The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-23

In1S was refused fpy the representa-
tives of the packers, who in turn as
serted that they were willing to adj
here to the old contract and that they
had named Samuel McLain as an arr
bitrator according to the terms of the
agreement. s.
In reply to the ultimatum of the
strikers, the employers also asserted
they stood ready to remedy any errors
or mistakes made in efforts to fulfill
the old contract.
The union men announced that they
were firm in the determination that
the old agreement was made null and
void by the alleged discrimination
shown yesterday.
No More Conferences.
After the breaking up of the con-
ference, Thomas T. Kidd. of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, who was
Epraetica1ly the spokesman of the labor
leaders, said:
There will be no more conferences
unless they are arranged for later.
The packers said thew would stick to-
the first agreement The strikers said
that the agreement had been rendered
void by the discrimination of yester-..
day and that a new agreement must
be made. This new agreement pro-
vides for the taking back of the
butchers within forty-eight hours and
packers would not agree to this and
peace is not in sight,
General Strike.
President w. G. Schardt Of the Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor announced there
would be general strike Monday UNI
less an agreement was reached. He
said:
AT present negotiations for strike
settlement are at an end. as the re-
suit Of the refusal of the packers to
accept the unions terms at the joint
conference this morning.
Get just as big non-union force
as can possibly be obtained and have
the men ready for full resumption Of
work Monday morning.
This was, in substance, the tele-
phone message received by the super
intendent of every plant at the stock
yards Immediately after the joint con-
ference had been declared a failure.
At once the superintendent set out
and began hiring men in hundreds.
News Of the failure of the confer
ence threw a chill over the strikers,
and scores declared it meant they must
go back and ask for work indepen-
IDENTIFY Of their unions.
The strikers, in great groups, talked
of nothing but the failure to agree.
Many declared that if their leaders did
not force sympathetic strike, the
unions would take the fight into their
own hands and bring about a sympa-
thetic walkout that would tie up the
yards and the railroads leading thither.
Proposal Last Night.
President Donnelly said that last
night the packers submitted a proposal
that a Representative of each trade.
at the stockyards be at each plant to-
see that the old agreement was kept
in the returning Of the men to work.
This proposition was rejected by Presi-
dent Donnelly, the strikers position
being that the former agreement had
| been violated and was not in effect.
| After the joint conference had been
in session a short time the packers
withdrew in order to consider propo-
sition made to them by the representa-
tives Of the union. It was understood
1 If an agreement was reached the en-
tire joint conference would have to
/ pass on 1t.
Two things were noticeable in the
conference between the contending
parties. President Donnelly was not
on the subcommittee Of the labor
leaders, and Swift & Co. did not APP
pear to be represented on the pack
ers' committee. A dozen or fifteen
union officials We're present In an ante
4 room and Donnelly was among these.
! The two subcommittee were closeted
in an inner apartment.
! The absence of President Donnelly
from the active committee was by
some regarded as a rebuke for his
action of yesterday in ordering a re-
newal Of the strike.
Some Plants Operated.
/ The plants of Armour & CO., Nelson,
! Morris & Co. and Swift &, Co. We're re-
i ported as being operated in nearly all
4 departments today, with large forces.
including many women and men who
/ refused to join the strikers.
Armour & Co. claimed to have 1888
men, Independent Of mechanics and
225 office employees at work in the
various departments. Four hundred
| were union men.
Swift & Co. claimed to have 1,249
men at work, including 400 old em-
ployees, and Morris & Co. 1,172, in
Icluding 337 former employees, all
4 union men.
I These three plants were reported
4 as keeping their killing departments
in full operation but were buying
4 neither cattle, sheep nor hogs, and It
was expected would stop killing in ac-
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