The record-union., 1894-08-10
STRIKE AT SOUTH OMAHA.
No Approach to a settlement of I'll
Packing-House Trouble.

No Approach to settlement OF the
Packing-House Trouble.
OMAHA, Aug. 9.-Sheriff Drexel sent
100 deputies to South Omaha early this
morning. The deputies broke the picket
line of the strikers and escorted the
workmen to their houses in squads. The
strikers hooted and jeered, but did not
offer any violence. A number of old
men returned to work under protection
of the officers. All the houses began
killing in spite of the threat of the man.
ayers that they would not do any work
until the militia was called out.
Two hundred more Deputy Sheriffs
were added to the number of guards at
the packinghouses at 6 o'clock. They
were armed with buggy-spokes. no fire.
arms being allowed. The strikers refused
to withdraw their picket line at the ap-
proach Of the officers, and, while avoiding
a collision. pay little attention to the
deputies. :.
appears on the surface to be more quiet
than last night.
Quite a crowd of new men arrived on
the Burlington this evening, and squad
of special police were sent from Cudahy's
to escort them to the house. Two or
three strikers pickets who were mounted
on horses hastsned to their headq quarters
and notified the leaders. A crowd was
sent out to meet the new men, but the
officers would not let the strikers near
enough to talk to them, and beyond some
muttered threats nothing was said.
The packers complain that they cannot
get a warrant served on any man after
complaints have been made. Not even if
the men against whom complaints have
been filed are pointed out to the police
will they serve the warrants, and 'you
see," said one of the packers, with all
the police and specials, we can get no
protection"
Tonight as workman was passing
from the packing-house two or three
and in few seconds 1000 men were after
him. First one striker would strike the
man, then another. The man was
knocked down and kicked. He made no
effort to defend himself except to get
away. After he was beaten and chased
for two blocks the police finally got be-
tween the mob and the man and stopped
the assault. Captain Connell held re-
volver in each hand and swore he would
shoot the first man who continued the
fight. The police then escorted the man
home. Later he said he would go to
work in the morning, and that it meant
death to the men who attempted to as
sault him while attending to his own
business.
TROOPS MAY BE CALLED OUT.
OMAHA, Aug. g., $40 P. M.-The pack
ers, Governor Altgeld and the Adjutant-
General are now in conference on the
strike as to the use of troops.
MILITIA ORDERED OUT.
OMAHA, Aug. 9.-After a conference
lasting ten hours between the State,
uf INF nd ho
packers, in which the situation was thor
oughly canvassed, the packers refused
to continue business to-morrow without
the presence of the State troops, and the
Governor issued the necessary orders.
The Omaha Guards and Thurston Rifles,
which have been under arms within their
armories for several nights, were started
TO the scene of the disturbance. The
other companies from the interior of the
State will come in tomorrow.
Tonight two men stood Oft fifty of the
strikers with their revolvers. Two men
and boy left the Cudahy plant about
o'clock and started for their home. A
gang of the strikers saw them coming
and when the men reached the street the
gang began to close in on them. Draws
ing their revolvers they pointed them di-
rectly at the head men. "You come one
step toward me and Ill blow your head
off," said the man. His partner also
leyeled revolver in the same direction,
and the strikers stopped and called for
policeman. The officers told the crowd
to disperse, which they did.
A fireman and engineer at Cudahy's,
who work at night, were assa ulted on
their way from work. Neither of them
was hurt.
A particularly exasperating feature of
the disturbance is that laborers and
others who have no connection with the
packing house are mistaken for packing
house employees and made to suffer from
violenca.