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Show IlflEiS i 111 STJfflK flen Demand Withdrawal of Guards; Object to Return Re-turn of Negroes. rHICCO, Aug. 7.-Reprosentatives of ... Wo local unions cf stockya,d !"eeS voted tonight for a general strike morrow ""'ess militia, policemen and u-y sheriffs are withdrawn from the More than 100,000 persons are gloved in the .stockyards strike was virtually begun today .hfh hundreds of white men ouit their ,.. aftc.r about 3000 of the 13,000 negro , r"ers returned to work under troop Section following virtual exile of more 4n a week, due to the race riots. Union iLi declared their objections were based i-on the presence of the guards, and 4t, while they held no prejudice against f" negro's color, the majority of the ne-frocs ne-frocs were nonunion. While union men lud about S00O men had walked out, Kilns company officials placed the umber at about C50. Previous to the strike vote of the toils to-ils representative officials of the Stoek-Crd's Stoek-Crd's Labor council held a conference Ith Federal Judge Alshuler, federal arbi-ator arbi-ator in 'stockyard controversies. It is nown that the negro situation was dis-lssed, dis-lssed, and it was believed that the idse's aid In having the guards with-n with-n was sought. -While the grand jury continued to hear fidenco in the riot cases and voted m-Ictments m-Ictments against twenty-three more ne-r(, ne-r(, making a total of fifty-four negroes ldicted thus far, there was little evi-ence evi-ence of race feeling in the riot zones. Vo Mexicans were injured in the stock-ards stock-ards neighborhood, . both supposedly liMaken for negroes. A negro who was beaten during the loting died today, making a total of hlrly-six dead. |