The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-28
LOCK OUT.
Follows the Strike at the Chi.
cage Packing Houses.
Those Who Went Out Told They
Need Not Come Back.
A SHORTAGE OF SOAP.
Is Threatened as a Result of
the Strike Situation.
Packers Are Preparing for a
Long and Hard Struggle.

Chicago, July 2S.-Following the re-
fusal to enter into more agreements
with the striking workmen at the stock
yards, one of the big packing concerns
today tossed a bomb into the camp of
the sympathetic strikers belonging to
the allied trades by posting public
notice that they are no longer regarded
in the light of employees. The action
was taken by Swift & Co.. when the
following placard was conspicuously
exposed to view near the entrances to
Packingtown:
"AIl help leaving our employ July 25-
26 will be paid in full at our Forty
first market paymaster's window be-
ginning Thursday, July 2S at a. m.
SWIFT & CO..
The appearance of the notice was
greeted with angry exclamations from
the crowds that soon gathered to read
and discuss the move. The place named
for the men to apply for their money
is outside the stock yards proper at
Halstead street and Exchange avenue.
1t was selected as affording the least
possibilities of disorder.
Shortage in the soap supply, partic-
ularly laundry, hotel and the cheaper
grades of toilet soap, is one of the pos
sibilities of the strike. In anticipation
of such an event the packers operat-
ing soap plants have been busy for
days moving STOCKS OF soap TO ware
houses jobbing houses and to retail
stores. The packers were equipped with
large stocks but were afraid team
sters' strike would prevent its removal
The preparedness that characterized
the packers in meeting the situation is
illustrated by the fact that heavy sales
We're made under practically guaran-
tee that a tie up would follow. the trade
buying at the advice of the representa-
tives of the packers. In some instances
the purchases were conditioned upon
such an event.
Allied Trades Still Waiting.
East ST. Louis, Ill. July 2S.-Repre-
sentatives of the packers say that sew
eraI hundred of the men who went
out on strike have been taken back,
but it is not stated in what department
they work. 1t was further said that
the packers are getting skilled butcher
help, which at first they had trouble
in securing. This, however, is denied
by the strikers, who assert that the
packers are not getting any union men
back, and that they expect to win the
strike by the end of the week. The
allied trades are still waiting for the
call to go out.
Complications growing out of the
method of handling meat by rail, adopt
ed by the packers in supplying the local
trade were today reported to President
Golden of the packing house teamsters'
trouble with the teamsters employed by
retail dealers and supply houses
throughout the city.
The strike leaders took under consid-
Grafton a move to induce the retail mar
ket drivers union to refuse to handle
meat from the packing houses affected
by the strike even if a general strike
of retail drivers should be necessary.
Reports that freight handlers in the
employ of the Chicago Junction Rail- |
way company went on strike yesterday
were denied today by officials of the
company.
while ahoard a trolley car Fredericlx
Matthews, a negro strike breaker, was
pursued and attacked by a crowd of
strike sympathizers upon leaving the |
stock yards for nome.
No arrests were made According to |
employers there were 13,479 men at work |
in the big packing plants here today, |
taking the places of more than 25,420 !
strikers.
Near the city hall today, miles away |
from the stock yards, Michael Harrid, |
a teamster, was kicked and beaten when |
a wagon loaded with meat started |
from Libbey, Mcneil & Libbey'S branch |
wholesale market in South Water |
street. Picketing today was on in earn |
est around the produce center and the |
nine Armour branches, the eight Swift |
branches and the four Morris wholesale |
markets and it was said an attempt |
would be made to tie up completely the |
traffic from the packers distributing |
point.
The hanging of efhgies was the prin-
cipal diversion among the strikers and |
strike sympathizers about the stock |
yards today. Miss Anna Rheinhart, an
Armour & Co. telephone operator, to-
day took up the reinS and drove a bus |
about the yards.
Police rule" was maintained with |
increasing rigidity in the neighborhood |
OF the StockyardS entrances today, and |
crowds were not allowed to gather.
President Donnelly of the butchers
organization decided today to open a
department where food will |
be given those out of work. The union
will also supply funds for those unable
to pay rent.
TIE teamsters who have gone on
strike will, 1t is declared find their oc-
cupations absolutely taken away from
them when. the strike shall have end
ed. Hereafter the packers will, they
say, do no teaming but will force their
retail butchers to come with wagons to |
take away purchases.
laden car at the Nelson, Morris & Co.
plant, about 40 negro strike breakers re-
fused to work longer.
Ready to Make Terms.
Chicago, July 2S.-Although repre-
sentatives of the packing companies
declare that no further agreements
with their striking employees are de-
sired and that no negotiations with
them are contemplated, rumors are
panieS, SchwarZschild & Sulzberger
and the Cudahy Packing company,
are ready to make terms with the
men.
The effects of the strike on the local
trade has begun to be felt in Chicago,
and from now on it is promised that
it will be more pronounced. The
picketing heretofore has been con-
fined to the packing plants and the
stock yards district, deliveries of meat