The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-28

ne VIII not tolerate the blockade if it is
again formed, and that he will see to it
that the nen union men are taken
through the lines. The sheriff, how.
ever, made similar remarks when the
ilne was before maintained, and failed
10 take men through except when pass
ed by the union officers. As he will
now nave the strike committee to con-
tend with it is predicted by the union
men that he will not have any better
success than On the previous occasion,
when he dealt with the officers OF the
union
1t was decided sat the meeting of the
union to place formal boycott on M.
klelnboehl, the meat market man who
purchased from Swift & Co. Business
Agent Steepreported that he had heard
OF the purchase by Kleinboehl some
hours before the delivery and had
warned the market man that if he per-
sisted IN accepting meat from Swift he
would regret it. Steep said that Klein
boehl declared that he was able to take
care OF his own business. Sleeps mo-
ton that kleinboehl be formally placed
on the unfair list was passed by a
unanimous vote, and a committee was
appointed to make the fact KNOWN to
alb meat users, coupled withsthe asser-
tIon that their continued patronage of
Nieinboeh1 would be considered as an
act unfriendly to organized labor.
A committee of three was named to
visit the. unions Of, Minneapolis and
I=cal1 upon the retail meat men there with
asVaewa to. inducing them tofearry meats
produced in union. houses. George
Eentsch was made chairman of the
committee, President Willis reported
that st. Paul has been well covered,
about forty meat dealers having agreed
to sell only meat bearing the union
label. He believed that if this work
is continued it is but.la question of a
few weeks until Swift &: Co. will real
I lie that they eannet dispose, of their
product. =
ssGeorge Sleeps Statement @7zsie
After ethe meeting Business Agent
George Steep made this statement:
There were fully 400 workmen at
the meeting of the union today, and IN
| Guided in the number were practically
all the experienced butchers who were
in the employ of Swift & Co. previous
to the strike. The claim that the plant
is being operated to its full capacity is
therefore false on its face, and carries
out my. contention that there are in
the plant large number of incompe-
tent laborers who know: little or, moth
ing about the business. An effort was
made yesterday to make a. record in
hog killing, and the gang at work did
succeed in killing about 1900, which is
about three hours work for the regular
gang. And theyascould not have done
this well but1for the presence in the
gang of some union men who had been
sent in as SpieS.s These men are not
working today, and the number. of ani-
mails killed VIII not be half what it was
yesterday. vs.,vsss,sz s5.-- -
The unionis perfectly familiar with
the conditions existing in the plant, and
because. of this knowledge it is known
that the officials here are advising
headquarters in Chicago to settle the
strike. When the spies we sent into
the plant yesterday reported for work
they We're welcomed effusively, it being
supposed that they were DESERVING the
union They We're promptly put to
work and discovered that there are not
enough expert men to do half the work
usually done in the plant
AT the plant it was said that all de-
partments are in operation, and that
the greatest difficulty encountered is.
the insufficient receipts of stock to keep
the men busy. ManagerIBangS insists
ethatsthe1 concern is able stoHcare for nor
mai shipments of Stock and states that
he would like to hayeian opportunity to
purchase enough to- keep the employees
at work t.sszf - -
| =. yesterday was pay day at the plant,
all the Wofkmen being given checks.
This included about 500 union men who
are out. Most of these men had but a
few hours time coming, and none of
them more athangsoile day. They were
paid for the work done on FRIDAY of.
last week before made aware that the
strike was again on - szfTla