The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25

places were asserted to have been
quickly filed.
The strike movement soon involved
every craft at the stock yards, except
| ing the teamsterS. Steam htterS.
plumbers box makers, etc, walked
out successfully, these departments
being totally tied up in some IN
stances and but partially IN otners-
There was no violence during the
walkouts.
The strike although general was
conducted apparently without the
official authorization by the heads Of
the various unions. but solely upon
the order of business agents, who re-
fused to await the action of the peace
conference which was still in session.
Conference Accomplished Little.
The Joint peace conference of the
teamsters and packers at Morris &
Cos Office ended without making
much, if any. progress. The packers
demanded that the union men come to
them with definite proposition. the
union committee returned to head
quarters to confer with the butchers
and allied trades in the hope, it was
said, that something definite in the
way of a new proposal could be decid-
After the adjournment of the peace
conference the fact developed that the
sympathetic strike had been declared
officially authorized by the proper
boards of all allied trades at the stock
yards. with the exception of the pack
ing house teamSterS- The engineer
and firemen, to whom word could only
be sent with great difficulty, were al
lowed to stay at their posts until
p. m In all other departments the
strike was actually in effect for two
hours or more before the official sane
ton was made public.
1t developed that learning the appar-
ent hopelessness of an agreement the
representatives of the allied trades urg-
ed by President Donnelly adopted reso-
nd 7fT7er fafC
affected unions to enter the yards and
call upon every organization men to
quit and join in a general strike 1t
was this condition that this teamsterS'
committee of eight found when it's
members returned from Morris & Co. S
Office at noon- Immediately there was
a conference between the committee of
eight, the allied trades body and repre-
was still the hope that arrangements
could be made for another meeting
with the packers.
Chicago, July z5.-The long threat
ened general strike of miscellaneous
trades at the stock yards called to as
sist the butcher workmen began today
about 10 o'clock with the walk out
of nearly all the machiniStS, can work.
ers and $50 millwrights and helpers
employed by the seven big packers
This was done without awaiting the
result of the conference between the
Sters joint council or the meeting of
the representatives of the joint trades
being held in the offices of the pack
ing house teamsterS' union
Business agents of the union went
among the members employed at each
of the packing houses and announc-
ing that the sympathetic strike order
was in effect.
Every live stock handler in the
The mechanical trades are out. Can
workers. steam filters, electricians,
plumbers, machinists, boxmakers,
rniIIwrights and helpers and engineers
and firemen. The teamsters also
struck.
Thousands of men carrying lunch
buckets left the yards, but no cases of
disorder were reported
There Was Hitch.
Chicago, July 25.-Despite the strong
est efforts made by President Michael
Donnelly of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen, the
threatened strike, involving not only all
the packers at the stock yards, but the
union stock yards and transit company
itself was not called this morning and
developments indicated that further eff
forts to establish peace might prove
successful. The teamsters who mad
voted to go out on sympathetic strike
were still held in leash by their central
body's committee of eight which was
appointed last night headed by George
F. Golden. This committee met today
and decided to make arrangements to
meet the chiefs of the packing houses
at the yards.
While this conference was in progress,
another meeting was being held by the
delegates and chiefs of the allied traces.
While both meetings were in session,
President Donnelly called upon them,
the teamsters' body first.
Il am not going to ask the allied
trades until they hear a report from the
meeting of the teamSterS' governing
body with the packers said President
Donnelly. II demand that they order
the generalstrikea at once and let further
negotiations come afterward.
THE time to strike is right now"
Hopes for Settlement.
governing body said: 81 am extreme
ly hopeful now that it will not be nee
essary to call out our people. I believe
that with a little sense and patience,
a disposition not to want too much, we
can avert threatened trouble. 1t is for
that reason 1 am seeking meeting
with the packers
Another officer in the governing body,
Frank Boland. declared the teamsters
could not go out before tomorrow night
even should they want to, because they
must await the action of their joint
council which meets tomorrow night to
receive the report of the committee of
eight tomorrow, of which President
Golden is the head.
With smoke rolling from the tall
stacks of the great packing houses,
thousands of men busy at work within
the boundaries of the teeming mile
square of mills and pens and orderly
throngs in the streets, the casual OBJ
server would not nave discovered that
a great strike was in progress.
The strikers gathered at their various
places and talked of the Situa-
tion, but refrained from any display of
violence. The beef handlers went to
work as usual, but it was declared by
John Floersch, one of the leaders of the
butchers, that the beef handlers had
been ordered to strike at noon. Des-