The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-03
STONED OFFICERS:
WRECKED HOUSE
STRIKERS STILL FIGHTING.
SICK WOMAN WHO COULDN'T PAY
RENT FIRED OUT OF HOME.

II Was Then That Strike sympa-
thiNers stoned COnstabIes and
Completely Demolished House.
WOmnn's Husband a Striker who
could Not Pay Rent-Packers In
SiSt They Are Getting Along Nice
~ in ChicREO-StriISers Declare
Packers Are Crippled.
Chicago, Aug. 2.-The meat packers
whose union employees are on strike
claim to be in a better position to-
night than at any time since the struR-
gle began. When asked for the pack
ers' side of the situation tonight. Ar
thur Meeker. general manager for Ar
mour e. Co. said:
The strike may he said to be near
an end. At the rate we are secur-
ing new employees it will be only a
matter of a short time now until
everything will be in normal condition
with us once more. The old employees
places have been filled so prompt
~ that very few OF the strikers will
ever be able to get back their old
places, and those who do will come
back as individuals"
Despite these declarations of the
packers representatives, the pens at
the stock yards are filled with cat
tie and hogs that buyers make no Did
for in the market. According to COM
mission men there are thousands of
hold-overs in all departments of the
yards, and the cattle in the pens will
not be all out of the way by Sat
urday night. In the face of all this,
shippers are constantly forwarding
stock to Chicago. and the indications
tonight are that there Will be a de-
cided slump in prices OF Live stock.
strikers stiII Make Claims.
II is on this state Of things, and
what further information their own
men have been able to secure that
the strike leaders base their claims
that the packers are still badly Grip
pied, Notwithstanding statements to
the contrary. A considerable number
Of strike breakers who arrived in Chi
cagO to-day were dissuaded from going
TO work by pickets
In a statement given out by the
packers tonight II is asserted that
out Of the 25,526 union men who went
on strike. 3,056 have returned to work.
These desertions from the unions,
added to the new employees secured
since the strike began. It is declared,
make the total number of men now at
work 15.s4S.
Packers Quarters sanitary.
On published statements that the
union leaders intended protesting to
the city health department that the
housing of employees in the packing
plants was a violation Of the city ordi-
nance an inspector from the sanitary
bureau investigated all the plants to-
day but nothing was found that would
warrant the department taking any
steps against the packers
The packers to-day appealed for po-
lice protection for their distributing
plants at Sixteenth and State streets.
and George street and Lincoln avenue.
The branch houses Of the packers were
surrounded by union pickets, who turn
ed back all the retail butchers with
wagons after supplies Of meat. Police
were dispatched TO prevent further in
terference with the retailers.
strikers stoned ConstnbIes.
The first eviction resulting from the
stock yards strike was made to-day.
a crowd Of strike sympathtzers ston-
ed two cOnstables who put Mrs. Mary
Anderson out OF her home in Forty
fourth street for non payment Of rent.
Mrs. Anderson's husband. a striker,
had left Chicago in search of work.
The wife was III in bed when she
and her household goods were carried
out by constabes. Mrs Anderson was
cared for by neighbors. A patrol wag-
on OF police stopped the stone throw
ers
Before the arrival Of the police how
ever the crowd had wrecked the cot
tage from which the woman had been
evicted Nothing was left for any
other tenant except bare walls. Win
dows, doors, shelves, plumbing, etc,
were smashed beyond all repair.
INSPECTOR INVESTIGATING.
Chicago. Aug. 2.-Inspector Carroll.