Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
TRUMP CARD CLAIMED
Strike Leader Says It Will
Astound the People.
n0MME1IV To u0DrrHT
DONNELLY IS HOPEFUL
MAYORS ACTION IN HOUSING
ROOM ISSUE COMMENDED.
Packers Will Contest Effort to Abolish
Living Quarters in the
Packing Plants.

CHICAGO, August 2o-'I see no peace
in sight except on condition that the pack
ers surrender and unconditional terms
When the people see the report of last
nights meeting of the Chicago Federation
OF Labor they Will be astounded We have
trump card to play and ii has been drawn
from the deck"
80 SAID President Donnely of the strik-
Ing cattle butchers today while he was
directing his assistants to go to other
cities, and while he himself was preparing
to go to East st. Louis to meet Interna-
tional Vice President Cass E. Schmidt
whom Donnelly will send to Kansas city
to look after the labor situation there.
Ousting Strike Breakers a Success
He declared the action of Mayor Harri-
son IN oustng the strike breakers from
the housing rooms in the packing plants
meant quicker success to the strikers
Not since the strike began has President
Donnelly seemed so hopeful. He criticised
the action of the teamsters in sending a
committee into the yards yesterday to
make an investigation. Il don't see what
the teamsters expected to do he said
II they don't like this strike let them 20
back to work" o.
On the subject of action by the Fedora
tion OF Labor Donnelly was silent. lie
simply declared the report would prove a
sensation.
To Foist Question Into Politics.
"A national election is coming on" said
fiesident Donnelly. The labor vote is too
powerful to be ignored AS soon as Ibava
seen Schmidt in Kansas City shall go to
Indianapolis. While l am away l expect
to make several speeches
The mayors action in DECLARING tho
packers shall no longer house their striLa
breakers is the hardest blow our foe has
received, said President Donnelly The
p.lckers VIII nave no trouble in getting the
breakers out of the plants and out of the
yards We Will help them do that il thev
need any help, and see that the outpoing
crowds are not hurt But as sure as the
sun rises the strike breakers will not he
able to get back to their places OF work q"
Packers Will Contest Opinion.
Packers affected by Corporation Counsel
Tolman's opinion holding that thousands
or employees lodged at the stock yards
must find accommodate elsewhere call
ed meeting at Swift g. Co.'S offices IN do
termlne what action to take 1t was hint
ed before the meeting that attempts tn
aboiish the living quarters in the packing
plants would be contested, recourse being
had to the courts If necessary
The packers declared informally hefore
canVasslng the situation, that they would
contend Major Tolman is mistaken in the
premises, ana that the temporary placing
character of the buildings any more than
the killing of chicken in a private hoyne
would cause evolution Of q residence to a
slaughter house.
Sensation Exploded.
Strikers thought today they had a sensa-
ton well in hand when they said that they
had discovered that the packers had Of
fetal dead body shipping permits, whicn
could be used to secretly get rid OF the re-
mains of men who died in the stock yards
The strikers showed a body shipping per-
mit signed by DR. NJ. o. Heckard OF the
health department and bearing the seal OF
the city of Chicago. The line for the name
of the deceased was left blank.
The strikers declared that the packers
had the permits in large numbers. Dr.
Heckard, however, said that for two years
a system of duplicate papers had been in
use, and that the shipping of body un-
lawfully would be detected instantly.
The blank permits which the strikers
showed, DR.. Heckard said unquestionably
were some which were in use by the health
department longer than two years ago, be-
fore the present system of body shipping
permits was in operation.
of health department clerks and one two
of them may have gone astray.
The packers today denied that they had
any body shipping permits and said that
the story was given out by the strikers to
bolster up a story about eight men having
been killed by an explosion in the yards.