Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-06
EMIssARY OF BUREAU OF COM.
MERGE AND LABOR coNFERs
WITH SECRETARY CALL.
STRIKERS START
ON SAVINGS BANK
In Spirit of Revenge Butchers With.
draw Deposits and Cause Spread OF
Rumors Which Bring Other With.
drawaIs-Llttle Change in General
Conditions Today.

draWals-Little Change In General
Conditions Today.
Chicago, Aug. 5. - That the feder-
al government is preparing to take an
active part in the stock yards strike
today was evidenced when Information
al Secretary Call of the Butchers
union divulged the fact that he had
been in conference with an enissary
of the United States bureau of COM
merce and labor. Who the agent Is
or what his plans are, Mr.. Call refus-
ed to say.
Small Run on Bank.
Chicago, Aug. s. - Hundreds of
strikers and others today thronged the
Drovers' Trust and Savings Bank in
the stock yards district withdrew their
deposits, large or small. The unusual
scene attracted large crowd and set
all manner of rumors in circulation,
and created general run on the in
stitution
Reason for Action.
The strikers action was taken in re-
taliation for the alleged action of one
Of the packing firms, Libby, Mcneil &
Libby, in making the bank an adjunct
to their pay department.
All Corners Are Paid.
When the bank opened double line
of people extending into the street
greeted the bank officials. Without
protest or explanation the officials
doubled their force of paying tellers
and met all the withdrawal demands.
Bank Has Many Deposltors.
The bank is located in the same
building with the, Drovers' Deposit Ma
tional bank. its local correspondent.
Its capital is 100000 and its surplus
and profits 100000 It has long list
Of depositors among the workmen
about the yards. It's last report,
made on June 10, shows resources and
liabilities amounting to $1,865,506.
Crowd Grows Restless.
The police at the bank were increas:
ed this afternoon to handle the
crowds which extended in a line 200
feet long either way from the en-.
trance and was beginning to show
Bankers Make Complaints.
Bankers complain that the strike
has already had most serious affect
on the local money market and de-
preston Of the interest rate is con-
sidered probable.
More Strike Breakers.
Strike breakers continued to pour
into the yards today. The new arriv.
ais included another train load of i'm.
migrants.
Deserters Exceed Recruits.
In seven plants yesterday the num-
ber of new arrivals was estimated at
430 and the desertions Of 545, more
: than half the latter number going
from the Armour plant alone.
The amount of killing done yester-
day in the four large plants was given
out by representatives of the packers
as follows:
Cattle. Sheep. Hogs.
Swift & Co. 1000 1,75O 1000
Armour & Co. 1900 $500
Morris & Co.. $50 1900 1000
Hammond -. $50 given not given
AS an indication that the packers
intend to discontinue local deliveries
of meat by wagon after the strike is
settled, the Schwarzschild & Sulzber-
ger company was reported yesterday
as having shipped sixty horses out to
the country Swift & Co. shipped
eighteen horses to Kansas City, it
was said.
Deny Pesce Rumors.
Rumors of the revival of peace ne
gotiations are emphatically denied by
both the packers and the strike lead
ers.
Strikers Draw Benefits.
Nearly 10000 strikers today receiv-
ed their first weekly benefit. each man
getting 81 from the strike treasury.
Packers Profess Satisfaction.
In an official statement the pack
ers declared that the progress being
made at the plants was entirely salts
factory.
The boycott declared against mar
kets handling meat cut by nonunion
labor is deferred by ice teamsters un-
Til the return of President Donnelly.
Riotine Keeps Police Busy.
Slugging and disorder in Halsted
street yesterday kept the stock yards
police busy answering riot calls and
quelling disturbances. Three negro
women and half a dozen men became
involved with strikers in the course of
the day and were beaten. Almost a
dozen arrests were made in connection
with the strike.
Independents Do Big Business.
st. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 5. = 1t is esti-
mated that, as the result of the strike
of butchers and meat cutters, at least
twenty-four Independent packers are