Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-07-23
MUCH COMPLAINT HEARD OVER
TERMS OF SETTLEMENT OF
PACKERS STRIKE.
NOTHING GAINED BY THE WALkOU1
WAGE QUESTION REMAINS UN
SETTLED AND MANY STRlK-
ERS ARE IDLE.


butcher workmen who quit work July
IL, paralyzing the meat industry OF
the country, will go back to their posts
at once. While they continue peace.
fully at work a board of arbitration
will pass judgment upon the conten.
tions of the laborers for higher wages
and less arduous working conditions
and the decision of the arbitrators
will settle the issues of the great
strike.
Around the Chicago stock yards
there is rejoicing among the strikers
as well as the stockmen and packing
interests. The unionists, who had
looked forward to seeing the strike
spread in a sympathetic movement in
volving all the mechanical trades and
perhaps the teamsters and tiremen
learned with relief that instead OF the
greater strike there was to be peace
in packing town. Many of the strlk
ers, however, expressed disappoint
ment that their strike, after causing
them to lose eight and a half days OF
wages, had failed to decide their de-
mands for higher wages or make II
certain that all would be reinstated
without greater loss of time.
During the day throngs gathered
about the entrances to the yards to
discuss the settlement and there were
murmurings against it's terms. Some
workers wanted to go back without
delay and few could understand ap'
parently why the question of wages,
so vital to them, had not been de-
cided.
1--WE are exactly in the same posi-.
tion we were when we struck" said
one man wearing the button of the
cattle butchers local.. "The laborers
had been out from 18 cents to 177a,
rents an hour and the union voted to
strike to get back the agreement that
expired May 2S. Now the men &c
back to work-or as many of them as
can get back-an3 the wage question
is to be left TO arbit1 alton, after all.
A statement relative to the strike
settlement was issued during the day,
carrying the signatures of the pack
ers who signed the peace memoran:
dunn. The statement is as follows:
Packers Explain Settlement.
lnGE0 SGSluS w VIC SS1A1S
standing of the strike settlement IN
some quarters upon which the pubic
should be set right. The main point
under discussion and upon which
settlement hung for several days was
the question of retaining the nonunlon
men hired by the packers to take the
places of those on strike. This point
was insisted on by the packing com
panies and until conceded by Mr.. Don
nelly no settlement could have been
made. In the agreement made the
packers reserved the privilege OF re
tanning in their employ all the EN-
ployes that were hired while the strike
lasted. This guaranteed to those the
fair treatment they deserve and gain
ed for the packers one of the points
for which they contended and fol
which they stood out so long.
",rhe privilege of arbitration within
the time limit of forty-five days covers
the question of discrimination and is
in no way intended to guarantee tc
the striking employees that they will
be taken back and given the places
now filled by nonunion help"
During the afternoon serious dis
turbance occurred in the packinghouse
district, two men narrowly escaping
death as the result of riot. A crowd
gathered in front of saloon and soon
q fight was started. Robert Heating.
an ice dealer, accompanied by two
employees, Clarence Hall and John
White, were passing in an ice wagon,
when some one began shooting. Keat.
ing and Hall were wounded, the for
To- - ,s~hk l>o
which severed an artery. Hall was
shot in the left foot The noise of the
shooting frightened the horses and
they ran away. The mob then dis
persed. There were numerous dis
turbances among bands of strike sym
pathizers and nonunion men, who, ir
fright, had deserted the yards, but nc
one was severely injured and no ar