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I Walkout V Prevents Efficient Effi Effi- dent Handling S f tt 1500 WORKERS ARE IDLE i Balloting Will Close Soon on Coast Dispute Br El Associated Press CHICAGO July 2 24 Weakened 24 animals had to be shot at the glutted union stockyards today as a strike stopped efficient nt feeding and wate ing ingin in a blistering temperature The Livestock Commission Mens Men's union local joined a walkout of stock handlers bringing the total on strike to 1500 The commission men had helped handle the animals and nd when they quit only a handful of workers remained to feed and water the head of stock There was no market and the action of the commission men put an end to all hopes that there would be one ote today Shortly after directors had closed the Chicago stock yards to incoming shipments striking stock handlers agreed not to o interfere with marketing marketing marketing market market- ing to dispose of head of StO stock k IC jamming the yards Some union stock handlers who ordinarily care fo for stock awaiting awaiting await await- ing slaughter are on Strike T They y yaska ask ask a a hour 48 minimum w work rk we week lc and more pay Yards tards A Are z Choked The yards are cho choked ed with nearly three times the normal supply due to heavy shipments from drouth areas arcas i Stockyards and transit company officials officials' prepared to appeal to Federal Fed Eed- eral Judge Philip L. L Sullivan Sullivan for for aid id Stock handlers had been working Under under un Un- n. n der wage and hour terms set by th the judge after arbitration last November November Novem Novem- ber About pi pickets carrying signs calling the yards company unfair sat peacefully on the sidelines watching emergency activities A detail of 60 police patrolled the yard roadways With water supplies none too large and with man many mano o of the thc pens destroyed ip ill the recent fire not yet rebuilt the strike in the thc yards yard held serious serious Even before it began O. O T. T l' l Henkle yards manager had asked government buyers rs to check the enormous enormous enormous enor enor- shipments of cattle they had been sending into the yards from the blighted pasture lands of the plains plains- states Alm Almost s Reach Record So fast ast were cattle arriving that at government agents were posted yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- at the unloading pens to shoot stock which staggered and held back the stronger animals The handlers worked frantically lly in a blistering sun to dispose of shipments which almost reached the all aU time record of head The regional labor board which arranged the negotiations leading to last Novembers November's settlement prepared prepared pre pre- pared to take a hand again today Butte General Strike S Is Believed Unlikely BUTTE Mont July 24 IP JP Speculation lation as to possibility of a general strike by miners employed at the Anaconda Copper Mining company plants here continued today after a second fire within two days had damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged company property properlY While some miners were said to be Continued on Ot Paso Pato Two L STRIKE TIES UP CHICAGO YARDS Weakened Cattle Killed as Walkout Prevents Efficient Efficient Effi Effi- dent Handling Continued from Put Pace One urging a general strike It was believed be bc unlikely that such action would be taken An earlier attempt to call a gener general 11 walkout failed tailed Possible Hitch Develops In S. S F. F Peace Plans S SAN N FRANCISCO July 2 24 p- p fi pA A possible hitch in striking longshoremen longshore men returning to work should they vote for or arbitration developed when officials of ot the International Longshoremen's Longshoremen's Long lAng association said they had been informed the labor Jabor disputes board was not going to take care of ot the seamen Longshoremen here had planned to return to the doc docks tomorrow but they may not do so unless the board I also considers the situation as it involves in the sailors also on strike Members of ot President Roosevelt's labor disputes board said they were taking up cases of seamen The home of ot Michael Case Casey president dent of or the team teamsters lers' lers union whose truck drivers recently returned to work on the waterfront after the general strike ended waS was bombed with creosote missiles today Police olice arrested two men on charges of malicious malicious ma ma- licious mischief Ballots Ballal were being cast in all Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- ports on the question of tion They will be brought here by bj I plane for lor tabulation Ultimatum Is Drafted Drafted In Minneapolis Strike MINNEAPOLIS July 2 24 W WAn iF-An An ultimatum of immediate settlement of or the truck drivers' drivers strike with t the alternative of military Intervention was drawn up today an informant I close to state officials said Governor Floyd Flod B. B Olson refused to deny or confirm that the ultima tum turn would give both sides 24 hours hour to accept a final settlement Terms of the settlement plan were to be drawn at the home of Mayor A A. G G. Bainbridge Meeting with him will be Governor Olson Adjutant General E. E A. A Walsh and the two fed federal eral mediators the Rev Francis Funds J I Haas Haas' and E E. H. H Dunnigan |