The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-21
The MEAT INDUSTRY STRIKE
EFFORTS TO AGREE ON PLAN OF
ARBITRATION FAIL.
a Serious Outbreak in Chicago-Meat
Riots in New York-Prices Con-
tinue to Advance.

CulCdSO, July l0.-hlOLlnS ana
bloodshed signalized the progress of
the packing house strike Thursday
night While the packers and the
strike leaders were ending a down.
town session in which they had failed
to reach a basis of settlement, hun
dreds of workingmen and their SYM
pathizers gathered in Paulina and
Forty-fifth streets, near the New City
police station. When the police at
tempted to arrest a rioter the mob as
sailed them with stones and sticks. An
answering volley of bullets was fired
by the patrolmen and one of the
strikers was shot. Three policemen
also were wounded, while several
other rioters were injured.
Chicago, July 16.-Pro1pects of an
early settlement of the great stock
yards strike dwindled away completely
Friday and conditions point to a long
and bitter struggle between the pack
ers and their employees. The strikers
fatty refused to make peace on the
terms suggested by the packers. In
their answer to this refusal the pack
ers are declared to have asserted them
selves as irrevocably pledged to the po-
sition which they adopted at the out
set of the strike.
AS a whole there was less business
in the packing houses than on Thurs
day or Wednesday. Some killing was
done in Chicago, but the Office forces
had to be called into the packing house
in some instances to accomplish this.
In other cities, notably in the Armour
plant in Kansas City, fair crews of
men were working. Shipments and de-
liveries from the wholesale depart
ments were smaller than on any day
since the struggle began. In some
grades and kinds of fresh meats, the
shortage commenced to be felt.
The number of men and women en-
ployed in the packing houses at the vari-
Gus cities is estimated as follows: Chi
cago, 20 900; Kansas City, 10000; ST. Jo-
seph, 5000; East st. Louis, 5000; South
Omaha, 5000; Fort Worth, 1900; New
York, 1900; st. Paul, 500; Sioux City,
800 In addition to this great total, an
other $4,000 workers will be made idle
through the strike of the butchers.
Branch stores and agencies will be prac-
ticaily closed while the struggle contin-
ues, and many affiliated branches OF
trace will be affected.
Dispatches show that the strike of
packing house employees at the centers
of the industry outside of Chicago con-
tinued Thursday without disturbances.
The men out were reported to be at
tending to their own business and
many of the plants affected resumed
killing, although on smaller scale
and with a limited force. The strikers
appeared to expect a successful con-
clusion to the peace negotiations pend
ing in Chicago.
The effect of the strike was keenly
felt in the east, where the advanced
prices and the scarcity in the fresh
meat supply make it luxury to the
poorer classes. In Greater New York
on the east side purchases were made
by ounces. The increased demand for
poultry, eggs and vegetables resulted
in a general advance in prices, and the
hotels and restaurants were charging
more. Many of the butcher shops in
the poorer sections of the city were
forced to close, owing to inability to
get supplies.
New York, July ia meat riot &C.
Cured at Forty-fourth street and First
avenue Friday afternoon, in which 500
East side kosher butchers and striking
employees of the big packing houses
took part. 1t began when several
butchers persisted in buying meat from
the packing houses, after they had
pledged themselves not to pay the ex-
orbitant prices demanded. AS they
emerged with their meat they were at
tackled by the butchers who had held to
their agreement and by the strikers, and
had not the police interferred the I'M
| faithful butchers would have been
killed. AS it was they were severely
beaten. Hundreds of the rioters were
bruised and battered by the night
sticks of the police. 1t was the first
trouble that has occurred since the be-
! ginning of the strike.
| Striking meat handlers were waiting
| for the announcement of the settle
ment of the strike against the big west
ern packers. This was expected almost
any hour from Chicago, and in the
meantime the prices of beef contin-
ued to go up, and other provisions
were also affected. The big retail deal
ers announce that two days more
ould see the advance doubled, max
ng it from eight to ten cents above the
price before the strike was declared
Poultry and eggs have been advanced
and fish dealers announce that sea food
will be the next to go up. Cold storage
poultry has been advanced two cents
a pound. Incubator chickens and ducks
are abundant, but the price is almost
prohibitive to the poor. Forty-five car
loads of beef have arrived in the city
within the last "a hours. These were
consigned to the independent packers,
but union teamsters refused to handle
the stock.