Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-08-11
THE BUTCHERS GREAT STRIKE
PACKERS DECLARE 1T TO BE
PRACTICALLY ENDED.
a Police Station in Chicago Stoned
by Rioters-A Boycott on Ice Is
Ordered - Exciting Run
on a Chicago Bank.

Chicago. Aug. 2.-Monday was a
busy day with the packers. With in
creased forces of skilled workers and
their operating departments more
thoroughly equipped than at any time
since the beginning of the strike, the
employers took firm grip on the ma
chinery of their affairs and as result
the stock yards took on the old hum
of activity to a great extent.
Rioters stoned the Deering street
police station late last night and for
quarter of an hour the police battled
with the crowd of 1000 men and wo-
men, as it charged the station with
sticks and stones, shouting vengeance
against the police.
Stones and bricks by the hundred
were hurled at the building, and all
the windows in the place were broken.
Charge after charge was made by the
police and the rioters were driven
back only by the strenuous use of
clubs.
Kansas City, Aug. 2.-Monday's de-
velopments in the butchers strike
were serious from the standpoint of
the strikers, as hundreds of strikers
returned to work, many of them being
skilled workmen.
Chicago Aug. 3.-The meat packers
whose union employees are on strike
claim to be in better position now
than at any time since the struggle
began. When asked for the packers
side of the situation last night Arthur
Meeker, general manager for Armour
& Co, said:
THE strike may be said to be near
an end. AT the rate we are securing
new employees it will be only a short
time until everything will be in nor
NAL condition with us. The old en-
ployes' places have been filled SO
promptly that very few of the strikers
will ever be able to get back their old
places and those who do will come
back as individuals"
Chicago, Aug. 4.-The threatened
spread of the stock yards strike to
outside industries came last night,
when an order was issued by the
TeamsterS' union prohibiting drivers
of ice wagons from making any deliv-
cries TO retail merchants who since
the packing house teamsters went on
strike have been hauling meat from
the yards in their own wagons.
While admitting that the packers
are doing considerable business, the
strike leaders declare that the en-
ployers are losing money on every
animal that is slaughtered, as the un-
skilled workers waste all the by
products 1t is on this waste that the
strikers base their hopes for final sue
cess. arguing that it is only a matter
come tired of losing money and even
tually make overtures to the unions
for a settlement
st. Joseph. Mo-, Aug. 4.-More
union men deserted the ranks of the
strikers yesterday and returned to
their old jobs at the packing plants.
This number is said by the packers to
be $50.
Chicago, Aug. 5.--In a statement
given out last night by the packers,
the report that negotiations are in
progress to bring about another con
ference between the packers and the
labor leaders, is declared to be entire
ly unfounded. According TO this state
ment the progress being made at the
plants is satisfactory to all the pack
ers; more men are being employed
daily; all contracts and current or
ders are being made at lower prices
than before the strike commenced. In
a table accompanying the statement it
is shown that the total number of men
at work at all points is more than 3d.
900.
Chicago, Aug. 6.-The strike in the
packing houses was practically lost
iuh of in 10
attending run on the Drovers' Trust
and Savings bank, one of the stock
yards institutions. The rush of the de
positors to the bank started early in
the day because of an unfounded
rumor that one of the packers repre-
sentatives had withdrawn his money
from the institution and reports that
the bank was being used by the pack
ing companies as an adjunct in paying
off employees who have taken the
places of the strikers.
All day long hundreds of depositors.
most of whom had only small ac-
counts in the bank, stood in line to
withdraw their deposits. When clos
ing time came there were at least a
thousand persons waiting for their
money. The officials of the bank de-
termined to meet the emergency, call
ed in extra tellers and the place was
kept open until every depositor who
presented himself at the window had
been satisfied.
eve have plenty of money to meet
any kind of rum" said Vice Presi-
dent Tilden. after the bank had been
closed for the night, I'VE have over
100000 in our vaults and besides the
100000 taken from the down town
banks, have received offers of assist
ance from the First National Bank of
Chicago, the National Park bank. of
New York, and the Standard Trust
bank, of New York. None of these of
fers will be accepted, as we have on
hand all the money we need -