Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1904 — STRIKERS WEAKENING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STRIKERS WEAKENING

Breaks in the Lines at Chicago Where 400 Ask Work, and at Kansas City. FIGURES GIVER BY PACKERS Bomber of Men at Work and the Num- • ber Who Struck. Striker* Families Throng at • Food Distribution Negroes Play a Trick on the Strike Leaders —Strike of Telegraphers. Chicago, Aug. 2.—A break, from the ranks of the strikers was made when 400 of the men who had quit work deserted the unions and returned in a body to the stock yards. The packers say that the stampede from the strikers’ ranks which was predicted Saturday has begun. Of the 400 men who

returned 240 are skilled workmen employed as butchers and in the mechanical trades of the yards. The remaining 160 are common laborers. According to packers’ figures 25,526 employes are now on strike, while 14,771 men are working daily at the plants.

DtMrtlai Strike-Breakers Back. Besides the return of 400 of the strikers there was another event that must have caused wroth among the strike leaders. The 400 negro strike-breakers who were escorted from the yards under union protection Saturday night on the plea that they were going to quit work returned to the scene of their labors and laughed at the union leaders whom they fooled. The negro strike breakers wanted to have a good time over Sunday and one or two geniuses among them concocted the scheme of telling the union leaders that they were going to desert the packers. By this means they secured safety outside the yards.

Buagsr Helping tha Faakaia. That hunger is making itself felt in the ranks of the strikers’ families was Shown sharply when more than 1,000 women and children with baskets surged about the two food supply depots established by the union leaders in Gross avenue and at Thirty-fifth and Halsted streets. There was no food for the clamoring throng at -the time, because, the union leaders said, there had been a failure of delivery, but that the food would be on band before long. PACKIBS DO 810 ,WOBK Koch Cattle Slaughtered—Leu Rioting Than Any Previous Day. It was a busy day with the packers. With increased forces of skilled workers and their operating departments mors thoroughly equipped than at any time since the beginning of the strike the employers toook a firm grip on the machinery of their affairs and as a result the stock yards took om the old hum of activity to a great extent. Over 78,000 head of live stock were received here. This is an Increase of 59,000 head over the receipts on the correspoondlng day last week. Still there was no panic in prices. The big packers bought 8,000 cattle, 13,000 hogs and 10,000 sheep during the day. Before nightfall 80 per cent of these purchases had been' slaughtered. Further proof of the claims of the packers that the difllculties of 'the strike are being ©overcome was furnished by the shipment of 500 carloads of fresh meats from the stock yards. The day was freer from violence than any since the strike began. The crowds usually seen at the entrances to the yards were no longer in evidence, and wagons carrying meat passed through the streets with their drivers unmolested. When the strikebreakers left the plants at night trouble was expected by the police, but for the first time in the history of the strike they were disappointd, not a single attack upon the non-union men being made. The night, however, did not pass without trouble, and for a quarter of an hourthepoiice of the Deering street station battled with a crowd of 2,000 men and women as it charged the station repeatedly with sticks and stones, shouting vengeance against the police. The trouble started when the police went to the assistance of Frank Castellano, a strike breaker who had been dragged from a street car and severely beaten. Before the police could reach Castellano he had fired four shots from a revolver at his assailants. One of the bullets took effect in John Sheehan’s arm, and at least 100 men made a rush for Castellano, but he was rescued by the police. The police station was only two blocks away, and Castellano wgs taken there for safety. Seeing that their victim had escaped the rioters determined to get revenge on the

i J police and tried to wreck the station. Stones and bricks by the hundred were hurled at the buildings and all the windows hi the plage were broken. A doxen charges were made by the police and fifty of the rioters suffered broken heads before the mob was dispersed. Three policemen were hit with bricks.

. BREAK AT KANSAS CITY Haadrada of Strikers Ask for Their OU Jobs—lnjunction for W. Joseph. Kansas City, Aug. 2.—Development* in the packng bouse strike are serious from the standpoint of the strikers, as hundreds of their number have returned to work, many of them being skilled workmen. The serious break in the ranks of the strikers was caused by their growing tired of waiting for strike benefit money promised from Chicago, and because they could not afford to remain idle longer without pay. Few of the men who applied for work were refused their old places, and those who were not taken back were assured that they will he re-em-ployed when it becomes necessary for the packers to increase their forces. Many who returned to work are cattle and hog butchers, whicn will assist materially in increasing the output of the packers. The packers assert that the strike is practically broken Jiere. All talk of a sympathetic strike seems to have ceased. » Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 2. —A temporary injunction restraining the striking packing house men at St. Joseph from picketing the plants in that city, from interfering in any way with the employes of the concerns there, or from interrupting the business of the latter has been granted here by United States District Judge Phillips. Federation Will Give Aid. Fall River, Mass., Aug. 2.—President Golden and Secretary of the United Textile Workers, have returned from their trip to Washington for the purpose of securing for the striking cotton mill operatives here the support of the American Federation of Labor. They were given every assurance of moral and financial support and feel highly satisfied with the result of their trip. Strike of “Katy” Telegraphers. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 2. —Members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers in Dallas have qut work in obedience to an order for a strike of all the telegraphers employed on the Missouri, Kansas and Te*as system. The strike is for a 10 per} cent, increase of wages, and extends ail along the line.

GLIMPSE OF THE STOCK YARDS.