Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-16
PACKERS OBDURATE
Tell Mayor Harrison Joint
Conference is Needless.
NO PEACE PROSPECTS
DECLARE THAT THEY HAVE
ALREADY WON THE STRIKE.
State Further They Cannot Afford to
Be Dominated by Employees
Labor Leaders Defiant.
NO PEACE PROSPECTS

CHICAGO, August 16.-Despite the may.
or's Intervention, prospects for peace in the
packing house strike were far from reas-
surfing today. The packers, at meeting
held last night IN Swift & Co.'S Offices APP
pointed a committee consisting OF Edward
Tilden. Thomas r. Wilson and Thomas f.
Connors to represent them at conference
with the mayor, but today an official of
one of the big companies poured cold water
on the enterprise by declaring there was
nothing earth the mayor could do" to
bring about a settlement. The packers atti-
tude was that while nothing Of benefit could
result from a meeting with the mayor, 1t
would not do to refuse to go to the city
hall.
On the other hand, the strike leaders
we're equally antagonistic President Dom
nelly declared he did not expect to be pres-
ent at the time the conference was to
meet. President Donnelly said his reason
was that at the hour named he had TO ao-
dress the Hog Butchers Union.
Donnelly Defiant.
"And the hog butchers are a great deal
more important to me than the mayor,
said the head of the strikers. Harrison
was too long getting in. He has heard
our say for fair police treatment and has
ignored it, He need not think that now he
can snap his fingers or whistle and have US
come to do his bidding.
without waiting for the time set the
packers sent a committee to Mayor Harm
son and informed him it would do no soou
to arrange a joint conference with the
strike leaders. The committee contehneo
that the packers had already won the
strike and had no reason 10 meet 'he
strikers.
The packers told the mayor that he
should consider that they controlled Chi
cago's greatest industry and had such vast
Sf11r h1f
dominated by their employees; that they
wanted to be fair: that prices of meat had
not been raised and would not be raised
because of the strike that they could not
accept anybody's Intervention
Mayor Harrison's Reply.
The mayor is reported to have said In
reply that he was satisfied his good offices
were useless and that he would make no
further effort to bring about meeting be-
tween the packers and the strikers.
Charged with threatening the life OF Da-
vid Levi nephew of Nelson Morris OF Nell
son Morris & Co, and also superintend-
ent at the stock wards, b. Capek was ar
rested on a warrant sworn out before JUS
tice Quinn.
Levi alleged that Capek is striking
butcher and that he had taken charge OF
clothing belonging to a non-union work
man. Levi said that when he attempted
to secure possession of the clothing he was
threatened with death by Capek.
The warrant was then issued and Capek
arrested.
Leaders Confer With Harrison.
During the day, after announcement had
been made of the declaration of the pack
ers to the mayor that a joint conference
was useless, President Donnelly of the
Butchers Union, accompanied by Matthew
Carr of the Coopers' Union, who is on the
strike conference board. and John ]. Fitz-
IL. for fha
ton of Labor, appeared at the city hall
and went into consultation with Mayor
Harrison.
Workmen Declared Merely Guests.
CHICAGO, August 16.-ln response to re-
quest from the city building department and
Health Commissioner Reynolds, the heads
of the various packing companies today
made affidavits that they are not conduct
ing lodging houses, boarding houses or
hotels for their workmen. This was nee
essary to show that the law, which says
such places must be conducted for con-
sderation, was not being violated. The
packers declare the strike breakers are
merely guests. The housing of the strike
breakers inside the plants is not called for
in the labor contracts and causes no dimi.
mutton in compensation.
Watchman Shoots Recklessly Into
Crowd.
Accused Of being stock yards strike
breaker Robert E Close, watchman for
the Santa Fe railroad fired eight shots Tito
n crowd of men standing near the Archer
avenue bridge and wounded two of them.
One of his victims, Frank Holloran, was
wounded In the side, and is at the county
hospital but the other. Andrew Bloom,
seventy years old. refused to desert his
post at the crossing of the Chicago and
Alton tracks. although he had a bullet in
his thigh. Close was arrested
Both OF the wounded men we're taken to
he be removed to hospital. 1t not
SO with Bloom
mo, l must go back to my station" he
said. After the trains all have gone
through, then, maybe, I'll go To the nos
pital, but until then l cannot leave.
To the remonstrance of the police he re-
piled:
Il have been shot before. / list my arm
at the battle of Antietam, and | carried a
bullet in my side for nine days. This hurts,
but / must get back to my post.
The shooting caused by a mistake.
Close was patroling the tracks of the
Santa Fe road near Ashland avenue, he
says, when he boys stealing from a
freight car. He followed them to the
Archer avenue bridge. where the men were
standing Some shouted thai he was
a strike-breaker, and Holloran tried to
stop him.
Close became enrsged and drew his pis-
toll firing first at Holloran and then into
the crowd which promptly scattered.
MADE FIRST MOVE