Arizona republican., 1904-07-21
CRISIS IS PAST
Westinghouse Strike to Co
 to Arbitration
THE PACKERS GAVE IN
The Strikers Will be Taken Back Within Forty-fiye Days, Leaving the Arbitration Board to Deal With the New Wage Schedule.

Chicago, July 20.@Hhe strike of the packing house employees. begun nine days ago, and which has demoralizei the packing industry throughout the country, was settled here tonight at q conference between the representatives of the packers the officials of th-. meat cutters union and representa- tives of all the allied trades employed at the stock yards The whole con troversy will be supmitted to a board of arbitration, both sides agreeing to abide whatever decision this board may reach. Pending the decision of the arbitration board, the men will be taken back 10 work as rapidly as pos sible by the packers. and it is agreed by the packers that all the old em- ployes are to be reinstated within forty-fve days from the date work IS resumed. If ahy of the former em- ployes are still unemployed at that time, such persons are to have the privilege of submitting their cases 10 the arbitration board for settlement.
 The strikers will return to work as soon as they can be notified of the peaceable adjustment of the trouble and it is expected that by Friday morning everything will be in normal shape at all the plants in the different cities, where the employees are on strike. Half an hour after a decisiol. had been reached tonight to arbitrate. M J. Donnelly, the strike leader had got into communication by long dis tance telephone with the leaders of the strikers in outside cities and had noti- fled them that a satisfactory settle ment had been reached and he directed the strikers to return to work as soon as possible.
 The settlement of the difficulties hv arbitration was brought about by the allied craft at the stock yards who would have become involved in the controversy had it continued much longer. The representatives of these unions, which represent about I4OCD men. got together yeste~ " s-s g.. .. fit--s appaz- i1 shu ,- eis aski-i.. for three sided conference today be- tween the packers, the strikers and themselves, in a final effort to arrange some sort of an agreement which would prevent the strike from spread ing to the affiliated unions This ap- peal or the. allied trades unions receiv- ed a favorable response from the packers. and today's conference was the result.
 The agreement reached at tonignt's conference is practically the same as the proposition made last Saturday to the packers by Mir. Donnelly. The only difference is that in Saturdays communication, MT. Donnelly insisted that the strikers be all taken back 10 work within seven days. This the packers refused. although they accept ed every other demand made by Don nelly. When the men return 10 work 1t will be under exactly the same con ditions as prevailed before the strike was declared, with the exception that the question of a wage scale will be decided by arbitration.
 The old wage scale under which the
 union worked last year expired May
 2S. Since that time numerous confer ences have been held between the hack
 CTS and the union in an effort to set
 tie upon new schedule. but without | success. Nine days ago it was decid
 ed to call a strike to bring the em-
 ployers to terms. Five hours after the
 strike had been called, MT. Donnelly
 received a communication from the
 packers offering to arbitrate the whole
 difference. MT. Donnelly claimed the
 offer had come too late to prevent the walkout, although the packers claimed that the communication had been
 mailed to MT. Donnelly twenty-fols. hours before the latter received it.. Forty-eight hours after the strike
 had been on MT. Donnelly offered to
 accept the arbitration proposition, but
 insisted that all the old employees be
 put to work with the acceptance of the { proposition. The packers refused tC
 accede to his demand, but offered to re- | employ the strikers in the order Ol | their application. A number of con- ! ferences were held in an effort to reach some sort of a compromise, but the | question of reinstatement proved a stumbling block at all these meetings and finally peace negotiations were broken off altogether last Saturday. | With the probabilities of the strike ! spreading, the allied trades unions | took a hand in the controversy and after a conference lasting three hours | tonight, the whole trouble was ami | cably settled.
 , As many of the old employees as can | be reached tonight by the officials
 of the union will be notified to return | to work tomorrow. All the strikers
 who appear at the works will be put
 to work as fast as>pOssible, and by to-
 morrow night it is believed all the es-
 tablishments will be running full