Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-04
EASTERN PACKERS TELL THEM
CONFERENCE WOULD be
MAsTE OF TIME.
Daoc All PEACE ovfRIURts
BELIEVED THAT MEN ARE NOW
ANXIOUS TO GET BACK
TO WORK.

Chicago, July 81. - Unable to ar.
range conference with the represen-
tatives of the New York packers, M.
j. Donnelly, president Of the Amalga.
mated Meatcutters and Butcher
Workmen of America, has ordered a
strike Of all the members of his or
ganization employed in New York by
SchwarZchild & Sulzberger and the
United Dressed Beef company. The
decision to extend the strike to the
East was not taken until after Mr..
Donnelly and his associates had spent
the day in fruitless effort to arrange
meeting with representatives of the
Eastern packers who came to Chicago
Thursday night to acquaint them
selves with the situation here The
general belief was that the New York
packers had come West to make
terms with the butchers, but If such
was the case they
Changed Their Minds
after Investigating the progress that
had been made here in working the
packing plants with non-union en-
ployes. At o'clock last night when
Homer D. Call, secretary of the ma
tional organization of the butcher
workmen. made final appeal over
the telephone to the representatives
'Of SchwarZchild & SulZberger for a
meeting between the members of that
firm and the officers of his union, he
was told that the Eastern packers had
nothing to offer the men should
meeting be arranged, and that the
conference would only be a waste of
time. When this announcement of
the Eastern packers had been COM
municated to Mr.. Donnelly he decided
on the strike order.
That the probabilities of settle
ment by the opposing interests in
Chicago are as remote as ever was
plainly demonstrated yesterday when
Henry G. Wallace of Des Moines,
Iowa, and A. l.. Ames of Buckingham,
Iowa, called on the different packers
with a proposition from the strike
leaders
Offering to Ccncede
the most important point in the con-
troversy if the employers would agree
to renew peace negotiations. Mr..
Wallace and Mr.. Ames were told by
tho hot
BILE chance for any further conc!lia-
tory move; and that the packers were
now in q position where they could
ignore the labor unions and that they
proposed to do so.
From statement made by Presi-
dent Donnelly last night it would ap-
pear that the men are becoming anx-
ious to get back to work.
'We shall be glad to confer with
representatives of the packers at any
time" said Mr.. Donuelly while l
cannot say that our position is in any
way changed, we are not anxious to
keep up running fight and shall Re
glad if settlement can be effected"
Following the arrest of George F.
Golden. chief of the packing team
sters' Union. for picketlng. riots be-
came mere frequent in the vicinity of
the stock yards yesterday afternoon.
Strikers Become Riotous.
In one disturbance a mob captured
a loaded meat wagon after it had left
the stock yards, upset the wagon and
threw the meat into the street. The
most serious riot of the day occurred
in South Chicago. where Ave men
were arrested for trying to prevent the
delivery of meat. Although the strik.
ers and their frieras became very
boisterous when :; became known
that Golden had hcen arrested, and |
made all sorts of threats, no one was
seriously injured in am of the many
that occurred. The pc.
lice have the situation so well in |
hand that before the woulds5e rioters
can get fairly started in their purpose
they are scattered by the bluecoats in |
all directions.
More business was done yesterday |
by the packers than at any time since |
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