The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
STRIKE GOES ON.
Conference Held Today Results
in a Disagreement.
Union Men Depart to Discuss a
Sympathetic Strike.
THEY HAD A NEW PLAN
Labor Leaders Went Into Con-
ference With the Packers
With an Entirely New PROPOSE
tiOn for a Settlement.
THEIR DEMANDS NOW
Call for Immediate Reinstate-
ment Of Killing Gangs.
Allied Trades Will Vote on
Strike Tonight at h. C.
Labor Leaders Went Into Con-
ference With the Packers
With an Entirely New PROPOSE
tiOn for a Settlement.
THEIR DEMANDS NOW
Call for Immediate Reinstate-
ment OF Killing Gangs.
Allied Trades Will Vote on
s Strike Tonight at b. c.

Chicago. July 23.-A fruitless con
ference was held today between thu
strike leaders and representatives o.
the packers. The meeting broke VI
in disagreement and President Don
neIIy's followers adjourned to the
headquarters of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to discuss a sympa-
thetic strike. An ultimatum was de-
lfvered by the strikers soon after ne
gotiations began. It was as follows:
con account of the discrimination
shown by the packers and their vio-
lation of the agreement of last
Wednesday. all stock yards employees
on strike shall be reinstated within
10 days. Those who take the initia-
tive in reopening activities such as the
butchers, those who kill, are to be
reinstated within as hours"
This was refused by representatives
OF the packers who in turn asserted
they were willing to adhere to the old
contract and that had named Samuel
Mclean as an arbitrator according to
the terms of the agreement. In re-
ply to the ultimatum of the strikers.
the employers also asserted they stood
ready to remedy any errors or mis-
takes made in efforts to fill the old
contract The union men announced
that they were firm in the determi-
made null and void by the alleged
discrimination shown yesterday Af-
ter the breaking up of the conference,
Thomas L Kidd of the american Fed
Grafton of Labor, who was practically
the spokesman of the labor leaders,
said;
There will be no more conferences
unless they are arranged for later. The
packers said they would stick to the
nrst agreement. The strikers held that
the agreement had been rendered void
by the discrimination of yesterday and
that a new agreement must be made.
This new agreement provided for the
taking back of the butchers within 4S
hours and of the other men within ten
days. The packers would not agree to
this and peace is not in sight"
President Donnelly said last night
that the packers submitted a proposal
that a representative of each trade of
the stock yards be at each plant to see
that the old agreement was kept in the
returning of the men to work.
This proposition was rejected by
President DOnnelly, the strikers posi-
had been violated and was not in ef-
feet.
Had New Plan.
Chicago, July 23.-The labor lead
ers went into today's joint conference
with the packers, prepared to submit
an entirely new basis for settlement
of the stock yards strike. The labor
representatives apparently considered
Nne former agreement 2DrOgaIed by
the actions of the packers yesterday.
Their new demands call for the i'm
mediate reinstatement of killing gangs
and meat butchers in a body.
An attempt to settle the strike was
made yesterday afternoon without sue
cess and another joint conference was
scheduled for today. Different opinions
were expressed by the labor men as
to the outcome of the negotiations for
the settlement of the reawakened
struggle. The packers declined to give
their views on the prospect of peace.
Should not adjustment of the trou-
bic be reached in the joint meetings,
a sympathetic strike of the other
trades employed in the packing in
dustry practically is certain. 1t was
arranged for before the agreement
was signed which terminated the
original strike and the plans have not
been changed
President W. G. Schardt of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor said the
problem confronting the labor repre-
sentatives was not to persuade the
other workers to go out in support of
the butchers, but to induce them to
remain at their tasks until called on.
Following yesterdays determination
to shut down the killing departments
until a sufficient number Of nonunion
men can be procured to operate the
plants without imperiling the industry
not one of the big stock yards firms
employed men today though there
were applications for work. The col
ored men who were dismissed lust af-
ter the settlement of the strike can
not all be re-employed at present. as
many of them who are members of
Eighth regiment, Illinois national
guard, are now in annual encampment
ut Springfield
Not since the strike began were so
many idle men observed in the streets
as today and cases of minor disorder
were numerous At West Forty-sixth
street and Gross avenue several hum
dred women Joined the men in an
attack upon crowd of nonunion
workers who were on their way to
the yards gate. Sticks and stones
were thrown. The nonunion men es-
capped with slight bruises by taking
fight. There were no arrests.
The action of the packers which it
was contended amounted to abrogatfon
of Wednesdays agreement for a settle
ment consisted in alleged discrimina-
ton against the men in the matter of
of the killing gaEgs and
the meat butchers in a body but also
specifically takes up the demands of
the unskilled men, Those present to-
day were members of subcommittee
appointed at yesterdays joint confer
ence to report a basis of agreement to
the full membership of the conference.
They were;
For the packers: Thomas Connors,
Armour & Co, Thomas |
Wilson. representing Nelson Morris s.