The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-26
PACKERS MUSTER
NON-UNION FORCE
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him away before the police sought to
give him attention.
Race War Developing.
Development Of a race war is rap
idly proceeding turnout the strike dis
trict, the trouble starting In the res
taurants of Armour & Co.. Swift &
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
desire to aid IN the sympathetie
strike. AS rapidly as a girl took off
her apron and walked out a colored
man was employed in her place.
Thereupona Twenty-Five girls IN SWlft
| twenty-five at Nelson, Norris & Com
pany's and thirty at Armour & Com
pany's. ea
The first step taken by the feminine
strikeYs after tearing off the aprons
was tn march to a hall and hold a
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 Halsted streets
was s.button-ho ied'' and urged to go
home or stay and do picket duty.
Not few complied, but the others
fed into the yards to work.
| -Four girls were roughly handled
but none was seriously hurt.
e. Riot Call Sent In. s3
Shooting wildly in the darkness, d
score of panic-stricken strikebreakers
hired by Swift & Co.. spread con-
sternat1on thru the yards early today.
Riot calls We're sent to the police, and
the, armed garrison of packing town
turned out in full force, believing that
the strikers had made an organized
attack under cover of darkness. Fail
/ ing to discover any strikers, the police
arrested the strike breakers, all of
them colored. The prisoners number
1 ed a, dozen. Il
i When the police entered from
searching for. an, attacking party and
I arrested the .strikebreakers, there. was
a chorus of protests. All the prison
; ers told of seeing suspicious persons
. lurking in the shadows Of the build
ings -:
negroes had obtained a number OF
| navy weapons. It was denied that
Swift & Co. had armed the men. The
police took the view that the colore6
men had shot to- create distur bance
and held the prisoners for arraign'
ment in court Gill S@fs 1#s
J. Packing Plants in Operation.
Despite the fact that .25, 900 or more
regular employees are on strike at the
stock yards here, including the mum
Der who went out yesterday after the
= call for a sympathetic strike had beer
, issued, all the big packing plants were
d f1ah red to be IN nearly full opera
l went out yesterday, II was asserted
i, had been5replaced by one who belong
f to no union, and among the recruit
!. were said to be a mber of youns
= men from Armour institute, who hav
$ taken the places of some of the fire
I men in the various plants.
i While the flremen went out, tn
0 engineers, it was asserted, with pos
: sibfy a dozen exceptions, remained Il
s their places. q This was due to- tn
0 fact thatathe general strike order ha
not extended to the engineers, FEY
s Of whom. according to the employers
: of stationary engineers employed i
the packing plants and yards is IL
= 81. According to the, packers, 600 non
union men from other cities Wer
brought into the yards today With
II two hours and distributed among tn
skilled butchers from New York.
n There was killing of cattle, hog
f and sheep in all plants. With tn
9 supply of animals on hand cleaned w
=, there will apparently, be little or n
!. slaughtering tomorrow.
$ Silk Socks Among Swine.
"A Men with Panama hats, expersiv
r. clothing of the latest cut, and fir
,e linen, stepped in among the hogs tt
t.. day and took charge of the unload
1e ing of the days arrivals at the yard
I'd The volunteer crew Of stock UNLOAD
8, ers was made up Of the office an
TX mission houses at the yards. Viii
y. the amateurs toiled among the grun
er ing swine, strikers in heavy boots an
r rough garb sat about at a distanc
" laughing at the spectacle.
ne Look at that fellow with the sill
er suspendersn' they cried, pointing
d. one particularly dapper clerk. Don
" you want to. borrow some overalls p
,> Unmindful of derision, the volul
+ teers continued with the work, whio
progressed with, natural shortcOn
ad ings. Once when a porker escape
the vigilance; of the unloaders ar
charged his captors, upsetting two
ke their number in an undignified hea
as the unsympathetic spectators brol
ao into cheers Of delight. The runaw;
ar was captured by dint of much ru
rts ming, shouting and perspiration. IT.
Is candles, as they were called by tt
ne strike sympathizers, entered into tt
ok spirit of the occasion and tried wi
some, success to turn an unpleasa
lc- task into a good-natured holidi
9. romp. 55$s j ss
Transfers to- Strike.
THAT a strike of packinghouse tear
sters will occur tomorrow was adm
ted today as inevitable by George
as Golden, the president Of their unic
hit President Golden telegraphed to c.
nelius Shea, the International pre-
,r- dent of the teamsters' union, today a
by informed him that it would be il
do possible to keep the drivers at wo
list after today. Shea is in Indianapo
lip and the communication sent him
I'D Golden was designed as a formal no
ep fication to the International body, tt
the clearinghouse teanlsters might I
ay, be deprived of strike benefits, even
* they ignore the action Of the tea
,e- sters' local joint council, which is
y, inject tonight. THE council. which /