Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-31
MORE ORDERED OUT
Meat Famine Likely to Fol-
low Strikers Plan.
ITS GENERAL EFFECT
PICKETs AT STOCK YARDS IN
CREASED IN NUMBERS.
Plants All Over the Country to Come
Within Scope of Seef
Workers Scheme.

CHICAGO, August 31.-Famine in meat is
declared by the strikers to be the probable
result of their new move in the strike against
the packers Orders have been issued for
a general strike Of all butcher workmen
throughout the country. They are expected
to go out tomorrow. The order will AFFECT
in all about 1900 men in Chicago, including
the independent plants. The order, If OBJ
served, will also affect Independent plants
in large capacity in the following cities:
East ST. Louis, Omaha, st. Louis, Kansas
City, Sioux City, New York, Milwaukee,
Syracuse, Stickney, ILL.,, and hundreds OF
small plants throughout the country, which
employ from ten to twenty men. Alto
gether, union officials assert that $4,000 men
will go out, and the meat supply will be
seriously crippled. leaving as the only sup
ply the output of the big packers by their
nOn-union help.
Today the pickets surrounding the stock
yards were largely increased, the yards
being watched for several blocks away
Strike breakers were warned not to leave
the yards. Bitter feeling exists against
them. The six hundred stock handlers In
the stock yards quft work this forenoon
They were greeted by cheers by the union
pickets.
The manager of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit Company said that in antcpa-
ton of strike of the stock handlers men
had been in training to take the places OF
deserting weighers. and that fifty of such
men are available at once. He said that
no further trouble was expected in ham
ding the stock.
The packers say it is Donnellys sinten-
ton to create meat famine, which he
thinks would arose the public to such q
pitch of indignation that a settlement
would be forced.
''Donnelly is undertaking the impossible -
said representative of one of the pack
ers. There is little chance of a meat
famine. The Independent packers, who by
their collusion with the unions, have prof
tied much during the strike, will suffer
most"
President Donnelly's Belief.
A strong effort is to be made by the lead
ers of the unions now al the stock yards
to spread the scope of the strike so that 1t
will include every trade which Is affiliate
IL, even a remote degree, with the packing
industry.
President Donnelly of the Butchers
Union declared last night that he would
also be able to call out all the switchmen
employed on the railroads which do busi-
ness at the stock yards. and possibly to cx-
tend the strike to other departments of the
railroads.
A mass meeting Of the strikers is to be
held this afternoon at Watita Hall, near
tle Stoch ydruS anu duureSSeS are 10 pe
made by number of labor leaders
In addition to the stock handlers, 125 spe-
cial policemen and nearly 400 pen cleaners,
drivers of refuse wagons. and labsrers en-
ployed by the Union Stock Yards Company
quit work.
Efforts are making to call out the switch
men at the yards, employed by the Chicago
Junction Railway Company. They will vote
on the question tonight
Frank f. Hawley, grand master of the
Switchmen's Union of North America, has
been summoned to Chicago, with the view
to getting switchmen throughout the
United States to refuse to handle cars con-
tanning anything for the packers.