New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-24
PEACE TALK AT AN END.
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police force If necessary. He ar once ordered
all inspectors and commanding officers to hold
all their men in reserve at their respective sta
lions until further orders. Afterwsrd the chief
went &c the stockyards. where he made arrange
Inents for the disposition OF the police details
and guarcs tomorrow night TO be ready TO an
t,cipate tee nrst possible outbreaks by strikers
or their syrnpathizers Monday morning.
STATE READY TO HELP.
Governor Yates who came here from Spring
field this afternoon. held conference with the
local authorities and the sheriff, and requested
full details regarding the situation. He refused
10 state what action the State authorities would
take. but asserted that IL called upon his every
assistance would be given 10 the local authori-
ties 10 put down disorder and preserve the
peace.
News O. the failure OF the joint conference
threw a chill over the strikers the yards. and
scores Of them were reported 10 have declared
that it meant that they must go back 10 inc
companies and ask for work independently OF
the unions. Word came from q member OF one
of the great stockyards firms that 400 strikers
had returned TO work In the Armour plant, $40
IN the Morris plant and a large number in The
Swift plant This was taken by the packers to
mean that the men tired Of being out OF
work and that Monday would see general
break in the strikers ranks
The plants of Armour & Co, Nelson Morris
4 Co. and Swift & Co. reported as being
operated in nearly ali departments to-day with
large forces. including many women and men
who refused TO join the strikers. Armour & Co
said that they had 1.33S men. independent Of
mechanics. and Do Office employees at work in
the various departments Swift & Co claimed
10 have 1,249 men at work including 400 old
employees, and Norris & Co, hip.
These three plants were reported as keeping
their killing departments in full operation. but
We're buying neither cattle sheep nor hogs and
81 expected would stop killing. In accord
ance with plan announced yesterday, as soon
as the animals now on hand were disposed OF
Armour d. Co. brought in seVenty-tNe pTaIch
house employees to-day. The plants OF schw arr
schild & Sulzberger and the National Packing
Company were said TO be tied Up in all depart
ments except the shipping
SPORADIC VIOLENCE.
Not since the strike began were many idle
men observed in the streets as to-day. and cases
OF minor disorder were numerous At West
Forty-sixth-st. and Gross-ave. several hundred
Joined the in attack upon a
crowd of non-union workers who were on their
way TO the yards gate. Sticks and stones were
thrown. The union men escaped with slight
bruises. There were no arrests
At Forty-third-st. and Ashland-ave. mob OF
strikers tried TO prevent six girls from entering
the yards TO go TO work. The police were sum-
1noned, dispersed the crowd and escorted the
girls through the gates.
Ucel Plaetzora. who came 10 Chicago from ST.
Louis to-day the invitation of his brother
Anton, who is a strike breaker at the Armour
plant, attacked by five men in the centre Of
the stockyards. He fed, followed by the five
men and a number OF others who had appeared
from among the mazes of railway cars Police
were summoned, hut the assailants escaped.
The receipts to-day the nghtest In the
history of the stockyards. consisting of only 400
cattle 5000 hogs and 8 600 sheep. The reduction
was due TO the action of the commission men In
warning shippers to keep livestock al home TIL
the strike was settled. Nearly all the livestock
that came in yesterday hurried out OF the
yards last night and sent to outside plants 70 be
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