Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-20
Purpose of Meeting Was to Con
slider Appeal of Trades En-.
plOyed IN Packing Houses
STRIKE BREAKERS co ON STRIKE
Consequence Was They Got An IN.
crease of Wages Litigation Re.
mains the Same

Chicago, July pa joint conference
this afternoon 10 attempt a new set
Element OF the stoclSyards strike, was
agreed TO by the packing house proprie-
tors today. The agreement was reach
Cd at "A meeting IN the stockyurds Office
OF Armour a Co., at which representa-
lives OF all the packing houses were
present. The purpose % the meeting
was to consider an appeal made TO the
packers yesterday by representatives
of trades employed In the packing
houses, such as teamsters, engineers
and electricians who might be affected
by a sympathetic strike In aid Of the
butchers and unsklled workmcn who
continue the bulk Of the army Of men
already out, II VAS decided By the
packers that the Joint conference
should, be held at the city Offices OF
Swift 4 co., this afternoon.
IT Is impossible for the wisest E.ln
Ia say when this strike win md" said
President DOnnelly just before the
packers Went into conference. our
terms are vulnerable and the packers
have made no concessions We arc
prepared To carry on a long war. Every
striker and his family viii be- ieten
care Of ! expect 70 meet this after
noon the general committee OF the vavi-
GUS trades who met yesterday"
a strike of "strike-breakers has re-
suited In an increase Of wages to the
non-unlon men employed to take he
places OF former employees IN the pack
Ing houses. Three hundred and nifty
laborers struck for more wages They
had been getting 50 day. After Il
ID minute strike wages were increased
TO 81 and s. day.
II is rumored that an agent ot the
United states government has arrived
In Chicago to make an Investigation Of
the strike Compliant has been made.
II is said, by western farmers and rails
ers OF cattle, that the packers are vio-
lating federal Injunction I'm making
special rates to large shippers
TIE $50 hlacgsu this employed at the
Sdrds have submitted 10 the various
packers a demand Of their own. The
men met today and voted TO demand
an increased wage scale A reply OF
,he packers Is expected this after
noon.
1t was for the packers to say today
whether they would hold another con-
ference with representatives of organ
ICED labor relative to the strike OF
the butcher workmen. The request
for such meeting was submitted last
night to the owners Of the packing
plants by the union leaders OF Chi
cago.
The labor proposition emanated not
from the butchers but from a commit
tee representing many affected trades,
including teamsters. II consisted of
letter sent In duplicate to the union
on strike and 10 the packers, in which
each party 10 the struggle was request
ed TO participate In Joint meeting Of
employers and oil trades Interested
The butchers promptly answered that
they were ready TO go into the con
ference.
Pending the outcome OF this attempt
70 reopen negotiations the men In The
mechanical departments and the team
sters and stationary nremen at the
packing houses will remain at work.
Assurances that they would go out In a
sympathetic strike as a last resort were
renewed 10 President Donnelly Of the
butchers, Donrelly continues TO advise
against the extension OF the struggle
until It seemed necessary.
AT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas city, Mo, July 2O-Packers
today asserted that they We're making
steady progress, constantly adding new
men TO their forces and increasing the
output daily. There is no question but
that the output at each of the FIVE
plants has been increased In the past "A
hours, In that time, nevertheless, the
strike leaders say that nearly 200 men
have been persuaded to leave their
jobs and Join the union, A reporter who
was taken through the Armour plant
found force Of about 1900 at work
At the other plants smaller forces are
at work At the Cudahy plant a num-
Der of cots have been taken In for the
use OF the strike breakers. A sub-labor
headquarters has been closed by the
police because II was located over O sa-
loon, There has been no demonstration.