The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-28
Packers Seem in Fair
Way to Win.
THE TRANSFERS STOP
Though the Entrances to Stock Yards
Are Guarded Disturbances Are Num-
erous. In Riot With Negroes
One Striker is Fatally
Wounded.
Wounded.
(By the Associated Press

Chicago, July 26.-Little if any adj
vantage was gained by either side in
the stock yards strike and there is no
hope tonight of an immediate settle
ment of the difficulty. Realizing that
they have one of the hardest propo-
sitions to contend with in the history
of the packing industry, the packers
ARE leaving nothing undone to gain
the upper hand in the struggle with
their 10000 union employees who are
on strike. All day long workmen
from outside points were rushed to
Chicago and taken to the stock yards
under police protection to fill the
places of the strikers. Tonight it wal
announced by the packers that seven
thousand new men were now installed
in the different plants at the stock
yards. With these new men and with
the arrivals that are expected each
day the packers will probably get their
affairs in such shape that the strikers
will be compelled to seek a peaceab!e
settlement at the dictation of the enl-
ployerS.
Although the receipts of live stock
today were small compared with re-
ceipts on corresponding days under
normal conditions still many cattle,
hogs and sheep We're let in the pens
tonight unSold.
Transfers Quit Work.
With all the union workmen out on
strike, with the exception of the pack
ing house transfers. the only add
tons today to the ranks of the Strik-
ers were about one hundred teamSters
who quit work as individuals, pre-
ferring to do this rather than wait for
i
mattresses in the restaurants at the
stock yards controlled by the packing
companies. The teamsters have be-
come restless and the general belief
| is that few if any of the seven hun
dred employed in the packing indus
| try will wait for the injunction oil
the national officers of the union TO
go on strike,
Rumors of renewed efforts to settle
the difficulty by arbitration were thick
today, but upon investigation they
were found to be without founda-
alton tonight, President Donnelly
President of the Butchers Union, the
organization which precipitated the
strike, said:
II hace no hope of the Immediately
settlement. The fight is on and the only
thing we can do now is to stick to
the end.
their ultimatum issued yesterday pro-
hibiting their members employed in
the Independent plants from killing
live stock purchased in the stock
yards, where abe animals are being
handled by nom union help. The UNI
ion officials took this step after the
packers had pointed out to them that
if such an order was carried out il
would be a benefit to the packers.
In Riot With Negroes.
Vigilant policemen guarded the en-
| frances to the stock yards all day and
night, but despite this precaution dis
turbanceS were numerous and two OF
them ended with fatal results. While
an attack was being made on some
cOlored strike breakers as they were
leaving the stock yards tonight John
Stokes, one of the strikers, was shot
groes. Stokes, together with fully a
hundred companions, it is said, rushed
on the negroes, and one of the latter
drew revolver and fired into the
crowd, hitting Stokes. The police
were close at hand and succeeded in
scattering the rioters after consider
able difficulty.
The union men and their friends
have become SO embittered against the
colored strike-breaker that the APP
pCarance of a negro in the vicinity OF
the stock yards is almost certain to
be followed by violence. A negro bar
Der about to climb upon a street car
at the entrance to the stock yards to-
night was dragged to the street by a
mob and beaten until unconscious
The mob was under the impress
sion that the barber was employed in
some of the packing plants.