The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-08-04
ALL QUIET TODAY
AFTER MEAT RIOT.
PACKERS CLAIM THEY WILL
BREAK THE STRIKE.
MANY CALLS FOR ASSISTANCE.
Fifteen Hundred People Apply For
Food-Twenty Arrests Made Dur
ing the Riot Last Night
Forces Increasing.
MANY CALLS FORASSISTANCE


Forces Increasing.
Chicago, Aug. 1.--Quiet marked the
opening hours of the twenty-first day
of the stock yards strike. Fifty per.
sons were arraigned in the stockyards
police court this morning as the re-
suit of rioting last night, in which
three thousand strikers and sympa'
thizers battled with one hundred pc
lice. Shipments of strike breakers
continued to arrive this morning and
the men were distributed among the
plants without disturbance. The
packers claim all departments will be
put in operation this week. Receipts
of stock were heavy this morning
The packers could not handle all OF
them and shipments were made to
other cities.
Clash at Stock Yards.
The police and mob Of strike sym.
pathizers clashed last night in the
stock yards. The disturbance was
caused by two non-union men who en-
tered a saloon and asked for a drink,
where crowd of the strikers friends
had congregated. When the bartend,
er went to serve the strike breakers
the other men in the place protested
and fight followed. Several police
men hearing the disturbance ran to
the saloon and succeeded in ejecting
the attacking party. The doors of the
place were barricaded, but the rioters
being reinforced by several hundred
friends returned to renew the attack.
A riot call was sent in, but before the
patrol wagon with a squad of police
men had arrived the saloon had been
partly wrecked. 1t was necessary for
the police to fire a volley from their
revolvers over the heads of the riot
ers before they desisted in their at
tack on the place. With the excep-
ton of bruises and scratches received
during the disturbance no one was in
jured.
Hunger Has Commenced.
Fifteen hundred men and women
surrounded the strikers supply stores
at Ashland avenue and Gross street
this morning, asking for food. The
supply seemed ample.
More Strike Breakers at Work.
Packers claim large accessions
from the ranks of the strikers this
morning. Armours said they took
1c f ro6 veisd]n M55ffrts sarG s.ls; i.c
inbred reported there for work this
orning. Swift claims sixteen skill
workmen have returned One hun
ed colored women arrived at Libby, I
cNeill & Libbys plant this morn
G, where they will do scrubbing
0rk in place Of the women who quit.
Deserted the Strikers.
Kansas City, Aug. 1.-The police
ported that many skilled butchers
.serted the strikers today and re- :
rned to work at Armour's plant.
Prepare for Long Struggle.
Chicago, Aug. Arrangements were
ade by labor leaders at the stock Z
ards for a long struggle with the a.
,ckers. Next Tuesday will mark the
sginning of the fourth week of the
rike. A strike committee, consisting
representatives of the butcher work.
en-, Chicago Federation of Labor and
Lch Of the % allied trades engaged
the sympathetic strike, was appoint !
to conduct the struggle. Five relief
ations are doing business. The pack
s admit the end of the strike is not
sight, but they believe there will be
break within ten days.
International President Donnelly Of
e butcher workmen left for Omaha
lturday night. He will also visit
ansas City and East st. Louis before
turning. He,has with him checks for
ousands of dollars to establish relief
atoms wherever needed. Before leav-
g he said the packers were in a bad
ay and that the strikers were sure
win. ..E.# .. E..
Strike Breakers Desert.
Three hundred nonunion men en-
Dyed at the stock yards marched out
body under guard of committee
,pointed by President Donnelly, of q.
e butchers. During the day the pack
s hired 600 more nonunion men.
Strike leaders asked Sheriff Barrett +
intercede, but were told that SO long
] the police are able to handle the
tuation there will be no interference
ON the sheriff's Office. !