Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-30
No MEAT FOR CHICAGO
Striking Transfers Close 200
Butcher Shops...Reduced TO
Canned Goods.
Business So Demoralized That
Yards Can Not Handle the
Receipts OF Cattle.
Outside Slaughter Houses Charge
Double Prices and Run
All Night.

Chicago. May 30.-Chicago began to
minent Butchers who bought of pack
ers fighting the striking stock yards
teamsters lost their ice supply. Res
taurants We're in straits to procure
choice meats. The commodity rose in
price and many shops shut down IN
different parts of the city. President
Albert Young, Of the Transfers Ma
tional Union, declared the strike would
he backed by union labor and win if it
took five years. Butchers have practi-
cally abandoned hauling from the
yards. Except for a few wagons that
leave the yards under heavy police pro-
ing hauled out.
Monday night joint council of the
local teamsters' union will be held to
determine whether all the union retail
shops butchers are to be called upon
to stand by the teamsters and refuse TO
handle meats of unfair concerns.
At leading hotels and restaurants it
was stated today the supplies would
last three days longer. If the strike is
not settled by that tirSe the managers
do not know what they will do. 1t
might be possible to get the meat if
they had only to deal with the packers
and teamsters, but the staunch and
sympathetic stand of the ice men and
coal teamsters leaves restauranteurs
completely in the hands Of the strikers.
Chicago, May 30.-All the outlying
districts of Chicago felt seriously the
effects Of the teamsters' strike at the
union stock yards yesterday. Some pro-
prietors of the small butcher shops
were forced to close until the strike is
settled, others closed of their own free
will, and still others sent word to the
distributing stations of the big packers
that unless q supply of meat is forth
coming today they, too, will cease doing
business. 1t was the beginning of a
meat famine that theatens to deprive
the city of all but canned goods.
In the district southwest of the union
stock yards over 200 of the meat men.
of their own free WILL decided to shut
their doors. give their clerks vacation.
and not attempt to do any business I'M
til Monday. Today being a holiday,
they concluded to make it three days.
Over in the Ghetto. the kosher mer-
chants, shut off from their slaughtering
house in the Armour plant, organized
and notified the strikers that they, too,
would cease doing business when their
present supply gives out.
In Lake View and the northwest side,
the distributing agents of the packers
rotified the merchants that their sup
ply is out and no more meat will be sold
until a temporary settlement is effect
ed.
Out at the yards few loads of meat
got past the rickets of the strikers. and
several train loads were sent out, but
the supply was too small to meet the
demands of even a suburb the size of
Evanston. The Strengthening houses
outside the yards and outside the pres
cnt fight ran until IL o'clock last night
trying to meet the demands of the
trade. but failed AS it was, they
charged double prices and found all
willing to pay them. 1t was not case
of money but of supply in every portion
Of the city.
So demoralized has the market be-
come that the yards are unable to nan
die the receipts of cattle, ana yesterday
commission men and packers sent tale
grams to all parts of the country telling
the shippers to hold back all the cattle
hogs and lambs possible until the
strike is settled. Under ordinary con-
ditions this alone would cause strin-
gency on the market, and the commits
sion men believe it will aid In making
the next three days the worst Chicago
has ever seen.
Early yesterday morning the strikers
discovered that many of the butchers
were abusing the passes given them In
the fore part of the week. These pass
es were for goods they had purchased
weeks before and had not taken to
their shops, and instead of handing
them In when the meat had been OBJ
tanned they continued to use them for
the benefit of entire neighborhoods.
When this became known to the pick
cts all retail wagons were prohibited
from going into the yards under the
penalty of having their ice supply cut
off