Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-27
PLANS FOR BIG STRIKE
SYMPATHETIC MOVEMENT IN
CHICAGO COMPLETED ToADY.
Monster Mass Meeting Held-Methods
Of Packers Denounced-Don-
nelly's Address.

A dispatch from Chicago last night says:
The sympathetic strike at the stock yards
will be complete tomorrow morning. The
belated sanction to the teamsters joining
their brother workmen in the general
strike was given tonight by the officers Of
the International Transfers Union, and
the 100 drivers employed in the packing in
dustry in Chicago will quit work tomorrow.
Nearly 100 of these men struck today Of
their own volitiOn. refusing to wait for an
official order notifying them that the SYM
pathetic strike was Endorsed. With the
union teamsters out. every union organiza-
ton represented in the Chicago packing
plants will be on strike.
Unique Feature Of Meeting.
When the monster mass meeting of the
strikers was called to order by President
Donnelly today a unique feature was intro
duced The crowd was addressed first in
English and then In all the other tongues
that are spoken among the thousands Of
Packingtown.
Promises of support from the Chicago
Federation of Labor and assurance that
the strike could be won by peaceable
means was given to the strikers in the
speeches.
One of the most interesting speakers was
VIM. Rossel of the executive board of the
Chicago Federation of Labor. He said:
THE time for talk has gone by. The
time is here for cool Judgment. the time to
take up the line Of battle conservatfvely
and with the best Judgment There is no
man here to deliver TRADE against the
great captains Of industry against whom
We are fighting. We are all workers who
produce the necessaries Of life. We want
only fair days pay for an honest days
work We do not attack the packers. but
their methods.
Made in Bad Faith.
1.-The agreement was made in bad faith
and was violated to cause confusion in labor
ranks The packers wanted to convey the
impression abroad that you have violated
the agreement and are unreliable. This is
the greatest industrial struggle this coun-
try has ever seen. There is the great beef
trust on the one hand and on the other an
army of honest. hard working. peace-lov-
ing men and women. who want only an
honest living for their families.
1.-The great American people are with you.
Experience has taught that there will be
efforts made to bride and corrupt you and
to tamper with you to disrupt your unions.
See to il that these corruption efforts are
not effective; show that you cannot be
brihed nor intimidated. The unclean hands
of The great packers are at your throat.
and IL they win in this struggle they will
be at the throats Of other workingmen in
the future
JOnu j. ritzpdtftCA, VI SdAiiAci VI Tire SHA-
cago Federation Of Labor. urged the men
to stay away from the saloons. He Landed
the sympathetic strike. and said that there
was a time when 1t was not effective, but
that the trusts and combinations had made
1t so, and that in this day, when one unien
called a strike there was nothing for the
A Ilied unions to do but to strike in SYM
pathy.
Donnelly's Address.
Michael J. Donnelly, president Of the
Butchers Union. was the last speaker to
address the crowd.
I'VE are going to make this strike so eff
fective that there will not be another in
years The sympathy shown in these yards
with the cause of this strike shows that the
organized workers of America are begin
ming to have the brotherhood Of man as
their rule of action. We must hang to-
gether or we will hang separately. We are
not asking for half of what we are entitled
to and by the eternal we will get all we ask
for not now, but In the near future.
81 have promises from the independent
packers and from labor organizations
throughout the country and from other
people who are In any way connected with
organized labor Of their moral and financial
support There need be no man or family
suffer here for the necessaries of life Let
them make their wants known in the proper
channels and they will be relieved. We are
In this fight to win, and we will win II we
have to stay ont nine months"
Prospects for Meat Famine.
The most important feature Of the pack