Gilpin observer., 1904-07-28
BIG STRIKE NOW ON
ALLIED TRADES At STOCK YARDS
QUIT WORK.
Teamsters and Stationary Engineers
the Only Ones at Work and They
/ Will Go Out In Sympathy Later if
/ 1t Becomes Necessary.

It Becomes Necessary.
Chicago, July 26.-With all peace
negotiations broken off and with all
the allied trades unions employed at
the different plants, with the excep-
tion of the teamsters and the station
a.y engineers out on strike in sympa-
thy with the butcher workmen, who
quit work two weeks ago. the stock
yards strike has 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 on to assist the striking butch
ers in their efforts to bring the pack
ers to terms. In several instances the
men did not wait for the official noti-
fication from their leaders to go on
strike, but threw down their tools and
quit work of their own volition. The
statement was made by Michael j.
Donnelly, president of the butchers
union. that every union man employed
at the stock yards, with the exception
OF the teamsters and engineers, had
responded to orders for general SYM
Spathetic strike. The engineers, he
Z declared, would join the strikers to-
day. and unless there was a speedy
settlement of the difficulty, he said,
the teamsters would undoubtedly join
their brother workmen in their strug-
gle for supremacy. According to Mr..
Donnelly, the number of men who
have quit work at the stock yards in
Chicago alsne is nearly 10000 persons.
Both sides to the controversy de-
clared that they were perfectly salts
fed with the present state of affairs
and that they were willing to make it
fight to e finish to determine who
shall dictate the terms of a settlement.
The independent companies have
been served with notice that their en-
ployes will not handle sny stock
driven into the yards by nonunion men
The second conference of the team
sters' union with the packers was
without result. President Golden has
wired the members of the interna-
tional teamstcrs' council asking per-
mission to call sympathetic strike
of the teamsters. the last union to re-
frain from joining the struggle
against the packers.
Despite the sympathetic strike, all
the plants worked up to the regular
time, although at reduced capacity.
At Armour's plant it was claimed that
1850 hogs, 700 cattle and 200 sheep
had been slaughtered during the day.
At the other six plants a correspond
ing amo.nt of work was accomplished.
The receipts of live stock here were
unusually small. being but 5000
cattle. 5000 hogs and 5000 sheep.
To complicate the strike situation
still more the allied trade unions
which went on a sympathetic strike
held a meeting and signed an agree
ment that none of the unions would re-
turn to work until the packers had
signed working agreements with each
union represented at the yards. AS
the majority of labor organizations
had been working without an agree
ment before, settlement of the SYM
pathetic strike, 1t is expected. will be
great deal more difficult than the
adjustment of the difficulty with the
butcher workmen, the original strik-
ers. II the unions live up to their
pledge with each other 1t means that
all the unskilled workmen must be
granted working agreements with the
packers before resuming work. With
the packers in their present state of
mind it is believed they will never
agree to accept such a proposition,
and they would prefer to close their
To
cede such a demand.
With a detachment of policemen on
each car. six treinloads of nonunion
men were unloaded at the stock yards
to take the places of strikers. A ma
jority of the men we're taken TO the
plants of Armour & Co. and Nelson
Morris &, Co. These new arrivals. 1t
was said by the packers representa-
tives, brought the number of new en-
ployes distributed among the plants
to more than 1000. The disturbances
in the vicinity of the stock yards were
numerous. The police were on the
alert, however. and in each case the
rioters were dispersed before they
had been able to seriously injure any
of their intended victims.
Mayor Harrison defined the position
OF the municipal Authorities as fol-
lows: "There Is nothing in the situa-
tion now to call for interference in
the strike. However. II there should
be a severe meat famine on the one
side or disorder on the other. that
would justify Intervention on the part
of the city officials"
South Omaha Strike Conditions.
South Omaha, July 26.-up to this
morning the mechanics employed at
the South Omaha houses had no. re-