The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-08-04
Packers Have Difficulty in Fill
ing Their Trade.
Orders.
OFFICEMEN DRIVE WAGONS.
East Side EmpIoyc Gets Into an
Argument and Is Res.
cucd by the Po.
lice.

| The packing houses In St Louis aud
East ~. Louis yesterday made but slight
| hcadway In delivering orders of meat
| where wngons had TO be used On tho
| Enyt Side there was little effort mad. ia
| run the wagons. Tho packers supplied ~
| much Of their trade az possible by rail
way.
Making usc OF their Office force ~
| drivers the ST. Louis Drrra.d Beef and
Provision Company made their downtown
deliveries with romo irregularity. though
they managed 10 serve most Of their trade
before the day was over
Several wagons loaded with meats were
taken out of the stock yards In East St
Louis. Ono of the wagons which was
| driven by a man named Iooiihan for Mel
son Morris. almost caused riot on Broad
way near the v'aduct The driver. accord
ing tp the police, got into an argument
with strike sympathizers and stopped his
! team. crowd gathered round and 1t re
dured the efforts OF several policemen to
scatter the crowd and start the driver
over the viaduct. No other trouble was
reported during the entire day
Yesterday afternoon General Manager
Robert Conway OF the Armour plant called
up Chief of Police Purdy by telephone and
asked for protection for a wagonload Of
meat which he wanted to send to tha Re-
'ay Station to be delivered to the cxprcss
companies there. Chief Purdy told Mr.
Conway that neither the driver. wagon
ror the meat would be molested in their
passage through the city. No difficulty
was experienced by the driver In getting
to the Relay Station.
.af H. R-NI
of meat which left the stock yards yes
terday. and II Is said that butchers who
iLrc handling the meat turned out by the
packers will De declared unfair.
RECEIPTS HEAVY.
The receipts of cattle still continue
heavy at the National Stock Yards The
receipts yesterday were about 500 head.
According to the commission men, the
packers are using but little over a total
Of 200 head Of cattle a day. ard much
of the cattle has had to be reshipped It
Is expected that the receipts will begin
falling off the latter part OF this week.
The strikers are still maintaining their
own. They have established commissar-
les. where provisions are dealt out TO their
members and a check for $1,000 has been
received from the national officials to be
used for purchasing supplies. The strik-
ers are as confident as ever that the
packers will back down in the near fu-
lure.
No new drivers have been employed by
the st. Louis Dressed Beef Company to
take the places OF the strikers, though
President Thomas b. Crouch said last
night that several applications have been
received. The company expects to begin
employing drivers to-day.
The places OF the engineers and firemen
have been taken by men who were en-
ployed to take the places of the butchers.
and representatives of the company say
they are not Inconvenience by that phase
of the strike. The going out of the drivers,
however. has given them much trouble
and they will make an effort at once to
fill their places.
At Union Market the butchers and driv-
ers Of the Louis Schaefer Meat Company
are still out. and the office force are doing
market have offered the services of their
drivers for deIiv'~'~~ ~ - were no more
meat cutters went out there yester..
PRICE U4>CnANGt;D.
Local dealers report that the price of
meat remains about the same as last week,
at an average advance of about cents
per pound over the prices that prevailed
before the strike began.
The meat cutters and allied trades held
their daily mass meeting at No 1910
Franklin avenue yesterday morning. Re
ports Of the progress of the strike were
received. and the condition OF the strikers
was investigated. 1t was stated that there
Is no suffering among the families of the
strikers as result of the strike. The
strike benefits are being paid and employ
ment has been secured for many of the
men in independent packing houses.
There will be a mass meeting Of the
butchers and meat cutters and allied
trades affected by the strike at Walhalla
Hall at 10 o'clock this morning. President
Donnelly is expected to be present to ad-
dress the strikers.