renewal of hos tilities. After to-night's adjournment committee appointed for the purpose merely announced that the peace nego- tiations to-day had failed, but that there was still hope that an agreement could he reached in the near future. The committee declined to give any further information, except that an < other meeting would be held to-mor- row.
 Unless settlement is reached to- morrow, the general belief is that a sympathetic strike of the allied trades in the packing inducstry will be called. All these unions have signif1ed their willingness to stand by the butchers if they are called on.
 Tn the following statement given out tonight by MT. DonneIly, president of the Butchers union, the reason why the. strikers refused to return to work. fs given:
 "The packers signed an agreement that there would be no discrimination ill the re-hiring of the men This was accepted by the officers of the organiza- tion in good faith On the return of the men this morning they were lined up like cattle. The foremen and super intendents, walking through the line, would pick out a man and say. You come up, The next man would be \ pushed out of the line, and told that he could not be used, and it was aI- 7 ways the good, active union men whom they could not use. We understood the aSFG6lU6IlL pefISCllys dIIu the SIFlhe was only called after the packers had violssted the same. This has been their system in the past. and that was our main reason for insisting on the time liynit in the agreement, but in spite of this the packers intention was to hire scnly such men as were favorites. They also hired men in some of the depart 1nents who had not been employed Z prior to the strike.
 Superintendent Pension of the Ar hnour packing department addressed the employees in the following language this morning:
 K You went away like cattle, and we will take you back like cattle
 This language was used both to men and women.'' said MT. Donnelly.
 According to estimates. S,55o men were directly affected in Chicago alone by to-day's strike. Fully that number of strikers were on hand at o'clock this morning expecting immediate em- ploynent, while others were expecting reinstatement later. The cattle butch- CTS had no sooner reported than the charge of discrimination was raised. s The butchers left in body and MT Donnelly's general order declaring an- other strike followed.
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