The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-29
A CONFLICT
ON MONDAY
Strike of Pumpmen, Engin-
GERS and Firemen Is
Inevitable.
Rumor That Senator Hanna
May Settle the Strike
Yet.

Cleveland, May pa report was in cir.
culation here to-day that long confer
ence was held during the morning between
Senator Hanna, chairman Of the Civic
Federation, and George W. Perkins. rep
resenting J. p Morgan & Co.. relative 70
a settlement of the anthracite coal strike.
When seen by an Associated Press repor-
ter Senator Hanna refused either to deny
or confirm the report
81 have nothing to say. There has
been too much said already" he declared.
Mr.. Hanna also refused to discuss the
statement of Frank P. Sargent predisting
strike of the soft coal miners.
Hazletoa, Pa. May 29.-Eleven nom
union men, brought here last night from
Philadelphia, were put to work to-day at
| the Cranberry colliery of A. Pardee &
Co., to fill the places of striking fremen
and pump-runners. This is the first i'm
portation of non-union men into the dis
trict.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company to-
day made provisions for housing and
boarding its firemen and pump-runners at
No. 40 colliery, the largest in the dis
! trict.
I Swearing In Officers.
The coal companies in the Pottsville
section are gathering special policemen
to protect their property and in the event
of conflict on Monday they will have a
large body of men in the field. The Read
ing company has had 1875 policemen sworn
in since Monday. These will supplement
it's regular force of fifty policemen. All
have been ordered to report for duty at
once.
| strike of the pumpmen, engineers and
| fremen is inevitable. With these special
policemen and the watchmen and special
electives who have been already en-
ployed, the Reading company expects to
have sufficient force to protect any non
union men who may be brought here to
run the pumps
4 The Saint Clair Coal company and the
j. Buck Mountain Coal company also had
= commissions issuedst to a--number of spe-.
Ec1al policemen: The Lehigh Valley Coal
I company and the Pennsylvania company
each will have sworn in fifty policemen
before the end of the week and a score OF
other companies will take similar action.
Strike leaders are protesting against the
action as unnecessary. They say there
will be no violence on the part of the
strikers unless they are forced to protect
themselves.
TROUBLE IN CHICAGO. GROWS
Fears That the Strike May Extend to
the stock Yards.
Chicago, May 29-The strike of ths
teamsters against the packing companies
spread with such rapidity last night that
patrons Of restaurants may have to eat
fish ands dried meats or take to Z
vegetable diet.
The Fulton markets, the firms OF Ir-
win Brothers and Froehling & Hoppe,
which supply nearly all the large restrau-
rants down town, were notified that un-
less they ceased taking meat from the
packers their coal would be cut off. AS
;. these firms operate their own refrigerat-
ing plants, the loss Of their coal supply
would endanger what meats they have on
hand.
The coal at the Fulton market was cut
off last night, leaving the ice plant with
out fuel, to continue the cooling process.
Eighteen other firms were notified that
their coal and ice supply would cease this
morning, while all the butchers operating
small markets have received notice that
they must stop taking meat or they will
have to run their shops without ice or
, coal.
: The down town restaurants obtain their
! meat supplies every morning but are de-
pendent upon the local firms, the pack
ers declining to sell to them.
, A Sympathetic Strike.
!, For the first time since the inception Of
the fight, the sympathetic strike made its
appearance. Two hundred and twenty
: Ave box makers employed by the National
Box company, struck because they had
! been asked to furnish boxes to the pack
: ers against whom teamsters are strug-
Cling. The company makes boxes for the
; Nelson, Morris Plant and Libby, McNeiu
& Libby. President Payne of the
boxmakers employed by the Anglo Amert-
can Provision company were likely to re.
!, fuse to make boxes for the packers uHder
: the circumstances.
No Meat BY Express.
! The American Express company refused
to handle meat through fear that all its
c drivers, who are members of the team
Z sters' union, would strike.
None Of the large firms signed the scale
7 yesterday, although the SchWarzcnltd u
sulzberger company manifested its will
| lingness to pay the. scale without recog-
nizing the union.
A Few SISirmishes.4s
{ While few wagons we're permitted to
) pass out Of the yards by the pickets, there
!, were several skirmishes down town.
i Eighteen commission drivers quit on
|. South Water street to aid the teamsters
] as pickets. They followed two statesmen
: to the Swift barn at Halsted and Division
: streets and frightened them so that the
police were called to raise the siege.
Shipping Clerk James VAIL was taken
I away in a patrol wagon.
The only excitement at the stock yards
6 occurred when thirty non union team
a sters reported for duty at Swift & Conn
] pany's packing house. Union men Inter-
!. cepted the newcomers and several refused
t to 60 to work. The police stopped active
9 trouble.
Thousands May Quit To-day.
/ If the packing concerns do not yield to
! the demands of the striking teamstera
5 within q short time it may result in q
8 general stoppage OF 40 900 employees at the
yards. Already several hundred persons