The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-22
BUTCHERS Nv I'LL
CITIES QUIT WORK
Fired BY Belief that Peace agreement Has Been Violate
Donuelly Calls TOR Sympathy Strike Of Allied
Trades Riotimg Begins in Chicago
St0ckynyds

Chicago, July 22.-The packing
house strike was today ordered re-
newed in Chicago and all other cities.
Violation of agreement by the pack
inghouse proprietors is assigned as
the reason. The following tele-
nelly to all employees Of various pack
inghouses in the different cities affect
ed by the previous strike:
Order out all departments again.
Companies have violated agreement.
Michael Donnelly,
President International Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen.''
Today 5000 cattlebutchers reported
at the stockyards here for work. Only
half of them were given places There
upon all refused to work. They re-
ported in a body at their union head
quarters. The general order for re-
newal Of the strike was soon forth
coming.
While immediate provocation for
the renewal of the strike was appar-
entity the failure Of the packers to
take back a larger portion Of the men
who reported for duty today, the real
cause of the rupture was inferred to
be a circular issued yesterday by the
packers. The circular purported to ex-
plain to the public the agreement en-
tered into with the labor leaders.
Seemingly the circular could be
taken as implying the agreement did
not bind the packers to re-employ all
of the men who walked out.
The construction the labor leaders
had placed upon the agreement was
that all should be re-employed within
forty-fve days.
When the 5000 butchers and their
helpers went into the yards here to-
day to take their old places the gen
eral greeting received was: We can
not take back more than half Of the
regular force" Immediately there
was a woeful display Of chagrin and
disapp The men held a con-
ference Of an in1promptu nature and
reached an agreement to act as a unit
.or not at all.
You must take us all back OF
none, came the reply of the union
men, who saw, performing the tasks
they had done before, numbers Of
non-union workmen. n
The packers refused to accede tt
this, and a committee was sent to see
President Donnelly. The latter was
quickly in communication with his
advisers. Within an hour and a hall
the decision was reached to reoper
the strike. President Donnelly's tele-
gram was accordingly sent to al
unions.
Packers as. Stonewall.
Reports were current, this after.
noon that the packers had decided tt
yield no whit to the strikers and tt
meet continued warfare with a com
plete shutdown of the killing depart
ments until such time as suffcien
expert nonunion forces could be OBJ
tanned to operate on a normal scale.
The ground for this action was sait
to be that the packers had found j
too expensive and wasteful to attemp
to operate with small killing gang
and had determined if the striker
insisted on holding out to suspend
killing operations in all plants affect
ed by the strike The packers, it wa
stated, would continue shipping AM
handling products on hand. Wor]
| in the smoking and canning depart
ments would also be continued.
Dispatches from Kansas City, Soutl
st. Joseph, Omaha and other packing
. centers say the strike has been re
newed in all plants, in response t
President Donnelly's order. Charge
Of discrimination against striker
are made in Kansas City, st. Josep.
and Sioux City.
Broken Agreements.
The breaking of agreements, as al
legged by President Donnelly, on tn
part Of the packers and the endin
Of all peace plans on the part Of tn
unions, came as violent surprise t
the public, despite the widespread
/ knowledge that men were far fror
satisfied with conditions consequer
upon the signing OF the terms {
1 peace.
l The summary action Of the strik
I leaders in ordering a renewal Of hos
! tilities was followed by equally Wig
orous efforts at a restoration of peac
AS a, result the news of the strike OF
1 der was followed within an hour by q
announcement that a joint conferenc
at the offices Of Armour & Co. ha
8 been arranged to take place this after
4 noon by the packinghouse proprie
tors and the labor leaders. The. pul
4 pose Of the joint conference we
Z stated to be to discuss the alleged III
Just discrimination on the part of tt
packers.
Objectionable Circular.
!. The portion eof the packers circ,
lar Objectionable to the union is {
| follows:
..In the agreement reached til
/, packers reserve the privilege or n
: tanning in their employ all employt
! that have been hired while the stril
i has lasted, thus guaranteeing to the.
men the fair treatment they deserN
and gaining for the, packers one
the most important points for whic
they contended and for which the
stood out SO long. The privilege
7 arbitration within the time limit
forty-f1ve days covers the questic
discrimination only and is in no WE
intended to guarantee to the strikir
employees that they will be take
+ back and given the places now file
by nonunion help"
Donnelly's Statement.
t President Donnelly, imme date
j after calling the men out the seco1
j time, gave out the following stat
: ment relative to his action:
/ The packers agreed to replace the M
without discrimination. They agreed tn
the men should report for work and
taken back. Instead of being furnish
with checks this morning when the m
went back to work, they we're met by
s superintendent or a policeman, who pick
e out certain men and told them to go a.
i, get their checks. They told others to
: home; that they did not know: when tn
s would be needed. This was a plain vi
lation Of our agreement. called up