Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-29
PLANTS IN OPERATION
WITH NONUNION HELP
Total Number of Men Out Estimated
also, ooo-Teamsters to Join Strik-
ers-Much Violence Reported-sit-
uation in Other Cities.

Plants in Operation.
All the big packing plants at the stock
yards were in nearly full operation wher
the whistles blew for work to begin
Tuesday. Among recruits to the non.
union force are said to be number Of
young men from Armour institute, who
have taken the places of some of the fire.
men in the various plants. While the
tiremen went out the engineers, with pos
sibly dozen exceptions, four of whom
struck at Swift & Co.'s Tuesday, re-
manned in their places. Thisis due to the
fact that the general strike order did
not extend to the engineers, few OF
whom, as matter Of fact, are union
men. The total number of stationary en-
gtneers employed in the packing plants
and yards is only ITO. By eight o clock
500 nonunion men from other cities had
been brought into the yards and distrib-
uted among the various plants. OF these
40 were skilled butchers from New York
who were sent to the Hammond COM
pany plant. There was killing of cattle
hogs and sheep in all the houses, but by
night the supply of animals will have
been cleaned up and Wednesday, it is
expected, there will be little or nc
Strengthening.
Army Of Strikers.
The total number Of strikers is esti.
mated at about 10000, of whom more
than 1000 are members of the mechan.
ical trades.
Despite the strike, the packing.
houses are running, after a fashion
Large numbers of nonunion men are
being received, some of them being
skilled workmen. The packers assert
that this force will be increased, from
day to day, until the normal number
is reached
The packing concerns have made
contracts for electrical power, and, II
necessary, will be Independent of
their engineers and fremen, although
the steam power plants were running
with nonunion help Tuesday.
The Independent packers are in
trouble over the refusal of their
butchers to kill live stock driven by
nonunion stock handlers. II the
trouble continues, the independent
plants will have to shut down, and
this will cut off the meat supply of a
large district on the South side.
Considerable violence is being re-
ported. Shooting ARRAYS have oc-
CURED and number of men are I'M
der arrest, including a dozen negro
strike breakers, who created terror
along Halsted street.
Transfers to Go Out.
That strike of packinghouse team
sters will take place Wednesday was
admitted Tuesday by George F. Gold
en-, president Of the union. Golden
telegraphed Cornelius Shea, president
of the Transfers International union,
and informed him it would be impossi-
BILE to keep Westinghouse teamsters at
work. Shea is in Indianapolis. The
communication sent by Golden was
designed as formal notification to
the international body, SO that the
clearinghouse Transfers might not be
deprived of strike benefits even if the
higher body ignored the action of the
Transfers local joint council. The
local council, which has already re-
fused to sanction a sympathetic strike,
will hear the report of the special COM
mittee which Monday unsuccessfully
attempted to bring about settlement.
In Other Cities.
Packers at East st. Louis, ILL.,, say
men are applying for work and at the
present rate they expect to be running
full capacity in ten days.
No sympathetic strike order has
been received at Kansas City. Pack
ers report improved conditions.
st. Paul reports no change in the
situation. Strike pay day on, with
married men receiving 81 and single
men SIS a week.