The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-25
WILL FIGHT
TO FINISH
Meat Cutters 60 Out
Today.
PACKERS ARE DETERMINED
Transfers Will Try to ACT as
MediatOrS.
All Union Men In Packing inou'
Eater Sympathetic Strike with
Union La

Chicago. July 24-Determined on a
fight to a finish to enforce the demands
of the striking butchers, sympa-
thetic strike of all the union workmen
employed in the meat packing INDUS
try throughout the country, with the
exception of the teamsters. will he de-
clared tomorrow morning at 7'o'clock.
Instead of joining in the sympathetic
strike tomorrow, the teamsters will
make another effort to bring about an
adjustment of the controversy by arbi-
tration.
This decision was reached late to-
night at a meeting of the joint coun-
eli of teamsters' unions throughout
Chicago. who met to consider the In
dorsement of a decision reached this
afternoon by the packing house team
sters' union to quit work with the 9TH
er allied unions The decisions of the
stock Yards teamsters was almost
unanimous in favor of striking, but as
1t is necessary, according to the rules
of the teamsters. all the union team
tiers in the employ of the packers Will
remain at work during the struggle Ut
until the joint council gives their per
mission to strike. should their efforts
to settle the better by conciliatlon To-
morrow prove futile.
The committee appointed at tonight
meeting were notified to get into COM
municat ton tomorrow morning as ear
ly as possible with the packers. Wheth-
er the teamsters' efforts for peace Will
prove successful none of the packers
representatives who were commune
Gated with tonight would say.
The decision to make another enort
for peace was reached at such late
hour tonight that it was Impossible lor
the packers to get together or an an :
swer would have been given to the IN
termediary tomorrow. the reason
given by the teamsters' council TOT
their action is that they have never
before been consulted in the present
trouble. and that before they wouia
sanction a strike of the stock yaru
teamsters they wished to make an OF
fciai investigation of the troupie pc
fore asking the international omcers
OF the union to officially order the men
on strike a,,b-
n,, the hackers or the labor leaders.
~ {ointlv. in an effort to reach an au-
sustnent of the controversy. both
sides rested today apparently Waitine
Cor tomorrow's developments. Whe'h-
or or not the packers would MAKE any
concessions to the demands OF the Id
bor leaders in order 10 prevent a gen
arai walkout Of the trades at the stoch
,ro,ld not be discussed by any
- the hacking house representatives
,odav but from the preparations golns
Nv at the different plants during .ne
dav II was plainly evident that the
nockers intended to fight for their IN
dependence so,,,raa that
thew would await tomorro"s oeVeiop
1+s before considering further nego-
.n.,s.s onA that the packers would
go to make the request for resump-
,,on of peace negotiations, as the
,n;ors had no intention at present time
of doing so.
preparing for Struggle.
Preparations for the struggle whlcn
,s expected to reach climax tomor-
row morning. were oeing ,haue ~ -
direrent packing plants all during the
Sav and far into the night. Dozens OF
CONSERVATIVES of the packing houses
xyere scattered all over the country TO-
dav in search of men to NIL the places
of the strikers.
rour train loads of new employees
we're taken to the yards before uarh
ness set in. to join the non-unlQn men
already established inside the plants
SiarLs were being initiated into new
duties and employees who had been pro-
NOTED from the butchering trades were
returned to their former work TO take
the places of the regular workers VINO
IRE expected to work tomorrow
Etockades have been erected at all the
different plants to protect men whose
work exposes them to danger from mob
violence.
All through the stock yards there
wore not only evidences of prepare
lions for a long and bitter struggle
hut superintendents of the packing es-
Establishments, police officers and union
leaders gave expression to anticipa-
ton of troublous times to come.
chief of Police O'Neil who spent the
day making plans for tomorrow. sald
mo one knows what will happen
The opportunity is here for one of the
greatest labor contests in the country
and apparently there is no hope for
ayerting it. The police will be able to
handle the situation, however, without
outside assistance, no matter Wnat
happens"
In addition to the four trains hlled
with non-union men brought into the
Yards to-day under police protection
MANY other trains loaded with men
who had been secured during the past
twenty-four hours were scheduled to
arrive before daylight. with the
number of men already installed with
in the stock yards and the assistance
of clerks and Office men TO the killing
rooms, work will be resumed in all
-
extensive scale possible.
Temporarily the packers will at
tempt only to handle dressed beef, pork
and mutton, allowing the by-products
to go to waste. They say, however
that as fast as the necessary workmen
can be obtained. these departments
where the by-products are taken care
of will be opened up for business.
Another handicap the packers will
meet with in the morning is scarcity
OF live stock. Commission men for the
past week have been flooding the coun-
try with messages advising shippers
not to send any stock to the market
1t also developed today that commits
sion men during last week bought all
the livestock they could and shipped
II out to the country in the vicinity OF
Chicago to be fed until after the strike
is settled AS soon as the strike Is
settled the intention is to rush this
stock back to Chicago and 1t is be-
lieved exorbitant prices can be OBJ
tanned.
An estimate of the amount OF live