The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-29
ALL negotiations ARE CLOSED
According to Statement Made by Chicago Packers.
Teamsters Waiting for Word TO Strike An
other Effort Toward Arbitration.
STRIKERS AND SYMPATH|zERS IN UGLY MOOD

Chicago, July 26.-Nine unions Of
tcamsters will go on general sympa-
thetic strike at the stock yards tomor-
row morning This action was decided
upon tonight by the teamsters joint
council and afterwards ratified by the
executive board Of the International
Teamsters, through International Pres
ident Cornelius b. Shea.
The strike includes 600 teamsters
who haul meat and other products and
also embraces other business in the
yards.
In other words no union teamster is
allowed to enter the yards during the
present strike. In effect the strike of
the teamsters promises to tie up the
business of the stock yards.
The unions ordered on strike are:
Packing house teamsters, truck driv-
ers, grocery and meat wagon drivers,
lumber box and shaving teamsters,
bone and tallow teamsters, bakery, pie
and yeast wagon drivers, soda and min
eral water drivers, ice wagon drivers,
railway express drivers and conductors.
The engineers met tonight and voted
not to strike on the ground that 1t
would jeopardiZe the plants. President
Donnelly requested them not to strike
at this time.
Chicago, July ga statement by
the packers this afternoon that all ne
gotiations with the craftsmen now out
on a sympathetic strike are closed and
will under no circumstances be re-op-
ened and statement by President
Golden of the Transfers union that
they were only waiting for word from
headquarters at Indianapolis, which
was expected now at any time, when
the teamsters would join the strikers,
were the two most important an
npuncements Of the day.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon Barney
Cohen, president of the State Fedora
ton of Labor announced that he would
try early tomorrow to bring about an
other conference, looking toward peace
between the opposing sides.
"a new proposition will probably be
submitted" he said "It is all nonsense
that the two sides did not get together
yesterday. don't see where there is
more than a hairsbreadth separating
the packers and the strikers"
In face of the packers statement,
however, Mr.. Cohen's efforts are not
apt to be crowned with success.
The fact is that the packers seem to
be filing the places of the strikers so
rapidly that they feel confident OF soon
being In a position of independence In
so far as union labor is concerned and
in consequence are not apparently car
ing much whether the strike leaders
offer concessions or not.
Your correspondent was told late
this evening by one OF the head men
for Armour & Co. that they had added
275 to their working force since yester-
day and had many more than that
p number of applicants for work. He
had reason to believe that the other
plants were in like position. OF
course the strike officials deny the
truth Of these statements and claim
that not only are the packers not get
ting anywhere near the number OF men
they claim, but that those they are
hiring are mere roustabouts entirely
inexperienced in the line of work for
which they are engaged and that they
are by their bungling work costing the
packers very much more than they are
earning for them.
A statement is printed in an evening
paper as given out by "a prominent
packer which says: "We find that We
are able to operate our plants without
union men and at the same time bt
freed from the continual dissatisfaction
that emanates from organized labor
The Interruptions Of labor unions are
too costly to the commercial world tt
be tolerated much longer
This no doubt means that the presen
strike will be war to the bitter ent
Z SO far as the packers are concerned. 1
their is any suing for peace 1t must b.
done by the strikers themselves, fo
the packers were never before so deter
mined to conduct their own business
as they are now.
The situation tonight remains un
changed at least co far as any settle
ment of the disagreement is concerned
In other respects, however, the chang
is all for the worse. The strikers ar
In ugly mood and the sympathizers ant
unruly element which always hangs o,
to the skirts Of every disturbance o
this nature, are only waiting for al
excuse to inaugurate reign of violenc
for which of course the strikers will
be blamed.
Late this afternoon 32 wagons load
ed with meat were started from tn
yards for the down town district bu
had scarcely scarted before an angr
crowd of strikers swarmed over ther
and despite the efforts of police @
whom there were half hundred, tn