The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
INJUNCTION
ARGUMENTS BEING HEARD
IN CHICAGO.
STRIKERS ARE JUBlLANT
Over the Hole They
Think Packers are in.


men stands practically where 1t did
Saturday. The order to the packers
preventing their housing and feeding
the strike breakers within the packing
house buildings was not issued.
With a plea that should the order be
enforced the big packing plants would
have to be shut down, the attorneys
for the packers appeared before Judge
Brentano today to ask for an injunc-
ton on the additional ground that the
plants were situated outside of the fire
limits as specified by the ordinance.
At o'clock this afternoon the argu-
ments were continued to 10 o'clock to-
morrow. Meantime a compromise was
arranged between the city authorities
and the packers and it was agreed to
let present conditions maintain until
the decision of the court was rendered.
The strikers are in jubilant frame
of mind over the admission by the
packers that should their present help
be compelled to go outside for their
sleeping and eating quarters, the pack
ing houses would have to go out of
business. They seem to be very con-
ftdent that the injunction asked by the
packers will not be granted and that
the order of Mayor Harrison to the
chief of police will be enforced. In
that case. they say by the admission of
the packers themselves, the strike Is
won for the union.
The police are, however, in a frame
of mind directly opposite to that OF
the strikers, for, should the order have
to be enforced, they see ahead of them
some very nasty work, as it is practi-
cally sure there will be much rioting
and minor disorders should the thous-
ands of strike breakers and strikers
with their sympathizers be brought
into such frequent and close contact
as must necessarily occur when the
strike breakers pass in and out of the
yards several times daily.
While attorneys were preparing
their coups police rule" as rigid as
martial law, was clamped down on the
yards. Inspector Hunt gave out this
order to his men:
cnter the yards. Picketing is not to be
permitted at all. Use your clubs. By
ISLANDERS at riots hereafter are to be
arrested the same as rioters. | expect
force to be feature of this strike from
now on. am going to meet force with
force"
Close observers assert that the de-
sertions of strike breakers over Sun
day and this morning totalled 1000
One Lake Shore train alone took out
from 200 to 300 strike breakers who
had quit work, though remaining at
the plants over Sunday. The incom-
ing trains. bearing the thousands who
had been having good time" down
town over Sunday were not half filled
showing that hundreds who had been
taken down town Saturday might had
deserted
One deserter went down Halsted
street under a storm of cheering
from the crowds on the sidewalks
This man was Washington Douglas, a
negro who had worked two weeks at
the Nelson Morris plant. AS he stepped
out of the yard gates he threw to his
shoulder pole bearing great placard
which read:
Il worked for the
packers but
Never again"
The banner was made of sheets Of
wrapping paper, Douglas having letter
ed 1t with tar
Crowds on the sidewalks and the
aI,n ,l,A h.
as he marched down Halsted street, his
banner flying in the wind.
81 Eanted to get out before this" said
Douglas, "but they held up my pay and
wouldn't give it to me until today.
don't want anything more to do in
those plants"
One department at the Swift plant
lost 100 men alone. This same per
centage held good through the other
plants. .....- r'
by actual count we know that just
700 strike breakers went into the yards
today" said Secretary John Floresch of
the Packing Trades Council. "That's
the number of men the packers actu-
ally have now If they claim their
thousands of strike breakers they are
merely bluffing."
The packers insisted, however, that
"there were not more than the usual
number of desertions."
Max d. Sulzberger of New York was
at the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
plant.
1--WE have reached the point" said he,
where we are now taking care of all
our by-products. We have all the men
we can use and have sent eighty from
here to the New York plant"
p Trying to Work the Count.