Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-04

ence and secure an agreement to
arbitrate.
Sioux City, Aug. 2.-The cuda.
ny Packing Co. has applied for an
Injunction in the federal courts to
restrain each Individual striker in
Sioux City from interfering With
the work of the company and from
threatening the employees.
Chicago, Aug a. Difficulty was
encountered today by the packers
employment agents in bringing strike
breakers into the stock yards. In one
case twelve Greeks from Milwaukee
were captured by strike pickets while
enroute to Chicago. They were taken
to the union headquarters and dissuad.
ed from working
Run Trains Into Yards.
The packers had better success
with train bearing 145 strike break.
ers, chiefly negroes and Italians. These
were switched directly into the yards
and unloaded at the doors of the pack.
ing houses.
Strike Breakers Quit.
a short time previous a hundred
strike breakers quit or were discharg.
ed for incompetency
Strikers Wife Evicted From Home.
The first eviction resulting from the
STOCK yards strike was made today. A
crowd OF strike sympathizers stoned
Two constables who put Mrs. Mary An
derson out of her home for non-pay-
ment of rent. Mrs. Andersons hus.
band, striker, had left Chicago, in
search of work.
Woman III In Bed.
His wife was i'll in bed when carried
out with her furniture. patrol wagon
load of police stopped the stone throw.
ers.
Building Is Wrecked.
Before the arrival of the police, how
ever, the crowd had wrecked the cot
tage from which the woman was
eyicted and it was beyond all repair
Is, Strikers Families Destitute.
More than 1000 men, women ant
children, rendered destitute by tn,
stock yards strike, surged like a human
sea against the relief stations wher
rations of food were given out in tn,
stock yards district yesterday. Win
dows were broken by the pressure o
the crowd, and many were forced t.
leave with empty baskets when tn
supplies gave out in the afternoon
Children with big. appealing eyes
women with expressions of pitiful ann
iety and suffering on their faces, an
men driven by want to seek charity o
their organizations were in the throngs
The front of the relief station at Gros
avenue and West Forty-Seventh stree
was almost crushed in by the suppl
cants for aid
More than 1000 Baskets Filled.
Fifteen perspiring clerks worked UT
til late in the afternoon distributing
rations. At the Gross avenue static
more than 1000 baskets were filled A
5 o'clock, however, there was still
long line of women and boys in wal
hoping against hope that the store
were not entirely exhausted
Fully as dramatic scene was pre-
scented at Thirty-Fifth street and Ash
land avenue, where the possessors @
union cards emitting them to mea
were in line as early as o'clock /
the morning. Over the door of thi
station was the sign: Butchers 81
ciety relief station" The strike leat
CTS assert lHat lHlily-elSIlt cdTCaSseS
beef were distributed. The relief ticl
cts honored numbered 3,10S The SUI
plies given out consisted of 1000 ham
and 200 flitches of bacon.
At the Gross avenue station the SUI
plies consisted of potatoes, flour, bean
asd coffee. About 125 bushels of pr
tatoes were given away.
Stock Yards Market Shattered.
Following an excessive run of ca
tie at the stock yards yesterday, th