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Show ' . - I . . Efforts at Mediation Ap-. Ap-. i pear to Be Futile; Both Sides Trying to Carry I the Strike Over Until J the First of the Week, : CHICAGO. Aug. 5. That the Federal Government Is preparing to take an ac-tlve ac-tlve part in the stock yards strike was indicated today when International . Secretary Call of the butcher workmen : divulged the fact he has been In conference con-ference with an emissary of the United States Bureau of Labor and Commerce. ."Who this agent is, or what his imme- dlate plans are, Mr. Call refused to say, but the strike leader made this significant signifi-cant remark: ' Crust Violating- Law, , - "In" everything the packing Irust Is 'olng it la violating the law The very ' ousiness combination is Jn restraint of v trade and there Is not one of the trust's ' 1 members that is not amenable to the Federal-laws. A sample of their operations opera-tions came to. my knowledge after stories had been printed In the newspapers news-papers telling, of the importation of emigrants from foreign lands to take the place of American worklngmen who are on strike- One of our pickets found In the street In emigrant receipt showing show-ing that the emigrant had been paid 158.70 for passage to Chicago. At the bottom of the printed slip was the sentence.- 'We hereby agree to rebate $58.70 on presentation of this receipt at our - . ' Chicago office.' I showed this document to an official of the United States Bureau Bu-reau of LaboV and Commerce and inadvertently inad-vertently allowed hlra to keep it." "Will Stop Meat Kemoval. r Recording Secretary Shanahan of the Packing-house Teamsters' union, announced an-nounced today that orders would be issued is-sued immediately to stop the removal cf meats from the several cold storage .warehouses In the city. The allied trades executive committee, he said, would act upon the teamsters' position, snd a report favoring sympathetic action ac-tion by teamsters who have been distributing dis-tributing meat from-warehouses would mean the Immediate issuance of a strike order to those drivers. President Donnelly, the strike leader, who has been on a trip to Kansas City , and other packing centers, arrived today. to-day. . . . . . BOTH SIDES IN THE STRIKE 'ARE DETERMINED TO STAP THEIR GROUND CHICAGO, Aug. 5. -In the face of persistent per-sistent peace rumors, strikers and pack- ers alike, gave evidence today of grim determination to stand their ground and carry the struggle over into next week. Ttoerewere Indications that by that time "fcoth'sides would regard the offices of in--terniediarlea with favor unless either . , tide should develop' weakness warrant- Ing the other in holding out with re-'' re-'' . newed determination to fight the Issue to an,end. ., . ' To the strikers the approach of Sun-day Sun-day loomed up as a menace because of ' difficulties in holding ranks together ovtr the opening .0 s new week. The ' (Strike leaders had positive Information that emissaries of the packer were at work in all directions quietly offering highly skilled men tempting inducements induce-ments to break away. ; Pressure was also being brought upon . strikers' wives through direct individual appea. To offset this the leaders figured fig-ured on the reirn of President Donnelly Don-nelly to arouse enthusiasm and prepared a monster demonstration for tomorrow with the same end in view. While feeling sure of the men, it was admitted that it is not easy to hold hungry hun-gry families In line. Efforts were therefore there-fore especially directed toward impressing impres-sing the women with the vastness and solidity ot the strike, and with the necessity ne-cessity of remaining firm. Efforts to bring about a peace confer-'ence confer-'ence were today explained as being due to the cattle shippers and to the Union . Stock Yard" and Transit company both neutrals who have lost heavily through - the strike. - At the Instance of both. General Gen-eral Agent Skinner of the stock yards " company visited the strike leaders yes- terday. Finding them receptive, he gave attention to the packers. 'Little encour-agement encour-agement was received from the packers. Believing, however, that the situation was not without possibilities, he returned re-turned to the strike leaders, who were awaiting him at the Transit house. In the meantime, the strikers had attempted at-tempted to bring pressure to bear on the packers from other sources and in so doing had acquired information from which the Inference was drawn that the strikers' position was stronger than had been'- believed. In consequence, when . Mr. Skinner returned he found the strike leaders unwilling to make any marked ' Accessions. . ' ' rT While Mr. Skinner was conferring vith the strike leaders, representatives 'ot the packers casually appeared, giving giv-ing rise to an Impression that import' - ant negotiations were actually -under . , I way an impression that was not les-J les-J sened through the fact that confidential ' ' 'men from the packers shadowed every 'movement of the strike . leaders from that moment on. It was declared today, however, that nothing tangible had developed tanding to poiat toward Immediate peace. - |