New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-23
SURPRISE IN KANSAS CITY
c. ". armour Says Union Men
Have Broken Faith.

Kansas City. No. July 22--Prestdent Donnel-
Iy's order 70 the packing house employees 10
renew the strike came as a surprise TO both the
packers and the men. Although practically all Of
the several thousand men who struck appeared
at the different plants here ready to work, only
a limited number were taken back. Each COM
pany employed only a sufficient number OF the
strikers TO make UP a complete force. No spe-
claI promises were made by the packers 10 those
not taken in. and q strong feeling OF resentment
developed. All The plants We're soon supplied in
all departments and apparently running in full
blast
Practically all Of the strike breakers were re-
tanned ar Fower's plant, where perhaps the
greatest crowd gathered AT the gates Here the
management let in only few at time. and
selected those who had been least demonstrative
during the strike or who apparently stood in
better favor with the management than the
others. Much disappointment was shown among
those not chosen. AT the other plants practically
the situation existed
c. W. Armour said: Il cannot understand the
cause Of Mr.. Donnelly's new order. I consider
that these men have broken faith with the pack
ers It would be impossible for the packers here
or anywhere in the country tn take all OF the
strikers back at once. There is sufficient
work for them to Go. All the plants are more or
less disorganized. and IL will be some time be-
in all the departments. How long it would be
before we could put all the TO work 1 can
not say. One reason why all could not be taken
back Immediately is because there is suffi-
Gent livestock on the market. We have taken
back to-day perhaps . hundred and nifty of the
strikers thirty or forty or whom are skilled men.
Before the strike we employed between 400
and $500 persons. To-day We have 900 en-
ployes at work"
In the Armourdale district there was trouble
when the men learned that all were not TO be
taken back. The strikers became angry. Strike
breakers entering one of the plants We're at
tackled by strikers. A general hst night followed,
and a number OF the nOn-union men were
beaten. No one was seriously hUrt however.
and police soon dispersed the strikers.
Extra policemen have been sent 10 the Ar
mourdale district
The order strike not made known 20
the who had been taken back until nearly
noon. when with few exceptions, ell of them
again left their places There was no demon
stration, the strikers quietly hundIng up their
tools and leaving the plants. They were cheered
By those the outside they emerged from
the gates. Police had been stationed around the
plants IL the mean time. and crowds were
broken up, preventing any trouble
At the stock yards fair proportion or tue
days receipts had been sold when the order TO
strike came. Immediately most OF the buyers in
both the cattle ana hog yards quit operations
and refused 10 buy the stock which bids had
been submitted one buyer remained IN the
market but demarded sharp concessions from
early bids.
among butchers. They had hoped 70 lower prices
the former standard to-day, but now say
that higher prices for meats of all kinds Will
soon prevail