The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-07-23
SIRIKERS UUI AGAIN
Chicago Meat Workers War
Renewed.
EMPLOYERS CHARGED WITH FRAUD
president DoRnelIy Has Ordered All
hen out In Chicago and other
Cities-CaIIs ON Allied Trades
to Quii work.

&AAAGs-Nhiis Oi hAiAtu
to Quit work.
CHICAGO, July % - The packing
house strike was today ordered renew.
ed in Chicago and all other cities. Vic
laton of agreement by the packing
house proprietors is assigned as the
reason.
President Donnely also requested
leaders of all allied trades to order out
their men on sympathetic strike.
President Donnelly, after charging
the packers with fraud, calling the
workmen out on a second strike and
asking for second walkout of the
allied trades, said:
Il shall demand that all go out with
the butchers, and we will make the
packers realize before they get through
that they have gone too far. The men
feel that they have been skinned and
OWED We will win rs surely as there
| is a Cod
Following meeting the Chicago
packers issued the following statement:
much to our surprise, the men, after
reporting for work ana after getting
| started in nearly all the houses were
! ordered out again.
1T is the intention of the packers to
! carry out their agreement in every
particular, and if any house has given
cause for grievance the same can be
and any future grievance will be read
lily adjusted
The various unions that would be af-
/ fcctcd by sympathetic strike have al
ready voted to walk out ut the discre-
ton Of their leaders.
The following telegram was sent by
President Donnelly TO all the employees
of the various packing houses in the
different cities affected by the previous
strike:
Order out all the departments again.
Companies violated agreement"
Three thousand cattle butchers re-
ported at the stoCkyards here for work.
Only half of them were given places.
Thereupon all refused to work They
reported in body at their union head
quarters. The general order for a re-
newal OF the strike was soon forthcom-
ing.
The first rioting came when a man,
Frank Miller, was set upon by crowd
of strike sympathiZers. They beat him
so badly that at the Englewood Union
hospital, where he was taken il was
said he had little chance of recovery.
Further trouble came when Joseph
Younichs, employed at Nelson, Morris
Il Cos plant was taken out of the
yards so that his knee which had been
fractured by the falling of skid,
could be cared for by physician. The
doctor, after attending the wounded
man. called an ambulance to have the
sufferer taken back into the company's
| improyised hospital in the yards.
A crowd, assuming that Younichs
was nonunion man, attacked the am
bulance and nearly upset the vehicle
in an endeayor to reach the supposed
foe, With drawn revolyers two police
men and the doctors defended their
charge, the doctor declaring tn the
strike sympathizerS that the wounded
man was a fellow unionist. This took
time and the defenders had to with
stand a siege till help came from the
stockyards police station, a consider
able distance.
jules Ontario a nOnunon man. was
dragged from a street car by eight
strike sympathizers, He was set upon
and beaten by "A crowd which diSpers-
ed at the arrival of the police. on
tario will recover.
| The joint conference between repre-
scntatives Of the meat packers and
1 the meat butchers union failed to
reach an agreement last night in an
effort to adjust the stockyards strike,
| and another conference has been ar
ranged for today.
/ Unless settlement is reached then
/ the general belief is that a sympathetic
/ strike of the allied trades in the pack
ing industry, which was threatened
the strikers, will he called. All these
unions have signiied their willingness
to stand by the butchers If they are
called on to assist in the struggle with
/ the packers for supremacy.
In the following statement given ont
by Mr. Donnelly, president of the
butchers union, the reason why the
strikers refused to return to work is
! given:
THE packers signed an agreement
that there would be no discrimination
in the rehiring of the men. This was
accepted by the officers of the organi-
zation in good faith. On the return Of
the men they were lined up like cattle