The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-07-28
All Allied Unions at the Stock
Yards Excepting Transfers
Join striking Butchers
no CONFERENCES Hello SUNDAY.
The Transfers viii Make Another
Effort to Brirg About an Ad-
jusiment of the Trouble.
-Four Train Loads Of New Employees
Were Taken to tire Chicago stock
Yards Sunday Before Dark
ness Had Set IN.

fNAA FfS1 OCT W.
Chicago. July Determined on
fight TO finish 20 enforce the de-
mands Of the striking butchers. a sym
pathetic strike OF an the union work
mon employed in the meat packing
Industries throughout the country with
the exception OF the transfers was
declared Monday morning at Z O'Clock.
instead OF joining in the sympathet-
&c strike the tcamsiors will make an
other effort to bring about an adjust.
mcnt OF the controversy by arbitra-
ton. This decision was reached late
Sunday night at a meeting OF the joint
council OF tcamstcrs unions through
out Chicago. who met 10 consider the .
Endorsement Of a decision reached /
Sunday afternoon by the packing /
house tcamstcrs' union lo Quit work /
with the other allied unions. The de- I
cision 90 the stock yards tcamsters was /
almost unanimous In favor ~ striking. I
but as sc is necessary according to the
rules OF the teamsters union for the
Joint council to- sanction any strike
movement an tho union tcamstcrs IN
the employ az the packers will remain
the Joint council gives their permits
sion Co strife should their efforts to
settle The matter by Cancellation Mon
day prove futile.
The committee appointed az sun
day nights meeting were notified to
get into communication Monday morn
ms as early as possible with the pack
era. Whether the transfers efforts
for poace viii prove successful mono
OF the packers representatives who
werc communicated with Sunday
night would say The decision 20 make
another effort for peace was reached
az such a late hour Sunday night that
90 was impossible for the packers 20
get together to decide on what answer
would bo given 90 the Intermediary
committee Monday The reason Civ
en- by the tcamsters' council for their
action Is that they have never before
been consulted Ia the present trouble
and that therefore before they would
sanction a strike Of the stock yard
transfers they wished 10 make an Of
. fetal Investigation OF the trouble be-
fore asking che International officers
. Of the union 90 officially order the
men on strike.
? No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor
leaders. az jointly. in ap effort TO reach
an adjustment Of the controversy.
3 Both sides rested Sunday. apparently
waiting FOR Mondays developments.
{ Whether or not the packers would
.. make any concessions 20 the demands
p Of the labor leaders ia order to pre-
p vent general walkout Of the trades
T. az the stock yards would not be dis
4 cusscd hy any OF the packing house
representatives Sunday. but from iht
preparations going on az the different
plants during the day IL was plainly
n evident that the packers intended I,
feht for their independence. All Ia
. Dor leaders declared that they woul,
y await Mondays developments befor'
r considering further negotiations an,
y that the packers would have TO maxi
y the request for a resumption OF peac
negotiations. as the unions had no In
tenton az the present time of doinl
SO.
=, Prenarations for the struggle whic
was expected to reach a climax MOI
!, day morning were being made az IN
= different packing plants all during th
day and far into the night. Dozens q
: representatives, Of the packing house
were scattered all over the country
search Of men TO I'll the places OF IA
strikers -Four train loads OF new en-
n, ployes were taken to- the yards befoi
4, darkness set in to join the non-unio
i men already established inside n
n. plants
~ Stockades have been erected at a
or the different plants 20 protect me
y. whose work exposes them to dang
from mob violence. All through q
stock yards there were not only e'
dences Of preparations for long az
he bitter struggle. but superintendent
n. the packing establishments. police {
~ fcers and union leaders gave EXPIRE
al sion TO anticipation Of troublous tim
lie 20 come Chief OF Police O'Neiu. vi
Az spent the day making plans for Mo
day. said;
NO one knows what Will happt
The opportunity is here for one Of {
a greatest labor contests in the cor
ht- try and apparently there Is no no
Fn for averting IT, The police will
W. able to handle the situation. howev
me without outside assistance. no matt
Ihs what happens"
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