The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-04
TRANSFERS GO OUT.
Given Permission to Join Ranks Of
Sympathetic Strikes in
Chicago.

Chicago, July 27.--One thousand team
sters employed by the Chicago packing
houses received permission shortly be-
fore midnight from the teamsters' joint
council and the executive committee of
the International Brotherhood of Team
sters to join in sympathetic strike with
the butcher workmen. The strike went
into effect at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday
morning. At the same hour 1000 team
sters in Kansas City, 400 in st. Louis and
East St. Louis and 125 in Boston Joined
in the sympathetic movement.
Chicago, July 2S.-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 it will force
The freight handlers in downtown sta
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
er 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 29.-The packers at
noon Thursday won an important vic
tory in the big stockyards strike, the
first emphatic gain that has been made
by either side since the general walk
out was declared in effect. Eight hun
dred live stock handlers threw aside
their allegiance to allied trades and at
the noon hour began to handle cattle
Unfortunately, both for the packers
in the combine and for the Independent
companies. Most of these 800 men
went to work Wednesday morning to
handle the goods of the independent"
and they had worked on this basis I'M
til IL o'clock Thursday. This action on
the part of the handlers is regarded as
a most serious loss to the cause of the
strikers, and in some quarters it is be-
lieved to be forerunner of a stampede
to the protecting arms Of the packers
and desertion of the unions.
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 a
cell and for An hour refused bail for
issuing instructions from his Of
flee window to union driver.
Not until nearly all the labor leaders
directing the big strike had surround
ed the stockyards police station. de-
handing 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.