The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-05
BOTH SIDES ACTIVE.
Pickets Of Striking Mill Employees
Put On a Strong
Gordon.
On the Other Hand, Two More
Mills Are Started
Up.

beginning of the twelfth day of the
strike at the -four mills this morning.
: The double line of pickets placed
around the West Side mills this morn
ing turned back about 200 men who
were going to work on the Z o'clock
shift, and the managers of the mills
opened two new mills-the Galaxy of
the Northwestern Consolidated and
the Anchor of the Pillsbury-Washbu burn
company. g., - X. - -...-'.
have succeeded each day in getting
mills, instead of going back in to work
again. This has been one Of the nor
NAL conditions of strike and as the
managers have had no desire to
keep men who didn't want to work
they have paid little attention to the
picket line. - ..>'
Workmen Turned, Back. H.
This morning, however, when the
200 men employed in the Washburn-
Crosby, Pillsbury- -Washburn and
Northwestern Consolidated mills, but
who are living outside the mills,
started to work on the early morning
shift they ran into a Gordon of pickets
stretched across the railroad tracks on
Sixth avenue S. 5ts.- :.
Nothing that could be technically
known as "violence" was used, but the
10
forming good line for. defense and
Argument was resorted to, and the
workmen, failing to get thru the line,
returned to the milling companies
Offices =. - 49,. .,-,&. '.... ...-t @,>@
The companies. at once found an
other way of getting the employees into
the mills and are disposed to regard
this incident as closed. John Wash
Va 11h INV
pany said: IT'S all right. 1t shows
that the strikers are getting little
active, that's ALL"
A. G. Loring of the 81 Consolidated
company, said: "Picketing is clearly
illegal and if the aid of the courts were
to be invoked we could put a. stop to
1t at once. No man has right to keep
others from going to work. But we
are we'll satisfied with the situation
and we prefer to let the strikers take
their own course. - We are daily dem
onstrating our ability to run the mills
without the strikers and it will only
be short time before we will be run
ming full blast ..>,. 49, ~
1--WE have no quarrel with the un-
ions and no desire to break them up,
as. has been repeatedly claimed; but we
90 want to run our own busfness,a and
in doing this we will take back good
men, regardless Of their membership
or nonmembership in a union. I'm
disirable men We will not take back
under any conditions.'
Say Strikers Are Coming Back.
In spite of the number. and .,un-
usual activity of the pickets it was
Washburn and the Washburn- Crosby
companies that many of The: strikers
had come back to work. At each OF
these mills the superintendent said
| that union men of all classes came
back this morning and that so many
1 about fifty of IN the snal ller45 re eeruits
| and applicants were sent away.
+ At strike headquarters many of
| these men were being cared for, anC
it was reported that in the four day!
the strikers employment agency hac
| been running places had been found
| for ninety men,. .,>'a% = : 4,
| Grand Master Hawley Of the switch
mems union is due here some time
this week. Secretary Sweeny' is no
! expected. -
No attempt was made by the Pills
bury -Washburn company to open tn
big Az mill this morning and a larg
crowd Of pickets on hand to head OF
possible employees was disapp ointed.
;! The strikers held their usual morn
!: ing meeting at Union tempt -Ther
! was no diminution IN attendance.
Shipment Reports Show Gain,
l. Since daily reports of shtprne nent
have been published the strikers hav
insisted that the milling companie
have been sending out sealed emptie
and half loads for the sake of effect
a report to which the milling com
panies have entered an emphatic de
nial. The day before the mills close
the shipments were: Washburn- -Cros
by, 139 cars; Pillsbury- Wash burn i o
and Northwestern Consolidated, 81
No shipments are reported for the fol
lowing day, but beginning with Sep
25 and omitting Sundays, the dali
reports are as follows:
!. ,;Washburn- Crosby-27, 25, 26, Al, 40, 6
= 3d.
Pillsbury- y-Washburn-1, IL, -, 80, 2e, 8
s2 49,. .
Consolidated=12 G. L & IL LIZ "a