The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-06

i 49, SA&@>eoSe
| Washington, Aug 1.-The Chicago
stock yards strike has not attained the
magnitude of national emergency,
and the president will not interfere un-
der existing conditions. This conclu-
sion was arrived at after serious cab
met conference, at which the labor sit
uation Of the entire country was re-
viewed with the greatest care and In
the light OF the most accurate informa-
ton obtainable. There were present at
the conference Attorney General
Moody, Secretary Of the Navy Paul
Morton, Secretary Metcalf, Senators
Cullom and Hopkins, and Commission
er Of Labor Carroll d. Wright. The
suggestion was made that the president
might act In the beef strike on much
the same lines as he did In the anthra-
cite coal strike by calling together both
sides to the controversy and then APP
pointing board of arbitration.
| Considering the beef strike from all
sides the conclusion was reached that
no parallel existed between 1t and the
coal strike. In the coal trouble the
industries Of the nation were paral-
felt over wide area. In the stock
yards strike the trouble for the present
is largely localized, the supply of meat
is not cut of entirely and no great suf-
fering has been caused to any except
actual parties to the Hsht. In view of
these Considerations 1t may be said that.
while the president regrets that there
Is a strike in Chicago and In other
packing centers, there is strong dis
position on his part not to interfere
In any way.
Chicago, July 28.-Forty freight hand
lers employed by the Chicago Junction
Railway company struck Wednesday aft
ernoon in sympathy with the stock yards
butchers and members of the allied
trades. The strike was unexpected and
was hailed by union leaders as the fore
runner of walkouts by other labor or
CARNATIONS which have not thus far fig
ured directly in the packing house con-
| troversy. The movement Is of consid-
cradle Importance, In that 1t will force
the freight handlers in downtown sta
lions out on strike II the packers send
meats to stations outside of their own
branch departments as they did twoyears
ago. In all the branch wholesale houses
of the big packers throughout the city
the cars are unloaded by employees OF
the packers.
With practically all the union mep
employed by the meat packing COM
| panies on strike, the owners Of the plants
| declared they did not care to enter into
| any further agreements with the butch
| err workmen. The one attempt to re-
| open negotiations, made by the state
board of arbitration, came to nothing
with the receipt Of the declaration.
Chicago, July 30.-Peace prospects,
at the stockyards received black eye
Friday in the arrest Of George F.
Golden, business agent of the Packing
House Transfers union and president
| of the teamsters' joint council. He
was taken from his office, locked in q
cell and for an hour refused bail for
issuing instructions from his Of
fee window to union driver.
Not until nearly all the labor leaders
directing the big strike had surround
ed the stockyards police station de-
manding Golden's release and threat
ening habeas-corpus proceedings,
preparations for which were already
under way, was Golden given freedom.
In the brief time covered by these de-
velopments the pacific attitude Of the
| strike leaders was changed into bit
| terness.
Chicago, Aug. Three thousand
men and women. in wild riot at For
| ty-fourth and Wood streets Sunday
night, gave the police the first real dis
turbance they have had to quell since
the Inauguration Of the stock yards
strike. Policemen were struck by
bricks and stones that rained on them
like hail. Many Of them were injured.
but they pluckily charged on the
riotous mob with their batons and re-
volvers drawn. The police succeeded
in dispensing the frenzied crowd, but
this was not accomplished until the
bluecoats fred round after round from
their Sevolvers. The shots were fred
in the air. but the rioters did not
know this.
Capt Clancy of the stock yards sta
ton, says that at least 200 of the riot
ers were dubbed by the police, many
being badly hurt before order was re-
stored and the mob dispersed. A saloon
and grocery store were wrecked by the
rioters, and patrol wagon also was
demolished before the police succeeded
in getting the upper hand Several Of
the riot leaders were arrested. and to
avert q repetition of the disorderly
scenes saloons and groceries in the dis
trict were closed by the police. The
cause of the riot was search that was
instituted early In the evening for two
men supposed to be nonunion employees
at the stock yards.
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