The San Francisco call., 1904-03-04
RETAIL BUTCHERS MEET
STRIKE WITH LOCKOUT
Unite fot Resistance to Union Meat Cutters
New Scale and Give Notice to Two Hun
dred Men Who Leave the Market Blocks

Makers executive board, by the Pack
ing Trades Council and by the Ala
media County Federated Trades.
AS soon as the lockout had been de-
clared a special meeting of the Butch
ers' Union was called. T. E. McGovern,
the unions business agent, made the
following statement:
I'VE have been locked out because we
have made demand for more wages
and less working hours. Our demands
have the official Endorsement of the
councils with which we are affiliated.
At this time the situation is somewhat
involved owing to the calling of the
lockout, and we are not prepared to
say what will be done.
Herman May, district organizer for
the Pacific Coast of the International
Butchers and Sausage Makers Union
has taken charge of the situation. He
announced that the local union would
be supported by the international body
Fred Becker, the largest employer in
the city, said:
The EMPLOYERS have decided they Go
not want outsiders to run their busi
ness. 1t is not a matter of wages and
l.
cerned, for 1 have paid the rates now
demanded right along"
Neither union man nor employer
was willing to say how far the contest
might go. There is danger that the
wholesalers may be involved and that
the slaughter houses will be affected.
Indications point to hard fight. Some
of the large dealers have started to find
non union help.
The employing butchers associa-
tion tonight at meeting at Giers
Hall decided to notify those dealers
who have not yet Joined the associa-
ton that they would be given until
o'clock tomorrow night to sign the
roll, the alternative being that sup
plies would be cut off. A delegation
from the butchers board of trade of
San Francisco, representing the
wholesale interests, attended the meet
| ing and pledged it's support to the
! association. The employers declare
they have organized for a fight to the
finish.
NOT a FIGHT ON WAGES.
we hope that the public will not
misunderstood the situation" said Il.
! A. Young, proprietor of the Adeline
market This is not fight on wages.
| There is hardly retailer in this city
/ who does not pay as much or more
| than the urIfon scale. We have been
| jammed to the wall by continued de-
| mands from the union. This last de-
mand, which has caused the trouble,
reads effective March i, 1904, and
does not provide any time limit SO
l far as the agreement goes. 1t gives us
not a particle of protection against
more demands tomorrow.
! I'VE have organized to protect our
selves and have told the union that
unless it withdraws the boycott from
! the Kohler and Rothamel shops we
shall lock out all union men. The
wholesalers are behind u.s.
I'VE had information that general
strike of the union was to be ordered
for Saturday morning, so we fore
stalled that somewhat by ordering this
| lockout"
The employing butchers associa-
ton officers are as follows: President,
/ o. G. Newhall; secretary, Fred Koh-
Ter; treasurer, Oscar Breiling; SER
geant at arms, Fred Kuhnle.
T. E. McGovern, business agent of
the union. said Tonight: I'VE were
| told fatty to quit the union or quit
our jobs. So far as the union is con-
| cerned, we shall meet the situation in
! our own way