The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-24
an ULTIMATUM
FOR The PACKERS
MUST SETTLE BY MONDAY
M BUTCHERS AND ALLIED TRADES
WILL WALK OUT.

A. O'Clock Tomorrow Morning
.ba Time Limit Allowed the Pack
inq Companies VIII Expire-f
1,,en the Strike Has Not Been Set
tied Tpon the Terms the Strikers
Demand, There Will BE n General
waIkout of the Union Men-COn-
fereuces Held.
Cbicag July 23.-Attempts to settle
the second strike of the packing trades
failed to-day, and tonight the butch
sr's union and allied organizations, aft
or q long conference, sent an ultima
4un, 70 the representative of the pack
ers demanding a settlement of the
strike before Monday morning, on PEN
aItv of a general walk out of all union
employees at work in the stock yards
at o'clock Monday morning.
The conference between representa-
+ives of the allied trades and the pack
ers and butchers, which adjourned last
night after failing to reach an agree
mont. was resumed early this morning
AT noon the conferees gave up hope
of reaching an understanding and the
deliberations were brought to an abb
rDpt ending after the packers had ex-
pressed a desire to live up to the terms
of the arbitration agreement reached
last Wednesday, right any wrongs
that might have been committed by
their foremen and superintendents,
and had announced to the union men
the name of Samuel Mclean of the Ma
tional Packing Company to represent
them on the arbitration board, provid-
ed for in the agreement which settled
the original strike.
The union men refused positively to
consider that agreement valid on the
ground that it had been broken by the
packers. They then retired to the Of
fee of the Federation of Labor, where
an utimatum to the packers was pre-
pared. The ultimatum charges viola
ton Of their agreement by the packers
and declares that agreement null and
void It says:
What the UItimatum Says.
1--WE desire to emphasize our belief
in the principles of conciliation and
arbitration. but to provide against such
violations in the future we again Of
fer the following propositions as a
solution of the present difficulty:
THAT all employees be hired back
within ten days. Any person not re-
employed at the end of that time, his
or her case will be submitted to arbi-
tration.
That all killing, cutting and casing
department men be reinstated in their
former positions within forty-eight
hours after the resumption of work.
we regret to say that if the fore
going propositions are not acceptable
to you, the allied trades will cease
work on Monday morning"
Reply of the Packers.
The reply of the packers to the ulti-
matum of the allied trades was de-
hvered late tonight. 1t denies that
there has been any violation of the
agreement and says any devil
ations from it might have
been readily adjusted The pack
ers call attention to the
ing the mechanical and allied trades
and say they stand ready to carry it
out.
AT the stock yards tonight the
packers are making preparations for
long struggle. AS soon as all peace
negotiations were declared futile all
the heads of the different depart
ments in the various plants were noti-
ned to hire all the workmen they could
possibly obtain. From the progress
mat had been made up to late hour
tonight the indications are that fully
-'Voo new men will have been engaged
py tomorrow night. 1t is the inten-
fIon of the packers to house these
men inside the plants. Warehouses
are being filled with permanent hunks
ana kitchens to accommodate a total
VI 1900 men who, it is claimed by the
hackers will be inside the plants Mon
day morning.
Police VIII BE Ready.
Inc strikers met at their various
union headquarters during the after
noon and night, and listened to ad-
dresses by their leaders, in which the
seneral strike, which seems already a
nHed programme for Monday, was the
only subject discussed.
Chief of Police O'Nein has sent calls
loF men from every precinct in Chi
'aso to report at the stock yards sta
.lon tomorrow to get acquainted with
The surroundings.
Dhlet o'Neill said tonight that the
"nole police force of Chicago would
oe at the call of the stock yards dis
,'Ict Monday and that peace would
0e maintained at any price.
although the strikers were greatly
excited over the unsuccessful efforts
20 settle the strike, there was little
violence throughout the district.
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