The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
BITTER FIGHT.
Conflict Between Packers and
Their Striking Employees
GiEesPrOmise of Being Long and
Desperate Struggle.
SLUGGTNG HAS BEGUN.
A Striker Is Knocked Down ana
Badly Beaten.
Policemen Succeed in Arr0sting
One of His ASsailants.
GIRLS On PICKET LINE.
Try to Prevent Their Sisters
from Returning to Work.
Sympathetic Strike Order Has
Not Reached h. C.

Chicago, July 26.-In the great indus
trial war now well under way the pack
ers and the strikers rallied today and
prepared for a bitter conflict. The one
side went about its preparations quietly
but effectively, the other enthusiastical-
~ and as they hoped also effectively.
Meantime the day took on the real
aspect of a mighty strike. Riotus scenes
developed and continued internationally
throughout the day.
Riot calls were sent in from number
of points Many arrests were made
and altogether the days of peace SEEM
ed doomed for some time. On the one
hand the packers declared emphatically
that their plants were running and
would continue to run; strike breakers
were rushed into the yards by the hun
dreds and nonunion help was employed
wherever it offered itself.
Emergency preparations were made
with a view to compactness; as for in
stance the Capitalization of the steam
power plant of the Armours and Swift
& Co. While the mattresses in the
restaurants of the big plants Joined
their brother rikers in the sympathetic
walk out, the-e were individual defec-
tions reported from the strikers ranks
Evidence of fighting enthusiasm was
shown today when thousands OF Str1k-
ers and pathizers began to concen-
trate at their headquarters for the
strikers initial mass meeting was held
today and which, as the leaders had
predicted. was a rousing one.
While enthusiasm seemed to be run
ming rampant. the strike leaders fully
realized the Importance of the fact that
the teamSters heretofore powerful In
Chicago in making a strike successful
were not yet out
Strikers Look on and Laugh.
Well dressed men constituting the
clerical force OF the commission houses
took charge of the unloading of cattle
garb sat at a distance laughing at the
spectacle. That a strike of packing
house teamsters will take place tomor- |
row was admitted today as inevitable |
President Golden telegraphed to Cor |
neliuS Shea, the international presi- |
dent of the teamsters' union today |
and informed him it would be i'm
possible to keep the drivers at work
after today.
Fifteen thousand men and women
today attended the first general mass
meeting held since the beginning of
the stock yards strike. the Independent |
packers will have the privilege of send |
ing their own men into the yards and |
pendent packers own cattle, hogs or |
sheep. This will permit the indepen-
dents to operate with little Interrupt |
ton on account of the strike.
SIugging Begins.
Chicago. July 26-Two thousand per-
sons today saw one of the most brutal |
cases of slugging and some of the poor |
est Workmanship of the policemen since |
the stockyards strike began. A strike /
hreaker, John Mulloy had just left the I
Mulloy was knocked down and nearly i
killed Five policemen interfered where |
upon the trio ran. The police followed /
the men using their revolvers. Appar- |
a al cd to hut
all missed. John Doody, one of the |
men, however, was captured and ar
rested.
In the restaurant of Armour & Co.
Swift & Co. and Nelson Morris & Co,
all the dining room girls quit because |
of the presence of negro cooks.
That was the reason they gave but it |
is believed they desired to aid in the |
sympathetic strike. The girl strikers
today decided to do picket duty and see |
that no girls went to work in the strike
anected places Not a few complied but /
the others broke away and fed into
the yards to work Four girls were
roughly handled.
Despite the fact that $4,000 or more
regular employees are on strike at the
stockyards here including the number
VINO went out yesterday after the call /
Tor a sympathetic strike had been IS
sued, all the big packing plants were
declared to be in nearly fun operation
To-Day. Nearly every man who went our
yesterday il was claimed had been re-
n.
while the firemen went out the engi-
neers, II was asserted, with possibly a
dozen exceptions remained at their
places This was due to the fact il \
was said that the general strike order
old not extend to the engineers. few of
whom. according to the employers were
union men, According to the packers
500 nonunion men from other cities
were brought in to the yards today for
work at various plants. There was
killing OF cattle. hogs and sheep in all /
the plants, but with the supply of ami
mails on hand. cleaned up, there will
apparently be little or no slaughtering
tomorrow
No sympathetic Strike.
Kansas City. Mo. July 26-With No
strike order from Chicago vet and the
allied trades still at work, the packing
house situation today remained un-
changed. J. A Kohler, president of
the central labor union, said at 10
O'Clock that no order for sympa-
thettc strike had come and that he
was unable to say whether he expect
ed II today
At labor headquarters other leaders
said that the allied unions might be |
called out this evening, but nothing
definite was known.
According to the packers, conditions