Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 4 | A Great Strike Begun

A GREAT STRIKE BEGUN. The strike of butchers- and meat-cullera meat-cullera that was begun in the centers of the packing industry yesterday, affects af-fects close upon a- hundred and fifty thousand laborers. Tt is, therefore, one of the most extensive of the strikes Inaugurated in this season of Republican Republi-can prosperity, where the laborers seek to get what they conceive to be their Just share of the benefits of that prosperity. pros-perity. You never hear of a strike In ueiiiuur.iiii: nines; it is men not a question of getting anything, but merely whether the laborer can keep at work at all. even at half wages; and he can not do even that much, as tho multitudes of the "industrial armies" that swarmed over the country in the Cleveland Administration Ad-ministration woefully attested. This strike of the packing-house employees, em-ployees, however, is not likely to last long. It Is not for increased pay, nor for shorter hourw, but merely for a definite arrangement and contract. This tho employers will no doubt be ready within a very few days to agree to, as the meat business Is not one that admits of much delay, especially espe-cially In hot weather. Indeed, tho superintendent su-perintendent of the Armour plants expresses ex-presses himself to the effect that a conference will soon be held' which will end the trouble. So far as we have heard, the shipments ship-ments of cattle and sheep from the West mountain country have not been in any way stopped, or even cut down. But it is e'ident that a very few days' arrivals, with no takings, in tho packing pack-ing houses, would make a serious situation, situa-tion, one that would smash the market.-Is market.-Is it possible, then that the whole play is a collusion between- employers and employees to rob the "Western stock-raiser?