Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-30
AN APPEAL
TOSHERIFF
Strikers Ask Protection
and Arouse Inspec-
tor Hunt.
ROOSEVELT BROUGHTIN
Asked to Start Prosecution of
Those Controlling Meat
Prices.

Chicago. July 3O.-Inspector Hunt
today said should Sheriff Bartlett and
his deputies invade the stock yards
district he would arrest every man.
The strikers have called upon the
sheriff for protection from the po-
lice.
Call Upon Roosevelt.
At a meeting of the allied trades to-
day resolutions will be introduced de-
manding that Roosevelt give word that
the United States district attorneys all
over the country begin criminal pro-
iceedings against every man engaged
in conspiracy to control prices of
live stock and meat food products
handled by the packing industry.
Called Out In New York.
Chicago. July 3O-Unable to ar
range a conference with the represen-
tatives of the New York packers, Pres
ident Donnelly has ordered a strike of
all the members of his organization
employed in New York by Schwarz-
child & Sulzberger and the United
Dressed Beef company. The order
was telegraphed to New York last
Sunday.
The decision to extend the strike
was not made until after DOnnelly and
his associates had spent the day in a
fruitless effort to arrange a meeting
with the representatives of the eastern
packers who came TO Chicago to ac-
quaint themselves with the situation
here. The general belief was the New
York packers had come west to make
terms with the butchers, but if such
was the case they changed their minds
after investigating the progress made
here in working the packing plants
with non-union employees.
Final Effort Made.
At o'clock last night Homer ID.
Call the secretary of the National
organization of Butchers Workmen,
made a final appeal over the telephone
to the representatives of SchwarZ
schild & Sulzberger for a meeting be-
tween the members of that firm and
the officers of his union, and he was
told the eastern packers had nothing
to offer the men. should such a meet
ing be arranged and the conference
would only be a waste of time. When
packers had been communicated to
Donnelly he decided on the strike or.
der.
Anxious to Go Back.
From the statement made by Don
nelly last night it would appear that !
the men are becoming anxious TO get
back to work we shall be glad to |
confer with the packers any time |
said Donnelly While l cannot say |
our position is in any way changed |
we are not anxious to keep up run
ming fight and shall be glad if set, |
tlement can be effected"
Output Forty Per Cent.
Yesterday the Chicago plants attain
ed to not more than 40 per cent of
their normal output. The packers still |
found it necessary to bring in workers |
from outside cities. as appreciable !
number of their former employees re-
turned.
In consequence of the comparatively |
small volume of business done by the
big concerns the local live stock mar
ket was in bad shape. Few cattle
were bought by the leading packers,
and more than half of the hog pur
chases went to Independent slaughter
ing plants and the shippers
strikers Weak Elsewhere.
The proprietors of the big concerns
said more new men would be brought
in every day until the plants were
filed. They declared they had made
better progress than they had ex-
pected In this they referred to the
conditions in other packing centers,
in some of which the plants are run