The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-07-21
FAIL TO EFFECT
A RECONCILIATION
STOCK YARDS employees AND
PACKERS CANNOT REACH
AN AGREEMENT.
SPLIT ON QUESTION
OF R~EINSTATING MEN
Sympathetic Strike Is Threatened in
Chicago Unless Trouble Is Soon
Settled Several Fights Occur
Riot in st. Paul.

"SO
Settled - Several Fights Occur
Riot in st. Paul.
Chicago, July 19.-Chicago and the
entire United States now ta,e one OF
the greatest industrial strikes in his
tory. Peace negotiations in the great
stockyards strike are at an end, and
the packers and their $4,000 employees
are preparing for a prolonged struggle
in the nine cities in which strikes have
been called. The break came in Chica-
go Saturday afternoon, when at the
end of a three hours joint conference
it was announced that a basis for ar
bitration could not be agreed upon.
Further Efforts Made.
Further efforts to bring about a
reconciliation between the contending
parties to the strike were made Mon
day morning when a conference was
held between the officials OF the Union
Stock Yards and Transit company and
the packers. The former requested
the meeting, in the hope that some
thing might be done to end the dis
pute. Another effort was made by Sec
rotary Shamp, of the International
brotherhood of Stat, onary Firemen,
and by President Joseph Morton, IT
the Chicago local body. These two,
after a conference win President Don-
nelly, lett the union headquarters at
noon to visit the packers.
Hitch on Reinstatement.
The reinstatement of the men now
on strike was the rock upon which
the negotiations went to smash. Pres
ident Donnelly and his associates In
sisted that ali OF the strikers SHOULD
be reinstated within seven days. The
packers replied that they could not
agree to discharge the men who have
been employed to take the place Of the
, strikers. All o,Ler details for arbitra-
ton had been arranged when this OBJ
STAGE rose
Sympathetic Strike Threatened.
Now tia arbitration negotiations
have been abal- loned it seems only Il
mater OF time till $4,000 other en-
Ployes 81 the stocAS ards houses &C
on sympathetic s.rike. The centra.
body of the mechanical trades EN-:
ployed at the yards voted to strike
when asked 10 Go SO by President Dor:
nelly Of the butcher worl.me4.
Prices Continue to Advance,
Prices OF meat continue to 30 un, al:
though the packers insist that there |:
plenty Oh hand and that there will b;
no appreciate shortage. Fulton mar
ct commission men say that if the
s,riie continues they can supply the
Chicago market with 60 per cent. OF
TIE normal consumption ct meat.
Mob ATTACKS Train,
A mob CT men Monday attacked q
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Suburban train which had on board,
in addition to the otner passengers, a
party OF 50 %nonunion negroes who
, we're bound for work at the Armour
plant IN the stock yard. The negroes
were looking out of The open car win
Cows when the first shower Of stones
struck the car near their heads. They
instantly sought shelter under the
SEATS, where the other passengers
hastily threw themselves to bear them
company. The cars were badly bat
tered up before they drew out OF
range. One brick barely missed the
head Of q white passenger who was
late in seeking shelter. AS it was, NJ
one was hurt, but there were many
narrow escapes.
Seven Injured in Fights.
Seven men were injured Sunday ave.
ming in fights between striking stock
yards employees and sympathizers
against nonunion workmen. There
were two encounters. one at Thirty
Gfth street and Ashland avenue, thu
other at Thirty-seventh and Wallace
streets. The strike sym%pathizers were
the aggressors in both instances, it is
stated, and order was not restored un-
til riot calls had summoned several
patrol wagons, crowded with police
men, to the scenes The attacks were
by far the most serious thus far in the
stockyards strike, and were taken by
the police as indications the idle men
are no longer to be kept in order by
their leaders commands.
Advices received from various
Smaller packing centers showed that
the day was a quiet one with the strik-
ers.
Riot at st. Paul.
st. Paul. Mimi, July 19.-strikers
and sympathizers resorted to riotiEg
and fist fights Saturday in an effort 10
paralyze the packing houses in South
st. Paul. AS a result Gov. Van SAINT
may call out the state troops. The
riot started at Swift G Co.'S plant. A
bowling mob Of Strikers formed q
Gordon about the packing houses
when Sheriff Grisim, after an
early conference with Gov. Van SAINT,
tried to lead a company Of Is nom
union men into the packing house.
The strikers massed in front of tho
official. Grisim charged the mob and
called on his followers TO keep close
to him. Within five minutes the sher-
If was fighting for dear life. The mob
pummeled the sheriff,and beat most OF
the nonunion men. But the sheriff
succeeded in taking his whole party
into the packing plant, where the nom