New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-01
ROGERS, PEET & COMPANY
PACKERS ADD 1000 MEN.
GET SKILLED L4BORERS.
Union Leaders Issue Il Statement
Fight to a Finish.

Chicago. July 31.-Both the packers and the
strikers spent to-day in strengthening any weak
spots that could be found in their defences
preparatory to another week of effort TO bring
their opponents to terms. Notwithstanding that
it Sunday. all the plants We're operated in
the forenoon to get rid of the live stock left
over from last week. The remainder of tha
day spent by the employers in installing
new men in the strikers places and arranging
many Of the small details which had been over
looked last week in the heat of the conflict.
More than one thousand men added
to-day to the number already at work in the diff
ferent plants Among to-day's arrivals were
many skilled laborers. something the packers
have been sadly in need OF since the strike
started. The packers have experienced little
difficulty in procuring all the unskilled men
necessary 10 operate the plants TO their full ca
pacity but there has been a decided scarcity of
skilled workmen. and for this reason the by
products of all animals killed have been let go
to waste, Beginning tomorrow. three of the
firms announced tonight that they would be
able to operate these divisions. Enough skilled
men have been procured in the last forty-eight
hours TO justify the belief that all the by-prod-
uct plants will be in full operation by the end
of the week,
The strike leaders spent the greater part Of
to-day in preparing a statement 10 the public
In this the unioIists explain their side of the
controversy. declaring that it is the packers and
not the men who are responsible for the present
state of affairs in the packing industry The
public is asked 10 he patient with the men dur
ing the struggle. it being declared that it would
be impossible for the men 10 return to work
under the conditions which existed before tn.
strike was called. and that up to the present
the packers have shown disposition to meet
the strikers in a fair manner According to this
statement. the men viii stay on strike until
their unions disrupted or until the packers
surrender
In a fight at the Nelson Norris plant this
afternoon between Andrew Simms and John
Davis both non-union workmen from New-Al-
bany. Ind. Simms was stabbed and killed He
was a waiter in the improyised dining room
which has been fitted up for the strike break
ers Davis was cook for the same concern
While eating dinner to-day they quarreIled over
the food In the fight that followed Davis was
getting decidedly the worst Of it. and. drawing
knife. stabbed Smms three times Sirnrns
died in the hospital Two hours later. and Davis
was arrested
The police and a mob Of strike sympathizers
clashed tonight in the vicinity Of the stock
yards. The disturbance was caused by two
hon-union men who entered a saloon and asked
Tor drink where a crowd Of the strikers
friends had congregated. When the bartender
went 70 serve the strike breakers. the other
men IN the place protested and a fight followed
several policemen ran TO the saloon and put out
the attacking party
The doors of the place were barricaded but
the rioters. being reinforced ny several hundred
OF their friends returned TO renew the attack
\ riot call VAS sent in. bat before the patrol
wagon with squad of policemen arrived the
saloon had been partly wrecked. II was neces.
sary for The police TO fire volley from their
revolvers over the heads Of the rioters before
they desistao In their attack on the place With
the exception II bruises and scratches no one
was seriously injured