The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-30
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| TOTHE EAST
New York<<Sutchers Arc
Og;:ered Out.
cHIcA5 PLANTS RUNNING
Strikers Anxious to Come to
Terms With Packers
Operators Declare That They Have
$4,000 Men at Work, and VIII
Soon Open By-Product
cHIcA5 PLANTS RUNNING

I Chicago. July 2s.-Unable to arrange
a conference with the resentatives
of the New York packers, Michael J.
Donnelly, president Of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butchers
Workmen of America, has ordered
strike of all the members of his or
ganization employed in New York by
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger and the
United Pressed Beef Company.
The order, which was photographed to
New York tonight, does not go into
effect until Sunday, as the men in the
| eastern packing plants do not report
| for work Saturday.
The decision to extend the strike to
the east was rot taken until after Mr..
| Donnelly and his associates had spent
the day in a fruitless effort to arrange
a meeting with the representatives of
the eastern packers who came to Chi
cago last night to acquaint themselves
| with the situation here.
The general belief was that the New
York packers had come to make terms
| with the butchers, but If such was the
case they changed their minds after in
vestigating the progress that had been
| made here in working the plants with
non union employees.
Conference Not Desired.
| At o'clock tonight, when Homer d.
Hall, secretary of the national organi
zation of the butcher workmen, made a
final appeal over the telephone to the
| representatives of Schwarzschild &
! Sulzberger for a meeting between the
members of that firm and the officers
of his union, he was told that the east
ern packers had nothing to offer the
men, should such a meeting be ar
| ranged and that the conference would
only be a waste of time. When this
announcement of theeastern packers
had been communicated to Mr.. Donnelly
he decided on the strike order.
| That the probabilities of a settlement
by the opposing interests in Chicago
are as remote as ever was plainly de-
monstrated today when Henry c. Wal
lace. of es Moines. Iowa. and A. /.
| lace, of Des Moines, Iowa, and A. !.
| the different packers with a proposit-
! ion from the strike leaders Offering to
concede the most important point in the
| controversy If the employers would
agree to renew peace negotiations.
| Iowa Men Got Home,
| Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. Ames were told
| by the packers that there was no pos
sible chance for any further concilia-
tory move and that the packers were
now in a position where they could
ignore the labor Unions and that they
proposed to do so. The packers, an
swer was delivered to the strike lead
ers and the men from Iowa left for
| home tonight.
From a statement made by President
! Donnelly tonight it would appear that
| the men are becoming anxious to get
| back to work.
I'VE shall be glad to confer with
representatives of the packers at any
time said Mr.. Donnelly. while
cannot say that our position is in any
| way changed. we are not anxious to
keep up n runninf fight and shall be
| glad If a settlement can be effected"
| A meeting of the allied trades was
| held today to consider the question of
| a renewal of the strike of the live
stock handlers. These men quit several
| days ago. but returned to work at the
| instigation of the Independent packers,
who were unable to obtain live stock
| enough to carry on their business with
| the men on strike.
Terms Not Observed.
The men went back to work with
the understanding that only animals
intended for the independent packers
| were to be handled A few hours
| after the men returned to work. how
ever, they were handling live stock in
| discriminatory.
| No decision was reached at today's
meeting except to appoint a commit
| tee to call on the officials of the union
| stock yards company tomorrow morn
| ing to request cessation of the handling
| of live stock for the packers whose
| forces are on strike.
| The advisability of accepting the offer
| of the freight handlers to join in the
| strike was considered at the meeting,
| but no decision was reached.
! Following the arrest of George F..
| Golden, chief of the Packing Transfers
| Union, for picketing. riots became more
frequent in the vicinity of the stock
| yards this afternoon. In one disturb
ance a mob captured a loaded meat
| wagon and threw the meat into the
| street. The most serious riot of the
day occurred In South Chicago, where
five men were arrested for trying to
prevent the delivery of meat
No One Seriously Injured.
Although the strikers and their
| friends became very boisterous when
it became known that Golden had been
! arrested and made all sorts of threats
no one was seriously injured in any of
the many disturbances that occurred
The police have the situation so well
| in hand that before the would be
rioters can get fairly started in their
| purpose they are scattered in all direc-
! tions by the blue coats.
More business was done by the pack
| ers today than at any time since the
| strike began. With today's addition
to the new employees obtained from
outside sources. the statement was
made tonight by one of the packers
that fully 1900 men were now at work
in the seven plants where the union
men are on strike. This is nearly half
as many men as went on strike.
The packers declare that they have
more unskilled labor than they want
| and that when all the skilled labor
| which they have procured in other
cities reaches Chicago. all the by-pro-
L ducts plants will nnnn fnr ..uanu -.