Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-28

out all the men employed by the
packing companies affiliated with
the so-eaIled "beef trusts" was
received today. No Immediate ao-
ton was taken.
Chicago, July 26.-With all peace ne
Egotiations broken off and with all the
allied trades unions employed at the
different plants, with the exception of
the teamsters and the stationary en-
gineers, out on strike in sympathy
with the butcher workmen who quit
work two weeks ago, the stock yards
strike has settled down to what prom.
Uses to be one of the bitterest fights
between capital and labor in the his.
tory of America.
Plants Are In Operation.
All the packing plants were declared
to be in nearly full operation today.
Nearly every man who quit yesterday.
1t was claimed, has been replaced by
a nonunion workman.
600 Strike Breakers Arrive.
According to the packers 600 non:
union men from other cities arrived
at the yards today and were distribute
ed among the various plants.
coIored Strike Breakers RIotous.
Shooting wildly in the darkness a
score Of panic-stricken colored strike
breakers, hired by Swift & Co., spread
CONSERVATION through the yards today.
Riot calls were sent to the police and
the armed garrison of packing
town" turned out in full force. Fail.
ing to discover any strikers the police
arrested dozen armed strike break.
ers.
Strike Breaker Beaten. :.
John Mulloy, strike breaker, was
assaulted by three men at Forty-First
and Halsted streets this morning. He
was. knocked down and nearly killed.
The, sluggers had not completed their
work when five policemen interfereds
One Assaliant Arrested. e
After an exciting chase through the
crowd numbering 1000 people, assem-:
bled in the. streets and alleys in the
vicinity of the scene of the assault, in,
which the officers fired many shots.
one of Mulloy's assailants, John Doc
dy, was arrested. The others escaped.
Mattresses Quit Work.
Eighty mattresses employed in Ar.
mour's, Swift's and Morris restau-
rants quit work today because of the
employment of colored cooks. The
girls places were Immediately filled
by colored men and some of the girls
who attempted to return to work were
roughly handled by the other striking
mattresses. s..,
Office Men Unload Stock.
Men with panama hats, expensive
clothing and fine linen took charge Of
the unloading of today's arrivals at
the yards They were made I'D of
the Office and clerical forces of the
various com mission houses and while
they toiled among the running swine,
|strikers in heavy boots and rough
garb stood about making derisive re-
marks and poking fun at the volunteer
crews
Omaha Mechanics Quit.
Omaha, July 26.-Eleven hundred
members of the allied mechanical
trades employed at the packing plants
Of South Omaha struck at noon today
in sympathy with the striking butch.
ers. Nine unions are affected.
Judge Stands Firm.
Federal Judge Munger today. denied
the motion of the attorneys for the
strikers for tn modification of the in.
junction restraining them from pick.
citing or interfering with the non
union men brought into the yards.
The judge said the injunction does not
interfere with any legal right of the
strikers. @
Sioux City Engineers Out.
Sioux City, July 26.-The firemen
and engineers joined the strikers at
the Cudahy plant here today.
Mill Strike is Quiet.
Fall River, Mass, July 26. - The
first day of the strike of $4,000 cotton
mill operatives here passed quietly
and So, in all probability will pass the
succeeding days, for the reason that the
opposition to the strike on the part
of the operatives is so slight as to be
hardly feature.
The mill owners and their operatives
are determined in their positions and
the outcome is hard to predict. With
the strikers 1t is question Of how
long they can do without their wages
and exist on strike benefits. On the
part of the owners it is matter Of
how long they can afford to have their
mills closed down. At present the
cotton and cloth markets are not at
their best.