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Show HASBEC0METE8T I OF ENDURANCE I This fflrai the Strike I Other Organizations likly to Be Drawn Into tho War. H Strikers Declare That Packers Are Not Doing- 2 Per Cent of Nor-mol Nor-mol Business. CHICAGO, July IS. Although ex-pressing ex-pressing faith In the strikers' ability to win, should the packing-house wage struggle become a test of endurance. the strike leaders were today still in u receptive mood. On returning from East St. Louis today, President Donne!-1 Donne!-1 y declared he would hold no further conference with the packers unless the packers asked for a meeting-. He also said there would be no effort to call out the livestock handlers, for the reason that the strikers were unwilling to cause widespread suffering among the cattle now in pens that must neces-sarily neces-sarily follow the neglect such a strike should bring about. As to Sympathetic Strike. As soon as President Donnelly ar-rived, ar-rived, he met Homer D. Call, Interna-tionnl Interna-tionnl secretary and treasurer of the jH Butohcrs' organisation, and went into a conference with Joseph W. Morton and C. L. Champ! otllcials of the sta-ftlonaxy sta-ftlonaxy firemen's union. Then Presi-dent Presi-dent Donnelly met business agent Me-Clelland Me-Clelland of the elevator men, oilers and millwright helpers. McClelland called a special meeting- of his organization for tomorrow afternoon, at which It will be decided whether to strike. What Donnelly Says. "This strike can not be broken unless the packers come to proper terms." said Mr. Donnelly. "They are talking- about the great business they are doing. Why, jH they are not doing 2 per cent of normal jH business now, and I know for a fact that Armour killed only sixteen hogs from the time the strike started until Saturday night. In St. Louis the one trust packing plant is tied up tighter than a drum., and the independent IH packet's are dedng a rushing bushier- jl running both day and night. Wo are sending them all the union men they jH need In East St. Louis. jl Independents Reap Reward. 'Jin Chicago the Independent packers and butchers are reaping benefits from the strike. I intend to send big gangs of cattle butchers tonight to Independ- enl plants in Philadelphia. New York and Buffalo. We make no secret of our de&ire to sive all the help we can to the Independent, fair, unlon-employlnc IB companies, for they are helping us In ll our fight. We want the public to suf-fer suf-fer as little as possible." From the packers side came a state- IB ment that about GOO more men were at work than were employed yesterday. Receipts of the day were the largest since the strike began, consisting f S000 cattle. 10.000 Jiogs and 3000 sheep. Peace Negotiations. Renewal of peace negotiations wns not looked for by the employers and the opinion that the contest will resolve itself Into a contest for ultimate su-premacy su-premacy was reported to be .gaining ground. There was no marked change JM In the prices of meat to retail dealers prices obtained as Saturday, but the small dealers anticipate a famine if the strike continues. Non-Union Man Fatally Hurt., Slugged Into insensibility by a dozen men early today and left for dead on the tracks of the Ashland avenue trolley line at West Forty-seventh street. An-ton An-ton Bartuslnkovis, an employee at the Swift packing-plant, Is dying at thr- countv hospital. His Injuries, in the IH opinion of the inspector, were inflicted IH by strike sympathizers and the wheels of a trolley. H Broke His Skull. The men. according to a witness who has talked to the police, sc-t upon Bar- tuslakovls as he- was going home from ftH work. When they could not make him lH Join the strikers they broke his skull. fractured his jaw. kicked him about the jHHH face, head and body and then threw HBSJ him upon the- car tracks. The motor- VA1 man of n car approaching not long af-terward af-terward saw the body In time to stop the car, but not before the wheels had AVAl crushed Bnrtusiakovls's shoulder. The I Injured man was taken to the couivty jDVfll hospital. Pie han not regained con- UVA1 Kdousness. .Mrs. W. Clifford, nttracted to her window by the' sound of men JJ lighting, saw the attack and- declares fiVAl she can Identify several of Bartuslako- nH vis's asrallanls. H Opposes Mob Violence. fi'H President Donnelly today sent out a Iffflfl circular urglntr the men against vio- SbH lence. as follows: "We must win be- jUVAl cause every American citizen must have UVOB living wages: must have the- very best for tho children; must fight for rccog- 'ijH nitlon for the union. Wc can win if IH you stick bv the union.; If we obey the- UHH union when it says. 'Molest no par- son or property and abide strictly by hVaVJ the laws of the country."' tl Of the men Injured In Sundays riot fa-H near the stockyards two arc in a crlti- HHJ cnl condition. IH Flank Move by Strikers. A flank movement by the strikers de- vcloped todav In the announcement by BVJ President Donnelly that in conjunction f-fj with William Stcu-lliitv vice-president. of j 12h I the Butchers' Workmen's union, John Floersch, secretary of the Packing Trades council, and rhlllp Murphy, champion butcher of the world," recently re-cently employed by Swift & Co., he will start a small packing-house, where union un-ion butchers may secure supplies at prices which will enable strikers to purchase pur-chase meal without contributing to the profits of the big concerns. Cattle and hogs have alrehdy been borught, President Presi-dent Donnelly asserted, the plunt se-- se-- c ured and operations are expected to t begin tomorrow;. . .Teamsters May Strike! A special meeting of. the Packinghouse Packing-house Toainsters' union will be held "Wednesday night to determine whether or not the driverS will quit work. The teamsters today protested against several sev-eral of the companies endeavoring to have the teamsters haul supplies for strike breakers. About the Packing Plants. The operating, forces of .the blg.plants approximated about half the normal today, to-day, according to reports given out. All did a great deal of killing, It was claimed. Armour slaughtering cattle at the rate of 110 an hour, and Nelson Morris Mor-ris & Co., with 1S0O men at work, slaughtering. 120. Swift & Co. were said . to have 1600 men In their plant, killing 100 cattle and 150 hogs an, hour. All the departments were asserted to have been in operation. |
