New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-15
STRIKE NOT SETTLED.
OTERTURES REJECTED.
May Renee Conference in Chicago
To-doy-Prepaing for Long Siege.
IL TELEcRArH To LIE rRIRrNE. |

IBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE.I
Chicago, July 14-While there is no break in
the peaceful attitude both sides in the great
packing house strike the prospects for a salts
factory settlement of the differences on a basis
that will suit the interested parties are faC re-
moved. Early in the day there We're rumors OF
overtures between representa- tives OF the strikers
which TO result in bringing about imme-
date arbitration OF the troubles. Traced to
their sources. these reports were found TO be
true. Following the intervention by the State
Board Of Arbitration yesterday. arrangements
We're made for a conference between a commit
tee OF the packers and a similar body Of the
strikers.
The first negotiations began at a meeting this
afternoon at the city Offices of Swift & Co. at
which were present j. Ogden Armour for Ar
mour & Co; j. 7. Lyman. for the National Pack
ing Company; Louis +. Swift for Swift & co.
Edward. Norris for Nelson Norris & Co. and
Max Sulz0ergeT FOR Schwarzschild & Sulzber-
ger. all representing the packing house ON
ployers. For the strikers there We're present
President DOnrelly. Samuel GOnpers and John
Floersch. ice-presldent OF the Amagamated
Meat Cutters and Butchers Association. The
conference lasted far into the evening. and the
situation thoroughly discussed by both sides
from their respective points of view.
For the strikers. President DonnelIy asked that
all the striking employees be taken back to work
pending arbitration OF existing troubles. To
this the packers gave reply by counter PROPOSE
tiou. which. in effect that the packers would
take back all such employees as they could at
the old scale OF wages pending settlement by
arbitration. President Donnelly stated that he
could not reply then and there to the PROPOSE
tion OF the packers he desired to consult with
the members Of the strike committee.
1t was then agreed that he should make reply
some time I'm the forenoon tomorrow. The con-
ference then adjourned TO meet again on call OF
Mr.. Armour. 1t is certain that President Don
reilly and his associates in the strike have no in
teution of giving the packers any consideration
at all outside of handing in written and polite
rejection Their position is that all or none of
the strikers should be taken back to work until
the matte- OF the wage scale is settled by arbi-
traitors on the other hand. II is believed that
the packers were not sincere in making their
offer. knowing well that the strikers would not
accept. and that they are simply playing for
time to make all they possibly out of condi-
tions which have boosted up the prices of their
products. They are content, il is claimed to not
make any actual move to end the strike before
next Monday. That will give them plenty of
time to get their plants in good shape
While the peace conference was in progress
additional preparations for a long siege were
being made at the stockyards. Several trains
from the Indiana and Illinois coal districts ar
rived at the packing plants bearing thousands of
tons OF coal for the plants. The packers had
heard that efforts were being made to induce the
union railroad men I'm the yards To refuse 10
handle supplies for the struck" houses. 1t was
said this evening that the cattle handlers would
he called out unless amcabIe agreement was
reached by tomorrow noon. This would make
the tie-up absolute. The cattle handlers are
casscd unskilled laborers. hut one who is
;uSkipd the work 10
thousand more strikers gathered at the pay
masters Office to-day and received their regular
wages
Rio;ing began In the stockyards to- night and
Alfonso Andrulis was shot in the left shoulder
by the police. He is not fatally injured. The
incidents leading up to the shooting began when
a party of strikers met detachment of police
in PauIina-st. near the stockyards one of the
crowd hurled stone at the officers. He was ar
rested. The police started toward the station
with their prisoner. and his companions attacked
them with stones Several volIeys of stones had
been thrown before the police drew revolvers
and fired several shots at the crowd. Andrulis
fell with bullet through his shoulder His
companions fed
Andrulis and the man first arrested We're taken
to the police station. which in few minutes
was surrounded by q. crowd OF several hundred
men, women and boys. The temper of the crowd
was ugly. and for time it looked as though
they would attempt to storm the station Calls
sent for reinforcements and in a short
time several patrol wagons filled with police
men from other stations arrived The crowd
refused to give way. and the reinforce,nents
compelled to fight their way to the sta
tion doors.
While diplomatic exchanges of this nature
were in progress a mob of about three hundred
strikers sympathizers suddenly set upon dozen
or mora non-union men who tried Tn Cntar rho
yards to take the places of strikers No blows
struck hut the non-union men we're led
ContinrcI ioatta Da-s.