The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-24
AT SOUTH
ST. PAUL ARE QUIET

Lie SlIlkluSe DuCcnefS, at South st.
Paul expect that they will be able to
completely tie up the Swift plant Mon
day morning, notice having been receiv-
ed from Chicago that the engineers,
firemen and other allied trades are to
be ordered out unless the packers
agree to settlement.
Many Of the union men yesterday
returned to their old places and dis
couraged the strikers, who were some
what revived later by the receipt of a
telegram saying that the allied trades
will strike Monday if "a settlement has
not been arranged by that time.
1t was admitted by the union men
that from their, standpoint the outlook
in St. Paul is@not bright. s:To&add to
the dlScoura cement of the unionists,
the Swift company showed considerable
confidence in ordering their travelling
men to take the road. The company,
however. continued to house the work.
men in the plant.
Supt. Burns made statement de-
claring that the company did not dis
eliminate in the employment of men
Friday, saying also that President
Willis had expressed satisfaction in
the presence of Manager Bangs. To
this President Willis responds with a
relteration Of the charge, and cites two
cases to prove his contention. Presi-
dent Willis has begun an effort to Sc
cure boycott of the Swift meats and
believes that he will be successful.
If the order for a sympathetic strike
of the allied trades is carried out and
the striking butchers believe that it
will, few more than 100 men in adj
dition to those now out at South St.
Paul will be involved, and if the Swift
company is not prepared for the
emergency, the machinery will cease
to run and all other departments will
be idle
DonnelIy Cheers Strikers
The information that the strike is
liable to spread, involving $4,000 men
in different parts of the country came
from National President Michael Don
nelly, who wired as follows:
'Teamsters and other allied trades
today sent word to the packers that
unless they agree to our demands a
general strike will take place Monday"
The receipt of this telegram revived
the rather discouraged strikers and
caused an increase of confidence as to
the ultimate outcome. officers of the
union impressed upon the men the fact
that, although the situation looks black
in st. Paul, the outcome really depends
upon the result in Chicago, and ex-
pressed the belief that the strike would
be settled by the packers.
The allied trades, so called, which
will 1Nn a4O1
order, are the firemen, the engineers,
the transfers. the millwrights, the
carpenters, the timers, the steamf1t-
tiers, the machinists and the wood
workers. but President Willis, of the
union, does not estimate that there
are more than 100 union men in these
branches in South st. Paul that can
be relied upon to walk out on an Or
der from Chicago
1t was evident from the tone of his
conversation that he does not axpect
tnat the new strike order will to any
extent relieve the situation in South
st. Paul. He practically admitted that
the places of the men can be filled
without great trouble, and it was
claimed in other sources that the COM
pany now has enough men in view to
keep the engines running if the Ell
glneers and flremen should walk out.
Outlook Gloomy to Strikers
The situation from the standpoint
of the strikers, as developed yester-
day, makes it doubtful if the mem
bers of the allied unions will obey the
strike orders if they come. Not only
did the more than 100 workmen who
left the plant Friday evening return to
their places, but in addition there re-
turned about fifty additional. The
early motor was crowded with men, a
careful estimate being that 200 men
working in the slaughtering houses
entered the plant and went to work.
A feeble effort was made by the line
of pickets to stop the inflow of men,
but the workmen swept by. paying lit
tie or no attention to what was said.
The entire situation was most favora-