The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-08-02
FOOD
Needed byStrik-
erS'FanilieS.
Thousand New Men
Employed
| BY PACKERS.
Two Strike Breakers
| Quarreled
And One Killed the Other.--.
Police QueIl a
Riot.

special to The Daily IndeI.
Chicago. Aug. both the packers
and the strikers spent Sunday in
Strengthening any weak spots that
could be found in their defenses pre-
paratory to another week of effort to
bring their opponents to terms. Not
withstanding that II was Sunday all
the plants were operated during the
forenoon in order to get rid of the live
stock that had been left over from last
| week. The remainder of the day was
spent by the employers in installing
new men In the strikers places and
| arranging many of the small details
| which had been overlooked last week
during the heat of the conflict.
Over 1000 new men were added to
the men already at work in the differ
ent plants. Among the arrivals were
| many skilled laborers, something the
| packers have been sadly in need of
ever since the strike started. The en-
ployers have experienced little diff
Guilty in procuring all the unskilled
men necessary to operate the plants
to their full capacity. but there has
been a decided scarcity of skilled
workmen and for this reason the by
| products of all animals killed have
been let go to waste. Commencing to-
day three of the firms announced that
they would be able to operate these
divisions, enough skilled men having
been procured to justify the belief
that all the by-product plants will be
in full operation 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 unions explain their side of tine
controversy. declaring that 1t is the
packers and not the men who are re-
| sponsible for the present state of af-
fairs In the packing industry. The
public is asked to be patient with the
men during the struggle for suprem-
acy, II being declared by the union
leaders that ii would be 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 a
fair manner. According to this state
ment the men will stay on strike until
their unions are disrupted, or until the
packers surrender.
The allied trades council met Sum-
day and considered arrangements for
further supplying the families of the
strikers with food. AS a result of the
meeting several more commissary
stores will be opened this week In or
der to take care of all who are out of
work and in need.
In a fight at the Nelson Morris plant
Sunday afternoon between Andrew
Simms and John Davis, both non-
union workmen from New Albany,
Ind, the former was stabbed and
killed. Simms was employed by the
packing company as a waiter in the
dining room which has been fitted up
for the strike breakers. Davis was
employed as a cook by the same con-
Germ.
While eating dinner they became in
volved in a quarrel over the food. In
the fight that followed Davis was bet
ting decidedly the worst of 1t and
drawing knife, stabbed Simms three
. times. Simms died in the hospital two
hours later and Davis was soon after
arrested.
The police and mob of strike SYM
pathiZers clashed last night in the
vicinity of the stock yards. The dis
turbance was caused by two non-
union men who entered a saloon and
asked for a drink where a crowd OF
the strikers friends had congregated
, When the bartender went to serve the
strike breakers the other men in the
place protested and fight followed
Several policemen hearing the dis.
turbance ran to the saloon and sue
ceeded in ejecting all of the attacking
: party.
The doors of the place were barri.
) caded, but the rioters being reinforced
, by several hundred of their friends re.
turned to renew the attack. A riot
call was sent in, but before the patro
wagon and a squad of policemen ar.
rived the saloon had been partially
: wrecked. II was necessary for tn,
police to fire volley from their re
= volvers over the heads of the rioter:
3 before they desisted in their attack or
, the place. With the exception o
bruises and scratches received during
the disturbance no one was seriously
injured.
, The party of young women VIII,
have spent several weeks camping a