The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-03
PROGRESS IN BREAKING
 UP THE MEAT STRIKE
ARMoUR'S MANAGER SAYS
 TROUBLE IS NEAR END.
Statement That Packers Are Doing Nearly Eighty Per Cent. of Their Us- nal BusIness-1,sOO New Men Put to Work Yesterday-Despite this Great Quantity of Live stock Has to be Re- shIpped-sIump Expected.

shipped-SIump Expected.
 Chicago, Aug. 2.-The meat packers whose union employees are on strike claim to be in better position tonight than at any time since the struggle be-
 gan. When asked for the packers side
 of the situation tonight Arthur Meek
 CT, general manager for Armour & Co,
 said:
 The strike may be said to be nearing
 an end. At the rate we are securing
 new employees it will be only matter
 of short time now until everything
 will be in normal condition with us once
 more. When the butcher workmen re-
 pudiated their agreement and renewed
 the strike, after signing an agreement
 to submit all grievances to arbitration,
 We made special effort to win the fight, and we have been a great deal
 more successful in our efforts than the most sanguine of the employers had hoped for. The old employees places
 have been filled so promptly that very few of the strikers will ever be able to
 get back their old places, and those who do will come back as individuals. Y This assertion was made by MT, lMeeker after the packers had brought in during the day, according to their estimates, 1900 new men and another official of Armour & Go. had said that
 the packing firms were doing nearly 50
 per cent of their usual business. Po- lice reports of the number of new em- ployes arriving at the yards bear out, in large measure, the packers state- ments.
 Despite these declarations of the packers representatives, the pens at I the stock yards are filled with cattle and hogs that buyers make no bid for l in the market. According to commiss sion men and officials of the Union Stock Yards and Transit company, out lof the live stock received yesterday and to-day over 19,0O0 sheep and 10000 hogs were reshipped, and unsold stock is rapidly accommodating in the pens. Twelve thousand hogs remained unsold l tonight, and the prospect of large re- lceipts tomorrow is causing the live Istock handlers to fear swanping of ltheir facilities. According to conniis- sion men, there are thousands of hold overs in all departments of the yards. and the cattle in the pens will not all be out of the way by Saturday night. In the face of all this, shippers are com stantly forwarding stock to Chicago, ! and the indications tonight are that Ithere will be a decided slump in prices of live stock
 It is on this statement and what fur ther information their own men have been able to secure, that the strike leaders base their claims that the pack
 CTS are still badly crippled, notwith- standing statements to the contrary. A lconsiderable number of strike breakers who arrived in Chicago to-day were
 dissuaded from going to work by the pickets.
 l In statement given out tonight by 1 the packers it is asserted that out of the 25,526 union men who went out or
 strike 3,055 have returned to work. These assertions from the unions, add ed to the new employees secured since I the strike began, 1t is declared, makes 1 the total number of men now at work
 15, ,S4S
 On published statements that the un- ion leaders intended protesting to the
 city health department that housing oi employees in the packing houses was a violation of the city ordinance, an in lspector from the sanitary bureau in vestigated all the plants to-day, but nothing was found that would warrant lthe department taking any steps against the packers.