The sun., 1904-08-16
MEAT PRICES DROP HALF-CENT
PACKERS BUYING LIVE CATTLE
FOR SHIPMENT HERE.
qbere,s Months supply ON Hand Also, 30
Employers Consider strike as an inci'
dent-Capt. Lantry's Injury In scrim'
mage Feature OF Days HiotinR'

mage Feature OF Days RiotinE.
The second week Of the local meat strike
begins to-day with the packers having the
sitllation so well in hand and with the work
of killing and dressing beef by non-union
butchers going on 80 rapidly that the whole
aaIs price of meat has dropped half
cent. When the. strike began the prices
at the packing houses ranged from bH 10
O., 4, cents a pound. according to the quality
of the beef. The top price yesterday
was nine cents.
That difference Of half a cent, say the
EMPLOYERS, is more significant than anything
else in showing how completely the unions
have failed to carry out their threat to tie
up the butchering business in this city and
10 produce a meat famine here for the sake
of helping out the striking butchers In the
Western packing centres.
In addition to the cut in price is the fac
that the meat supply is still ample for q
month TO come and the packers are 80 con-
fdent of being able to carry on their business
regardless of the labor leaders and the
stone throwing mobs, that they are buying
every day, cattle on the hoof for immediate
shipment to their slaughtering houses
here,
Arthur Meeker, director and the general
manager of Armour d Co., who came here
week ago to study the situation and who
will return to Chicago to-day, gave out the
following last night as his summing up OF
the sympathetic strike in New York:
have been in New York for week watch.
ing the progress Of the strike, and what most
snpsals to me is the utter absurdity OF the
s', In the first place. the. only men that are out
= on y,loyepa OF the SCnwarZ-
schild 4 .sulzberger Company: the United United
Dressed Beef Company an am ana Amnnr feW sneeep e
no, oASeordins "ss d % to our best ipformation, the
great soy5g voted or asanss shs stys The
sbs,irdity OF the situation is in the fact that
they allowed a bT 70 ee vpts pss OF tho
Sutchers STt drivers and other workmen Of the
small slau ghterhouses In New York. Jersey
only orly' aid not vote TO strike themselves. but
temporarily are getting longer hours ana
more wages by reason o. o. the Ssd com.
OF the employees OF tne ABOVE nAineo '"A-
p"TTrsI: That these companies were handioapped
d,vs Il the1 the1e s ne duSt but
sSed now in all departments and by the Latter ter
par, Of smsunts shs %ssk Of wa eats m
friserators nsy atn to o. draw upon. and all Of their
tT1fs The Is msn Ss1ns swSo fS%pIh sd ths strikers
places have been largely recruited from the
the s5s sts sS
through ar threats Of violence we're unwilling ling
wen Only y'e% certain proportion Of the strikers
Go1k os and each day that they delay the
Der OF vacancies will be less ...
The poIs G ytSs ssz e Which they
have maintained order in the slaughteripg
upon Fst ss: s.d aevsas shs
,1tsfsihlDa snn. shey ffs' the enti?e city
The companies have demonstrated their
ability ss. to 0psssss p:sDs so
against intimidations, threats Of boycott and
snd SasTfS wha Hnov ssps sssr
cause cause is hopeless one.
According to the payrolls OF the Schwarzs;
child l. Sulzberger Company, the United
Dressed Beef Company and the two or
three smaller concerns affected by the
local strike, the union laborers have lost,
A. result OF their weeks loaf, about $4,000.
Al Schwarzschild 4 Sulzbergere the men
who have struck received, all told, $4,000
. week. xu.u
much more than It has been to- US, for We
have continued to do business and We
have supplied all our trade. haven't
the slightest feeling toward the men. Ihey
went out because they naa so' "taS oeCaaSSe ~ ee'
sThey ali want to come back. The laborers,
that is the meat luggers and the drivers,
are particularly sore. The strike was forced
on them by the butchers and dressers; i
iobs elsewhere and are making their hv-
fng the same as usual, but the poor laborers
can't get jobs and their families are SUI
fering."
-o-..-lo, DSooidapt IaaQO Blum0u-
thai said that their expert, non-unlon
butchers were killing cattle at the rate OF
thirty-six an hour. Kosher killing was
resumed yesterday in both OF the big pack
ing houses. ,.
was resumed yesterday as soon az the non.
union men began their days work and got
out where the entertainment committees
OF the strikers mob could get at them.
Capt. Lantry OF the East Fifty first street
station, who is in command Of the LIS police.
men on strike duty, was slightly injured
himself yesterday in scrinmage Win
drunken expressman.
The expressman, James sullivan OF Sv
East Forty-sixth street, bad nothing to do
with the sympathetic strike or any other
strike, but he started out early IN the day
with a sympathetic jag on and showed up
In FIRST avenue, declaring bis INTENTION
Of showing the strikers the only real way 10
win.
After telling a group Of strikers In front
Of saloon at First avenue and Forty-siIth
street to watch and see how he would do
It, Sullivan walked over to the platform
In front Of Schwarzschild 4 Sulzberger's,
from which the sides Of beef are loaded
on to the vans, and knocked down negro
meat lugger Policeman Turpenny Of The
Bronx attempted to interfere and Sullivan
knocked him down. Capt. Lantry recog-
nized the intruder and knowing that he
was not meat striker told his men to drive
Sullivan away.
Just then Ferdinand sulzberger came
out and suggested that the man ought to
be arrested. Then Capt. Lantry told his
men to lock Sullivan up. That was not an
easy Job. Sullivan began to fight two
cops at the same time, not without some
success. Capt. Lantry lent hand and
got the benefit Of spent blow on his nose.
Then all hands mixed in for such close work
that the captain got an accidental rap
across the knuckles from the nightstick
T one Of his own men.
That put an end to fooling. The night
sticks all fell on Sullivan after that and he
gave up trying TO demonstrate for the
entertainment committee He was fined
SO in the Yorkville police court.
The story grew az 1t passed along the
A.. -A-sy.