The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
Packers and Strikers Settle
Down to Long Struggle.
New Men Are Being Set to Work
at All Plants.
BEGINNING TO SHIP.
Packing House Products Again
Moving from Il. C.
Receipts of Live Stock Have
Nearly Reached Normal Stage.

Chicago. July 1s.-Both sides are
preparing for the test of strength
which will come this week in the strike
of the packing house employees. To the
new men taken in during the last FIVE
days the packers expect to add many
thousands in the next five. Workers
VINO have been hired, it is claimed, are
now on the way to the different plants
from all corners of the country. Office
employees and heads of departments,
who have had experience in the killing
rooms, have been called in to help and
teach the recruits.
The packers already are equipping
their plants in western centers with
full crews of men, Within a week the
plants at Kansas City, Omaha and
East St Louis will be turning out train
loads of supplies, according to a posi-
tive declaration made by one of the
packers Armour & Co., Norris & Co..
Swift & Co., and Schwarzschild & Sulz-
burger today renewed killing operations
on a much larger scale than during the
first week of the strike
Strikers Stone a Train.
Representatives of the packers said
at the stock yards today tnat they ex-
pected to be able to man the plants
without much more inconvenience and
that the difficulty was not in the pro-
curing of men but in their ability to
provide adequate protection for them
while going TO and from work The
packers profess not to be apprehensive
of a sympathetic strike.
The strikers were in a confident mood
today and appeared to place little
credence in the reports of progress by
the packers in filling vacancies. On the
contrary the strikers declared tnat
many of the nonunion men employed
have deserted.
A crowd of men concealed behind a
fence threw bricks and stones at a
Lake Shore train which had on board
90 negroes bound for the plant of Ar
mour & Co. The negroes took refuge
behind the seats and no one was in
Jured.
AT Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 1s.-Packers
today began to ship literally. At all
the five leading plants it was asserted
that big addition to their forces had
been made over Sunday and that the
output had been increased. At Ruddy
Brothers resumption has been delayed
again, the force employed there being
transferred temporarily to the Fowler
plant The receipts at the yards today
had reached almost the normal stage,
5000 cattle, 5000 hogs and 1000 sheep
coming in. The strikers say they con-
tinue to make accessions to their ranks.
Apparently both sides have settled
down to a stubborn contest.
Injunction Proceedings.
St. Louis, Mo, July 1S.-The effect of
an injunction issued by the ST. Clair
county court, Belleville, ILL.,, restraining
the striking butchers and meat cut
ters from interfering with the opera
tion of the East ST Louis packing
houses or the nOnunion men employed
by them has served to intensity the sit
uatfon.
The strikers have taken it to mean
that the packers have determined to
operate their plants at once with large
forces of nonunion men and the pickets
have been increased in the vicinity of
the packing houses.
The situation in St. Louis is practic-
ally unchanged. The price of meat
opened today with a slight increase
over the closing quotations of Satur-
day.
At St. Paul.
St Paul. Mimi. July 1S.-The strikers
today allowed all the women employed
in Swift & Co.'S office to enter the
yards. but barred the men, Pending the
arrival of the sheriff the clerks were
lined up on one side of the railroad
tracks while a strong force of pickets
on the other side prevented them from
going into the works
Later 15 or 20 men employed in Swift
& Co.'S office were admitted by the
strike picketS after Mayor Lytle had
addressed the strikers and admonished
them not to interfere with the conduct
of the business which would be regard
ed as unlawful and prosecuted as such.
Sheriff Griscom returned from Hast
ings but beyond reporting to Governor
Van SAINT by telephone has taken no
decisive action TO end the blockade.
Sheriff Griscom is reported to have
told Governor Van SAINT that he is pow
erlesS to disperse the pickets on ac-
count of sympathy with the strikers.
An injunction against the strikers, it is
said will be asked.
At St. Joseph.
St Joseph Mo-, July 1S-There has
been a noticeable feeling of unrest to-
day among the striking packing house
employees. A greater number of work
men than usual has been about strike
headquarters in South St. Joseph and
the force of police officers there has
been increased. although there has been
no serious disturbance The packers
bought more literally on the market
today and receipts of live stock were
heavier than for several days. The
packers claim more men are working
in the plants than at any time since
the strike Provisions are being taken
into the Swift plant by the car load
At Omaha.
Omaha July 1S.-The various local
plants gave out the statement that
they were killing hogs. cattle and
sheep on a small scale and in much
better condition than since the strike
began. Things continue peaceable.
Refuse to Buy Meat.
New York. July 1s-Owing to the
agreement among the 5000 Kosher beef
dealers of this city that they buy no
more beef until the high prices created
by the strike shall have again become
normal, all but ten Kosher shops are
reported closed. Throughout the East
side and Harlem watchers from the
Renchmen's union woI king for the aSso-
Citations of Kosher butchers, watched
the shops and reported every one that
was open The threat has been made
that any one selling beef would be ar