Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-09
USE UNION TRANSFERS
CHICAGO LABOR LEADERS PLAN
10 WIN STOCK YARDS STRIKE.
Drivers Of Ice Wagons Ordered to De
liver No More Ice to Pro-
scribed Butchers

oiSpatch from Chicago last night saws.
The union teamsters are to be the princi-
pal weapon which the labor leaders propose
TO use to win the stock yards strike Or
ders were issued today to drivers of ice
wagons to deliver no more ice to butchers
who buy of the big packers or to any of
the branch houses of the packing plants
where the men are now on strike. A list
Of more than 200 retail dealers who have
been buying meat from the so-called trust
packers and hauling it away with their
own wagons has been compiled. and accord
Ing to the claims of the strike leaders
the Ice supply will be cut of from every
one OF these places tomorrow morning. Ar
rangements have been made to have pickets
stationed at all the retail markets which
nave been placed under the ban of the
unions to see that the boycott is en-
forced to the limit.
Today's order prohibiting ice deliveries
10 the retailers Is a duplication of the one
issued last week. but which was never en-
forced because 1t had not been sanctioned
by the International officers of the team
sters union. At Cincinnati. where the H.
ternatfonal Brotherhood of Transfers was
In session today the necessary Endorsement
OF the proposed boycott was given and the
belated order will be put In force tomorrow
morning
More Men at Work at Plants
All the packing plants began operations
here today with slightly increased forces
Of workmen. nearly 200 additional en-
ployes having been secured over Sunday
Nearly all the men who left the yards
Saturday night to spend Sunday at their
homes returned to work this morning
Among those who reported for duty today
were a considerable number of the strikers
who. according to the packers. had become
tired of being idle. and this morning made
application for the places they held prior
to the strike
The live stock receipts. consisting OF 49,
were nearly all bought up by the packers
today. This fact, the packers claim is
positive evidence that they now have the
situation well I'm hand and are now in
such position that II is a matter OF lit
tie concern to them how long the strikers
hold out
An additional detachment of police was
ordered to report to the stock yards sta
ton tomorrow morning to aid in bro
tecting Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad train. which Is expected to
arrive with 700 additional strike-breakers
These men have been employed in vari-
GUS cities throughout the east. and among
them. it Is said. are between 200 and 300
skilled workmen.
Situation In New York
A dispatch from New York last night
says: After heated and exciting session Of
the executive board of the Amaigamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher workmen OF
America held in this city last night. $500
members engaged in such work here In
local packing houses were called out on
strike. to take effect tomorrow morning
at s o'clock.
Men will quit work in all the shops
known to the workers as "the trust pack
ing houses" and the strike will. 1t is said.
affect the business here Of the local
branches OF Nelson Morris & Co. Cudahy
& Co, the National Packing Company.
Armour & Co.. Swift & Co. the United
Dressed Beef Company and the Schwartz
Company of this city.
The strike Will be extended so as to
affect any independent local concerns
which may endeavor to aid the trust
packing houses"
Marble Workers Strike.
A dispatch from Richmond. Va. last
night says: On Geographic orders from the
Association Of Marble Work
ers at Philadelphia. the men employed on
the skyscraper OF the American National
Bank stopped work today.
They are employed by the Davis Mar
BILE Company Of Philadelphia, which has
the contract on the building named. The
strike Is caused by the contractors refus-
Ing to sign an agreement with the help
ers organization. The marble workers here
receive "a and expenses for eight-hour