New-York tribune., 1904-08-11
STRIKE ONLY PARTIAL.
No Meat Plants -4re Tied Up
.Nany Refuse to 90 ont.

plant FAR as could be seen The SchwRrSschild
4 Suiz0erger company aad the United Dressed
Beef Company. against whom the strike was
specially directed. had been preparing for it. and
.,ere able TO keep operating. after a few
hour With 2 partial force OF men.
~. delay il. ordering The strike had caused a
ze1Iaea z OF the strike sentiment Many of the
.rcr areyed tie strise order unwiuinsly and
some of them refused 20 strike. According 20
pes ler- Blunenthal. Of the United Dressed
Beer Company. only about 80 per cent OF their
men qu.- work including all their cattle buts,
e-g. numbering seventy-fve. The firm employs
SIX hundred men regularly. and il was tated
That three hundred OF them were working
Tire regular output OF beef IN our plant"
said Mr. BlumenthaI. lis about three thousand
head a week. About % per cent Of the regular
a1uy supply VIII he slaughtered to-day. in spite
n The fact that al the cattle butchers quit work
rs a number Of their places had been filled
We have 10 feeling against our old employees
and VIII be willing 10 take them back If they
return before their places are filled"
The company had thirty killers work
who started 70 kin early in the afternoon and
kept on killing in shifts during the night Ac-
cerd.ng - the company. the usual number was
forty. Negroes were employed as carriers, and
the men were boarded and fed on q lighter OF
Pier "A East River 4 representative Of thu
sehN hNsrzschilc & Sulzberger company said.
As ne know thst most of our men realized thar
fhis q foolish strike we pleaded with them 70
remain some OF them. our old employees VINO had
9 v T rs 5n{ 12T {eR5y ye1 F 3Fe @ 5eanT m hT IF
tie union were obeyed all the same.
Captain Lantry Of the East Fifty-frst-st. sta
tion had fifty policemen posted around these two
plants and Al the depots Of the other companies
effected 10y the strike. These are the Armour
Packing Company. Nelson & Co and the Cudahy
and National Packing companies.
As TO the order OF National President Timothy
Healey calling out the iremen in the local
plants. superintendent Kirschemer Of the
Schwarzschild q SuIzberger company said:
We have never heard OF the order. and II
does not alarm Us. We can easily I'LL their places
Il the fremen go out."
For several DAYS the union has been making
statements about the packers. which have ap-
peared IN the papers. especially regarding the
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company. IN re-
ply 70 these Secretary Well Of the latter com
pany issued the following statement yesterday:
statement appeared IN this mornings papers
saving that the average wages paid 70 the men en-
poyeo IN the packing houses is from s. 10 s.
week which Is misleading and false, the average
wages paid TO our men during the month Of June
The statement further says that the packers are
having two men for every one mans job. which
landed Hardly day has passed that We d!d not
more men in great many Of the departments
which request in most cases was not complied with
As TO q further statement that women
Il nor = siTe T,T7Ss S-s o,.s+ We Asse1 - - .|s nee
houses here except in the oflce as stenograp hers
As 70 the question whether there viii be lees
famine IN the city. we would positively say No"
- 81 J. 5sseFn p.ants are nov PToouclnS sGulcient
neef ana pork prooucts 10 enable us 70 give full
supply 10 all our sales houses in this country and
As 70 the further question whether the men have
gone out We would say that most Of them have
double the number OF those who went out
SLIGHT DISORDERS CAUSED.
Early in the forenoon II looked as IL there
might be trouble for a driver OF this company
large dray was taken out IN charge Of
special policeman and a non-union negro driver
dash was made for the wagon at Forty-sec-
ond-st- near Second-ave- by gang OF the strik-
ers who had hidden in the subway opening near
the place. Two plain clothes policemen who
had besH following the wagon showed their
shelds~snd the strikers disappeared
A meeting OF the strikers was held At Turtle
Bay Hall. No. S69 Second-ave. where they were
addressed by General Organizer h l. Eichel-
berger and National Secretary Call. The men
were urged TO be orderly. Later IN the day
Charles Hilton. business agent Of the drivers
and stablemen's local No. 256 ordered out the
stahlemen. cleaners and helpers.
Secretary Call when seen said regarding the
ed
Dressed Beef Company.
This statement is q bluff. The strike is a
success. and il will be impossible for the firms
20 get their plants working normally. They can
get makeshift men, who viii be an absolute
failure"
John Kennedy. chairman Of the advisory
board. said he believed all nearly all the men
had obeyed the strike order. Call afterward
said he knew OF sixteen men who had been
offered money and lie jobs II they returned 10
work. some OF them being offered a bonus OF
Sl.@oo. Representatives Of the companies said
that this story was ridicuously untrue. They
had onered 10 make an agreement for a year
with some OF their men II they would remain
That was all.
IN the afternoon tse driver Of a wagon for
one OF the companies on the East Side became
scared al the sight Of number OF strikers and
abandoned his wagon. The company was pre-
pared for this and another man was on hand
70 take charge OF the wagon.
There was some talk OF calling out the allied
trades, and a conference took place last evening
between representatives OF the engineers and
frenen al the abattoirs and Secretary Call H
J. Efchelberge- and John Kennedy, OF the ad-
tisoTy board. The question was discussed and
action WIS postponed until to-day, when an
open meeting OF the strikers Will be held in
Maennerchor Hall. AT this meeting the ques-
ton of a sympathetic strike OF the engineers.
frenen. electricians, provision teansters. coopers
and steamftters viii be discussed.
As two hundred Italian and German strike
1reakers employed by the Schwartzschild &
SulZberger Company were being taken on the
tug De Wet yesterday afternoon, Just as il was
&nout TO leave. TO e lighter where they are TO
board and sleep, they were attacked by crowd
~ strikers Some OF the strike breakers were
neaten and Jumped into the river. A general
nght was IN progress when a squad OF police
came and the strikers dispersed
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