Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-23
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statement:
Much to our surprise the men after
reporting for work. this morning. ana
after getting started i'm nearly all the
houses were ordered out again. we
thought the officers of the organlZa-
ton clearly understood that the busl-
ness had been more or less disrupted
during the strike and that some delay
would be required to get started up
again in anything like the full capacity
1t is the intention of the packers 10
carry out their agreement in every par
ticular, and if any house has given
cause for grievance the same can be
and any future grievance will be,
readily adjusted
The first rioting of the day came
when a man, Frank Miller, was set
upon by crowd of strike sympathi-
Zers They beat him SO badly that at
F.nglewood hospital. where he was
taken, it was said he had little chance
of recovery. Miller was set upon in
front of Armour & Cos. plant and af-
ter he had been kicked almost to death
he was found by pedestrians who sent
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Miller's skull was fractured and his
jaw broken.
Further trouble came when Joseph
founichs, employed at Nelson Morris
COS. plant was taken out of the
yards so that his knee that had been
fractured by the falling of skid,
could be cared for by physician. The
doctor after attending the wounded
man, called an ambulance to have the
suffer taken back into the company's
imprOvsed hospital in the yards. A
crowd assuming that YOunichs was a
non-union man, attacked the ambu-
lance and nearly upset the vehicle in
an endeavor to reach the supposed foe.
With drawn revolVerS two policemen
and the doctor defended their charge
the doctor declaring to the strike SYM
pathizers that the wounded man was
a fellow uniOnist. This took time and
the defenders had to withstand a sege
till help came from the stock yards
police station, considerable dis
lance.
In explaining, today. that President
Donnelly was believed to have understood
the situation when the agreement was
signed, the packers made it plain that
when they went into joint conference
with the strikers the packers intended to
stand firmly on the ground occupied
President Donnelly meanwhile an
nounced that at a conference of the Al
lied Trades he would ask that sympa-
thetic strike be declared comprehending
every trade unionist employed at the
stock yards.
II shall demand that all go out with
the butchers" said President Donnelly,
and we will make the packers realize
before they get through that they have
gone too far. The men feel that they
have been skinned and dried We Will
win as surely as there is a God"
This afternoon news was received that
before the first message to intercept May
or Harrison was received the mayor had
left on a ting trip Arrangements We're
at once made to send another tug after
the mayor, making it possible for him to
return to Chicago, tomorrow evening.
Notwithstanding orders from union
leaders to ''clean up" strikers. today, in
numerous instances went out leaving cat
tie almost half killed" one stock
yards man expressed it.
A new element that entered into the
situation. today, was the National Live
stock Exchange. This organization. like
the Union Stock Yards and Transit CO.,
has hitherto kept severely aloof, but, to-
day, the directors met and discussed the
feasibility of requesting all railroad COM
panies to refuse further shipments of cat
tie. hogs and sheep to the yards until the
Sfr iLa i-n r fin ll1-d .ni ,I...l, of
to take buried action but to put the
matter over till tomorrow morning.
The various unions that would be al
fected by a sympathetic strike have al
ready voted to walk out at the discretion
Of their leaders.
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