The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
CHICAGO PACKERS GET RID OF
THE SURPLUS LIVESTOCK
IN THE YARDS.
FIGHT TO THE BITTER END
BOTH STRIKERS AND EMPLOYERS
PREPARE FOR A LONG AND
HARD STRUGGLE.

Chicago, Aug. both the packers
and the strikers spent Sunday in
Strengthening any weak spots that
could be found in the'!' defaGses pre-
paratory to another week of effort to
bring their opponents to terms. Not
withstanding that it was Sunday, all
the plants were operated during the
forenoon in order to get rid of the
livestock that had been left over from
last week. The remainder of the day
was spent by the employers in Install
ing new men in the strikers places
and arranging many of the small de-
tails which had been overlooked last
week during the heat Of the conflict.
Over 1000 new men were added Sun
day to the number already at work in
the different plants. Among Sundays
arrivals were many skilled laborers.
something the packers have been
sadly in need of ever since the strike
started. The employers have ex-
all the unskilled men necessary to
q decided scarcity of skilled workmen
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all animals killed have been let go to
waste. Commencing Monday, three of
the firms announced that they would
be able to operate these divisions,
enough skilled men having been pro-
cured in the past forty-eight hours to
justify the belief that all the by
product plants will be in full opera
ton by the end of the week.
The strike leaders spent the greater
part of the day in preparing a state
ment to the public. In this statement
the %unionists explain their side of the
controversy, declaring that it is the
packers and not the men who are re-
sponsible for the present state Of at
fairs in the packing industry. The
public is asked to be patient with the
men during the struggle for SUI
premacy, it being declared by the
union leaders that it would impossible
for the men to return to work under
the conditions which existed before
the strike was called and that up to
the present the packers have shown
no disposition to treat the strikers In
q fair manner According to this
statement the men will stay on strike
until their unions are disrupted or I'M
til, the packers surrender.
Strike Breaker Killed.
The allied trades council will open
several more commissary stores in or
der to take care of all whom are out
of work and in need.
In a fight at the Nelson Morris plant
Sunday between Andrew Simms and
John David, both nonunion workmen
from New Albany, Ind, the former
was stabbed and killed. Simms was
employed as a waiter in the dining
room of the strike breakers. Davis
was employed as a cook. While eat
! ing dinner Sunday they became in
volved in a quarrel over the food. In
the fight that followed Davis was get
ting decidedly the worst of it and,
drawing a knife, stabbed Simms three
times. Simms died in the hospital
two hours later and Davis was ar
rested.
The police and a mob of strike sym
pathizers clashed Sunday night in the
turbance was caused by two nOnunion
men who entered a saloon and asked
for a drink, where a crowd of the
a fight followed. Several policemen
ran to the saloon and elected the at.
lacking party. The doors of the place
were barricaded but the rioters, rein
forced by several hundred of their
friends. renewed the attack. A riot
call was sent in but before the patrol
wagon with a squad of policemen had
arrived the saloon had been partly
wrecked. The police had to fire a vol
ley from their revolvers over the
heads of the rioters before they de
sisted In their attack on the place
With the exception of bruises anG
scratches, no n was seriously in
jured.
Michael Donnelly, the strike leader
is at Omaha. All is reported quie'
at clearinghouse centers outside thi:
city. There will probably be no strike
In New York before Wednesday.