The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-27
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Element. The fight is on and the only
thing we can do now is to stick to the
end"
The union organizations recalled
their ultimatum issued yesterday pro-
hibiting their members employed III
the Independent plants from killing
live stock purchased in the stock
yards, where the animals are being
handled by non-union employees. The
labor leaders took this step after the
Independent packers had pointed out
to them that if such an order was car
ried out it would be benefit to the
big concerns.
Two Riots
Lines of vigilant policemen guarded
the entrances to the stock yards all
day and night, but despite this precau-
ton disturbances were numerous, and
two of them ended with fatal results.
While an attack was being made on
some colored strike breakers as. they
were leaving the stock yards tonight,
John, Stokes. one of the strikers, was
shot and fatally wounded by one Of
the negroes. Stokes, with fully 100
companions, it is said, rushed on the
negroes and one of the latter drew "a
revolver and fired into the crowd, hit
ting Stokes. The police were close at
hand and scattered the rioters after
considerable difficulty.
The union men and their friends
have become so embittered against
the eolored workers that the APP
Bearance of a negro in the vicinity of
the stock yards is almost certain to be
followed by violence. A negro barber
about to climb upon street car at
the entrance to the stock yards tonight
was dragged to the street by mob
and beaten until unconscious. When
the police arrived they announced that
Inc colored man was dead, but in an
hour he was revived by physicians and
will recover. The mob was under the
impression that the barber was en-
ployed in some Of the packing plants,
and. without any questions, attacked
him before he could offer any expIana-
ten.
Chief of Police O'Neill, who has TAX
en- personal charge of the 375 police
men detailed to stock yards duty dur
ing the strike, declared tonight that the
police had the strike situation well in
hand and that they would be able to
control the strikers and their friends.
. When Mayor Carter Harrison was
asked tonight If he intended to take
any action in an attempt to stop the
strike he said that for the present, at
ieast, the matter would be under con-
trol or the police department and that
as YET the strike was purely an affair
to be looked after by the police
Girls in a Race War
The development of race war is
rapidly proceeding throughout the
strike district, the trouble starting i'm
the restaurants Of Armour & Co., Swift
d Co. and Nelson Morris & Co., where
all the dining room girls quit on ac-
count OF the presence of colored cooks.
AT least that was the reason the Young
women gave, but in reality the cause.
1t is inferred, was their desire to aid in
the sympathetic strike. AS rapidly as
girl TOOK OFF her apron and walked out,
o0iored man was employed. in her
place. Thereupon twenty-five girls in
Swift & Co.'S restaurant quit in a body,
twenty-five at Nelson Morris & Co.'S,
and thirty at Armour & Co.'S.
The first step taken by the feminine
strikers after tearing off the aprons
was to march to a hall and hold a
meeting, where it was decided to form
themselves for picket duty and see that
no girls went into the yards to work
either in the strike affected places or
In the restaurants of other firms.
A dozen of them took up places at
Exchange avenue and Halstead street,
and every young woman who passed
was "buttonholed" and urged to go
home or stay and do picket duty. Not
a few complied, but the others broke
away and fled into the yards to work.
-Four girls were roughly handled, but
none were seriously hurt.
Transfers Out in Other Cities
80
ncers of the International Transfers
union had issued orders calling out all
teamsters in the employ of the big
packing houses in Kansas City. st.
Louis and Boston. The union live
stock handlers decided late tonight to
return to work at the stock yards in
sufficient numbers to handle all live
stock bought by the independent
packers.
A peculiar situation growing out of
the strike OF mattresses in the packing
house restaurants came to light at the
Swift plant When Swift's mattresses
struck some of the stenographers in
the general offices offered to do the
work and when the superintendent
tried to reinforce these by asking 9TH
ers to help, fifty women Stenographers
wicked out of the building in anger.
Fearing meat famine, the Meat
Dealers association will appeal to
mayor harrison 10 use his best en-.
deavors to bring about settlement Of
the strike. Should Mayor Harrison de-
-clue to act as an intermediary his
course would probably be to appoint a,
committee to meet representatives of
both sides.
Serious at Sioux City
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 26-Seri-
Gus disturbances in the stock yards
district this afternoon led William
Watson, manager of the Cudahy plant,