The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-31
MEAT FAMINE AS
STRIKERS WEAPON
Donne1ly Orders Out All Butcher
Workmen in Independent
Plants.
Effort to Club Packers Into Sur
render by Squeezing the
Public.

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employees in the independent packing
said that if these men continued
slaughtering cattle they would be hand
ling stock previously looked after by
the men who take the places Of the
stock handlers selected to quit work to-
da FFba m.naaar - +ha 17n,on Stool,
in anticipation Of the strike Of the
stock handlers, men had been in train
ing to take the places of the DESERVING
weighers, and that fifty of such men are
available at once. He said further, no
trouble was expected in handling the
stock.
Famine in Meat.
Famine in meat is declared by the
strikers to be the probable result Of
their new move in the strike against
for general strike Of all butcher
workmen thruout the country. They are
expected to go out tomorrow.
The order, if observed, will also af
feet independent plants. of large ca
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out the country which employ from ten
to twenty men.
Altogether union officials assert that
$4,000 men will go out and that the
meat supply will be seriously crippled,
leaving as the only supply the output
of the big packers by their non-union
help.
Today the pickets surrounding the
being watched for several blocks away.
Strike breakers were warned not to
leave the yards, as there is an ugly
feeling existing against them.
Stock Handlers Quit.
At 10 O'Clock the 600 stock handlers
in the stockyards unsaddled their cow
ponies and, putting them into the
barns, quit work The men marched
out Of the yards and were greeted
with cheers by the union pick,ests;;
The packers say it is Donnelly, 3 aim
to create q meat famine, which ne q:
a pitch of indignation that settlement
would be forced.
$. stsDennellY is undertaking the impos
sible, said 9 rspresentatiyeT Of one OF
the packers is 5tle ehan 1sc
ers who by their collision with unions
have profted much during the strike
will suffer most.
In addition to the stockhandlers, 12t
special policemen and nearly four hun
bred pencleaners, drivers Of refus,
wagons and laborers employed by thu
Union Stock Yards company quit work
Efforts are making to call out tn
/ Chicago Junction Railway company
Many will vote on the question tonight
Depends on Drivers.
| President Donnelly is said to be de
pending upon the union drivers for sue
cess Of his attempt to make mea
scarce. What action the $500 grocer,
mains to be seen. Heretofore they hav
refused to handle meat from the strike
affected packers, and their employer
were forced to buy from the independ
ents.
| It is also said that an attempt will
be made to shut off the ice supply from
every retail market in Chicago, sine
! all meat products are to be on tn
union g "unfairo list.
II Frank F. Hawley, grand master O
4 the Switchmen's Union of North Amer
lea, has been summoned to Chicag
with the view Of getting switchme1
handle cars containing anything 70
the packers.
eff there is a strike of the switch
men it will be entirely unauthorized,
1 Sdlu dill OulC1dl VI Zig SWlICuul0u'
unicn today. "To call strike o
switchmen just now, when we are O.
the eve Of business depression, woul
Z. be folly, because the Brotherhood 0
Railway Trainmen would take gu
places as they did in 1894 and a lot o
switchmen would be out of work.
am confident that there will be no strik
| Representative Of the Independent
| packing firms had meeting with tn
i Allied Trades council with the view O
arriving at some settlement in regar
to the stockhandlers, but nothing wa
4 decided on.