The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-25
PACKING TRANSFERS VOTED
UNANIMOUSLY TO STRIKE.
ELEVATOR MEN AND MILL
WRIGHT HELPERS
COME OUT lN .SNMPATHY-RE
VoLvESs AND oATLlNG GUNS
ARE READY FOR USE
,F NEEDED.

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" NEEDED.
CHICAGO, JULY 25.-a:ao p. NJ
THE CONFERENCE OF THE AL
LIED TRADES AND PACKERS AD
tJouRMeD WITHOUT REACHING
ANY AGREEMENT OR APPOINTING
la TIME FOR ANOTHER MEETING
CHICAGO. July 25.-The crisis il
the packing house strike was reached
this morning when the union leaders
started for the yards at A. NJ. to cal
general strike of all unions connect
ed with the houses. Thus far only the
butchers had grievances.
The packing teamsters voted unani-
mously Sunday to strike
According to their bylaws, a strike
is not effective until indorsed by the
Transfers Council and the Interna-
tional Union. The council declined to
indorse the strike. and even offered to
mediate.
President Golden, of the teamsters'
joint council, is against teamsters'
strike, because the latter have an
agreement with the packers. The
packing house teamsters, however,
have formulated fresh demands. Col
den and committee met General
Manager Wilson, of Nelson, Morris &
Company, and asked for a conference.
Wilson agreed to try to arrange one.
but said he had no idea the packers
would consent.
There was little disorder Sunday,
but the police are taking no chances.
Chief O'Nei1l inspected Monday the
revolvers of the 325 regular patrolmen
and the 200 specials now on duty.
Night sticks were issued and the men
were told to use them freely at the
first sign Of trouble.
.'Do not use your. revolvers unless
you have to- was the chiefs last
order.
Two Calling guns were sent to the
first regiment armory, with trained
gunners to operate them, for use in an
emergency.
The police admit that the situation
looks dark.
Dozens of representatives of the
packing houses were scattered over
the country yesterday to hire men to
fill the places of the strikers. Train
loads of men were hurried into pack
ing towns Sunday to join the non
union men already established there:
clerks were initiated into new duties,
and employees who had been promoted
from the trades were returned to their
former work. Stockades were erect
ed late to protect men whose work ex-
poses them to danger from mob Vlo-
lence Four train loads of non-union
men were taken into the yards under
police escort and more are arriving
hourly.
With the number of men already in
stalled within the stock yards and the
addition of clerks and office men to the
killing rooms, work. will be attempted
on an extended scale. No violence IS
within the yards, and the
workers will have ample police protec-
ton. The difficulty will come, ac-
cording to attaches of several firms,
in distributing to local trade an ade-
quate supply of fresh meat. 1t is on
this condition that the labor leaders
base hope of success.
Armour and, Company already nave
their shipping houses, ana
Swift and Company have set men TO
work on similar structures along their
leading platforms. Both companies
have housed the non-union men IN the
plants, and it is said that all CLERKS
who are to serve as strike-breakers,
also will be refused permission TO
leave their premises.
First to go out in the sympathetlc
struggle were the members of the Ele-
vator Men and Mill Wright Helpers
Union, numbering almost 500 mem mem
bers. Members of the Can Makers rs
Union numbering 500 men followed.
A meeting between the special
.eamsters committee and the packers
began at nine o'clock this morning 8insi !
he ONCE Of the Nelson Morris com
oany, at the stock yards. Besides
he teamsters and the employers the
1nIy person present ytas E Barney Col