The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-13
HOUSE
EMPLOYEES OUT
Strike Takes in All the Big
Plants of the Country.
BOTH SIDES DETERMINED
DRESSED MEAT LIKELY TO BE-
COME SCARCE.

, the retail butchers III -ll-s e--1
> learned today that strikes had >
= beeu ordered in the meat packing ?
I = plants in many of the large cities. p
= they al. once began TO advance the ?
y price of meat from . TO 8 cents =
, pound.
H. l. Eichelberger- general or ?
/ = gauizer Of the Amalgamated Meat 2
( , Cutters & Butcher Norkmen' g ?
= Union of America, preolcted tl3t >
+ 2 within three days there would De >
{ = a meat famine in this city
= This afternoon the joint execu- .
/ y tive committee OF the New York ?
/ ? locals of the Amalsamated Meat =
= Cutters & Butcher Workers Of ?
4 > America issued an order calling >
= for z. sympathetic strike in all the =
y packing houses in this city, and In >
y consequence $500 men viii quit ?
( = work tomorrow
( CHICAGO. July 12--As the result Of
II a stubborn disagreement, chiefly
over wages for unskiHed labor. one
| Of the most extensive strikes in the
history of the meat packing industry
Of the United States began today in
I Chicago. Kansas city. OMAHA, St
Joseph and other cities where large
packing plants are located. II pro-
lOnged the strike is expected TO cause
I widespread Inconvenience. POSSIBLY
1 eQuaIing the anthracite coal famine of
two years ago
The unanimity Of the strike was
complete. More than 5000 employees
are directly involved. in Chicago alone
$4,000 men are on strike.
Effect on Prices.
The effect of the strike on the food
supply of the country and the price Z
| meats is being earnestly discussed,
| notwithstanding tie announcement to-
night that the packing houses, con-
trary somewhat to expectations VIII
continue operations without any close
| down, employing wha tever hep may
| be available How much alienation in
the furnishing Of supplies TO the public
/ this course may afford is a matter Of
wide variation Of opinion The pack
I eTs declare that hundreds of men who
could not be provided with places have
been applying daily for work
Killers First to Go Out
The waIkOut here was started by the
/ employees of the killing departments
[ at the various packing houses The
. ! killers were followed by the workers IN
the other departments as fast as the
/ current work left by the siauEhfereTs
eouid be cleaned up Thus as tie
workers in each department disposed
b / Of their part of TIE work they threw
I
| consideration was shown to the pack
ers the labor officials announced.
, / because il was not TIE desire
of the men to cause the en-
pl0yers any financial loss as a result
! of neglecting meat that was on hand
/ to be dressed.
Watched by cordons of police. the
= / strikers filed briSkly out of the pack
ing houses, carrying overalls- rubber
boots and knives, cleaVers and 7teels-
I The strikers were greeted by crowds
OF. women and children. many of whom
: joined hands with the workmen on the
/ outward march. There was absolutely
no sign of disorder
Girls Joined the Men
picturesque scene was presented
, 1 when the sausage factories and can
neries were left by their forces There
are 600 girls employed in these Two
departments OF the meat industry
/. / clad fin the variegated garD Of factory
girls this army of feminine strikers
, tripped biithely along the main thor
oughfare Of the stock yards and were
roundiy cheered as tLey emerged
through the gates and distributed
themselves in the crowd OF men who
I had awaited their coming
{ we are with YOU to the last" the
81 / girls exclaimed. smiling pTettily as
they stood around and talked over the
situation with their companions IN
the movement.
How long do you think It viii Iast2''
E INQUIRED one of them, looking quite
serious.
t Dunno he replied. except that
e President DOnnelly says the men man
e. aged to hold out fifteen months IN
f Buffalo and L guess We can do as
g much"
Can Hold Out Some Time
President Donnelly Of the Amalgs-
A. .lrfl-a
o. men Of North America ieader-of the
= + strikers. said IN a couveTsat ton TO-
= night that he believed the strikers
would have little difficulty in with
: standing "A siege Of more than year
with tie strike funds the unions have
: on hand. In Chicago thirty-five local
q unions are involved in the strike
President DOnnelly and the presi-
: dents of the various locals assembled
y at the headquarters this morning think
b ing they might receive a notice of sur
- render from the packers. but no word
= came. The packers took the position
N that they had replied deCisiVelT TO TIE
= workers demand and had nothing more
a to say except to emphasize a refusal
r to pay the wage scale asked.
r Position of Packers.
Arthur Meeker, OF Armour & Co..
= said tonight:
e we consider the demand of the
y skilled labor entirely unwarranted by
&c conditions We could not cOncede it
n and proposed to submit the question to
q arbitration, which the union declinec
u to do and called a strike today at all
IS our plants. Every department IS kept
Is / running. however. We have had APP
a plicatious from hundreds of un-
employed men for positions at less
wages than we have been paying, and
every day expect to increase our out
> put We regret extremely the harisf1ps
n / and suffering that viii be imposed on
le the thousands of men who are thrown
~ out of work, directly and indirectly
- through the strike and the temporary
4 inconvenience caused the public at
4 large. but we consider the fault rests
- entirely with the union, who not only
y asked what they were not entitled TO.
y but declined to submit the question to
impartial arbitration.
10 Demands of Strikers.
? President DonnelIy, the strike leader,
said:
Of Il wish to make it clear that we srs
Pc not fighting for an increase OF wages,
IN but against a decrease
n Our original demand was a mini
IS mum of 20 cents an hour for laboTerz
"a This demand was amended after our
le second conference with the packers in
" June.
ic I'VE then agreed TO a scale Of ISL
as cents an hour. except in Omaha and
n C5o4rx f1ifN. here. th.. sra f.- cents