Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-31
STRIKE My SPREAD
Transfers Strike in Chicago
Fast Approaching Serious
Crisis.
National Leader Threatens a
Tie-up Of the Packers Opera.
tons Everywhere.
Meat Famine Becoming More
and More Apparen. in the
City OF Chicago.

Chicago, May S1.-Famine in beer
from the teamsters' strike will next
week. SO says the teamsters natlohai
president, become in it's effects sec
tional, if not national, instead of To-
cal, unless a settlement is reached
lions in their campaign against the
arrayed packers, the men will make
the yards at Kansas City. st. Joseph
omaha, and East st. Louis, and depoi
points thruout the west, their outposts
and by pushing the contest there WIZ
endeavor to tie up still further stock
yards operations. BY this blockade
of trade they count on bringing the
packers to time. This plan OF cam
paign was announced yesterday, afte'
an audience was refused to com
mittee of the union.
National President Young declared
that the transfers We're organized al
Kansas City, st. Joseph, Mo-; Omaha
and East st. Louis, and were READY
to strike in sympathy with their Chi
icago brethren as soon as called up
on.
Meantime the situation in this city
is hurrying to q crisis. The packers
stand firm in their refusal to treat
the difficulty of moving wagons under
fire increases, and small retailers, res
taurants ard hotels are being pinched
for supplies. Today. when the mar
kets attempt to get their stock for
sales for Sunday, is expected to bring
many dealers to the point of closing
their establishments.
Little attempt to deliver meat was
made yesterday on account of the holt
day, and the famine is becoming more
pronounced. Some of the retail butch
ers in the outlying sections of the city
received small corsignments of meat
yesterday morning. but We're told that
il would be the last they could get until
the strike was settled or broken.
Not wagon moved from the stock
yards, and for the first time since the
strike began Nelson Morris did not
ship any meat by rail. One car from
Morris was left at the foot of South
Water street, and an attempt was made
by Superintendent j. Croker Louis
Markwell and Isaac Hockstedar to un-
load it and take the meat to the whole-
sale market of the firm on South Water
street. The wagon was surrounded by
200 strikers and their friends and its
progress blocked.
Hockstedar drew a revolver and
threatened to shoot, but the police in
terfered and disarmed him. The wagon
was finally released on the official
promising that no further efforts would
be made to unload the car. 1t still
stands on the tracks with most of it's
| load on 1t.
Around the Fulton street market
everything was quiet, no attempt being
made to get meat there yesterday. The
coal supply will give out this morning,
according to the engineer, and as all
the stores in the block depend upon the
one plant to furnish the cold air. the
butchers will not receive meat. as it
will spoil. Several cars are stalled on
the railroad tracks, full of meat, but
without Ice, and the warm weather is
causing the strikers to rejoice.
Swifts reached the Illinois Central
yards yesterday morning, but no at
tempt was made to unload them Early
in the morning driver of Irwin Bros.
was attacked in Plymouth court. The
wagon was overturned. after the horse
mad been unhitched. and the harness
cut to pieces.
There seems little prospect of an ear
ly settlement.