The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-18
CHICAGO SCENE
OF STRIKE RIOT
Three Men Injured in the Fight,
One Fatally.
NO CHANGE IN SITUATION
BOTH SIDES APPEAR DETER
MINED TO WIN.
10 CHANGE IN SITUATION

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Chicago, July lin a fight p
= growing out Of the meat packers ?
= strike at the stock yards this =
= afternoon three men were in =
= jured, one fatally.
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CHICAGO, July 17.-There was little
If any change in the situation of
the meat packers strike here
today. With NJ. J. Donnelly. the
strikers leader in St. Louis look
ing after that end, there was no
effort made 20 renew the peace
negotiations which lasted through
three days last week and were terrli-
mated last night without results
Whether another attempt to reach an
adjustment Of the controversy by
arbitration viii be made is problematic
as the packers believing they had the
better of the argument in last weeks
conferences. are little inclined to offer
any concessions TO the strikers One
thing is certain, the packers say, and
that is that they will not Fecede from
the position they assumed last week
and that the strikers viii have To con-
fore any further peace plans looking
10 settlement by arbitration viii be
successful. To add TO the packers
determination to stand firm is the fact
that they have steadily increased their
working force at the plants until to-
day it was said that things were in
almost normal condition at several
plants. Under these conditions the
packers have assumed a more indeDen-
dent attitude and are more determined
tonight than ever that they and not
the strikers shall dictate the terms on
which the controversy shall be arbi-
trated.
No Hope Of Settlement.
AS the strikers declare that they
conceded every point possible in last
weeks negotiations there is little likeii-
hood that any further conferences for
The present, at least, would amount to
much toward a satisfactory settlement
OF the strike
The point to the whole question of
arbitration is the Reinstatement of the
strikers. Mr.. DonneIly. Yesterday.
waived every other demand he had
made, and agreed 10 order the men
back to work leaving the adjustment
or all differences to arbitration. if the
employers would take hack all the
strikers in a body. This the hackers
refused TO do 50, maintaining that
Laey mad many new men since the
strike began whom they could not dis
charge- They promised, however. 10
take back the old employees as rapidIv
as possible and in the order in which
their applications were fled. = ne
union officials declare that they viii
never accept this proposition, a. they
say II would mean the disruption OF
the union.
To complicate the controversy stiu
more the Allied craft at the stock
yards, mum bering 1900 wOrkmen. have
become restless and are anxious +o
JON the men already out in a svrnna-
theuc strike. Whether these men win
20 on strike or not viii be decided to-
morrow when Mr.. Donnelly returns
from St. Louis.
These unions, representing thirty Il
tne mechanical trades in the pacIzinf-
gtdhts, nave decided to quit work If
Ar. DonnelIy says so.
First Serious TroubIe.
In an attack this afternoon on fou,
colored strike kers by a mob com
posed Of spectators at an amateur base
bail game IN the vicinity of the stock
yards, Two white men, one policeman
and four strike breakers We're severely
injured. Revolvers and knives zvare
used and three Of the injured men are
III q SttAouS CONDITION.
The Injured.
William Durand. shot in jaw and
neck, condition serious.
James kiely, stabbed in left side.
near heart, may die
Policeman J. ". Sweeney. sfr77ol- IN,
head and back by bricks while trvi1q-
70 quel disturbance, severely cut and
john Hunter, colored. face and mel b
slashed with knife, severely besfeT [
about body. N'11-
Grant Baker, coIored. SEVERELY or+ !
about head and body.
samuel Wood, cOlored, cut and
beaten, condition serious.
william Riley. coIOred, face cut and
bruised about body.
Colored Men Attacked. (
After finishing their days work at
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger's pIanf
me -FOUR colored strike breakers on
thelr way home had TO mass tn
grounds where the game was i'm nro-
gIess. There were fully 900 persons I
watching the game, most all of whom .
We trends Of the men who went on 4
strike last week
As the four wOrkmen approaches the
pace some one in the crowd ve1led /
scdos and instantly a rush was made
Tor the negroes Wood had a revolver
ana Baker knife and as the mon
started Tor them they drew their
weapons. Before they could use them
however, they were knocked fo ~
ground by dozen white men. Baker
scrambled 10 his feet and began slash
ing right and left and before the Lnifa
cooio De taken away from him he
mad stabbed Kiely. Wood fired INFO the
crowd while lying on the ground Two
OF the bullets hit Durand, one Of The
STACKING party This opposition OF
the negroes set the crowd in FRENZY
ana had not the police made a quick
response 10 a riot call some of the
men would undoubtedly have beau
Allieo. As it was they were thrown to
the ground and knocked insensibIa he
l lte the police could scatter the crowd. /
several Of the rioters. together y-itb
~ God and Baker, were arrested
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