Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-03
PACKERS TROUBLES
Added Complications Now
Confront Them.
EFFECT OF THE ICE MEN
SERIOUS RESULTS AT ICING STA
TONS FROM LACK OF MEN.
Transfers and Handlers Refuse to
Work-Much Dressed Beef is
Spoiled in Transit
EFFECT OF THE ICE MEN

CHICAGO, August 3.-Complications ana
embarra ssments in new fields are now G. II
fronting the packers, according TO lniorni"-
ton that has reached strike headquarters.
After slaughtering and preparing peer ior
market, much of the product Is spolhhs Gu
route, 1t is claimed, because of the diihcui-
ties encountered by the packers in icing re-
frigerator cars.
After investigating the situation and cor
roborating information he had received on
that point, Homer D. Call, active heao "a
the strikers in the absence OF Presloeh'
Michael Donnelly, made his CONCLUSIONS
public today. Little difficulty Is experienced
in icing the meat cars at the STOCK yarus
where machinery is largely used, put WIN
the re-icing stations, scattered throughout
the country where the supply is repieh-
ished, railroad employees are said to re1use
to do the work, resulting In heavy losses
Situation at Yards.
When the ice teamsters and handlers
went out at the yards Armours had forty
two union men engaged in packing the cars
the National Company had thlrty-nne'
Swift & Co. forty-five and Morris q co.
thirty.
In their places Armour has twenty-elgnt
non-union men at work, the National sew
enteen, Swift fourteen and Morris q 90.
sixteen To make up for the shortage frult
cars are being iced elsewhere, 1t is sald,
switched to the yards and then loaded with
meat. Strikers talk of calling out the union
men engaged in icing the fruit cars as
Armour and Swift are said to control the
Armour refrigerator line the Central Fruit
Growers Express and the Continental Fruit
Dispatch, and are consequently aple 10 use
the cars for meat service whenever de-
sired.
Yards Flooded With Live Stock.
The yards were flooded with live stock
today Complaint was rife by represen-
tatives of country shippers.
Before the days shipments arrived there
were $4,000 hogs in the pens and between
2,OOO and 1900 cattle The sheep alone
had been all sold.
No More Unskilled Labor.
The packers expressed the opinion that
with supplies SO heavy good portion or
the stock could not be handled by the pack
ing plants until tomorrow. Today's re-
ceipts were as follows:
Cattle, $500; hogs, 1000; sheep, $4,000
The packers announced today that they
would attempt to import no more unsk1lled
labor. They said they had all the raw men
they needed and in the future would take
on only a few skilled men.
This news was declared by the strikers to
be a bait TO them IN the nope VI pIedhIhS
the union ranks.
Trying to Induce Return Of Employees.
notwithstanding the claim of the pack
ing house managers that they have no
difficulty in securing workmen, they are
said to be making very strong efforts to
induce their former employees to return to
work. The latest move made in that line
is the distribution of cards among the
of no ctrtE n
duce their husbands to return to the pack
ing plants and offering increased pay.
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger notified the
county officials that they could not make
ing to contract, and the superintendent OF
public service placed an order for $4,000
worth of meat with an Independent firm
Declares Meat Trust is Broken.
Homer D. Call, international secretary Of
the butchers organization, said today:
1.-The greatest feature of the strike is
that the meat trust has been broken In
stead of the packers disrupting the unions,
the disintergation of one of the greatest
combinations the world has ever seen has
already set in. For ten years. from 1880
to 1900. the consolidation of the meat COM
parties was carried on and from 1,141 pack
ing plants in this country the number was
reduced to 100
Now the tide will set in the other way.
The packers know that they have already
lost control of a large part of their bust
ness and that the live stock dealers will
do all that Is possible to assist in the de-
feat Since the strike the Independent
plants of Chicago, Louisville. Cincinnati.
Indianapolis, Pittsburg and Springfield,
Mass, have been working night and day.
This trade will never be recovered by the
trust My reports are that the danger has
already been realized by the big packers.
1t took the packers twenty years to build
up their combination, and now the fruits
of the victory will be snatched from them
by a labor union. The public Is support
| ing the independent plants because of the
damaging evidence secured by the gov
eminent against the meat monopoly"
BUTCHER RECRUITS.