New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-29
PACKERS MAKE BIG G1IN.
StOckhandlerS Resume Work for
Them IN Chicago.

Chicago. July 2S-The packers to-day won an
important incidental victory in the big stockyards
strike the first emphatic gain OF the kind that
has been made since the general walkout was de-
clsred in effect. Eight hundred livestock handlers
threw aside their allegiance to the allied trades
and this afternoon began TO handle shipments in
discriminatory both for the packers In the cornbi-
nation and for the independent companies. Most
OF these $50 went 70 work yesterday handle
the goods Of the independents and they had
worked on this basis until to-day. The change THIS
afternoon the part OF the handlers was re-
Carded by the employers serious loss To the
cause Of the strikers and ny some It was even
declared 10 he a forerUnner Of general stampede
" Z. Skinner. general agent of the Union Stock
Yards and Transit Company. said that the live
stock handlers. though walking out in sympathy
with the butchers and meat cutters. had been re
luctant to strike. the relations between the men
ard the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company
having always been most amicahle Having shown
their good viii towards the striking unions he
said the only too glad 20 have their
old places back and the company was glad TO
reinstate them.
Word reached the union headquarters this after
trainloads of white an6 colored strike
breakers gathered in Buffalo. Cleveland and Gin
cinnati stopped by strike sympathiaers who
tagged the trains between Whiting and Hammond
Ind. ana that the strike breakers were driven
OFF and scattered The trains belonged to the Erie
aud Lake shore railroads Their coming and the
character Of their passengers had been foretod by
attack Followed Two huHdred nomcunon men % were e
diverted from their destination at the stockyards
consequence.
This afternoon 1SS men, ell members Of the union
deserted the strikers and returned To work al Ar
mour & Co. plant. Twenty-eight Of this number
are car iCers. The others skilled butchers who
We're formerly employed in the cattle. hogs and
sheep departments Every man put at work
we have got the strike won right now de-
clared Superintendent Conway. of Armour & Co
tins afternoon Every packer is going ahead as
though there was n" strike and the operations are
IN fun swing. Tho striking union mon are desert
ing and coming back i'm droves''
Arthur Meeker Of the Armour company to-day
declared thar the answer given by the packers at
last night reflected in its entirety. the position OF
the packers. and that the statement attributed To
him thai they willing go back to the agree
ment entered into with Ny. Donney's organization
was entirely unfOunded
our position is. ne said. that We had ar,
agreement with the butchers oreaniZation ana The
allied trades. which they have failed to live up 10
and under the circumstances the packers do not
care to make any further agreements with them
According 10 the employers. there were men
at work in the big packing plants here to-day.
taking the places of more than 20 42O strikers
Following the refusal to more
ments with the striking wCrkmen the stock
yards, one of the big packing concerns to-day
tossed bomb into the camp OF the sympathetc
strikers belonging TO the allied trades by posting
public notice that they are no longer regarded I'M
the light Of employees. The action was taken by
Swift * Co. when the following placnrd was con
spicuously exposed TO view near the entrances to
Packington:
IAN help leaving our employ July 25-2S will he
raid in full at our Forty -irst-st. market uaymas
ters window beginning thursday. July 2S at "A m
The appearance of the notice was ereered ysi.h
angry eNclamations from the crowds that soon
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