The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
'MEA FAMINE At
HAND IN CHICAGO.
Extension Of Strike to Independ-
ent Plants Shuts OFF Food
Supply.

L Chicago, Sept. Lineage races the I
most serious meat famine in it's history.
With the wholesale markets empty, be-
fore the end Of the week the 100000
population of the city will be on
vegetable diet.
Within half an hour after the seriousl
condition Of the market became known,
following the calling out of the live
\ plants, beef jumped $3.50 per 100
I pounds The wholesalers say that there
/ will be another jump of So hundred
before the end of the week.
will be prohibitive, and the thousands
I who require meat to sustain their
strength for manual labor will suffer:
It is possible that small quantities OF
beef may be shipped in BY ~ county sunniy
The price Of poultry and eggs will ad-
vance in sympathy with peef, and the
enforced increase in the consumption OF
l vegetables also will send those comm %
l dities up. The out-of-state. packers DO
4 not employ union men and it is CUES
ton if the handlers in Chicago will be
I permitted to work on their goods, even
1 if they do reach the city.
Famine Is Near.
The wholesalers see no way to meet
the demands and actual famine condl-
lions cannot be avoided in few hours,
they say. Anticipating a famine the
/ were scenes. of great activity, Sup
I plies of beef were sent to the Armour,
Swift and Morris cold storage plants; in
South Water street from Fulton market
I famine prices that viii prevail before
The end of the week These cold stor-
age plants have been empty for weeks.
/ The packers, say, that the conditions ms
will be exactly the reverse 90, OF s,la1I
market men. will have to buy their
beef from them or go without. because
they can no longer get supplies from
the independent men. -,
4 All the large restaurants will be able
to store beef for their trade, but not
enough to stand a prolonged siege. =,
The masses are to be the. real suffer
ers. As one merchant put it: ''There
ns is no telling what will happen to the
- the boards that in two days there will
W. be no meat in the city and none in
IF sight. While this may be a rather
W pessimistic way Of looking at the stu.
alton, it is the only way we can o ngGre
Els ty as to Chicago's meat supply.
'E- Two Cities Affected.
The strike order Of President Don
nelly with regard to independent pack
- ing plants is to apply only to thos'
100 DldQCS III CulCdSO duU NJ. AOuto'
ich "It was President Donnelly's idea,
7er,, said national officer Of the. strikin1'
and butchers organizations ito tie up tn
ars. Independent plants and bring on mea
ing shortage in order to awaken public In
the terest in the strike. This was opposed
the because it was felt such action woult
I'M hurt US most by throwing our own mel
7er- out of employment in large numbers
Confning the order to Chicago and st
cen Louis is not an effort to produce mea
H,,t iS 0f
operation with the striking meat hand
&c: lers. Comparatively few Independent
'e7' houses will. be affected"
}: "st9ck handlers said al Pr rs zen
the independents within the stockyard
enclosure will be of necessity, affected
Union men employed in Independent
gackingho9seg VIII not be per permitted d6f h. t.
dgsS as hanefa a Fate fn th Of RSe out
tho side independent packers depends O.
Inc their ability to secure stock withou
e en recourse to the stockyards company
INC 10 Representatives of the independen
the the stockyards had conference wit
'ast the Allied Trades Council and presente
q request that the strike in thei
ana establishments be called of. There
cen quest was referred to the conferenc
1c ~ board Of the council.
de- Board of Trade Snare.
vest Complications affecting Board {
the Trade operations were feared as the r.
RED suit of the strike in the five indepe1
an dent establishments affected by the O
eez- der: In, dealing in tierce lard, me-
representing the products, pass fro
hand to hand. September options. ia
due for delivery today. and the ind
pendent packers are without crews
,.,o ~, make deliveries, where the product
ader actually demanded for Shipment -:
.orre non union men are brought in to do tt
a. fo 6e loading, the butcher workmen, who a
ison clearing up preparatory to leaving, vi
seat drop their work at once, to the emba
' rassment and loss Of the packers.
Not bullock, hog or sheep has be-
driven out of the stockyards since t.
IN. order to- the handlers went into fore
A committee Of livestock owners a.
Lum- commission men waited upon Do
men, nelly and requested permission to To-
liking cattle now in the yards for shipme
and to the east. They said they did n
this want to employ non-union men to
. the work and in consequence wou