The San Francisco call., 1904-07-21
ALL PLANTS
TO RESUME
OPERATIONS
Butchers Will Go
Back to Work
To-Day.
Men Who Walked Out Are
to Be Re-GmplOy0d by
the Packers.
Arbitration Board Will Pass Upon
the Questions That Are Now
in Dispute.

CHICAGO, July 20.-The strike Of
packing house employees, begun nine
days ago and which has demoralized
the packing industry, was settled here
tonight at a conference between rep
resentatives of the packers, the officials
of the Meat Cutters Union and repre-
sentatives of all the allied trades en-
ployed at the stockyards. The contro-
versy will be submitted to a board
Of arbitration, both sides agreeing to
abide by whatever decision this board
may reach. Pending the decision the
men will be taken back to work as
rapidly as possible by the packers, and
it Is agreed by the packers that all the
old employees are to be reinstated with
in forty-five days from the date work is
resumed. If any of the former en-.
ployes are still unemployed at the expi-
ration of that time such persons are to
have the privilege of submitting their
cause to the arbitration board for set
tlement.
The strikers will return to work as
soon as they can be notified of the
peaceable adjustment of the trouble,
and it is expected that by Friday
morning everything Will be in normal
shape at all the plants in the different
cities where the employees were on
strike. A half-hour after the decision
had been reached tonight to arbitrate
M. j. Donnelly, the strike leader, had
got into communication by long-dis-
tance telephone with the leaders of the
strikers in outside cities and had noti-
fed them that a satisfactory settle
ment had been reached and directed
the strikers to return to work as soon
as possible.
ALLIED CRAFTS BRING PEACE.
The settlement was brought about
by the allied crafts at the stockyards,
who would have become involved in
the controversy had it continued much
longer. The representatives of these
unions, which embrace about $4,000
men, got together yesterday and sent
a final appeal to the packers, asking
for a three-sided conference to-day in
final effort to arrange some sort of
agreement. This appeal received a
favorable response and to-day's con-
ference was the result.
The agreement entered into between
the representatives of the packers and
strikers follows:
Wages and working conditions of
all employees now on strike to be sub
mitted to arbitration, each party to
this agreement having the privilege of
bringing before the arbitrators for de-
cision any question Of wages or con-
ditions or any other grievance they
may have, and both to abide by the
decision of the arbitrators; the pack
ing companies signing this agreement
to re-engage all employees now out as
fast as possible, without discrimina-
ton. employees to return to work at the
wages received when going on strike
pending the decision of the arbitrators:
arbitrators to consist of three practical
packing house men to be selected as
follows: One representative of the
packing house companies; one repre-
sentative of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America; these two to select a
third member"
DONNELLY YIELDS A POINT.
The agreement reached at to-night,s
conference is practically the same as
the proposition made last Saturday to
the packers by Donnelly. The only
difference is that in Saturdays com
munication Donnelly insisted that the
strikers be taken back to work within
seven days This the packers refused
although they accepted every other de-
mand made by Donnelly When the
men return to work it will he under
exactly the same conditions as pre-
vailed before the strike was declared.
with the exception that the question
of wage scale will be decided by
arbitration