Milford chronicle., 1904-07-29
BLOODSHED IN
MEAT STRIKE
One Killed and One Fatally Injured
at Chicago Stock Yulds.
PACKERS HAVE 1000 NEW MEN

Chicago, yuly 27.-Littie ST any al.
vantage has been gained by either
side in the stock yards strike. and
there is no hope of any immediate set.
tlement OF the difficulty. Realizing
that they haze one OF tla hardest
propositions 10 contend With in the his.
tory of theTacking indusuI. the pack.
ers are leaving nothing undDne to gain
the upper hand in the7 stsuggle with
their 10000 employees ugho are on
strike Al nay long u,nij.men from
outside poihE5 were rushed 10 Chicago
and 1akem 10 the stock yards under
police pTO1eGtiOn to flS thc places Of
the strikers 1t was announced hy
the packers that 70OOan6N men are
now Installed in the different plants
al fhe stock yards. With these men
and with the new arrivals that are
expected each day, the packers e1-
pect Ito get'their affairs in such shape
that the strikers will be compelled 10
seek a truce in the hoatilities and
seek "a peaceaole settlement at the dit-
tatiun Of the employers.
With all the union wofimen out an
strike with the exception Of the pack
ing house teamsters, the only new ad-
ditions to the ranks Of 1heestrikers are
about 400 'ueamsters. who quit work
as iuuividUals prefevTing to do tlis
rather than wait for al Official order
to walk out, and the mattresses in tile
res staurBnts "a1 the stock yards con-
tFdlled by the packing companies. The
teansters have become restless, al d
the general belief is THAI rev, if any.
of the 200 employed in theE acking n,
dJistry will wait for the sanction Of
the international ofioeIG o. the uniCu
to go .OnBtrike.
ElumorE of~reaewed efforts to settle
the difficulty by arbitratiUn1W ere thick.
but upon 1nvesug cation theyrwere found
TO HJe without e1cundatiOn. When Ques-
toned regarding the siUutstiu= Michaei
]. DonneIly. president oil The Butchers
Union. the organization wiriol precipi
tated the efiginA strike said;
= 'haveMo hope Of an Immediate set
tlem3nt. Tire fishT is on, Hnd the only
thing we can do sow is t0 'strsk to the
end
Lines of -Tigi4ant policemen guarded
the entrances tue stock g@ra all day
and might. h,it despite this ,precaution
disturbances were numerous. and two
of them ended -NEh fatal results
Whin an at1Icii' aas beiRgnnslde on
some ae0lored strike breakers as they
were leaving the, stock yards John
Stokes. one q the strikers, was shot
and fatally wounded by one OF the ne
groes. Stokes. trogethtr with aiuly 100
comparisons. il is -stlg rushed ro.l the
NEGROES and ol.e OF he latter etl Nv
revolver aand fiw.d injo the oTcVN Il. hit
ting Stokes. Tip police. were c'iuse at
hand and succesgiedt n scattering the
rioters after cunsideG able di1ifeUlty
During another rsotoNa .A,in 100 eBeQl of
:. he same place a9Iddvss than an ''r)ur
after the alle in Thiclr'S'okes VAS IN
,ttred. a negro strife breaker was shot
sand killed The rister~ escaped before
The police arrived ON the scene. aDu it
fs-not know who irresponsible foI 10
shooting.
-&hief of Pe1lice OaNcill, who 4sas
talE. n personal charge of'tne S75 pc
Ticenlen detaa,ed to stock yards dut9
tiur,tl.g the sigike, declared that the
police had the strike Aituatiea we'll il
hand and that they waHlld be able to
control theSVtris.ers ana their friends
When Mayor Harrison was asked if
he fnlvnded to take any action in an
attems to stop tie strike he sa.d- that
for the present at least the matter {
would, 5e under the contrOI ofttha po- I.
lice department and that as yei the
strike was purely az affair IA be loS ked .
after by ahe police.
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