Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-27

| City vote upon the question OF a sym
| pathetic strike, Labor leaders assert
| that the men only await an order 10 go
out, and that 1000 viii be affected
The first real show OF violence ON the
| part Of the strikers was displayed when
| Armour & Co, tried 10 take 80 negroes
| In a boNcar into their plant mob
| forced the crew TO stop the train Then
| the negroes were pulled off the ear and
| roughly handled. Several shots were
fired, but no one was hurt and when
the police arrived the crowd had dlsap-
peared No arrests were made.
AT another point a number Of strike.
breakers working at the swift and
Schwarzschild 4 Sulzberger plants
were chased by strikers. Three negroes
made stand against the pursuers. one
was hit on the head and rendered I'M
conscious. when the others were rescued
by packing house guards,
Two deported Cripple Creek miners
j, NJ Harris and Charles Roberts were
mistaken for strike breakers and at
tackled. Harris was knocked down and
kicked In the face, receiving several
ugly wounds.
Following these disturbances an extra
force Of police was sent to the district,
Strikers assert that 20 OF their num-
Der who We're re-employed yesterday
sought their old positions to learn the
actual conditions in the different plants
and to urge the strike-breakers there to
go out.
Today each OF the plants increased
their forces, all reporting steady pro-
gress In every department.
Many strikers applied for their old
positions and were re-employed at the
t.lr % I q a. q
and the Fowler Packing companies
plants todaYaccordlng to the managers
Of the different plants.
/. II. Rich, manager for Swift g. Co.,
said today:
we consider the strike nearly over
ms far as this plant Is concerned. To-
day we took back perhaps 100 Of our
old men, six Of whom were cattle
butchers. We now have / 1850 men at
work, only 250 short Of our usual force,
We are killing more hogs and as many
cattle as during June. We are killing
1000 hogs day against I $50 IN June,
and we are slaughterlng Coo cattle a
day which was the average OF June
ALL READY TO STRIKE.
East ST. Louis. his. July 27.-The al
He'd trades here are ready to strike and
only await word from their head off,
Gals TO go out. This word is expected
today or tomorrow III the sympathetic
strike by these allied trades is not
ordered, II Is said that almost all the
mem bers Of these unions In East st.
Louis VIII walk out anyway.
The packers continue 10 employ nom
union men, but 1t is asserted by the
strikers that the packers are doing
very little killing, and that much OF
the by-products are wasted as the re-
suit OF unskilled labor
RUMoRs OF a CONFERENCE.
Amid the warlike demonstrations
there were reports of plans for another
peace conference between the packers
and the striking butchers.
Members OF the state board Of arbi-
tration appeared at the office of Presl-
dent Donnelly today and held con-
ference with the labor leaders. The
strike situation was gone into thor
oughly and the arbtrators then left
the office to seek conference with the
packing interests. Later, President
Donnelly and several Of his aids, left
strike headquarters for a second con-
ference with the state board Of arbltra-
ton
Besides the fire, another cause for
tumult was the fact that today, for the
first time, Wholesale pioketing was in
augurated. Promptly clash occurred.
Francis T. O'Brien, secretary of the
Acme Manufacturing company ap-
preached the entrance TO the yards on
a wagon, himself holding the reins. He
was delivering load OF sleeping equip
ment for non-union men, but pickets
compelled him 10 turn back. He pro-
tested to President Donnelly. but 10 no
avail.