The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-07-29

facturers seeing the determined stand
taken by the employees against a wage
reduction closed the plants.
CHICAGO, July 2G.-No plans are
under consideration for a peaceful set
tlement OF the packing house strike
About twenty.seyen thousand workers
are out. Three hundred strike break
ers were. taken into the plants this
morning A gang of negroes, fright
ened by a demonstration of strikers
fired point blank into them with re-
volvers. The police arrested two
wagonloads Of negroes,
Unions have decided to allow indie.
pendent slaughter houses to get stock
today. Commission men are helping
to drive stock.
Forty stockyards mattresses struck
,oday, but their places were immedi-
ately filled.
Strikers stoned and turned back five
bread wagons this morning. Police in
patrol wagons were unable to get the
wagons through the lines, AS a result
Of the negroes activity with revolvers
the police have been ordered to dis
army everybody in the district.
Strikers became more warlike as the
day advanced
Packers announced at noon that
hey will not negotiate further.
Pickets have been thrown to every
important point in the district. Pros
poets OF rioting and bloodshed are in
;reasing every hour.
Two thousand persons today saw
one of the most brutal cases of slug
ging and some of the poorest marks
manship of the police since the stock
yards strife began. A strike breaker
John Malloy, had just left the yards
when three brawny men viciously at
tackled him. Malloy was knocked
down and nearly killed. In fact he
was left for dead Five policemen in
terefered, whereupon the trio ran, ant
the police followed, using their re
volvers. Apparently every shot was
aimed to hit, but all missed.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 26.-Fifty
union butchers threw away their un
ion buttons this afternoon and applied
in body to Armour for their old jobs
All packers report steady gains
Ruddy's little plant alone is idle. The
packers expect the strike to die oUt
here within a day or two. There was
lapf active -'-vslaIa rl live SlOGE -thi.
Y morning. No sympathetic strike ha
t been ordered.
s ST. PAUL, July 26.-The big Swi
+ packing plant is running in all depar
ments. No sympathetic strike ordC
+ has been received.@
4 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, July 26.-Swif
a Morris and Armour said today the
o plants were running with increase
:. forces. Pickets today turned bac
G about fifty strike breakers from tn
Kansas harvest fields Allied trade
e working
- CHICAGO, July 27.-To counterat
he effect of the teamsters joining II
= strike today the packers announce
q, suspension of free deliveries and the
teams will be sent to pasture. Pu
chasers must call for supplies.
y Members of the state board of art
tration today resumed their attem
10 effect a reconciliation.
T. James Hall, wounded by stray BIT
let in a strike riot, died today.
e Six hundred strike breakers, inclu
IT ing a trainload of Kentucky negro
5. reached the packing houses in safe
T. today. The police dispersed all pic
n cts and announced that picketing W;
. prohibited,
W KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July PIT
}t packers today say they have 500 mt
n working, ling 5000 hogs and Ia
a cattle. Desertions from the uni,
IL ranks continue.
ID ST. JOSEPH, Mo, July 27.-Despi
losses by sympathetic strikes, all Il
K packers purchased today. Union mt
i are extremely confident. Strike brea
Il ers continue to arrive in small partie