The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-10
Arbitration Proposal Gets No
. Answer From ''Big Five"
"ShOp Plan" Only Is Stand
Taken by Packers.
MANY MORE men ARE HIRED
Plants Operating at Near
Normal Is Report.
Il. C. Strike Leader to Resign
Cannot Stop Violence. Z

Chicago, Dec. 10 (by the A. P.)-
Federal and state officials were work.
ing today in an effort to settle the
strike of packing house workers
which has caused a week of riot and
disorders in livestock centers, while
Chicago packers announced that they
were operating at nearly normal
and union leaders were endeavoring
to extend the strike by appeal for =
sympathetic walkout by other trades
in the stock yards. Reports that
eight thousand imported workers had
been brought into the Chicago yards
were denied by the big five" pack
ers
Arbitration Not Wanted.
tentative proposal for arbitration
of the stockyards strike here and
thruo1t the country has been put for
ward by strike leaders today, but thus
far has met with no response from Of
ficials of the packing companies
Cornelius ]. Hayes. president of
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of America, sug-
gested that the unions and the packers
submit their differences to "any form
of arbitration" He intimated the will
ingness of the unions to have restored
the arbitration machinery esta blished
during the war with Judge Samuel AL
schuler, of the United States circuit
court of appeals, as mediator.
To Force "Shop Plan.''
AItho the packers have made no
comment on the suggestion, it is be-
lieved they will not consider it favor
ably. The so-called Alschuler agree
ment was abrogated by the packers
and the shop representation" plan of
dealing with their employees substi
tuted.
The present strike was called by the
unions in protest against wage reduc-
tions brought about thru the shop
representation" plan.
It was reported today that 5000
strikebreakers had been brought in by
the packers and were being housed
and fed within the confines of the
yards. Packers, however, denied the
report.
Officials of the meat cutters union
predicted today that other unions at
the packing plants would join in the
strike by Monday.
Sporadic instances of violence con-
tinued to take place in the stockyards
district, but there has been no renewal
of rioting that marked the early days
of the strike. Strong police guards are
still maintained in the district.
Strike leaders here are using utmost
efforts to prevent further disorders.
An appeal for a sympathetic strike of
other union men within the plants also
was issued by the leaders of the local
union of the striking meat cutters.
Kansas City Chief TO Quit
At East st. Louis. Ill. and Omaha.
further clashes between strike sym
pathizers, police and loyal employees
was reported yesterday, but elsewhere
order.
G. w. Reed, negro leader of the
strikers at Kansas City, announced he
would resign today, saying that he
was no longer able to keep the
strikers under cont~ol Members of
the Kansas industrial court announced
Tuesday they would ask for state
troops to take charge if picketing or
disorders occurred.
X. c. Radicals To Fore.
Kansas City, Kan. Dec. 10.-The
packing house strikers began to assert
itself today. Orderly methods gave
way to violence. One man was shot
at during a fight near one of the
plants. Five houses of strike breakers
were stoned by mobs. Numerous
clashes between strikers and strike
breakers occurred in the streets.
1t was said that dissension among
the strike leaders had become acute
and that new leaders may take tho
place of those who have been COUNSEL
ing peaceful and orderly methods in
conducting the strike.
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Many Mexicans Out OF Jobs.
Mexico City, Dec. 10 (by the A. P.)