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Show 1 ' Employes Protest Against Return of 5000 Negroes Under Guard. 33,000 MEN WALK OUT Claim Blacks Non-union, Not Race Hatred 4s Cause. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. A general strike of 33,0hO employes at the packing plants in the stockyards began at 0 o'clock this morning. The action followed fol-lowed ihe decision of the stockyards labor council last night to call a gen-1 eral strike unless the state troops and I police guards were immediately Wtth-1 drawn from the plants. The strike, was precipitated by the return of 5,000 negroes to work yesterday. The dispute, according to labor leaders, is over the employment of non-union negroes rather than race hatred Many of the negroes, it la s aid, have refused to join tho unions jand labor leaders are taking advantage advan-tage of the present situation to com-'pel com-'pel the packers to employ none but ! union labor. When the white employes reported for work early in the day, they demanded de-manded that tbe state troops and police po-lice guards which had been stationed at every plant when the negroes returned re-turned yesterday be immediately withdrawn Both the city authorities and the packers declined to accede to I this demand. Tbo men walked out j quietly. It is said that several thousand thou-sand of the negro non-union workmen remained at their posts. A strike was virtually begun today when hundreds of white men quit their 'work after about 3,000 of the 15,000 negro workers returned to work un-,der un-,der troop protection following virtual ! exile of more than a w eek due to the race riots. Union men declared their objections were based on the presence of the guards, and that while they ,held no prejudice against the negro's color, the majority of the negroes were non-union. While union men said 'about 5.0U0 men had walked out, packing pack-ing company officials placed the number num-ber at about G50. I locals' representatives officiuls of the ! stockyards labor council held a con-ference con-ference with Federal Judge Ushuler, i federal arbitrator in stockyard contro-Iversies. contro-Iversies. It is known that the negro situation was discussed and it was be-I be-I lleved that the Judge's aid in having J the guards withdrawn was sought. While the grand jury' continued to hear evidence in the riot cases and oted indictments against twenty -three more negroes, making a total of fifty-four negroes indicted thus far, there was little evidence of race feeling feel-ing in the riot zones. Two Mexicans were Injured in the stock yards neighborhood, neigh-borhood, both supposedly mistaken for j negroes. A negro who was beaten during the 'rioting died today, makJng a total of thirty-six dead. Representatives of the packers declared de-clared today that the polico on duty in tho stockyards were assigned to duty by the city authorities to proven, race riots and that they were powerless power-less to order the guards away. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. There was practically prac-tically no trading in livestock here today to-day Even before the beginning of the general strike of white employes in the various stockyard establishments, tho buyers for the packing houses held off, awaiting developments as to the labor situntlon. Business was further hampered by the uncertainty of ship i" rs BS lo whether any railroad outlet for purchases here would be available |