New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-20
HOST OF BUTCHERS
Goes ON STRIKE
PACKING INDUSTRY rs PARAL-
lied IN MANY CITIES AS RE-
suit OF WAGE DISPUTE.
Thousands Lay Down Their Tools and
Quit Work-Price of Meat Imme-
diately Advances - Shortage in
Supply Threatened.

Chicago, July 13.-The great stock
yards strike, expected to paralyze the
meat industry for a time at least, began
Tuesday. More than 1000 workmen in
the packing houses affected by the strike
quit work by IL: 80 a. NJ, anticipating by
an hour the strike order. Up to two
o'clock $1,000 employees had quit work.
A dispute over the wages of unskilled
laborers precipitated the trouble
Dispatches received from Kansas
City announce that 5000 men quit work
in the packing houses there; South
Omaha reports 1000 having laid down
their tools; over 5000 are idle at st.
Joseph, Mo-; 5000 in New York and
Brooklyn; 700 in st. Paul, and 900 at
Sioux City. The strikers are orderly at
all points.
Price of Meat Goes Up.
The effect of the strike upon the food
supply Of the country and the rise in
prices of meats will no doubt be tremen-
dous, and was felt at the very start.
Meat shot UP three cents a pound. the
minute the men went out Commission
men telegraphed their customers
throughout the country to cease ship
ping hogs and cattle The railroad com
panies also notified their agents in every
small town in the country not to accept
cattle for shipment to Chicago and the
other points where the strike reaches.
The result is that shippers have ceased
sending cattle to market. Consequently.
unless the packers replace the strikers
with other employees and resume the op-
GRAFTON of their plants before long, it
will only be short time before the ma
jority OF the people of the land will be
forced to become vegetarians.
Disqualification Cleveland, New York,
Kansas City, st. Louis, Omaha, st. Paul.
Des Moines and other cities state that
because of the strike prices of meat have
been advanced to figures ranging from
one cent to four cents pound.
Chicago, July 18.-Chicago and the
entire United States now face one of
the greatest Industrial strikes in his
hory. Peace negotiations in the great
stock yards strike are at an end, and
the packers and their $4,000 employees
are preparing for a prolonged struggle
in the nine cities in which strikes have
been called. The break came in Chicago
Saturday afternoon, when at the end of
three hours joint conference it was an
nounced that basis for arbitration
could not be agreed upon
The reinstatement of the men now
on strike was the rock upon which
the negotiations went to smash. Pres
ident Donnelly and his associates in
sisted that all of the strikers should
be reinstated within seven days. The
packers replied that they could not
agree to discharge the men who have
been employed to take the place Of the
strikers. ALI other details for arbitra-
ton had been arranged when this OBJ
stacle arose.
Sympathetic Strike Threatened.
Now. that arbitration negotiations
have been abandoned it seems only
matter Of time till 1900 other en-
ployes of the stock yards houses go
on sympathetic strike. The central
body of the mechanical trades en-
ployed at the yards voted to strike
when asked to do so by President Dom
nelly of the butcher workmen.