The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-02
HUM OF ACTIVITY IN
 CHICAGO STOCK YARDS
75, GOO HEAD OF LIVE STOCK RE
 0EIVED YESTERDAY

Amount of Strengthening Done-Pack-
 CTS Gradually Overcoming the Strike
 Five Hundred Car Loads of Fresh
 Meats Shipped as Proof of This.
 Chicago, Aug. 1.-This was a busy day with the packers. With increased
 forces of skilled workmen and operat-
 ing departments more thoroughly equipped than at any time since the be- ginning of the strike, the employers
 took firm grip on the machinery of
 their affairs, and as result thesstock
 yards took on the hum of activity to a
 great extent. More than 7S,0O0 head of live stock were received to-day. This Is an increase of 55,000 head over the re-
 ceipts on the corresponding day last week. Such. an enormous amount of live stock would under normal conditions
 have had depressing effect on the
 market, and to-day when the train loads of animals began to pour into the
 yards, stock men and traders feared q
 panic, but it did not occur. Prices were
 lowered sharply, but the fact that the
 market held so well as 1t did seemed to prove that the packers are prepared to increase their output.
 The big packers bought 5000 cattle, 1S,0OO hogs and 10000 during the day.
 Before night fall eighty per cent. of these purchases had been slaughtered. Further proof of the assertions of the packers that the difficulties of the strike are being overcome was furnish- ed by the shipment of 300 carloads of fresh meats from the stock yards. or this number, 400 cars were loaded and shipped by the firms affected by the strike. These shipments were consign- ed to all parts of the world, eighty car loads being billed to Boston for ex- port. These shipments followed 2S0 car- loads of meat sent out by the pack
 CTS on Saturday and represent only a part of the business that is going on 1 in spite of the strike,
 As near as could be estimated to- might. S59 union men of the various trades on strike, returned to work during the day. Of this number who abandoned the fight many were skilled workmen. The packers say to-day's assertions make the total number of strikers who have returned to work .,0Os ! Cheif of Police o'Neill tonight de- lclared his belief that peace In the strike is in sight and that by Thursday
 great changes will be seen tending to- wards a peaceful end.
 From what [ learned many of the men who went out on a sympathetic strike are returning to their positions
 in the packing plants, he said.
 There were several disturbances dur Ling the day. but the police experienced l little difficulty in restoring order. The crowds usually seen at the entrance to | the yards were not in evidence to-day, and wagons carrying meat passed | through the streets with the drivers unmolested. When the strike breakers
 left the plants tonight no attempts were made on the non union men. Saloon fights between union and non- union men were frequent to-day. Dur ling these quarrels one man was shot ! and another stabbed, but neither was
 seriously injured.
 A fight in which squad of police had | to use their clubs against a crowd of strike sympathizers occurred this after noon in an alley near the yards. The police took into custody two of the men, who had beaten George Guschla, a
 strike breaker. so badly that his life is
 despaired of.
 It Is declared by the strike leaders that hundreds of children under legal l Iage are employed by the packers. It is admitted that the action of the state factory inspector was the result of in formation first given by Michael Don Inelly, who reported results of his own investigation It is said that warrants Twill be taken out for other packing house officials besides Superintendent
 Farris, of Nelson Morris & Co.