The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24
So Charges DonneIIy,
Calling Second Strike.
CONFER AGAIN TODAY
DonnelIy Claims That the Packers Be-
gan Picking Men to Return, Setting
Aside Strong Union Men, and
Choosing the Less
Active.
(By the Associated Press.)

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Chicago, July 22.-The stock yards
strike, which was renewed this morn
ing in Chicago and all other points
where the big packing companies have
branches, because the strikers were
dissatisfied with the manner in which
the employees proposed to reinstate
their former employees pending a set
Element by arbitration, will continue
for another day at least. A joint COM
ference between representatives of
both sides to the controversy and rep
resentatives of the allied trades in an
attempt to bring about a peaceable adj
Justment of this second strike was un-
successful, and the meeting was adj
1ourned tonight at $50 O'Clock, with
the understanding that another con-
ference would be held tomorrow morn
ing at 8 o'clock. At today's confer
ence. which lasted five hours, COM
mittee of ten, consisting of five repre-
SentativeS of the packers and five rep
reSentatiVes of the meat butchers un.
ion, was appointed to go over the
whole situation, but the committee
was unable to reach a working basis
with which both sides would be salts
fed.
Whether the difficulty can be salts
factorily settled at tomorrow's meet
ing is problematic, as both the packers
and the strikers maintain that they are
living up to Wednesdays agreement
for "a settlement by arbitration, and
that il is the other side that is re-
sponsible for the renewal of hostilities.
After tonight's adjournment a COM
mittee appointed for the purpose
merely announced that the peace me-
gotiationS today had failed but that
there was still hope that an agree
ment could be reached in the near flu
ture. No written statement of what
transpired in the meeting was given
out, as has been customary at former
conferences, and the committee de-
cllned to give any further information
except that another meeting would be
held tomorrow. Unless settlement is
reached tomorrow the general belief is
that a sympathetic strike of the allied
trades in the packing industry, which
was threatened last week, to enforce
the demand of the strikers will be
called on to assist in the trouble with
the packers for supremacy.
Statement by DonnelIy.
In the following statement given
out tonight by Mr.. Donnelly, president
of the butchers union, the reason why
the strikers refused to return to work
today is given:
"The packers signed an agreement
that there would be no discrimination
in the re-hiring of the men. This was
accepted in good faith. On the return
OF the men this morning they were
lined up like cattle.
The foremen, superintendent and
others walking through the line would
pick out a man and say: You come
up The next man would be pushed
out of line and told that he could not
be used, and it was always the good.
active union men whom they could not
use.
superintendent Pension, of the Ar
mour Canning Department. addressed
the employees in the following Ian
guage this morning.:
"'You went away like cattle and we
Will take you back lilte CATTLE"
According to estimates $3.50 men
were directly affected in Chicago
alone by today's strike. Fully that
number of strikers were on hand at
six o'clock this morning expecting
immediate employment, while others
were expecting reinstatement later.
The cattle butchers had no sooner re-
ported than the charge or discrimina-
ton was raised The butchers left
In body and Mr.. Donnelly's general
order declaring another strike fol-
lowed.
1t was sent to all the employees of
ferent cities affected by the previous
strike and read:
"Order out all the departments
again: companies violated agree
ment."
|Outburst of Rioting.
The first rioting of the day came
when Frank Miller was set upon by
a crowd of strike sympathizers. They
beat him so badly that at the Engle-
wood Union Hospital, where he was
taken, it was said he had little chance
of recovery. Miller was set upon in
front of Armour and Company's plant
and after he had beens kicked almost
to death he was found by pedestrians
who sent for physician. 1t was
found that Miller's skull was frac-
tured and his jaw broken.
Further trouble came when Joseph
Younchs, employed at Nelson Morris
g. Company's plant was taken out of
the yards so that his knee that had
been fractured by the falling of
skid, could be cared for by a physic-
ian. The doctor after attending the
wounded man called an ambulance to
have the sufferer taken back into the
company's improvised hospital in the
yards. The crowd assuming the
YounchS was a nom union man at
tackled the ambulance and upset the
vehicle in an endeavor to reach the
supposed foe.
The Strike at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth. Texas. July 22.-But
four of the strikers applied for work
at the Swift and Armour plalNs here
when the whistle blew. The majority
of men preferred to await to report of
the committee appointed to treat with
the packers. The report of the COM
mittee was not satisfactory to- the
men, being in effect that the packers
would take back only such men as
they could, with no intention of let
ting go those that had been engaged
since the strike began. In the midst
Of a stormy meeting the order of
President Donnelly was read to put
the strike in effect again, and pickets
were at once placed around the plants.
The first attack on non-union man
was at noon. A negro laborer was
attacked. He managed to escape with
out serious injuries. A force of deputy