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Show TO M? SIMMS CUTSIftE 0? YARDS , Swift & Co. Throw Bomb 1 Into Camp of Those . . Who Went Outon Sjn-pathetic Sjn-pathetic Strike; Shortage Short-age In Supply of Soap. - -.l v . v BTJXLETIN. , CHICAGO, July 28. According to President Skinner of the TJnion Stock ' Tarda & Transit company, 600 stock-handlers stock-handlers became dissatisfied with the s prospects of the strike today, and re-, re-, turned to work in the yards caring I'tdp the lire stock. , CHICAGO, July 28. Following the j refusal to enter Into more agreements j with the striking workmen at the stock .' yards, Swift & Co. today tossed a bomb . Into the camp of the sympathetic strtk- ers belonging to the allied trades by ; posting the following public notice: - "All help leaving our employ July 25-26 25-26 will be paid in full at our Forty-first stiyet market paymaster's window, beginning be-ginning Thursday. July 28. at 9 a. m, . SWIFT & CO." fr A-roid Disorder. The appearance of the notloe was greeted with angry exclamations from the crowds that soon gathered to read , . and discuss the move. The place named for the men to apply for their money Is outside the stock yards jmper. 'at Haisted street and Exchange avenue. It ras selected as affording Che least " ' "possibility of disorder. Shortage of Soap Supply. ' . Shortage In the soap supply, particularly particu-larly laundry, hotel and the cheaper grades of toilet soap, la one of the possibilities pos-sibilities of the strike. In anticipation f such an event the packers operating soap plants have been busy for days moving-stocks of soap to warehouses, - Jobbing houses and to retail stores. Heavy sales were made under practically practi-cally a guarantee that a tie-up would follow,! the trade buying at the advice of , representatives of the packers. More Than 17,000 at Work. - According to the employers there were 17,340 men at work In the big packing plant here today, taking the places of more than 25,420 strikers. Complications growing out of the method of handling meat by rail, adopted adopt-ed by the packers in supplying the local trade, were today reported to President Golden of the Packing-House Teamsters' Team-sters' union, as likely to be responsible lor trouble with the teamsters employed by retail dealers and supply houses -throughout the city. Xbiall Drivers May Strike. The strike leaders took under eonsid-' eonsid-' eratlon a move to Induce the retail mar-' mar-' 'kt drivers' union to refuse to handle meat from the packing-houses affected by the strike, even if a general strike of retail drivers should be necessary. ' ' Reports that freight handlers In the employ of the Chicago Junction Railway Rail-way company went on strike yesterday . were denied today by officials of the company. Strike-Breakers Pursued. While aboard a trolley car Frederick Matthews, a negro strike-breaker, was pursued and attacked by a crowd of strike sympathizers upon leaving the stock yards for home. . No arrests were made. Near the city hall, miles away from , the stock yards, Michael Harrlty, a teamster, was kicked and beaten when a wagon loaded with meat started from LIbby, McNeil & Ubby's branch whole-sale whole-sale market In South Water street. Picketing today wss on In earnest around the produce center, and the nine Armour branches, the eight Swift - branches and the four Morris wholesale ' markets. It was said an attempt would be made to- tie up completely the traffic . from the packers' distributing point. Will Not Confer Again. . i Arthur Meeker of the Armour company com-pany today declared that the answer given by the packers at the conference with the State Board of Arbitration last , . night, reflected in Us entirety the posl- j tion of the packers, and that the state- ' ment attributed to him that they were willing to go back to the agreement entered en-tered into with Mr. Donnelly's organisation organi-sation was entirely, unfounded. "Our position is." he said, "that we-had we-had an agreement with , the butchers' , organization and allied trades which they have failed to live up to, and under un-der the circumstances we do not care to , make any furtrtr agreementa with them, and we 6o not Intend to enter into any more conferences with them. "We are now and propose to continue Hhanagers of our business on this basis - tft the future. Our plants are rapidly '-Assuming normal conditions." Hanging in Efflgy. A The hanging of effigies was the prln-- prln-- ' cipal diversion among the strikers, and I strike sympathizers about the stock yards. Miss Anna Rhelnhart, an Armour. Ar-mour. & Co. telephone- operator, today took up the reins and drove a bus about "Police rule": was maintained in the neighborhood of the stock yards en- ''-' x - ... . e. trances today, and crowds were not allowed al-lowed to gather. Union Men Going Back. ' EAST ST. LOUIS. 111., July 28. Representatives Rep-resentatives of the packers say that several hundred of the men who went out on strike have been taken back. It was further said that the packers are getting b killed butcher help, which at tirst they bad trouble In securing. This,-however, This,-however, is denied by the strikers, who assert that the packers are not getting any union men back, and that they expect ex-pect to win the strike by the end of the week. The allied trades are still waiting wait-ing for the call to go out. - . ' ' Strikers loosing Heart. KANSAS CITY. Mo., July 28. Many additional strikers, practically all of them unskilled labor, applied for their old places at the plants of Swift A Co., Armour & Co., and the Fowler Packing company today and re-employed. Following Fol-lowing the action last night of the central cen-tral labor union, refusing to call a strike of the allied trades until an order to do so had been received from the International Interna-tional officials, many strikers were disheartened. |