The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-27
Cases of Abject Destitution Are
Reported to the Chicago Po-
lice Department.
TRANSFERS JOIN IN STRIKE.
No Prospect of Settlement in
Sight-Presidcnt Donnelly
Says 1t Is Fight to
the End.
EEHIEIIl, SPriIAI.

| EEPT RT.1c SPECIAL.
| Chicago, July 26-Gaunt famine stalks
| among striking laborers living west OF
the stock yards. and to-day. while wagons
| were being turned back at the yards and
| shots fired in incipient riots. throng OF
| women and children of strikers families
| raided "A fruit peddler's wagon
| The women. in their ragged dresses and
| the barefooted childen were sitting near
| the city dump. located close by. watching
! the bread and other material that they
could have used for feeding their precious
| poultry but for the watchfuness of city
| officials.
| Just then GeorSios Statiopulous came
along. The sight of his wagon. piled high
with fruit. maddenei the crowd. Women
! and children swarmed over the wagon.
| seizing upon everything within reach, and
running off in droves. Finding his stock
| falling away he drew a revolver and fired
in the air to scare off the invaders. At
| the sound of the shots a crowd of men
appeared, and. charging upon Statiopulous,
| disarmed him and threw . him to the
ground.
Fleeing for his life before the enraged
| crowd that quickly gathered and gave pur-
sun, iI'' 'Tttk letcnttl Il -StNtlltLi
street car and escaped.
DESTITUTION REPORTED.
Two individual cases of abject destitu-
ton among strikers families came to the
surface to-day. Mrs. Downey. Loomis
street. near West Forty-third. the wife
of Il stock-vdrds laborer who had been
receiving IL. cents an hour until he went
on n strike two weeks ago. was forced 10
appeal Tor help. She reported herself un-
able to tind work that she could do and
said her eight children were experiencing
prilations of every kind and facing hum
ger. The oldest child is girl of IL years.
one wagon loaded with meat, that start
ed from the stock Yards. was turned back
at noon. II was driven to the Morgan
street gate 10y union teamSter. The
crowd around tie gate halted the team
and demanded of the driver that he turn
back and reflIS'. to deliver the meat. He
complied amid cheers from the union SYM
pathizerS.
Five wagons of the Heissler & Junge
Bakery Company. loaded with bread
started to enter the yards from Halsted
street, but when the drivers saw threat
ening crowds approaching. they drove
away. Later they tried TO enter at an
other point. but were again baffied.
A stockade for strikers has been built
around a large ward adjoining Watita
League Hall.
TRANSFERS WALK OUT.
The sympathetic strike at the stock
yards will be complete tomorrow morn
ing. The belated sanction to the team
sters Joining their brother workmen in
the general strike was given tonight by
the officers of the international Teamsters
Union. and the 7p1 drivers employed in the
packing industry in Chicago will quit work
tomorrow. Nearly 100 of these men
struck to-day of their own volition.
With the union teamsters out, every
union organization represented in the
stock yards will he on strike.
Il alG CT tod haT fD-nIp
officers of the International Teamsters
Union had issued orders calling out all
teaElsters in the employ of the big pack
ing companies at Kansas City. st. Louis
and Boston.
Little ii any advantage was eainnd hy
either side in the stock wards to-day. AMI
settlement of the difficulty. Realizing
that they have one of the hardest prOpO-
sitiOns to contend with in the history Of
the packing industry. the packers are
hand in the struggle with their 5000, union
employees who are on strike.
All day long workmen from outside
points were rushed to Chicag go and taken
to the stock yards under police protection
to fill the places of the strikers. Tonight
it WIS announced by the packers that 1.ooo
new men Were now installed In the differ
ent plants At the stock yards.
FIGHT TO THE, END.
Rumors of renewed efforts to settle the
difficulty by arbitration We're thick to-day.
but upon investigation they We're found
to be without foundation. When ques
tened tonight regarding the situation,
Michael J. DonnelIy, president of the
Butchers Union. the organization which
preCpitated the original strike. said:
Il have no hope of an immediate set
tement. The fight is on and the only
thing We do now is to stick to the
end"
The union organizations recalled their
ultimatum issued yesterday prohibiting
their members employed in the independ-
ent plants from killing live stock purChasa ID
in the stock yards. where the animals
are being handled by nonunion employees.
The labor leaders took this step after the
independent packers had pointed out to
them that if such an order We're carried
out it would be a benefit 10 the big pack
ers.