The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-04
NO FRESH MEAT
FOR CEIICACOANS
Transfers Are Ordered Not
to Deliver Ice to Re-
tail Dealers in the City
PACKERS MAKE GAINS
StOckyards Plants Are Be-
ing Operated at Fifty Per
Cent of Their Full Capacity

CHICAGO, Aug. 3-The threatened
spread Of the stockyards strike to out
side industries came to- night, when an
order was issued by the Transfers
Union forbidding drivers of ice wag-
ons TO make any deliveries to retail
butchers who, since the packing house
teamsters went on strike, have been
hauling meat from the yards in their
own wagons AS the refriSeratorS IN
most markets do not hold enough ice
TO last longer than forty eight hours,
the order 10 cut off the supply of ice,
if it can be forced. means that many
persons in Chicago will be compelled
to forego fresh meat officers Of the
Transfers Union have appointed pick
cts to watch the retail markets
throughout Chicago, with instructions
to see that the boycott is carried out.
With their new employees and those
that have deserted the unions the
packers managed TO dispose of fully
80 per cent as much work as is car
ried on under normal conditions.
Fewer than 800 new employees arrived
1T the various plants to-day. The
packers declare that the reason for
the small addition TO their forces was
that they were about through hiring
workmen and were now choosing only
skilled men.
/ While admitting that the packers
are doing considerable business, the
strike leaders declare that the employ
eTs are losing money on every animal
/ that is slaughtered, as the unskilled
workers waste all the by-products. 1t
is on this waste that the strikers base
! their hopes for final success.
In a riot that broke out at the yards
| tonight two policemen were injured
! and twenty EIGHT rioters were arrested
after being beaten into submission.
/ The riot started when five strike
shops in one of the packing plants
were leaving the yards and tried to
! board street car to go TO their homes.
| Despite the signals of the strike break
| ers the motormen on twelve cars re-
| fused to stop and crowd, seeing a
| good opportunity to get revenge on the
| uon-union men. began to hurl stones at
them. Two policemen who were guard
ing the entrance went to the assistance
of the non union men. but the rioters
by this time had grown in numbers SO
| rapidly that fully a thousand angry
/ men were trying to get at the strike
| breakers. Retreating into the machine
shop, the police sent in a riot call for
achievements. When the additional
policemen arrived a charge was made
on the rioters. The crowd made an as
sault with bricks and stones and when
the policemen started forward every
man who could find room fought with
his brick Two bricks went true to the
mark and two policemen dropped with
wounds on the head. They were car
ried by their companions to the ma
| chine shop.
The other eighteen policemen made a
| charge on the crowd. This time the on
slaught was in earnest, eighteen clubs
| being swung from right to left with
all the muscle that the men could rem
der. and fully fifty rioters We're beaten
TO the pavement in this manner before
they showed any signs Of scattering.