Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-03
PACKERS Want No
MORE N[N h[N
Say They Will Take on
Only a Few Skilled
Workers
MEAT SHIPMENTS IN FRUIT CARS
Yards Crowded With Live Stock And
Country Shippers Loud in complaine
Secretary Call Declares the Meat
Trust is on the Verge Of Disintssra.
ton.


Chicago. Aug. Stock yards pack
ers announced today that they woui.i
attempt to import no more unskil "a
labor and would take on only a Few
skilled men. This news is declared by
the strikers to be aimed at them in
the hope of breaking the union ranks.
Handlers and ice wagon drivers have
refused to supply refrigerator cars TO
strike affected plants. Without ice, the
packers are unable TO ship meat ex-
cept for short distances, and cannot
expect any. Armour began using fruit
cars for shipping meat. but this is nd
mittedly costly experient. Homer d.
Call, international secretary Of the
butchers organization. said today that
instead of the packers disrupting the
! unions disintegratiOn OF the meat tr st
has set in and the combination brok m.
He says since the strike began the in
dependents have secured the trade or
the trust which the latter never viii
!, be able to recover.
The yards were flooded with live
stock today, and complaint was rife by
representative country shippers. Be-
fore the days shipments had arri. ed
there were $4,000 hogs and about 2. 500
cattle In the pens. The packers ex-
pressed the opinion that with supple
so heavy q good portion Of stock &C AID
not be handled by the plants until 70
morrow.
The packers announced today that
since the beginning Of the striko tho
falling on in buying live stock bag = gens
.l27. 000 for cattle. $4,000 sor hoa q
compared with July and the carly Z u
of August last year. The decrease .ss
handling cattle, however. - expsA .I
o nthe hypothesis that there Ii
scarcity Of light weight animais t.seh
as are used for canning. HEAVY se-
lceipts are explained on the ground tnat
shippers had understood the asserss,.lg
lis that the packers were doing ogn
l60 to IS per cent Of normal bushssss
| to mean that all branches OF the ins.as-
! try were comprehended AS n me ter
l OF IaCL IL IS StdlCu tAuS5 AAAtS SAPkt58r14
| only to dressed beet. and coi,stit' les
not more than so per cent Of the totai
of normal business.
| Chicago, Aug. 3.-The meat pac seis
whose employees are on strike c. tin
| to be in better position last q 5nt
| than at any time since the sfru gle
began When asked for the paci srs
| side Of the situation. Arthur MecSer.
general manager for Armour 4 Co..
said:
| ..The strike may be said to be nea- an
lend. At the rate we are securing new
employees 1t will be only matte. OF
short time now until everything
will be in normal condition with us
once more. When the butcher work.
ers repudiated their agreement anL re-
lnewed the strike. after signing an
agreement to submit all grievances to
arbitration, we made a special EFFORT
! to win the fight, and we have been .
great deal more successful in our ef-
forts than the most sanguine of the
employers had hoped for. The old enl-
ployes' places have been filled SO
promtly that very few Of the strikers
will ever be able to get back their oil
places, and those who do will come
back as individuals"
| Thousands Employed.
This assertion was made by Mr..
Meeker last night after the packers
| had brought in, during the day ac-
cording to their estimates, 1900 men.
and another official Of Armour Z Go.
had said that the packing firms We're
doing nearly 80 per cent OF their us-
ual business. Police reports OF the
number of new employees arriving at
| the Yards yesterday bore out In large
measure the packers statements.
! Despite these declarations OF the
packers representatives, the pens at
| the stock Yards were so filled with cat
| tie and hogs that buyers make no bid
| for them in the market. According to
/ commission men and officials OF the
| Union Stock Yards & Transit Coln
pany. out Of the live stock received
Monday and yesterday, over $4,000
sheep and 10000 hogs were reshippei
and unsold stock is rapidly accnmu-
lating in the pens.
| May be Swampsd.
| Twelve thousand hogs remained un-
sold last night and the prospect OF
large receipts today is causing the
stock handlers to fear swamping OF
their facilities. According to comulis-
| sion men, there are thousands OF lold-
overs in all departments Of the yartis,
land the cattle in the pens will not i be
out of the way by Saturday night In
the face of all this. shippers are cons
stantly forwarding stock to Chic ago
and the indications last night Were
that there will be decided slump il
prices of live stock.
| 1t is on this statement and Nha
further information their own mel
have been able to secure, that thu
strike leaders base thier claims thai
the packers are badly crippled. not,
withstanding statements to the con-
itrary. A considerable number Q.
strike breakers who arrived in ssht.
cago yesterday were diSsuaded