Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — RIOT CALL AT ST. JOSEPH [ARTICLE]

RIOT CALL AT ST. JOSEPH

Attacks on Non-Union Men of the Pack* tng Plants Call for Frequent Police Attention.

St. Joseph, Mo., July 22. —A riot mil was turned in from the stock yards district at 9 o’clock at night and every available policeman was on duty endeavoring to control frenzied members of the labor unions who went out on a strike several days ago. Tbe packers are not discharging the non-union men fast enough to suit the strikers. The managers of all the {Kicking plants in South St. Joseph notified tbe union men that but 60 per cent, of the strikers will be put to work at once. The strikers say the packers are endeavoring to hold all non-union men. and that all of the union men cannot get back to work if tbe packers are permitted to carry out their plans. Consequently, wherever a nonunion employe of the plants is found he is at once assaulted.