Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — STRIKE IS ON AGAIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STRIKE IS ON AGAIN.

WORKERS IN THE STOCK YARDS CALLED OUT ANEW. President Donnelly Charges Packer* with Bad Faith and Telegraphs to AU Big Centers Ordering Renewal as Walkout—Seek Sympathetic Strike. The Stock Yards strike was declared on again in Chicago Friday morning, less than 38 hours after "a peace agreement had been signed. On the charge that the packers were discriminating against certain persons' in the re-em-ployment process the union officials ordered their men to quit work, and the situation at the yards was soon ns bad as ever. Confusion, excitement and charges of bad faith attended the new walk-out. The union charged discrimination on the part of the packers in taking back the strikers. The employers asserted that only delay, to be expected in efforts to resume normal operations, was at fault. It was evident, however, that the contending forces were farther apart than at any time during the original strike. The strike was renewed in other packing centers also. » Strike leaders declared that unless the employers changed their attitude at once, al! the allied trades workmen would walk out and that a complete stoppage of work at the packing plants would ensue. When the men reported for work In a body early in the morning they were met by the announcement that it would be impossible at present to take back more than half the force. The workers met this announcement sullenly. notwithstanding the clause In

the agreement which gave the packers 45 days in which to supply work for all the strikers. The strikers said: “You must take us all back or none of us will go to work.” Many of them did go to work, however, but a little later the leaders appeared, and on discovering that some of the men who were turned away had been prominent figures in the strike they declared that the packers were employing a “revengeful discrimination,” and the strike was declared to be on once more. President Donnelly, after conferring with other leaders, gave the order for the strike and then sent this telegram to union officials, in other packing centers of the country: “Packers already have violated agreement by discrimination. Order men out.” When the word that another strike was ordered reached the workmen who had gone to the different departments to begin their labor, they finished the work immediately in hand and then marched in bodies out of the yards, taking their tools with them.

M. DONNELLY.