The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-07-26
ALLIED TRADES OUT
Chicago Has Greatest Strike
Ever Known.
SPECTACULAR EXODUS OF WORKERS
Mot at stoeiSy"rds pueIIed by Po-
lice - Packers and Labor I'm
iOnists Declare Fight VIII
He 10 Finish.

pathetic general strike at the stock
yards, predicted by its leaders to be
the greatest and most expensive this
country has ever known, opened here
when thousands of tenmsters. cattle
handleGs and members Of the me
chanical trades quit work and made
grand rush for the gates leading from
the busiest square mile of buildings.
yards and pens in the world.
The first street riot attending the
walliout from the stockyards occurred
in Ashland avenue. near one of the
yard gates. Half hundred men and
women took part and score Of po-
licemen had all they could do to quell
the disturbance.
The origin Of the riot was trivial.
Stanislaus Iiatrick had gone on strike
against the wishes of his wife. Marie,
and she was dragging him back to
work. \ crowd of strikers and their
wives waylaid her and soon every
body wdS- smuggling everybody else all
over the avenue. Mrs Iiatrick was
severely injured, and many others sus-
tanned cracked heads and bruised
faces
While this riot was going on three
thugs attacked Mrs Anna Tickle. who
has three sons on strike. and robbed
her of small amount Of money. One
Of the SONS, Leopold. was arrested
\ meeting Of butchers representa-
tives and allied trades has decided to
send committee TO call upon the
packers The committee is composed
of the representatives, of all the allied
trades
The first he detection came when
700 men. including the scalers and pen
cleaners, employed Ivy the Union Stock
yards and Transit company refused
30 work further. First To 20 were the
handlers. and this eliminated the USE
fulneSs Of the transfers. and they fol-
lowed. 81 they passed out Of the big
gates nj Exchange avenue they were
greeted with cheers 10y the thousands
vi NllIhFl = ENAilflhNl III Allf liiillAN.
Prior to this spectacular exodus came
small strikes in the various plants, in
Guiding carpenters. fircmen. elevator
men, machinists, ETC. but these did not
have the effect Of tying mp the plants,
since such action had been anticipated
and as often as a union man stepped
out a nonunion man, or a union man
who had deserted his organization, Was
there 10 take his place
Early in the day the allied trades and
the committee of eight transfers
chosen last night to seek peace anew
before permitting the Transfers to
strike had been urged by President
Donnelly of the meat cutters to declare
the general strike and then seek fur
Their conference with the packers
There was a lively debate, President
Golden, for the teamsters' governing
body, declaring his belief that a com
mon sense campaign would end in
peace He pointed ont the danger of
shutting up the Union Stockyards and
Transit company, which, he said. would
be detrimental 10 the strikers friends,
the independent workers. who were do
ing the big packers almost as much
damage as anybody else.
He urged that the Stockyards com
pany be permitted to continue under
some kind of agreement. but his argu-
ment had no weight with President
Donnelly. who said: THE time to strike
is right now. Let us talk about the in
dependent concerns and about settle
ments later" Then ii was arranged
that President Schardt. representing
the Chicago Federation of Labor, and
Barney Cohen, representing the Butch
ers' union, should join the Transfers
union committee TO which had been
added John Sheridan, business agent
of the ice wagon drivers.
There are 1900 ice wagon drivers,
and with their striking it is admitted
the packers would have much difficulty
getting ice TO their refrigerator ears.
Both sides to the controversy have
declared that they are perfectly salts
fed with the present state of affairs
and that they are willing TO make II
fight to n finish.
A new phase of the strike situation
developed when notice was given by
the unions to the Independent packers
Mt the stv,.kyards that their men would
not be allowed to handle animals
which had been handled in any way
by nonunion men. 1t is necessary for
these independent concerns to take all
Of their live stock into the yards over
Union stockyards runways, where the
stock must be handled by nomnion
men, since the union men employed by
the stockyards company in this fine of
work We're among the employees who
have joined the sympathetic strike
The ultimatum of the unions leaves the
Independent packers no alternative but
TO receive their live stock directly from
the country or to close business entire
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