Show PACKERS WILL NOT SURRENDER r Refused Refus d to Enter Into Agree Agreement Agreement ment With Strikers I I AN ATTEMPT TO ARBITRATE S f LARGE ER OF op MEN AT T WORK S July lwe We had an CHICAGO C j agreement with Mr tr Donnellys or and Da the allied trades which t they ey failed to live up to and ani un under under der tier the circumstances we do not care to make any further agreements a with them tHeIn l This is the tile statement stat ment which was 1 U signed by the representatives of the packers and aDd banded handed to the tile members of or the th state board of ot arbitration tonight at the th end of a conference between the t two bodies held at atthe the request of ot the state board in an In n endeavor to bring about another meeting for the settle settlement ment meat bf bt the butchers strike between bet the packers and the strikers listened to Arguments The packers received tie the state board bo rd courteously and listened to their argo arguments masts ments m for a 8 peaceable adjustment nt of or orthe the difficulty THe ne announcement that the packers pac were opposed to an any fur further further ther peace negotiations n with the strikers ers ore was handed to the board b by Arthur Sleeker Meeker and Thomas Connor nor both bet h of Armour Co who represented the packers While from Crom then their statement it would appear that the packers are opposed to meeting the strikers again apin on any termS such is not DOt the case ease At the last lut conference between the tile strikers and the packers the latter the union leaders that any time they ex ox expressed pressed a desire to lii Ue live e up tc to the orlE hal inal arbitration agreement signed a week ago which provided for the rein reinstatement reinstatement reinstatement statement of the striking butchers In Inside inside side of days day and for the ar r of all ali grievances the tho packers would be willing to renew the agree agreement agreement ment meat 5 What w at the Packers Say The contention of the packers is that this agreement agree tent is still in force and as they are unwilling to offer any further concessions to the strikers they s say iy a renewal of peace negotiations with ith the hope of securing better terms would be DP useless The labor leaden say that tha t II when the butchers ers went on the second strike because of alleged discrimination I tion on by b the packers in rehiring striking striking I ing lag the arbitration agree ent was nullified and that it is sary sto to sign a new agreement before be lore loret a t settlement can be he reached After to te nights conference with the th state board of ot arbitration Arthur Meeker man manager manager manager I ager for Armour Co said ald that the packers were still willing to live lie up to tt the th terms of the original agreement agre but that bat t the t h e initiative would have hav ha e to be M betaken betaken taken bythe by the strikers Mr Meeker also intimated that the sooner rh Ute the a this course coune the hotter he it j t would r DC ii lor eDi as s n in ia his Iti belief lt l It if the last much I r Janc all tin places of the strikers would bf be J fIlled Died by new men m and aDd si there would bo bf bono beno no necessity for far the packers to wish wh to settle on any basis with their ir ld I S SS S One More Attempt Notwithstanding today failure to bring brine the contesting perUse parties together another a attempt Hemp win will be made tomorrow to arrange a Dge a between the packers and the strikers James H Walker a grain broker on Ute Uie U e Chicago Board Beard of Trad TraM is the man who purposes to do what th the e estate state board of oC arbitration failed to mr c Mr Walker r Is I to in consultation confutation tonight the leaders of ot the Ute allied I trades unions and several sev ral of eC f the th p ck r t He lie said that he had made mad considerable Progress toward the desired ked de conference and that it was wu his firm belief that be bof before before fore tore tomorrow night he would be able ab e eto to announce that his mission had been beena a success S Police rule was today declared dt in inthe inthe Inthe the stock yards region Darin the flay there were several minor disturbance s In tn spite of ot the tile police but wll when n night tame rame the th chief c J said be he was master of the tM situation dOD NonUnion Men at Work At l I hast ast st 1 IJ 1050 new employee were taken i into the yards and nd put to work A en on n estimate estU te of or ci the number num r of o I f ani animals Z Zi I mills mals slaughtered today toda by the different t I plants placed It at about th the amount disposed of ot under normal conOl lions The following to o ag figures were given n out by bythe bythe the packers comparing their nonunion forces at work today to their normal force fOlCe in numbers S Name l ame On strike At work Swift Swin Company 5 l 2 2 Armour Company 3 33 Libby McNeil leNell b UM Libby 2374 Nelson Morris Company f IMO W 2300 2350 2 o Schwa 1324 1524 1 4 National Packing Company C m 9 Union were reported to o b be drifting back to work werk by the inc officers oCO ers of or orthe the packing companies es today a defection of skilled butchers being claimed by the parkers packers Of these he the three plants of f the National S Packing company claimed nineteen H n Swift A Company eleven Armour Ur lY thirteen and Nelson Morris rna I Company eight Strike Spreading Tonight forty freight handlers em employed employed at the stock toek yards yar s station of the Chicago ChIc itu Junction railroad went on strike The men said they were re un unwilling unwilling willing to handle moSt meat turned out by nonunion workmen Should nonunion men be engaged to take the place of oft the t e freight handlers a strike of union un ion switchmen may follow With the switchmen out the strike might spread ad to the other of o the various railroads When the union teamsters rs went ent on OR strike the Chicago Chicag Junction railroad was depended d on ort by the tM packers as a a means of supplying their downtown customers The strike tonight how however however ever eer leaves the packers pa ent without an out outlet outlet let lett for supplying the city trade unless nonunion men can be obtained An attempt to deliver meat with nonunion teamsters would without doubt precipitate tate late rioting as the new men would be harassed by strike sympathizers from the time they left the yards until tSe they returned Two years ago during a R teamsters strike at the th stock yards s nonunion men were erf employed tomake deliveries under police protection and bloody riots took place |