Chicago, July 25.
Leaders of the 1,500 employees Jstockyards in Chicago who are out Jon strike, to-day warned mediators that @ general strike would be called unless their demands were met.
Meanwhile, 75,000 head of caitle, ravaged by' thirst and hunger, are suffering in the stockyards, although loyal workers and stockyards officials are doing their best to feed and. water them.
The pens present a terrible sight. [Scores of the cattle are dropping dead Minneapolis, July 26.
Martiat law was proclaimed here! to-day in accordance with the ullidatum given by the Governor, Mr Floyd B, Olson, that this step would be taken unless the lorry drivers and their employers ended their! @ifferences within 24. hour 'The Governor's decree was issued an hour after a meeting of employers fand representatives of the drivers' unions, at which the latter accepted the peace plan evolved by the Federal mediator. The employers however, rejected the part laying! down a wage scale.
Four thousand National Guards are patrolling the city—Reuter.
Son Francisco, July 27.
Hostilities between Jongshoremen and waterfront employers broke out anew to-day when their representa ives failed' to agree on control of the hiring halls.
Employers agreed to discharge the strike-breakers on the San Francisco waterfront and give the jobs to union stevedores on condition that the companies should retaih control of the hiring halls pending arbitration.
The unions refused these terms, however, and answered by doubling the number of pickets on The Em-
The number of strike-breakers now. at work are insufficient to] handle the accumulated cargoes Jamming the piers, and employers are scouting everywhere for addiional non-union labour.
Police reserves were called back to duty as the uneasiness spread
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