The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-29
STRIKE REACHES
= THE ALLIED TRADES
Stock Handlers, Teamsters, Ma.
chinists and Other Work.
ers Go Out.
PLACES OF MANY FILLED
Efforts in the Direction of Peace Still
Ccntinue, the Labor Organizations
Still Inclining to Be Con-
sentative.

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negotiations broken off. and with all
the allied trades union men employed
at the different plants, With the eXcep-
ton of the teamsters and the station
AIRY engineers. out on strike in SYM
Dathy with the butcher workmen who
quit work two weeks ago. the stock
yards strike had settled down to what
promises to be one of the bitterest
fights between capital and labor in the
history of America.
AS has been threatened for some
time. the allied trades employed in the
packing Industry quit work when called
out to assist the striking butchers in
Their efforts to bring the packers to
terms. In several instances the men
did not wait for the official notification
from their leaders TO so on strike, but
threw down their tools and quit work
of their own Nolition.
The statement was made by Michael
j. Donnelly, president of the butchers
union, that every union mar employed
at the stock yards. with the exception
of the transfers and engineers. a re-
sponded to orders for a general sympa-
thetic strike. The engineers, he de-
clared, would join the strikers INC un-
less there was Il speedy settlement of
the difficulty he said the Transfers
would undoubtedly join their brother
Workmen in their struggle for suprem-
acy According to Mr.. Donnelly, the
strike swelled the number of men who
have quit at the stock yards in Chicago
alone nearly 3d. 900 persons.
Both sides to the controversy declared
hat they We're perfectly satisfied With
the present state of affairs. and hat
they We're willing to make it a fight to
a inish to determine who shall dictate
the terms of a settlement.
Chicago, July 27.-The long threat
ened strike of the miscellaneous trades
at the stock yards, called to assist the
butcher worklmen, began at 10 o'clock
Monday, with the walkout of nearly all
the transfers. machinists, can workers
and $50 m~illwrights and helpers en-
ployed by the seven big packers.
Every IKE stock handler in the yards
quit this morning. The packers team
sters are still at work, but the steam
filters, electricians, plumbers, box
makers, engineers and firemen have
Joined in the general strike. Thousands
of men carrying lunch baskets left the
yards. No disorder was reported.
The Transfers and cattle handlers as
n whole refused to join in the precon-
ference movement so much desired and
urged by President Donnelly, but at
that a large number of them quit quiet
ly and left the yards TO attend the big
mass meeting called for the benefit of
all who had refused to await the result
of further conferences. While these
walkouts We're taking place, confer
ences between the strike representa-
tives and the packers We're held at he
Offices of Nelson Morris e Co., and dele
gates representing the allied trades
We're in session.
More Peace Efforts Possible.
Despite the strongest efforts made by
President Donnelly of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters n Butcher
Workmen, the threatened strike, in
volving not only all the packers at the
stock yards, but the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company itself, was not
called this morning, and developments
indicated that further efforts to estab-
lish peace might prove successful.
The teamsters' governing committee
met early today and decided to make
arrangements to meet the chiefs of the
packing houses. and there was another
conference between the delegates and
chief of the allied trades. Both these
conferences were visited by President
Donnelly,' who demanded that the al
lied trade order Il general strike at
once and let further negotiations come
afterwards.
The first big detection in the great
strike anne when 700 men, including
the scalers and pen cleaners employed
by the Union Stock Yards and Transit
company, refused to work further. The
first to so We're the handlers, fol-
lowed by the Transfers. AS they
passed out of the big gate they We're
greeted with cheers by the thousands
of strikers gathered in the vicinity.
Prior to this large exodus calne small
strikes in the various plants among the
mechanical employees, but these did not
have the effect of tieing up the plants.
AS soon as the union man stepped out,
a nonunion a or a union man who
a deserted the organization, was
there to take his place.
The Days Conference.
Earlier in the day the allied trades
and a committee of eight teamsters
chosen last night to seek peace anew
before permitting the teamsters to
strike, had been urged by President
Donnelly to declare q general strike
and then to seek a further conference
with the packers. There vas a lively
debate, President Golden for the team
sters' governing body declaring his be-
lief that a common sense campaign
would n in peace. He pointed out the
danger of cessation of business at the
stock yards, which he said would be
detrimental to the strikers friends, the
Independent packers, who We're doing
the big packers almost as much dam
az" as anybody else.
But his argument had no weight
with Donnelly. who said: 1.-THE time to
strike is right now. Let US talk about
the Independent concerns and about a
settlement later"
Then it was arranged that Presi-
dent Schardt, representing the Chica-
go Federation Of Labor, and Barney
Cohen, representing the butchers UNI
ion, should joiA the transfers union
committee. to which had been added
John Sheridan, business agent of the
ice wagon drivers. There are 200 ice
wagon drivers employed by the pack
ers, and with their striking it is adj
mitted the packers would nave much
difficulty in getting ice TO their re-
frigerator cars.
Committee Meets the Packers.
The foregoing met the packers, and
the committee of the teamsters had a
joint conference with the allied trades
representatives, and then, with Schardt
and Cohen, went to meet the packers
at the offices of Morris & Co. While
this latter conference was in progress
the sllied trades meeting was con
tinued, the delegates being anxious to
learn the result Of the latest effort to
bring about a settlement.
At the conference at the office of Nor