Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-26
BUTCHERS RENEW
THE BIG ST R|KE
PACKERS ARE CHARGED WITH
BREAKING AGREEMENT.
UNION MEN ORDERED OUT
President Donnelly Alleges Discrim-
ination Against Strike Leaders
When Men Present Them
selves for Work.

Chicago, July 23.-The stockyards
strike is on again. On the charge that
the packers were discriminating against
certain persons in the Unemployment
process the union officials Friday or
dered their men to quit work, and the
situation at the yards is as bad as ever.
The strike was renewed in other pack
ing centers also. Strike leaders de-
clare that unless the employers change
their attitude at once, all the allied
trades workmen will walk out and that
a complete stoppage of work at the pack
ing plants will ensue To consider this
the labor leaders met in the afternoon.
At the meeting held by the strike lead
ers and the officials of the allied trades
at the Chicago Federation Of Labor
headquarters President Donnelly made
the specific request that strikes be or
dered in all the trades at the yards not
yet affected.
Conference with Packers.
1t is believed that the allied trades
officials will do as Mr.. Donnelly asks
unless an understanding is reached at
another joint conference with the pack
ers. This was held later in the after
noon at the downtown Offices of Swift &
Co.
Meantime the police guard at the
yards has been strengthened by hun
dreds of men, and they are prepared to
check any outbreak.
Places for Only Half.
! When the men reported for work in
body early in the morning they were
met by the announcement that it would
be impossible at present to take back
more than half the force The workers
met this announcement sullenly, not
withstanding the clause in the agree
ment which gave the packers 45 days in
which to supply work for all the strik-
ers. The strikers said: you must take
us all back or none of us will go to
work"
! Many of them did go to work, how
ever, but little later the leaders APP
peared, and on discovering that some of
the men who were turned away had been
prominent figures in the strike they de-
/, clared that the packers were employing
a "revengeful discrimination" and the
strike was declared to be on once more.
Ordered Out Elsewhere.
President Donnelly, after comforting
with other leaders, gave the order for
the strike and then sent this telegram
to union officials in other packing CEN
tiers of the country: Packers already
VII To- oI
ton. Order men out"
When the word that another strike
was ordered reached the workmen who
/ had gone to the different departments to
begin their labor, they finished the
work Immediately in hand and then
marched in bodies out of the yards, taxi
ing their tools with them.
Donnelly Issues Statement.
/, President Donnelly's first action when
the crisis came was to telegraph to the
strike chiefs throughout the country
instructing them to keep their men or
derby and to report Immediately by tele-
graph regarding local conditions. This
done, he gave out a formal statement in
which he accused the packers of acting
in bad faith. He said:
i, ''The packers agreed to replace mer
without discrimination. They agreed
that all men should report for work anC
be taken back. Instead of being fur.
nished with checks this morning wheI
the men went back to work they were
met by superintendent or policeman
who picked out certain men and told
them to go and get their checks. They
told others to go home, that they did moi
know when they would be needed OF
whether they would ever be needed. Thi.
was plain violation of the agreement
called up Mr.. Connors at Armour's ant
told him the agreement had been flag
rantly violated; that men would refus,
to go back to work. l did that as sool
as the men had reported from the yard
what was being done there. Mr.. Con
nors wanted me to come Immediate.
to see how they had violated the agree
ment. told him the violation was s.
glazing that there was no chance to d,
business with him until the other trade
involved had been represented"
Byers to Represent Butchers.
hausds Sily, MO, July lo.-GeOTg
! Byers, the first president of the Mea
Cutters union, has been offered and ha
accepted the place on the strike arbitra
ton committee to represent the butch
er strikers. Mr.. Byers, who is 80 year
S old, is an all-around butcher. He ha
y worked in many of the packing house
e Of Kansas City and has been in tn
4 meat business for himself.
t Crime of Miner.
e Grangeville, Idaho, July 23.-iRudolp
e Wetter, a Salmon river miner, shot an
: instantly killed L. d. Long and Chr
Q Vain, and wounded the formers Il
year-old boy at a camp in the Ware
mining country. Wetter had some trol