Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-15
Packing House Employees
and Owners Do
Not Agree
ON ARBITRATION PLAN
All Plants Affected OPP
crate With Nom
Union Men.

Chicago, July 15.-The striking
packing house employees this after
noon refused arbitration on the pack
ers' terms They renewed the demand
for the reinstatement of all strikers
and a wage scale equaling the agree
mcnt that expired May %. Packers
and labor leaders met again this after
noon.
Chicago, July 15.-President Don
nelly today declared the proposal made
yesterday by the packers could not
be accepted by the unions. He added
that another communication would be
submitted to the packers. y thousand
more nOn-union men were imported
into the yards this morning. Four
thousand are now working and every
plant killed extensively. There was
no interference or riOting.
Kansas City, July 15.-Five packing
houses operated the killing and butch
cring departments on limited scale
today.
Jealous of Terms.
Chicago, July 15.-BOth sides will
ing to arbitrate but neither disposed
to allow the other TO dictate the CON
ditions under which arbitration should
be agreed tu-SuCh was the situation
last night at the close of the third day
Of the packing house strike. AS IN
contrast with the efforts toward
peace. there was serious riOtlng in the
evening.
At a conference yesterday afternoon
between union leaders and rcpresen-
tativcs of the packers the union men
presented list of conditions under
which they would be willing to arbi-
trate. Later the packers fatly refus-
ed to agree to the unions terms and
submitted a counter proposition. which
i'm turn was rejected by the union
leaders. The union men will make
modified offer today.
Both sides are holding themselves in
readiness for prolonged conflict, but
hope for an amicable adjustment has
not died out
Demands of the Union.
The union demanded the reinstate-
rnent OF all the strikers within three
davs, and insisted that the men be
paid at the rate provided in the old
-
to the strike being called.
The employers offered to arbitrate
the whole controversy. covering wages
and working conditions Of employees
on strike. both sides TO present what
ever grievances they saw fit to abide
by the decisions of the arbitrators-
They also agreed To reemplOy as fast
rs possible all men now out, giving
preference in order of application for
work. the employees to he paid the
WAGES they were being paid when they
struck.
of the Hitch.
The principal objection made by the
union officials to the offer of the pack
ers is the provision that they will give
preference in order of application for
work" The strike leaders Construe
this to mean that each man on strike
will be obliged to make an individual
application.
After the conference President Don
nelly and his associates went TO the
Briggs house. and there considered the
offer made by the packers. An hour
later il was announced that they unan-
imOusly had agreed to notify the en-
nlONGrS tndI the proposition CoAlt hot
be accepted in its present form.
RIotIng il Begun.
Rioting commenced in the stock
yards last night. and one man, AlfonZe
Andrulis. was shot in the left shoulder
by the police. though not fatally in
jured. One of a crowd of strikers
threw a stone at the police. and was
Immediately arrested. The mans com
panions attacked the police with
stones when the officers fired into the
crowd Andrulis fell and his compan-
ions fled.
He and the man first arrested were
taken to the police station which in a
few minutes was surrounded by sew
Cral hundred men, women and boys
The temper OF the crowd was ugly. and
for a time il looked as though they
would storm the station. Reinforce
mentS were summoned and several pa
troll wagons well filled with officers
from other stations came upon the
scene. The crowd refused TO give way
and the officers were compelled tC
fight their way through TO the sta
tiOn doors. A line of officers was
drawn up in front of the station. and