The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-07-26
PACKERS STRIKE
The ALLIED TRADES JOINED
STRIKERS YESTERDAY.
u Is Predicted ey Leaders That 1t
VIII 6e the Greatest and Nest
Expensive strike the coun.
try Has Ever Known.

Chicago July -5.-The long threat
sueI general strike OF miscelaneou.
trades at the stock yards called 20
assist the. butcher worhmen began to-
day about lU o'clock with a walkou,
Of nearly all teamsters. machinists.
can workers. miIlwrigh;s and helpers
employed by seven big packers. Earl.
Ter the packers and officers Of team.
sters' council conferred but without
result After the strike was ordered
the business agents Of the unions
went among the members employed
at eacn Of the packing houses and an.
nounced the sympathetic strike order
was in effect. Every livestock hand.
Ter in the yards quit Thousands OF
men carrying lunch baskets let the
yards but no case OF disorder was re.
ported.
The sympathetic general strike a,
the stock yards will, il is predicted by
its leaders, be the greatest and mos,
expensive this country has ever
known The first big detection came
when zoo men. including scalders and
pen cleaners employed by the Union
Stock Yards and Transit company re
fused % work further As they pass.
ei out Of the big gates at Exchange
avenue they were greeted with cheers
| by thousands of strikers gathered in
that vicinity. Prior TO this spectacu
lar exodus came small strikes in vari
Gus plants. including carpenters, fire
men, elevator men. machinists. etc.
but these did not have the effect o.
tieing up the plants since such actor
had been anticipated. and as often as
the union man stepped out non
union man or union man who had de-
serted his organization. was there &c
take his place The transfers ant
cattle handlers as a whole. employed
by various individual firms. refused
20 join in the pro-couference move
mcnt 81 much desired by and ardent
ly urged by President Donnelly
union but a large rumber of them
quit and quietly left the yards to at
tend the big mass meeting called for
the benefit OF all who had refused 70
wait the results Of a further confer.
ence While the waik-outs were TAX,
ing place, conference between the
strike representatives. ant packers
was being held az the Offices OF Mel.
son, Morris & Co at the stock yards
and delegates representing the allied
trades were in session at their hall.
Earlier in the day the allied trades
and committee Of eight teamsters
chosen last night tc seeG peace anew
! before permitting tnc toamstcrs 10
strike had been urged by President
| Donnclly TO declare a general strike
and then seek further conference with
the packers. There was a lively de.
/ bate. President Golden for the team
sters. governing that body. declaring
his bcliet that a common sense cam
jaign would end in peace He point.
ed out the danger Of shutting mp the
Union stock Yards and Transit
company which. he said would be
detrimental TO the strikers friends,
The independent packers, who were
doing the big packers almost as much
damage as anybody else He urged
that the stock Yards company be per.
mitted to continue under some kind
OF agreement. but his argument had
no weight with President Donnelly.
who said
The time TO strike is right now
let us talk about Independent con
Germs and about settlement later"