Arizona republican., 1904-08-04
Chicago Is Likely To Be
 Without Fresh Meat
WHO WILL BE THE ICEMAN :?
The TeamSters' Union Comes to the Aid of the Butchers The Allied Trades in St. Louis Turn Against the Packers A Chicago Riot.

Chicago, Aug. 3-The threatened spread of the stock yards strike to out side industries came tonight when an order was issued by the teamsters' un- ion fOrbidding drivers of ice wagons to make any deliveries to retail butchers who, since the packing house teamsters went on strike, have been hauling meat from the yards in their own wagons. As the refrlgerators in most markets do not hold enough ice to last longer than 4S hours, the order to cut off the supply of ice. if 1t can be enforced means that many persons in Chicago will be compelled to forego fresh meat The officers of the teamsters' union have appointed pickets to watch the retail markets all over Chicago with instructions to see that the boycott is carried out.
 Outside of the decision of the strik- ing unions to extend the strike to the icemen there was little change at the stock yards. With their new employees and those that have deserted the un- ions. the packers managed to dispose of fully 50 per cent as much work as is carried on under normal conditions. Fewer than three hundred new em- J day, this beinng the smallest number of strike breakers received during any day since the employers decided to bring outsiders to Chicago to break the strike. The packers declared that the reason for the small addition to their forces today was that they were about through hiring workmen and were now choosing only skilled men, While o6T11ittipor that the pt q rn doing considerable business, the strike | leaders declare that the employers are losing money on every animal that is slaughtered, as the unskilled workers waste all the by-prodUcts. It is on this waste that the strikers base their hopes for final success, arguing that it is only a matter of time until the em- ployers will become tired of losing money and will make overtures to the union for settlement. In q riot which broke out at the yards tonight, two policemen were injured and twenty-five | rioters were arrested after being beat | en into subjugation. The trouble started when five strike breakers from one of the machine shops in one Of the l hacking plants were leaving the yards | and tried to board a. street car to go | to their homes. Despite the signals of | the strike breakers the motOrmen on | twelve cars refused to stop, and the
 crowd seeing a good opportunity to get
 revenge on the non-union men, began to hurl stones at them. Two policemen
 who were guarding the entrance, went Ito the assistance of the nOn-uniOn men, | but the rioters by this time had grown
 in numbers so rapidly that fully a thousand angry men were. trying to get at>th strike breakers.
 | Retreating into a machine shop, the policemen sent in a riot call for rein forcements. When additional police men arrived a charge was made on the | rioters. The crowd was armed with
 bricks and stones and when the police men started forward every man who
 could find room enough to do so, threw
 a brick. Two bricks went true to the mark, and two policemen dropped with
 wounded heads. They were carried by
 their companions to the machine shop
 Seeing the condition of their compan-
 ions. the other eighteen policemen
 made another charge on the crowd
 This time the onslaught was in earn
 est, eighteen clubs being swung from | right to left with all the muscle that
 each man could muster. Each time Q
 club descended it landed on a mans
 head and fully fifty of the rioters were
 beaten to the pavement in this manner
 before they showed any signs of scat
 tering. As soon as the policemen saw
 that they had the mob on the run, they
 turned their attention to those who
 were lying on the ground and arrested
 tWentW-pight men.