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STOCK YARDS STRIKE j STILL UNSETTLED ------------"---------- With 250 C. I. O. pickets massed before the main gate of the strike-bound union stock yards, A. F. of L. workers today called off an attempt to enter the great livestock center and resume their duties. Previously a rival A. F. of L. union to the C. I. O. organization on strike had reported it would send 200 livestock handlers into the yards today. By six a. m., the time set for the march through the pickets, 125 police were on hand to prevent violence, but only twenty-four A. F. .of L. men appeared at their headquarters near the yards. No attempt was made to crash the picket lines. An hour later two A. F. of L. men walked into the yards. The pickets made no effort to halt them. The strike therefore entered its second week with normally busy yards empty. An A. F. of L. spokesman declared that 350 men had returned to work, but observers posted at all entrances to the yards ridiculed this announcement. Also O. T. Henkle, general manager of the Union jStock Yards and Transit Company, against which the C. I. O. is striking, said: "Nobody had reported back for work. Stock is coming in, but the receipts are very light and the owners are caring for the feeding and handling of their own stock."
