Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-27
BIG ST0CKYARDS
Strike =. Renewed
PACKERS CHARGED WITH DIS
ELIMINATION AND UNION
MEN ARE ORDERED OUT.
A JOINT CONFERENCE
OF LEADERS is HELD
Sympathetic Walkout to Be Requested
If No Agreement Is Reached-Men
in Other Packing Centers Are Also
Ordered Out.

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
q 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.
It 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.
Fails to Intercept Mayor.
<o11;po NHou1r II ~
the reopening of the strike reached
Marquette, Mich, just after he had
taken a tug for Mount Huron. The dis
patch details thes ituation, but does not
specifically request the mayors return.
1t is signed by Corporation Counsel
Tolman. It is believed the mayor will
come back.
Places for Only Half.
When the men rer~"ted for work in a
body early in the l. - ming 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 As 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 ap-
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
have violated agreement by discrimina-
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, TAX
ing their tools with them.
Byers to Represent Butchers.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 23.-George
Byers, the first president of the Meat
Cutters union, has been offered and has
accepted the place on the strike arbitra-
ton committee to represent the butch
er strikers. Mr.. Byers, who Is 80 years
old, is an all-around butcher. He has
worked In many of the packing houses
OF Kansas City and has been in the
meat business for himself.