The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-22
STRIKE SITUATION is OM|NOUS|
No More Conferences. and Arbitration Seems Afar
Off, Sympathetic Strikes May Be Ca|led..-Fire.
men Issue UItimatm TO the Packers.
DONNELLY PREPARING ANOTHER MESSAGE

QentS OF chicago are reaplng TlCn
harvest. They are running day and
night with three shifts of men, the
strike officials furnishing all the help
necessary to man the plants for con-
tinuous work.
1t was learned late tonight that
President Donnelly was preparing an
other communication to the packers
embodying what will probably be the
final offer of the strikers to their en-
ployers before the strike settles down
to a siege of endurance.
Should this effort at peaceful set
tlement fail, every employe in every
allied trade in the stock yards will be
called out not only in Chicago but in
every other city now affected by the
strike.
The communication now under pr1p'
aration is understood to embody a new
proposition to which a conference is
asked
The final draft of the communica-
tion will be prepared at meeting be.
tween the officials of the butcher work.
men and stationary firemen to be held
at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. 1t will
suggest that the differences now
standing the way of settlement are
so slight that reasonable action on the
part of both sides to the misunder
standing should bring about har-
monious adjustment.
The strike officials say they do this
with the desire to leave no effort un-
tried that will bring peaceful out
come to what must otherwise result
in a general sympathetic strike which
would certainly cost the employers
many thousands of dollars and cause
the strikers much hardship and suf-
fering.
The decision to propose another. cor
ference was reached after a meeting
between the officials of the strikers
and stationary firemen. The latter had
held a meeting with the packers at
the offices of Nelson Morris & Co.,
at the stock yards. International Sec
retary G. L. Shamp, Business Agent
Joseph Morton and ID. F. Ball, repre-
sented the firemen.s ]. Ogden Armour.
Arthur Meeker, Edward Morris, Louis
F. Swift and Edward Tilden were the
packers present.
The firemen stated that they appear
ed in the role of mediators and also to
assure themselves as to the attitude of
the packers regarding arbitration.
1--WE have always favored arbitra-
tion," the packers replied.
"Well, our stand Is this" said the
firemen, I'VE have always refused to
call sympathetic strikes unless there
is a refusal in our presence to arbi-
trate. Will you meet in joint con-
ference with firemen and butcher
workmen?"
This, according to the firemen was
refused. Then the firemen won't into
conference with President Donnelly
and Secretary Homer ID. Call of the
butcher workmen. Secretary Shamp
and Business Agent Morton gave in
detail the result of the conference.
It was then agreed that another at
tempt should be made to confer with
the packers. Upon the answer of the
packers depends the sympathetic
strike 1t is admitted by the firemen
that they will strike If the last effort
of the butcher workmen for peace Is
refused. President Donnelly has been
authorized by the firemen to inform
the packers of this decision.
The differences between the packers
and union can be told in few words.
The union officials want a definite
time set for the reinstatement of all
the strikers. The packers state they
can give none. One of the reasons
given by the packers for refusing to
specify a particular date is that they
may desire to close some of their
plants.