Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-26
RIOT CALLS WERE SENT IN,
,,ned Garrison Of the Packing Town
Turned Out in Full
Force.
DINING ROOM GIRLS AS PlcKETs'
Rio Packing Plants Declared to be in
Fail OOeratlon--lt is Admitted That
Transfers Will Go Out Tomorrow

Chicago. July 26.-shootlng wildly In
ao.,ress. a, score OF panic-stricken
breakers hired by Swift g. Co..
o,oad CONSERVATION through the yards
s,,y today. Riot calls were sent TO
AVA nolce and the armed garrison OF
ling town turned out In full force
ssnoying that the strikers had made an
organized attack under cover OF dark
ness,
eTprKE.BREAKERs ARRESTED.
Falling to discover any strikers the
,olIce arrested the strike-breakers' all
colored. The prisoners numbered
Aoyen. They told Of seeing suspicious
persons lurking in the shadows OF the
buildings
Their reyolvers we're OF huge caliber,
and the police tried to learn where the
negroes had obtained number OF navy
weapons. II was denied that swift
10 had armed the men. Inc ponce
tcok the view that the colored men had
shot TO create disturbance ana held
the prisoners for arrangement IN court,
In the great Industrial war now Wen
under way, the packers and strikers
rallied today and prepared Tor a Dltter
conflict The one side went about its
preparations quietly yet erectually, the
other enthusiastically and as they
hoped, also effectively. Meantime, the
day took on the real aspect OF a mighty
strike. Riotous scenes developed ana
continued Internationally throughout the
day, -.
Riot calls were sent In from num-
her Of points. Many arrests were maze
and altogether the days OF peace SEEM
Cd doomed for some time On the one
hand the packers declared emphatically
that their plants were running ana
would continue 10 run; strike breakers
were rushed into the yards by the
hundreds and non-unon help was en-
p,oyed wherever it offered itself,
Emergency preparations We're made
with q view TO compactness, as, for IN
stance, the Capitalization Of the steam
power plants o. the Armour and SWIFT
companies. While the mattresses IN
the restaurants Of the big plants Joined
their brother strikers In the sympa-
thetic walk-out, there were individual
dcfections reported from the strikers
ranks
Evidence Of lighting enthusiasm was
shown today when thousands of strlk-
ers and sympathlzers began to con-
centrate at their headquarters for the
strikers initial mass meeting was held
today and which, as the readers had
predicted was "A rouslng one. While
enthusiasm seemed 10 be running RAM
punt the strike leaders fully realized
The Importance Of the fact that the
Transfers heretofore more powerful I'm
Chicago, In making strike successful,
were not yet out.
BRUTALITY BEATEN.
Two thousand persons today saw one
Of the most brutal cases OF smuggling
and some Of the poorest Workmanship
Of the policemen since the stockyards
ttlke began. A strike breaker, John
Mulloy had just left the yards when
three men attacked him. Mulloy was
knocked down and nearly killed, Five
policemen interlered, whereupon the
Trio ran. The police followed the men,
using their reVolYers. Apparently
every shot was aimed TO hit but all
missed. John Doody, one Of the men,
however was captured,
GIRLS AS PICKETs.
To the restaurant Of Armour & Co.,
eNll q Co., and Nelson Morris q Co
dN the dining room girls quit, The
presence Of negro cooks was the reason
thty. gave, but It Is believed they de-
ssftl 10 aid In the sympathetic strike
Ihe girl strikers then decided to do
PICKET duty and see that no girls went
70 work In the strike-affected places.
10y lew compiled, but the others
broke away and fed into the yards to
died.
PLANTS OPERATING.
respite the fact that $4,000 or more
bular employees are on strike AZ the
usypeAyords here, including the number
SSuo went out yesterday after the call
WI sympathetic strike had been is
suea, all the big packing plants were
seylaIed TO be I'm nearly fun operation
wuay' Nearly every man who went
Ivy Yesterday II was claimed had been
,upaced by one who belongs to no
wSuuu' While the fremen went out,
NV , Engineers II was asserted with Dos
Hog dozen exceptions, remained at
lg,lr places. This was due TO the fact,
A.. "'s sad, that the general strike or
G,,, uiu not extend to the engineers,
,,s VI whom, according TO the employ
W. were union men.
NoN-uNloN MEN BROUGHT IN
nae according to the packers 600 nom
s ,o, men from other cities were
n, S ,a INTO the yards today for work
~ .H'lous plants There was killing
plan,. ue' hogs and sheep in all the
m NM, put with the supply OF animals
,pp v'1 ~ cleaned up, there viii appar-
mo navy De little or no slaughtering to-
rle~r,en dressed men, constituting the
too,' force OF the commission houses.
syoa charge Of the unloading az cottle
en- sne yards while strikers I'm rough
Spsc,o "l at distance laughing at the
shsrs , u strike OF packing house team
Isa' WIZ occur tomorrow was admit
1oldeou ay as inevitable by President
On ,oi VI their union. President Gold
lntar,eessiInphed to Cornelius Shea, the
No., allohal president of the team
n ao,,, union today and informed him
crs AZ pe impossible to keep the drlv-
GENERAL MASS MEETING.
rhteen thousand r,o, -