Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-05
TO TAKE ACTIVE PART
Federal Government VIII
Look Into the Strike.
EMISSARY NOWATWORK
PACKING TRUST DECLARED TO BH
VIOLATING LAW.
Importation of Immigrants FROM
Foreign Lands Revealed by Re-
ceipt-Donnelly Home.


part in the stock yards strike was indi-
Gated today when International Secretary
Call of the Butcher Workmen divulged the
fact that he has been in conference with an
emissary of the United States Department Of
Commerce and Labor. Who this agent is
or what his immediate plans are Mr. Call
refused to say, but the strike leader made
this significant remark:
I'm everything the packing trust is doing
they are violating the law. Their very
business combination is In restraint Of
trade and there is not one of them that IL
not amenable to the federal laws sam
pie of their operations came to my knowi-
edge after stories had been printed in tho
newspapers telling of the importation OF
the immigrants from foreign lands to take
the places of American workngmen who
are on strike. One of our pickets found in
the street an immigrants receipt showing
that the immigrant had been paid s5s.70
for passage to Chicago.
"On the bottom of the printed slip was
the sentence: We hereby agree to rebate
to the bearer s5s 20 on presentation Of this
receipt at our Chicago Office
Il showed this document to an official OF
the United States Department Of Commerce
| and Labor and inadvertently allowed him
to keep it,"
Teamsters to Stop.
Recording Secretary Shanahan of the
packing house teamsters' union announced
| today that orders would be issued imme-
diately to teamsters to stop the removal Of
| meats from the several cold storage ware
houses in this city. The allied trades ex.
ecutive committee, he said, would act upon
| the teamsters' position and a report favor.
| ing sympathetic action by teamsters who
have been distributing meat from ware
houses would mean the immediate issuance
OF strike order to those drivers.
president Donnelly, the strike leader who
mas peen on trip to Kansas City and
other packing centers, arrived In ChIcaRo
| today.
| Run on Drovers' Bank.
Hundreds of strikers and others today
| thronged to the Drovers Trust and Savings
Bank. near the main entrance Of the stock
yards, and withdrew deposits, whether
large or small. The unusual scene attract
| ed large crowd, set all manner of rumors
In circulation and created a general run ON
| the institution.
| The strikers action was taken in retalia.
| ton for the alleged action of one cf tho
| packing firms, Libby, Mcneil & Libby in
making the bank an adjunct to their nav
| department On Wednesday, It is said led.
| ward Tilden, a director of the coIonanv.
| LED strike breakers to the bank in Or der
that they might be paid off in cash instead
OF having to experience the embarrass-
mentS growing out OF the lackers' svstou1
| or paying i'm checks.
Long before the bank opened rumors werA
III circulatlon that the strikers would start
| run on the institution in retali1'ion and
when the hour for the crucial test came tha
strikers We're far outnumbered by annror
hensive persons having no Interest in tha
iapor controversy, yet all anxious TO se-
cure their money. double lire extending
tha
without protest or explanation the otIiciaIS
! ooupied the force of paying tellers and met
all withdrawal demands
The Drovers' Trust and Savings papk q
| located in the same building with ths
Drovers' Deposit National Bank. its Local
correspondent Its capital is 5000 600 and
I.s surplus ana profits are named at $50 OOO
| III mas a long list of depositors among tina
Workmen about the yards and pavs 3 ner
cent interest on their savings II opene6
It's doors February 3, 1902; and its last re-
| port June 10, 1904 shows resources anA
liabilities amounting to 81. .sG5 5O6
Ihere Is no truth in the statements thar
caused the run" said Vice President Will
lam A 1ilden of the bank. Mr. Tilden is
rected. wa" wv
We are simply meeting the situation bv
paying PAYNE, without question or argument all
deposltors who wish to withdraw their
money That is all i care to say"
The other officers of the Trust and Sav.
ings Bank are; william III. Brintnall pres
ident; Charles S. Brintpall, cashier ana
William c. Cummings. assistant cashier
Mr.. William H. Brintnan is also presiden<
of the Drovers' Deposit. National Bank. OF
WI. Which M william A. Tilden. vice president Of
MIR. William A. Tildens brother Edward
IHueh, Is vice president of the DroversS
deposit National Bank. Both banks are
Iocated IN the same room, and this fact
helped to give rise to reports that there
was run on the national bank The run
however, was exclusively on the savings
bank.
Banks Last Statement.
The latest report of the condition OF tho
$5,SIS,301. as follows:
Resources-Loans and discounts 81 1877
1856; overdrafts, secured and unsecured. a..
455; United States bonds to secure circula.
ton, $4,000; cash and due from banks
81 657, ,459
Liabilities-Capital stock paid in saOO oon,
surplus fund $1J0,O0O undivided prof1ta
SlO4.Ol1; national bank notes Outstanding
$50; reserved for taxes, 81, 13I; depositS'
81 81, ,9OS
To Stand Their Ground
In the face of persistent peace rumors
strikers and packers alike gave evidence to-
day of grim determination to stand their
ground and carry the struggle over into
next week. There were indications that By
that time both sides would regard the Of
fees of Intermediates with favor unless
either side should develop weakness war;
ranting the other in holding out with re-
newed determination to fight the issue to an
end.
" the strikers the approach of Sunday
loomed up as a menace, because OF difficul-
ties in holding ranks together over the
opening of a new week. The strike leaders
had positive information that emissaries OF
the packers were at work in all directionS
quietly offering highly skilled men tempt
ing inducements to break away. Pressure
was also being brought upon strikers wives
through direct individual appeal
To Offset this the leaders figure on the re-
turn of President Donnely to arouse On.
thusiasm, and prepared a monster demon
stration for tomorrow with the same en6
in view. While feeling sure Of the men, le
was admitted that 1t is not easy to hold
hungry families In line.