The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-19
AGAIN TRIES
TO ARBITRATE
Strike Leader Asks For
Conference.
THREAT OF EXTENSION
Allied Trades May Be Called
from Work.
Strike sympathi.crs Set Upon q Work.
man, Crush His Skull and Throw
Him Upon street Car
Track.

Chicago, July 1s.-One more effort
will be made to adjust the butchers
strike by arbitration.
President Donnelly of the striking
unions, will send to the packers anoth-
er letter asking for a conference. In
the history of the strike and will ask
the packers II in their Judgment 1t will
not be better to concede the one point
| In contention than to continue the
| strike. The one point to which allu-
sion is made is the refusal of the pack
| ers to discharge the men they have en-
ployed since the commencement of the
strike and give their places to the men
who walked out.
The communication to the packers
will also suggest that 1t is the belief
of the strikers that they are, as old
employees. deserving of this considera-
ton. II this offer of the union Is re-
jected by the packers. Mr.. Donnelly
declared tonight, the allied trades at
the stock yards, numbering in all about
$4,000 men, will be called out tomorrow
| in an effort to- bring the packers to
terms.
Threat of Another Strike.
Joseph Morton of the stationary fire.
| mems union, called on the packers this
Afternoon and notified them that un-
less there is speedy settlement of the
strike his men will be compelled to
quit work. While no definite answer
| was given Mr.. Morton by the packers,
| he was received by them in such a
| friendly manner that he left the con-
| ference with the belief that there Is
still strong probability of peace and
the determination OF Mr.. Donnelly to
once more open negotiations with the
| packers was the result of the manned
Ito. Oh, xxyov t,,y
them.
According to representatives OF the
packers, the operating forces at the
plants today were about one-haif the
normal strength being fully so per
cent larger than last Saturday. All
the plants, 1t was claimed did a great
deal of killing and there also was a
decided Increase in the amount of
dressed meat shipped out OF the city.
| From the strikers side the statement
is made that Independent plants are do
ing all the work and that the big plants
are not doing 2 per cent of their nor
NAL business.
| Siugged into insensibility by a dog
en- men early today and left for dead
/ on the tracks of the Ashland avenue
lat West Forty-seventh street, Anton
Bartusiakovis, an employee at the Swift
| Packing plant, is dying at the county
hospital His injuries, in the opinion
| Of Inspector Hunt. were inflicted by
| strike sympathizers, and the wheels of
a trolley car.
Broke His Skull.
| The men, according to a witness
who has talked to the police. set upon
Bartusiakovis as he was going home
from work. When they could not make
him join the strikers. they broke his
skull, fractured his jaw. kicked him
about the face. head and body and then
threw him upon the car tracks.
| The motorman of a car approaching
not long afterward saw the body In
time to stop the car. but not before the
wheels had crushed Bartusiakovis
shoulder. The injured man was taken
to the county hospital. He has not re-
gained consciousness. Mrs. w. Cliff
ford. attracted to her window by the
sound of men fighting. saw the attack
and declares she can identity several
| of Bartusiakovis's assailants.
A flank movement by the strikers de-
| veloped to-day in the announcement by
President Donnelly that In conjunction
| with William Sterling, vice president
of the butcher workmen union, John
| Floersh, secretary of the packing
trades council, and Phillip Murphy.
champion butcher of the world" re-
Gently employed by Swift & Co, will
start a small packing house where I'M
ion butchers may secure supplies at
prices which will enable strikers to
purchase meat without contributing to
the profits OF the big packers. Cattle
| and hogs have already been bought,
| President Donnelly asserted the plant
secured and operations are scheduled
| to begin tomorrow.