The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
Other Unions to Be Called Out
if 1t Fail.
14.OOOOTHER WORKMEN
Expected to Quit in Sympathy
With the Cause.
Houses Are Doing so Per Cent
of Normal Business.

secure as 4 basis for arbitration of the
stock yard strike an agreement from
the packers that all employees on strike
shall be reinstated within a specified
time was made today by President
Donnelly of the butcher workmen. In
a letter TO ]. ogden Armour, President
Donnelly declared that if this conces-
sion is not made a sympathetic strike of
about 1900 other workmen at the
yards will be called.
The packers continue to hire new men
to take the places of the strikers. Tney
say they will be able to operate their
plants. even if the sympathetic strike
is called. Operations at the yards have
reached so per cent of the normal busi-
ness in the large packing houses and
the announcement was made that the
output in all departments will be in
creased daily. The letter to Mr.. Ar
mour signed by President Donnelly in
formed the employers in substance tnat
the butcher workmen have conceded
everything possible, and that if the
packers consider the welfare of the men
whom they have hired since the strike
began of more importance than that of
the strikers tnat an appeal for assist
ance will be made to all union men
employed at the yards.
The strike leaders will remain at the
from the packers In the event il is un-
favorable the firemen and engineers at
the yards, il is said, will first be ap-
pealed to for a sympathetic strike
These unions, the strike leaders expect,
viii be followed by those of the coopers,
steanfitters and other trades.
Slugged into insensibility by dozen
men and left for dead on the track
of the Ashland avenue trolley line at
West FOrty-seventh street, Anton Bar
tusiskovis, an employe at the Swift
packing plant. is dying at the county
hospital His injuries, in the opinion
of Inspector Hunt, were inflicted by
strike sympathizers and the wheels of
a trolley car The men, according to
witness who has talked to the po-
lice, set upon Bartusiakovis as he wa $
could not make him join the strikers
they broke his skull. fractured his
Jaw, kicked him about the face, head
and body and then threw him upon
the car tracks.
The motorman of a car approach
ing not long afterward saw the body
in time to stop the car. but not be-
fore the wheels had crushed Bar
tusiakoviS' shoulder. The injured man
was taken to the county hospital. He
has not regafned consciousness. Mrs.
w Clifford, attracted to her window
by the sound of men fighting, saw the
attack and declares she can identify
several of Bartusiakovis' assailants
President Donnelly has sent out
circular urging the men against vio-
lence, as follows:
I'VE must win.
Because every American citizen
must have living wages.
Must have the very best for the
children.
Must have recognition for the
union.
we can win.
If You stick by the union.
II we obey the union when it says:
person
abide strictly by the laws of the coun-
try Michael Donnelly.
OF the men injured in Sunday
nights riot near the stock yards two
are still in a critical condition. 1t is
said the others will recover.
A flank movement by the strikers
developed in the announcement by
President Donnelly that in conjunction /
with William Sterling, vice president /
of the Butchers Workmen's union, |
John FIoerSch, secretary of the pack |
ing trades council. and Philip Muir
ply, champion butcher of the world, |
recently employed by Swift & Co., he I
Will start a small packing house where /
union butchers may secure supplies 4
at prices which will enable strikers to /
purchase meat without contributing to I
the profits of the big concerns. Cattle
and hogs have already been bought |
President Donneliy asserted, the plant |
secured and operations are scheduled |
to begin today. A special meeting of |
the packing house teamsters' union |
will be held Wednesday night to de-
eide whether or not the drivers will |
quit work The teamsters have pro-
tested against several of the COM
panies endeavOring to have the team
sters haul supplies for strike breakers.
AT Omaha.
Omaha Neb-. July 19.-Quiet is
the order of the day among rhe
striking employees of the South Omaha
packing companies Few if any of |
the old men have returned to work |
but the packers have given formal
notice to the live stock exchange that
they are prepared to slaughter 1900 /
cattle and 5000 hogs daily.
Strike pickets prevented travelling mon |
returning from their routes from enter |
ing the yards of the plants until the chief
Bonner. who had been hired to work in
a packing house, refused police profec-
ton, saying he would get through the
each hand he made his way through the
columns, but was taken in charge by a
policeman.
At St. Louis.
St Louis, July 19.-Representatfves
OF the East St Louis packing houses
who secured an injunction against the
union butchers and meat cut
wers preventing them from interfering
with the non-union men employed to
take their places, were today served
with the legal five days notice to dis
solve the Injunction by attorneys en-
ployed by the strikers. There is no
change in the strike situation.
At Kansas City.
Kansas City, July l9.-In the face of
yineers. electricians and other skilled en-
0loyeS. members of the allied trades lln-
ons. the local packers today placed ad-
,tauce they asserted. increased their our-