The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-29
STRIKERS NOW
INVOLVING ROADS
WORSE AND WORSE IN WEST.
FREIGHT HANDLERS UNION TAKES
A HAND IN THE TROUBLE.

Members of This Union May BE Or
dered to Refuse to Handle Any
Freight for Packing Houses-RaiI-
road Officials in n Quandary-An-
other Effort Being Made to Settle
Strike-Both Sides Claim Victory,
However.
Chicago, July 2S.-After issu-
ing a general order that
would have involved all the Chicago
railroads in the stock yards strike
Lawrence J. Curran, president of the
Freight Handlers Union, tonight re-
considered his action, and is now hold
ing his order in allegiance, pending a
conference tomorrow morning with
leaders of the allied trades unions,
whose members are on strike.
If the freight handlers live up to the
order of their president. it will work
a severe hardship on the packers, as
the notification to the men states ex-
plicitly that no freight delivered by, or
billed to the packing companies,
whether delivered at the freight houses
by teams, or in cars, is to be touched
by the members of the union.
OficiaIs in Quandary.
What the railroad officials will do
in such an emergency is not known. A
meeting of the railroads managers was
held tonight to discuss the situation,
but what action, if any was decided
upon, was not made public.
At the same time this step was be-
ing taken by the freight handlers pres
ident, the first move in an effort to
bring about another conference be-
tween the packers and the strikers was
being made.
Henry c. Wallace. the we'll known
writer and lecturer on agricultural
topics of Des Moines. Ia. and A. l..
! Ames of buckingham. Ia, president
of the Corn Belt Meat Producers As
sociation, are the sponsors of the new
movement for peace.
Trying for settlement.
Mr.. Donnelly and his associates were
| told by Mr.. Wallace of the hardship
the strike was imposing on the live
stock raisers and they were asked
II some concession besides those Of
| fered at the last conference between
the packers and the strike leaders
could not be suggested.
Mr.. Donnelly said that the strikers
were willing now to concede the time
limit in which the men should be re-
! instated.
Tonight both sides to the disputA
at the stock yards were claiming a.
victory. According to the packers, all
the plants in Chicago are running at
nearly the regular capacity.
Both Claim Victory.
On the other hand, the Tabor lead
ers declare the packing industry in
this city is completely demoraliz.d
and that business is almost at a stand
still
That the statement of the labor lead
ers is not altogether true, is evidenc-
ed by the fact that the packers arc
! slaughtering thousands of Enimals
| every twenty-four hours.
There were several desertions from
| the ranks of the strikers to-day but
this loss was offset by an equal num-
Der of strike breakers quitting their
new positions.
Repudiated Allied Trades.
The packers to-day won an important
| incidental victory. Eight hundred live
stock handlers threw aside their aIle-
glance 10 the allied trades, and this
afternoon began to handle shipments
unfortunately, both for the packers
in the combine and for the independ-
| ent companies.
Most of these 800 men went to work
yesterday to handle the goods of the
Independents" and they had worked
! on this basis until to-day The change
this afternoon on the part of the ham
dlers, was regarded by the employers
as serious loss to the cause Of the
| strikers.
This afternoon 1873 men, all members
| OF the union, deserted the strikers and
| returned to work at Armour e. Co g
| plant. Every man was put at work at