The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-04
OUTSIDERS BUSY.
Renewed Efforts to End the
Strike Are in Progress.
Strikers Say Overtures Must
Come From Packers.
DONNELLY RECALLED.
Strike Breakers Reported to Be
Deserving in Large Numbers
Fight Between Rioters and Po-
lice Results In % Arrests.

reJdry Homer II. Call or the ButcnerS'
organization, declared today that out
side Influences are again trying to
bring about a settlement of the stock
yards strike.
st expect to meet an intermediary
| said Mr.. Call today. This person is a
| third party, but Mr.. Call declined to
| indicate who the person was nor
would the secretary discuss further
! the prospect for an Immediate end of
| the struggle.
81 expect no direct overtures from
the packers before Monday" con-
! tinued Mr.. CALI but by that time I
hope to accomplish something of a
beneficial nature. By Monday the
packers will be ready to talk to us. 1t
was reported that the intermediary
referred to by Secretary Call had a
conference today with Louis Swift
and that Mr.. Call. the intermediary
! and Mr.. Swift would meet today at
Swift & Co.'S stock yard offices.
DonnelIy Called Back.
President Donnelly, summoned back
! to Chicago by International Secretary
| Call, is expected in the city shortly.
Mr.. Donnelly said in Kansas City last
night that any move for an end of
the strike must be made by packers
and that he wished he could settle
with honor today
Officials of the butchers workmen or
iganization severely criticized today the
utterance of a police inspector who is
alleged to have said that after this
rioters will be taken to the morgue in
stead of the police station.
THE police said Secretary Call, ARE
doing more to incite riot and lawless-
SfT
Vado is enough to drive some OF our
men, especially the hot heads to carry
revolvers themselves. A can of beer TO
do the rest. We have been trying 10
conduct a peaceful strike.
| Numbers of strike breakers employed
! in the packing plants are reported as
! deserting In punches OF 90 or more
when paid off. 1t is claimed by the
union leaders that fully so per cent OF
| the strike breakers are men, who, haV-
ing been idle for time simply wanted
| a chance to make little ready money,
| and having accomplished the purpose
| are quitting at the first opportunity.
Ice Cut on.
| The threatened spread of the strike
| to outside industries came when an
| order was issued by the teamsters
union forbidding drivers of Ice wag-
ons to make any deliveries to retail
butchers who since the packing house
teamsters went on strike, have been
hauling meat from the yards in their
s. AS
most markets do not hold enough ice
! to last longer than 48 hours the order
to cut off the supply of ice, If 1t can
be enforced, means that many persons
| in Chicago will be compelled to forego
fresh meat. Officers of the teamsters
union have appointed pickets to watch
retail markets all over Chicago with
instructions to see that the boycott is
carried out.
Strikers and Police Fight.
rio IuIi at ha
yards last night two policemen were
injured and % rioters were arrested
after being beaten into subjugation.
The trouble started when five strike
breakers from one of the machine
shops in one of the packing plants
were leaving the yards and tried to
board a street car to go to their homes.
Despite the signals of the strike break
erS the mOtOrmen on twelve cars re-
fused to stop, and a crowd seeing a
good opportunity to get revenge on
the nonunion men, began to hurl
stones at them
Two policemen who were guarding
the entrance went to the assistance of
the nonunioniStS. Fully a thousand
angry men were trying to get at the
strike breakers. Retreating into the
machine shop, the policemen sent in
a riot call for reinforcements. When
the additional policemen arrived a
crowd was armed with bricks and
stones, and when the policemen started
forward every man who could find room
threw a brick. The bricks went to
the mark and the policemen dropped
with wounds on the head. They were
carried by their companions to the ma
chine shops.
Seeing the condition of their COM
panionS the other eighteen policemen
made another charge the crowd
This time the onslaught was in earnest
IS clubs being swung from right to left
with all the muscle that each man
could muster. Each time Club
descended it landed on mans head
and fully fifty of the rioters were beaten
to the pavement in this manner before
AS soon as the policemen saw they had
the mob on the run they turned their
attention to those who were lying OH
the ground and arrested % men.
Strikers allegations of unsanitary
conditions at the packing house elected
chief surgeon for Swift & Co, and DR..
w. j. Enright, of the Armour company,
say they conduct physical examina-
tions of all men who apply for work.
The physicians say that every man
woman who has any marks of being af-
accounted either contagious or infec-
tiouS is not permitted to enter the ger
vices of the packers.
Arthur F. Evans, of Swift & Co., de-
clared today that no conference with
the strikers was expected and that
there was no necessity for one.
independent Plants Expand.
St. Louis, Mo, Aug. 4-It is esti-
mated that as a result of the strike
of the butchers and meat cutters, at
Iueast "a independent abbatoirs are
now in operation in this city and are
killing from 500 to 1000 head of cat
tie, sheep and hogs daily. These plants
hoiT7Q run nv nri0n men The