The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-05
4 QUIET! DAY
I IN CHICAGO
ONLY A FEW PERSONAL
ENCOUNTERS
Some Strikers and Their
Sympathizers
WRECKED A COTTAGE
WRECKED A COTTAGE

VloIence-No Actlon VET on ~
legged Unsanitary Condition Of Yards.
Claims Made by Both sides Of Con-
troversy.
= Chicago, Aug. 2.--This was an un.
usually quiet day in strike circles.
Personal encounters were few and
the only thing in shape Of a riot was
when the crowd of strikers and sym
pathizers attacked and wrecked cot
tage near the yards.
A striker named Thomas Anderson
had left his wife In their little rented
home and gone to find work, saying
to her that he would go to st. Louis,
East st. Louis and Kansas City If
necessary to find work.
Soon after he left home Mrs. An
derson was taken sick and the little
money her husband had left with her
was soon exhausted Rent came due
and being unable to pay her landlord
ordered her out. of the house. Her
pleadings for time. were in vain and to-
day two constables went to the house
and carried the sick woman out into
the street. s
The outrage soon became noised
about the yards district and crowd
rushed to the scene screaming i'm
precautions upon the landlord and his
minions.
The constables became frightened
and ran away but though they had
lost their human prey, the mob were
not satisfied and vented their wrath
upon the cottage, which was riddled
as to windows and doors and left in a
badly wrecked condition.
No action has yet been taken by
the strikers to call in the city or state
health authorities to prevent what they
claim to be the unsanitary conditions
prevailing in the yards because of the
accumulation of bi-products from the
slaugbtering houses and also the vio-
lation of the building ordinance by the
packers using their sheds and houses
as Sleeping quarters for the strike
breakers
A committee was appointed at q
meeting Sunday night to call attention
to these violations, but up to tonight
had not called on the proper authori.
ties.
One of the city health officers made
tour of inspection on his own initia.
tive today and reported that he found
nothing with which the department
could interfere.
As to the status of the strike both
sides are making the usual claims.
Arthur Meeker, general manager for
Armour & Co., said this afternoon
"The stockyards strike may be said to
be at an end"
This assertion was made after the
packers had brought in, according te
their estimate, over 1900, new men
and another official of Armour & Co
had said that the firms were doing
I over 80 per cent OF their usual bust
ness. Police reports of the number
i her, OF men, brought in bore out in
!. large measure the packers statements
j Inspector Hunt at 2 o'clock estimated
that more than 1900 strike breakers
had been brought into the yards dur
Ing the day.
The new arrivals included eighty
men from Detroit, who declared they
! had been engaged under the assump
tion they were to work In furniture
factory. A number quit and made
their way to union headquarters wher
they learned their destination. Fifteer
colored men, brought from milwaukee,
on an early boat, we're met at the
/, Goodrich pier by pickets, who argued
with them, furnished them transporta
ton and saw them started back. Foul
hundred and sixty two Of the importa
tions were Italians from Paterson, N
J. ~
"The strike is broken. and effectual
ly; we have all the men we want To-
present purposes and, SO far as
know, so have all other packers. W.
are doing about. 80 per cent of. ou
normal business. We have no favor
TO ask OF the strikers" was the state
men made by T. ]. O'Connor Of Ar
-mour & Co.
Inspector Carroll of the department
of commerce and labor is reported t
have come to Chicago to Investigate
the strike at the instance of Secre
tary Metcalf, under instructions from
the president.
AS counter statement to this
showing that the packers have not al
the help they want, the strike leader
assert that strikers at the stock yard
have refused bribes rendered at mid
night meetings by agents OF the pack
ers In efforts to break the solid from
Of the striking union men.
The packers are charged with hay
ing made every possible effort 7
shake the strikers ranks.
Foremen and superintendents @
the various packing plants, under ol
(. ders Of the heads of the establish
ments are said to have visited som
of the prominent skilled men anon
the strikers at night. offering ther
bribes II they would return TO work
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