The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-28
GIRLS ATTACKED
SEWER FOR SWIFT
F0REW0MAN BADLY DONE UP.
KITTY ENGLISH WAS MOBBED AND
STABBED WITH HAT PIN.

Strenuous scenes Continue in Chi
cngO, Despite "POIice Rule"-GIrR
Strike sympnthizers Join in the
BattIing-PacLers Say Strikers
Must Make First Move, and Hurry,
Too, il There Is to Be IA Settle
mcnt.
Chicago, July give had an agree
ment with Mr.. Donnellys organization
and the allied trades. which they have
failed to live up to, and under the cir
cumstances We do not care to make
any further agreements with them"
This is the statement which was
signed by the representatives of the
packers and handed to the members Of
the State Board of Arbitration tonight
at the end of a conference between the
two bodies, held at the request of the
state board in an endeavor to bring
about another meeting between the
packers and the strikers.
While from their statement 1t would
appear that the packers are opposed
to meeting the strikers again on any
terms SuCn Is not ThA case,
strikers Had Better Hurry.
After to-night's conference with the
State Board of Arbitration. Arthur
Meeker, manager for Armour & Co.,
said that the packers were still willing
to live up to the terms of the original
| agreemnt, but the initiative would
have to be taken by the strikers.
Mr. Mnaker also inffp1afp6a that
| sooner the strikers adopted this course,
the better 1t would be FOR them, as in
his belief if the strike should last much
longer all the places of the strikers
would be filled by new men and there
would be no necessity for the packers
to wish to settle on any basis with
their old employees.
Police rule" was to-day declared in
the stockyards district Beginning this
afternoon no one was allowed to ira
verse the streets in the vicinity of
the stock yards unless good cause
could be shown for doing so.
''POIice Rule" Helped Some.
This to a great extent put a stop to
the picketing by the strikers, which
had been going on all day up to the
time the order was given. When night
came the police were complete masters
of the situation in the district.
| ANO OllG was dllONGQ W lOilcI III Tic
streets, and any person. whether a
striker or not, who stopped near the
entrances to the yards was sure to be
! told to move on
At least 1000 new employees were
| taken into the yards to-day and put to
work. A conservative estimate of the
number of animals slaughtered to-day
by the different plants placed it at
| about one-half the amount disposed OF
| under normal conditions.
Was Attacked by Girls.
Kitty English. forewoman in the
sewing department of Swift g. Co 8
plant, was mobbed and badly hurt by
a crowd of girl strike sympathizers at
Halstead and Root streets.
Fully a dozen girls took part in the
attack They beat the forewoman
with their fists, tore her clothing and
finally stabbed her with a hat pin.
After a desperate struggle Miss Eng
| lish escaped No arrests were made.
Stock yard teamsters Joined the
packing employees to-day. Seven hun
! dred of the drivers for the packing
companies refused to go to work, the
teamsters' joint council having in
dorsed the vote to strike and ordered
the members of every other local
union in Chicago to make no deliv-
cries to the stock yards.
An unexpected complication arose to-
night when the freight handlers en-
ployed at the stock yards station of
the Chicago Junction Railroad went on
strike.
The men gave as their reason for
quitting work their unwillingness to
handle meat turned out by non-union
workmen in the packing plants.
While the number of freight handlers
employed at this station is only forty
men, still their decision. to join the
sympathetic strike is a severe blow
to the packers, as the greater portion
of the dressed meats shipped from the
yards to the local trade passes through
the hands of these men.
I One Man Is Dead.
Clarence Hall is the first victim
claimed by death as a result of the
stock yards strike here. Hall is dead
at the Continental Hospital. Last
Tuesday he, with r. F. Keating. his
employer, an ice dealer. was driving
past a crowd of rioters. Two shots
were fired. one of which struck Keat-
ing, passed through his leg and struck
Hail. The police never ascertained
who fired the shot.