Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-07-29
PACKERS SIDE OF CASE.
Insist That Strikers Have Violated
Agreement.

Agreement.
Chicago, July 29.-Mr. Arthur Meek
er of the Armour company during the
day declared that the answer given by
the packers at the conference with the
state board of arbitration reflected in
it's entirety the position of the pack
ers and that the statement attributed
to him that they were willing to go
back to the agreement entered into
with Mr.. Donnelly's organization was
entirely unfeunded.
"Our position u.s." he said, that we
had an agreement with the butchers
organization and the allied trades
which they have failed to live up to
and under the circumstances we do
not care to make any further agree
ments with them
In spite of the foregoing statement
of the packers position rumors are
persistent that two of the big COM
panies, Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
and the Cudahy Packing company, are
ready to make terms with the men.
All the freight handlers reported for
work as usual during the day and all
were sent to other departments of the
company's service, where they will be
retained until they can resume their
usual duties.
Notice to Sympathetic Strikers.
Following the refusal to enter into
more agreements with the striking
workmen at the stock yards one of
the big packing concerns tossed a
bomb into the camp of the sympa-
thetic strikers belonging to the allied
trades by posting notices that they
are no longer regarded in the light of
employees. The action was taken by
Swift & Co.. when the following
placard was conspicuously exposed to
view near the entrance to Packing
Town:
"All help leaving our employ July
rs and 26 will be paid in full at our
Forty-tirst street market paymaster's
window at once"
The appearance of the notice was
greeted with angry EXPLANATIONS from
the crowds that soon gathered to read
and discuss the movement. The place
named for the men to apply for their
money is outside the stock yards
proper at Halstead street and Ex-
change avenue. 1t was selected as
affording the least possibilities Of dis
order.
Shortage in the soap supply, par
ticularly laundry, hotel and the cheap
er grades of toilet soap, is one of the
possibilities of the strike.
Claim Over Supply of Help.
So much nonunion help has been
taken into the stock yards up to date
that the packers in some instances
are said to be finding difficulty in put
ting the men to work. Nelson Morris
& Co. were reported to have shipped
fifty nonunion men to st. Joseph, Mo-,
and hundred or so others were sent
by other packers to Omaha. Sixteen
alleged union butchers from Detroit
arrived at the yards during the day
to take the places of strikers.
Police rule" was maintained with
increasing rigidity in the neighbor-
hood Of the stock yards entrances
during the day. AS far as possible
crowds were not allowed to gather.
Persons suspected of being pickets or
strike sympathizers were made to
move on"
According to the employers there
| were 13,479 men at work in the big
packing plants here, taking the places
of more than 25,420 strikers.
According to President Skinner of
the Union Stock Yards and Transit
company 600 stock handlers became
dissatisfied with the prospects of the
strike and returned to work in the
yards caring for the live stock.