The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-08-05
STRIKING BUTCHERS WILL ASK
INTERVENTION OF CHIEF
EXECUTIVE.
A MEAT FAMINE TO
BE NAMED AS CAUSE
Labor Leaders Take the Coal Strike
Case as a Precedent-More Strike
Breakers Arrive in Chicago-Trai-
tors in Union Ranks.

it's accompanying evils.
A resolution to this effect was m
troduced Saturday morning at the
meeting of the allied trades commit
tee. The conference was held at
Hayney's hall, Forty-seventh place
and Ashland avenue.
Some of the committee were in
favor of the resolution, but others OPP
posed it, on the ground that the time
had not yet come to ask Intervention
from the chief executive.
The act of Mr.. Roosevelt in inter-
vening and ending the anthracite coal
strie was cited as a precedent, and the
opinion was expressed that govern
ment Intervention in the present case
would result in a speedy adjustment
of the trouble.
The resolution was as follows:
LAS you are aware, strike OF over
$4,000 workmen engaged in the pack
ing plants of the United States is now
pending and the packers have opened
a fight with the object of disrupting
the labor organizations involved.
eff this struggle continues it will re-
suit in widespread misery and labor
war that can only have disastrous eff
feet on the public as we'll as those di-
rectly concerned.
Feeling that the crisis is a grave
one, we appeal to you for Intervention
to secure for us just and equitable
settlement of our grievances, which
have been of long duration.
Zone word from you will inevitably
bring about an adjustment OF the
present controversy, as the evidence
on which the government secured a
permanent injunction against the
| meat trust is also sufficient to indict
| before a federal grand jury every
man engaged in this conspiracy 10
| control the prices of live stock and
the meat-food products handled by
the packing industries"
Traitors in Ranks.
| President Donnelly has discovered
traitors in the union ranks.
In a statement given out Saturday
afternoon Mr. Donnelly admitted this
fact. He intimated that he knew who
the traitors were.
The statement is this:
There have been no assertions In
our ranks Some men are evidently
employed by the packers to create dis
seIssions in the rank and file.
Some of these men are in our or
ganization We prefer to see them go
back to work and 'scab,' rather than
remain as traitors.
eve do not care whether the strike
lasts one week or six. We have estab-
lished supply stations in all packing
centers. We will have five in Chicago
by Monday night
Every day the strike continues
makes our cause stronger and weak
ems that of the packers.
"This morning l received $1,000
cash.
Two hundred and thirty nonunion
men reached the stockyards Saturday
morning. One train load got in at
four O'Clock and another at 1885.
May Join Strike in New York.
New York, Aug. butchers en-
ployed in the independent packing
houses in this city, who have been
slaughtering beef for the western houses
in the strike, were notified that unless
they Immediately stopped this killing
they would be ordered out on strike
About 500 butchers are employed by the
independent firms. They would not be
affected by any order for sympathetic
strike from Chicago, which the labor
leaders said was among the possibilities
In event of a sympathetic strike being
declared on the big packing houses
here which are affiliated with the So
called beef trust. the Independent butch
ers would be called upon to furnish
a large percentage of the supply of beef
for local consumption. Any order fore
| ing them to join in the strike movement
would therefore almost completely Grip
pie the slaughtering of beef in this sec.
ton.
Clashes at st. Joseph.
} st. Joseph Mo-. Aug. There were
| numerous clashes between strikers ani
nonunion men Saturday. Charles Get
finger, foreman at Morris e Co.'s, wa.
. severely beaten while on hts way to thu
5 plant. T. Williams, driver for Swift
5 & Co., was pulled off his wagon ant
/ badly hurt All teamsters in the emplo,
of Morris & Co., Swift & Co. and Ham
, monds were stopped by strikers and in
3 Inundated into returning to the stables
Strike Breakers at Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 1.-Several car
loads of nonunion men arrived herr
. Saturday and were distributed among
= the different packing plants. A larg
number Of pickets witnessed their ar
!. rival without making demonstration
The plants were slaughtering Satur
day.
Quiet at st. Paul.
st. Paul, Mimi, July 30-There wa
no change in the South st. Paul pack
ing house strike. Everything is quiet.