The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-21
Striking WOrkmen Carried the Point for Which
They Were Holding Out
THEY GET THEIR PLACES BACK
Within Forty-five Days the Packers Agree to Give
the Strikers Back Their Jobs-Question of the
Wage Scale Is to Be Left to Arbitration
Plants Will Resume Work With Old Labor.
and Are Expected to BE Operating in
Regular Shape Friday

Chicago, July 20.-The strike of pack
ing house employees, begun nine days
ago. and which has demoralized the
packing industry throughout the coun-
try. was settled here tonight at a con-
conference between representatives of
the packers, the officials of the meat
Cutters Union and representatives of
the allied trades employed at the stock
yards.
The whole controversy will be sub
mitted to a board of arbitration, both
sides agreeing to abide by whatever
decision this board may reach.
Pending the decision of the arbitra-
ton board the men will be taken back
to work as rapidly as possible by the
packers, and it is agreed by the pack
ers that all the old employees are to be
reinstated within forty-five days from
the date work is resumed. If any of
the former employees are still unem-
ployed at the expiration of that time
such persons are to have the privilege
of submitting their cases to the arbi-
tration board for settlement.
The strikers will return to work as
soon as they can be notified of the
peaceable adjustment of the trouble,
and it is expected that by Friday
morning everything will be in normal
shape at all the plants in the different
cities where the employees were on
strike.
Half an hour after the decision had
been reached tonight to arbitrate, NJ.
j. Donnelly. the strike leader, had Sc
cured communication by long distance
telephone with the leaders of the strik-
ers in outside cities, and had notified
them that satisfactory settlement
had been reached and directed the
strikers to return to work as soon as
possible.
Allied Trades Brought 1t About.
The settlement of the difficulty by
arbitration was brought about by the
allied craft at the stock yards. who
would have become involved in the
controversy had it continued much
longer. The representatives. of these
unions, which represent about 14O9O
men, got together yesterday and sent
a final appeal to the packers. asking
for a. three-sided conference to-day be-
tween the packers, the strikers and
themselves, in a final effort to get
both sides of the controversy together
again and arrange some sort of agree
ment which would prevent the strike
spreading to the affiliated unions. This
appeal of the allied trade unions re-
ceived a favorable response from the
packers. and to-days conference was
the result.
The agreement reached at to-nighBs
conference is practically the same as
the proposition made last Saturday to
the packers by Mr.. Donnelly. The
only difference is that in Saturdays
communication, Mr.. Donnelly insisted
that the strikers be all taken back to
work within seven days. This the
packers refused, although they agreed
to accept every other demand made by
Mr.. Donnelly.
Wage Scale to BE Settled.
When the men return to work it will
be under exactly the same conditions
that prevailed before the strike was
declared, with the exception that the
question of a wage scale will be decid-
ed by arbitration.
As many of the old employees as can
De reached tonight by the officials of
the union will be notified to return to
work tomorrow morning. All the
strikers who appear at the plants will
De put to work as fast as possible and
py tomorrow night it is believed that
all the establishments will be running
with fun forces.
Wanted to Lynch Him.
An exciting demonstration took
pace to-day at Root and Butler
streets, near the stock yards. Thomas
Sohnson. non-unionist, employed by
L'0oy' Mcneil G. Libby, was captured
oy crowd of strike svmpathizers
ana nearly lynched The mob seized
Johnson, and gave him severe beat
'0s Somebody cried: Get a rope
and let him dangle."
ne rope was quickly procured. but
oonnson' struggling desperately. mail
Seu TO Jump upon the coupling bar
=. the last car Of a passing freight
ualn. The crowd followed and board
U w., tne cars. Johnson lost no time
,esaehlng the top and after him went
s mon. The fugitive ran TO the
lIoIlt OF the train, hesitated for a mo-
ment and then leaned from the ton
ner and esranad