The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-28

board Of trade, is the man who pro
 poses to, do what the state board of arbitration failed to accomplish. MT.
 Walker was in consultation tonight with the leaders of the allied trades union and several Of the packers.
 He stated that he had mede con-
 siderable progress toward the desired
 conference, and that it was his firm be- lief that before tomorrow night he would be able to announce that his mis- sion had been a success.
 Members of the Meat Dealers asso- ciation of Chicago held a meeting to- day with the intention of asking Mayor
 Harrison to intervene in the strike,
 but as only a few members of the as
 sociation responded to the call no ae- ton was. taken. E
 Police rule, was to-day declared in the stock yards district. Beginning this afternoon no one was allowed to tra- verse the streets in the vicinity of the
 stock yards unless good cause could be shown for doing so. This to great
 extent put stop to the picketing by the strikers, which had been going on
 all day up to the time the order was
 given. When night came the police
 were complete masters of the situation lin the district. No one was allowed to loiter in the streets and any per sons, whether striker or not, who stopped near the entrances to the yards was sure to be told to move on. A rain and hail storm which broke lover the stock yards district during the afternoon caused much confusion in the | Hive stock pens. With not an adequate number of drivers to handle the ami mals under. ordinary conditions, when l the hail began to fall the frightened animals ran about the yards completely beyond the control of the inexeperiencF Fed drivers. It required nearly three hours to bring order out of chaos: Dur 1 ing the excitement several persons were
 seen to escape from the yards with live sheep in their arms These men were E said to be friends of the strikers, who took advantage of the opportunity to secure q little fresh meat.
 | At least 100 new employees were talk en into the yards to-day and put tc work. A conservative estimate of the humber of the animals slaughtered to- day by the. different plants placed ot al about one-half of the amount disposed of under, normal condttfurls.
 The latest acquisition to the strikers came this afternoon when 150 horse slioers and stable men struck.
 An unexpected complication arose to- might when the freight handlers em- ployed at the stock yards station of the Chicago Junction railroad went on strike. The men gave as their reason
 for quitting work their unwillingness
 to handle meat turned out by non-un.
 ion workmen in the packing plants l While the number employed at this sta. tion is only forty men, still their de cision to go on strike is a severe blow l to the packers, as the greater portion
 of the dressed meats shipped from tht yards to the local trade passes through the hands of these men.
 Kansas City Mo, July 27 There vii
 be no sympathetic strike of the allied trades unions whose members are em-
 ployed at the local packing houses un. til the men are ordered out by the in. ternational union. when, the men say they will obey the order. This was de
 cided at meeting of the Central La. i Dor union tonight.
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