The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-27
They Strike in Some Cas-
es Before the Call.
USUAL CLAIMS MADE
Strikers and Packers Profess Perfect
Satisfaction With the Situation.
The Indications Are That a
Long land Bitter Struggle
Has Begun.
(By the Associated Press.)

| Chicago, July 25.-With all peace
/ negotiations broken off and with all
/ the allied trades unions employed at
| the different plants, with the eXcep
/ ton of the transfers and the sta
! tionary engineers out on strike in
/ sympathy with the butcher WOrkmen
i who quit work two weeks ago, the
| stock yards strike tonight had set
| tied down to what promises to be a
long, bitter fight.
; AS has been threatened for some
| time, the allied trades employed i'll
: the packing industry at Chicago quit
j work when called on today to assist
| the striking butchers in their efforts
| to bring the packers to terms. In
! several instances the men did not wait
| for the official notification from their
| leaders to strike, but threw down
| their tools and quit work of their own
VolitiOn.
DonnelIy's Estimate of the Strike.
! At six o'clock tonight the statement
4 was made by Michael Donnelly, pres-
| dent of the Butchers Union, that
| every union man employed at the
| stock yards with the exception of the
| teamsters and stationary engineers
| had responded to orders for a general
| sympathetic strike. The engineers,
| he declared would join the strikers
| tomorrow morning and unless there
/ was q speedy settlement of the diff
| Guilty the teamsters would undoubt-
! edly join in the struggle soon. Ac-
cordi1g to Mr. Donnelly, today's
| strike swelled the number of men
| who have quit work at the stock
yards in Chicago alone to nearly
| 10000 persons.
Both sides to the controversy de-
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| fectly satisfied with the present state
of affairs and that they were willing
to make it fight to Il finish to de-
| termine who shall dictate the terms
| of settlement.
/ According to the packers, the gen
eral strike today was failure, it be-
| ing asserted by them that not more
than half the members of the allied
Trades. quit work when officially called
| out by the leaders this morning. The
! further statement was made by the
| packers that should all the union men
decide to join the strikers it would
make little difference to the employers
as they had sufficient resources to con-
| test the ground for an indefinite
period.
On the other hand the labor leaders
assert that all the union employees at
the different packing plants, together
with several hundred employees of the
| Union Stock Yards and Transit Com
pany, quit work today in response to
| the general order for a sympathetic
| strike.
Broader and More Bitter.
/ A new phase of the strike situation
| developed late this afternoon when no.
tice was given by the unions to the
! Independent packers at the stock yards
| that their men would not be allowed
/ TO handle animals in any way by non
union men. 1t is necessary for these
| independent concerns to take all of
/ their live stock into the yards over
union stock yards runaWayS, where the
stock must be handled by non-union
| men, since the union men employed by
| the Stock Yards Company in this line
of work were among the employees who
! Joined the sympathetic strike today.
The ultimatum of the unions leaves
| the Independent packers no alterna-
| tive but to receive their live stock d-
| rcctly from the country or to close
| business entirely. A meeting of the
| Independent packers was held tonight
| to map out some plan of action, but
| no definite conclusion was reached.
! Another meeting will be held tomor-
row to consider the matter.
A Futile Conference.
Before peace negotiations had been
broken off today, representatives of
| the transfers union, as had been
agreed on last night were in confer
| ence with the packers in an effort to
| arrange some sort of settlement which
/ would prevent spread of the strike.
| At this meeting the packers were
asked to concede that the first peace
agreement, signed last Wednesday
and which was later repudiated by the
| strikers when second strike was
| called, be considered null and void
and that the packers submit new
| proposition for peace terms. The
committee also advised the packers
that the striking butchers would
stand by last Saturdays demand
which was that all men be treinStated
within ten days or their cases be sub
mitted to immediate arbitration; all
| butchers and casing men to be Ia
| ken back within As hours after work
| was resumed. No progress toward
a settlement was made at the confer
ence and the teamsters' committee
retired to consider a new proposal
| Immediately on the return OF the
transfers committee to union head
quarters they entered into confer
ence with the representatives of the
allied trades to consider a proposal
committee to union headquarters
they entered into a conference with
the representatives of the allied trades
10 COllSlucT d pIOpuSdl WHICH Ildu Deen
submitted to the unions by the pack
ers. In the meeting between the
teamsters and the packers, the pack
ers offered a change the time of rein
stating all the strikers from As to 35
days. They made no concessions
other than this and this proposal was
submitted to the allied trades COM
mittee. President Donnelly, of the
Butchers Union. however. refused to
consider the proposal and all hopes
of an Immediate settlement was lost.
President Golden, of the TeasterS
Union strongly urged that the pro
posal be considered and that another
effort for a settlement be made. Inc
sentiment of the meeting was over
| Whelmingly against, and the commit
! tee adjourned without intending 70
arrange any more meetings Win lnd
packers After failing in the pedce
negotiations, President Golden, oI me
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