Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-28
PACKERS WON TODAY
An Incidental Victory at the
Stock Yards.
LIVE STOCK HANDLERS
THREW ASIDE ALLEGIANCE TO
UNION AND RESUMED WORK.
Regarded by Some as a Forerunner to
General Stampede-Event Was
Mutually Happy One.
LIVE STOCK HANDLERS

CHICAGO. July 2S.-The packers today
won an important incidental victory in the
big stock yards strike. the first emphatic
gain of the kind that has been made since
the general walk-out was declared In eff
feet Eight hundred live stock handlers
threw aside their allegiance to the allied
trades and this afternoon began to handle
shipments indiscriminately both for the
packers in the combine and for the inde-
pendent companies.
Most of these 800 men went to work yes
terday to handle the goods of the lnde-
pendents," and they had worked on this
| basis until today. The change this after
noon on the part Of the handlers was re-
garded by the employers as a serious loss
t. the cause of the strikers, and by some II
was even declared to be a forerunner Of
general stampede.
w f. skinner general agent of the
Union Stock Yards and Transit Company,
said that the live stock handlers, tnousn
walking out in sympathy with the putcheIS
and meat cutters had been reluctant "
strike the relations between the men ana
the Union Stock Yards and Transit COM
pany having always been most amlcaoie.
Having shown their good will toward me
striking unions, he said, the men were only
too glad to have their old places back ana
the company was glad to reinstate them.
Further Spread Of Strike.
Promise of further spread Of the strike
was forthcoming this afternoon, when
delegation of switchmen employed at the
stock yards waited upon President Donnelly
and appealed to him to request their ON
GERS to call sympathetc strike. The del
egation explained that their officers urged
them to keep out of the strike. but that
they would walk out at any time rather
than switch cars loaded by StI1keoreakeis.
Donnelly indicated that he would decide
later upon what action he would take
According to the packers more than loo
union men severed allegiance to the lapor
organizations today and returned to WORK
with the packers. Many 1t is said. refused
to work in Chicago, through fear, ana
were sent to Kansas City and Omaha.
A crowd of packing house men estimated
at 300 were reported as arriving here today
from Kansas City and Omaha where they
had been on strike They were said to be
union men who were tired of being idle.
but did not want to work in their home
town through fear of pickets.
In an effort to keep the families of the
| strikers from feeling absolute want during
the long struggle. strike leaders have de-
vised plan of having the striking men
work in shifts, alternating with the men
employed by the independent packers. OBJ
lection of cattle butchers employed by
Pfalezer. Pears & Hess to this arrange
ment on the ground that the men at work
could not afford to be laid off day or two
each week nearly resulted in friction be-
tween some of the independents and the
strikers today.
Representatives of the Butchers and
Meat Cutters Union called upon Presi-
dent Eli Pfalezer, who said that he could
not compel the men to lay off in favor of
the idle brethren, and that he would leave
the settlement of the dispute entirely in
the hands of the union
This was the only way the question
could be settled" said Vice President
Stirling of the international union. The
union butchers will have to obey the die
tates of the union and the union alone
can give them orders In such a case
Reflected Packers Views.
Mr.. Arthur Meeker of the Armour COM
pany today declared that the answer
given by the packers at the conference
with the state board of arbitration last
night reflected in its entirety the posi-
ton of the packers and that the state
ment attributed to him that they were
willing to go back to the agreement en-
tered into with Mr. Donnelly's organiza-
| ton was entirely unfounded. Our posi-
ton is. he said. that we had an agree
ment with the butchers organization and
the allied trades, which they have failed
10 i've up to, and under the circum-
stances the packers do not care to make
any 1urther agreements with them"
Train Stopped by Strikers.
Word reached the union headouarters this
afternoon that two train loads of white and
colored strike breakers gathered in Ruf
falo, Cleveland and Cincinnati, were stop-
ped by strike pathizers who tagged the
trains between Whiting and Hammond
md, and that the strike breakers We're
driven off and scattered. The trains be-
lohged to the Erie and Lake Shore rail-
roads Their coming and the character of
their passengers had been foretold by rail-
road men in sympathy with the strike, and
the attack followed Two hundred non
union men were diverted from their des
tination at the stock yards in consequence.
13,479 Take Places of 81, ago Strikers.
According to the employers there were
l}4I3 men at work in the big packing
plants here today, taking the places OF
more than 2J,420 strikers.
Complications growing out of the method
OF handling meat by rail, adopted by the
packers In supplying the local trade, were
today reported to President George +. Col
den of the packing house teamsters' union
as likely to be responsible for trouble with
the transfers employed by retail dealers
and supply houses throughout the whole
OF Chlcago' Acting upon a report that
hotel and restaurant meat suppiers had
moved In quantity of meat by wagon,
from 18th and State streets where the
packers supply cars lay miles away from
the stockyards the strikers established a
Wdtcn ana IOun0 tilat the report was true.
The strike leaders then took under con
sideration move to induce the retail mar
ket drivers union TO refuse to handle meat
from the packing houses affected by the
strike. even if general strike of retail
drivers should be necessary
Reports that freight handlers In the en-
ploy of the Chicago Junction Railway Com
pany went on strike yesterday were denied
today by officials of the company. The
following statement was issued from the
office of President John A Spoor:
'Ninety-five per cent of all the business
done at our freight house in the Union
stockyards is for the accommodation of the
big packing companies whose Transfers
went on strike yesterday morning. When
the transfers struck there was no further
work for the men at the yards freight
house. Twenty-Five freight handlers were