The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-26
BEEF TRANSFERS OUT
Packers Have Trouble In Delivering
Chicago's Meat.


Special to The Journal.
Chicago. May 26.-Beef which has been
soaring in price for some time through
the nanipulations of the alleged trust may
be even more Of a rarity, for the teamsters
who deliver it have gone on strike. The
| action was taken at a meeting Of the
packing house teamsters last night at
Forty seventh street and Princeton ave-
hue. and went into effect at midnight. It
will affect every packing house in the
stock yards and involve 526 transfers.
| The men claim to control the situation
and say it will be impossible for the pack
ers to find drivers to take their places. AS
a consequence both wholesale and retail
butcher stores are likely to face meat
! famine. -
For some time the teamsters have been
| agitating new scale, which provides for
an increase In wages. Efforts to have
| the packers concede the demands without
a strike have been futile and now the
men declare they will fight it out with the
| trust.
The wages paid the men at present run
| from 16 to rs cents an hour. The men
demand 22h cents to 32b cents an hour
according to the number of horses to the
wagon. 49,.
Some Of the packers think the strike
will not amount to more than a tenn
| pOrary inconvenience. and say it. will not
affect prices In the local market Arthur
| Meeker of Armour & Co. was one of these,
but he did not explain how the packers ex-
pected to be able to deliver meat to their
customers" -.
There are about 1900 butcher shops
and meat markets in the city, and all of
them were without a meat delivery this
morning. ~ =.
The drivers are not the only class of
workmen who are having trouble with the
beef trust. About $50 hog butchers, en-
ployed by Nelson: Morris & Co., are on
strike for an Increase in wages for some
OF their number Two butchers in a GER
tain department were being paid 42k
cents an hour, while 1T is said the other
packers pay As cents for the same class
Of work. They demanded the increase, and
/, when they were refused, they walked out
, The other men went on strike in sym
pathy. The strike was not authorized by
the officers Of the union, but the men are
out and refuse to work until their de-
mands are granted. ~;
One of the largest hotels was shy ham
bacon and eggs at brea kfast and severa
others are said to have felt the absence
Of particular cuts of meat. The hotels
were warned by their butchers to look out
for trouble in securing supplies and repre-
sentatives of the teamsters union claim
that unless their demands for better
. wages are met it would be exceedingl,
difficult to get any meat in Chicago Ont
retail house which supplies several of tn.
larger hotels had to use It's own wagons
in getting supplies from the packers a.
:, the yards. -
: Amour & Co. sent their o'clock load
out with new drivers, but were short f1v
9 loads. Swift & Co.. took men from til,
. superintendent Office to- handle tn
;, teams. Nelson Morris & Co: adopted
: similar measure. The packers hav
y asked for police protection. The large
= firms are generally supplied with fiv
= day stock but the small butchers are i
: bad way.
y Twenty-Five girls employed by on
packing concern to-day refused to ride i
8 bus driven by a non-union man. The
= climbed into vehicle but when the
learned that the regular driver had joine
g the strikers they refused to ride an
- walked the distance.