Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — How John Teutel Ended a Strike. [ARTICLE]

How John Teutel Ended a Strike.

Oliioago NCwf. man physically on ’Change is John Teufel. He is over six feet high and tips tbe beam at more than three hundred pounds. The girth of his "shouldere is“somethirig enormous. Jlis coat would make two for an ordinary man, Teufel is a packer, ago he came to the stock yai nary butcher, and .the energy which enabl d him to climb from that lower 'position to the ing house is clearly shown in his strongly markaifeatures;, * tie is a very wealthy map and a very shrewd one. A little story illustrates the latter trait. He-had bought a riacking-house plant in Louis just before a general strike of the hands in all the houses in that village tbokplace. Coming down ojaßEpffimrig Teufel found his deserted and the fires in drawn. The situation was explained to him by the foreman. '' s*Tbere’s nothing to do but to lie still,” said the official. “We can’t get any hands until the strike is settled.” “We can’t, eh!” exclaimed Teufel. “You yust start dem fires. Go, do as I dep you,” he said, as the foreman, not understanding the strange order hesitated. s The fires were started, and soon the black smoke was of the chimneys of Teufel’s house. What was the result? The strikers ; immediately concluded Teufel had somehow secured hands, and rushed pell-mell to get there jobs back before it was too late. Before night Teufel’s house was running once more.