New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-27
RIOTS BEGIN IN EARNEST.
CHICAGO STRIKER SHOT.
The Transfers Ordered Out-No
Signs of Settlement.

Chicago. July 26.-Little If any advantage
was gained by either side in the stockyard
strike to-day, and there is no hope tonight
of any immediate settlement of the difficulty.
Realizing that they have one Of the hardest
propositions TO contend with in the history of
the packing industry the packers are leaving
nothing undone to gaiE the upper hand in the
struggle with their thirty thousand union en-
ployes who are on strike. All day long work
men from outside points we're rushed TO Chi
Cago and taken to the stockyaTds under police
protection to fill the places Of the strikers To-
night it was announced by the packers that
seven thousand new men installed in the
different plants at the stockyards. With these
men and with the arrivals expected each day
the packers expect TO get their affairs in such
shape that the strikers will be compelled to
ask a truce and seek peaceabIe settlement at
the dictation of the employers.
With all the union workmen out strike.
with the exception of the packing house team
sters the only additions to-day to the ranks of
the strikers were about one hundred teamsters
who quit work as individuals preferring 10 do
this rather than wait for an officia order TO
walk out. and the mattresses In the restaurants
the stockyards o"~t~7iled by the packing
companies.
A negro barber. about to get on a street car
a
dragged to the street by mob and beaten until
unconscious, When the police arrived they an
nounced that the colored man dead. hut in
the course OF hour n was revived by ply
scians and will recover. The mob under
the impression that the barber was employed in
some Of the packing plants, and without waiting
TO ask any questions. attacked him before he
could offer explanation.
PREPARATION FOR TRANSFERS STRIKE.
Convinced that the teamsters intended to 60
out. the packers to-day decided 70 send all their
teams to the country where the horses may ex-
erclse in open pastures. In addition. they formed
a plan by which the necessity for horses may he
avoided. The packers say that they will ship
all their meat out of the yards by rail the va
rous branch storehouses throughout the city
and the butchers viii he told 10 come in their
wagons and get their meat from the branches
Kumors Of renewed efforts to settle the diff
ficuty by arbitration were thick to-day. but
upon investigation they, were found TO be with =
out foundation When questioned regarding the
situation tonight. Michael ]. DonnelIy. leader
of the strike. said.
have no hope of an immediate settlement
The night is on. and the only thing can do
now is to stick to the end
The union organizations recalled their ulti-
matum issued yesterday prohibiting their mem
hers employed In the Independent plants from
killing livestock purchased in the stockyards.
where the animals are being handled by non
uninn employees. The labor leaders took this
step after the Independent packers had pointed
out to them that II such order was carried
out II would be benefit 10 the packers.
STRIKER FATALLY WOUNDED.
While an attack was being made on some col
ored strike breakers as they leaving the
stockyards tonight, John Stokes. Of the
strikers. was shot and fatally wounded by one
of the negroes. Stokes. with fully hundred
companions it Is said rushed the negroes
and one of the colored men drew revolver and
fired into the crowd. hitting Stokes. The police
we're close at hand and succeeded In scattering
the rioters after considerable difficulty.
The officers of the International Transfers
Union gave their belated sanction to the team
sters joining their brother workmen tonight
and the 700 drivers employed i'm the packing In
dustry will quit work tomorrow With the
union teamsters out. every union organization
represented in the Chicago packing plants will
be on strike.
Police Chief O'Neil, who has taken personal
charge of the $40 policemen detailed 10 stock
wards duty said tonight that the police had the
strike situation well in hand and that they
would be abe+to control the strikers and their
friends When Mayor Harrison was asked to-
attempt to stop the strike. he said that for the
present at least the matter would be under
control of the police department and that as
vet the strike was purely an affair t, he looked
after by the police.
MANY RIOT CALLS.
Riot calls were sent in from a rumber of
points to-day. Many arrests were made and.
altogether the days of peace seemed doomed
for some time. II was a whooping day for
the strikers Twenty of Swift & Co.'S team
sters eight for the Armour, three for the Anglo
American and for the Omaha Packing
Company. we're stopped to-day at a single gate
of the yards by strike pickets. Each teamster
went TO President Golden. of the Teamsters'
| ITnion with complaint, saying that they had
To Quit TO save their lives. At meeting of the
Tearnsters Union tonight. after the session of
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