The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-31
Conference Held Yesterday at Which
the Packers Declined to Yield
What Was Asked.
BEEF FAMINE is IMMINENT
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS ARE UN-
ABLE TO SECURE SUPPLIES.
Crowds on the Streets Sympathizing
with the Strfkers-RetaiI Dealers
Forced to Close.

CHICAGO, May SO.-Every packing house
in the West belonging to the "Bix Six is
to be attacked by the Teamsters' Union
Monday if the local companies do not re-
cede from their position and sign the
agreement. The tie-up in Chicago, which
is declared complete. is to be carried to
Omaha, Kansas City, st. Joseph and st.
Louis, and the teamsters, whose national
headquarters are in Chicago, have received
assurances from their locals at those points
that all the men will obey the summons
and go out. This move will be national in
its effect. The decision to make the call
was reached to-day by the executive coun-
Gil of the National Teamsters' Union, and
came after a conference with Louis +.
Swift, of Swift & Co., and Edward Morris,
of Nelson Morris & Co., both of whom
refused even to discuss the terms of the
agreement the teamsters wished signed.
The attitude OF the packers representa-
tives took away the last hope of an imme-
diate settlement of the strike and the team
sters decided to give the firms until Mon
day before broadening the scope of the
struggle.
Thousands of persons had their usual
supply of meat cut off to-day entirely,
and many others who were able to buy a
little meat here and there paid fancy prices
for it, All through the city butchers closed
down, and many of them will not
open again until the strike has
BEEN settled. Chicago began to
realize to-day that a NETT famine is immi-
nent. Butchers who have bought of the
packers fighting the striking teamsters lost
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straits to procure choice meats. The COM
modify rose in price and many shops shut
down in different parts of the city. Holiday
crowds blocked wagons and cheered the
strikers. President Albert Young, of the
Teamsters' National Union, declared that
the strike would be backed by union labor
and won if it took five years. Butchers have
practically abandoned the hauling of meat
from the yards. All passes issued by the
strikers have been called in and all meat
that goes out in cars is followed and traced.
Except for the few wagons that leave the
yards under heavy police protection early in
the day, no meat is being hauled out. Mon
Cay night joint council of the local Team
sters' Union will be held to determine
whether all the union retail shop butchers
are to be called on to stand by the team
sters and refuse to handle the meats of
unfair" concerns.
AT the leading hotels and restaurants it
was stated to-day that the supplies would
last three days longer. If the strike is not
settled by that time the managers do not
know what they will do. 1t might be posi-
BILE to get meat if they had only to deal
with packers teamsters, but the stanch
sympathetic stand of the icemen and the
coal teamsters leaves the restaurateurs
completely in the hands of the strikers.
Some meat has been delivered to hotels
and restaurants to-day by armed drivers
This was one of the results of the attacks
made yesterday on teamsters in the employ
of Irwin Brothers. This firm has equipped
its drivers with revolvers, and it is owing
to this fact that a load of beef was deliv-
cred to-day. Robert Alling was taking it tc
the Y. w. c. A. building when three men
waylaid his team. One of them seized the
lines and the other tried to pull Alling from
his seat. The driver drew a revolver and a
threat TO shoot the man at the horses
turned his attention to the men on the
wagon, who also fled when he pointed the
revolver at them, threatening to kill them
if they did not go down. After reaching the
Y. w. c. A building Irwin Brothers and
the Harrison-street station were informed
by telephone OF the attack. Several police.
men were hurried to the scene, but they
could not find any trace of the assailants.