Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-08-11
CONFLICT IS ON
IN BIC STRIKE
A Sympathetic Order is Given
to All the Union
Drivers.
lCEMEN ARE UNDER THE BAN
Cannot Deliver to Retail Meat Deal
ers- Famine Of Meat Products
Labor Unions Call Out Every Mem
Der of Allied Trades.

Chicago, Aug. 4.-The threatened
spread of the stock yards strike to out
side industries came last night, when
an order was issued by the teamsters'
union prohibiting drivers of ice was-
ons from making any deliveries to re-
tail merchants, who since the packing
house teamsters went on strike have
been hauling meat from the yards in
their own wagons. AS the refrigera-
tors in the meat markets do not hold
enough Ice to last longer than forty
eight hours, if the order cutting OFF tie
supply of ice can be enforced it means
that the majority of people in Chicago
will be compelled to go on short ra-
tons as far as meat is concerned. The
officials of the teamsters' union have
appointed pickets to watch ell over the
city and these have been instructed to
see that the boycott is carried on to
the limit.
Outside of the decision of the strik.
ing unions to extend the strike to the
ice men there was little change over
Tuesday in the situation at the stock
yards today. With their new employees
and those that have deserted the
unions tho packers managed to dispose
Of fully so per cent as much work as
Is carried on under normal conditions.
Chicago, Aug 5.-ln a statement
given out last night by the packers,
the report that negotiations are in
progress to bring about another con-
ference between the packers and labor
leaders is declared to be entirely I'M
founded. The packers assert that
there is not the slightest possibility
of further conferences with the strike
leaders. According to this statement
the progress being made at the plants
Is satisfactory to all the packers; more
men are being employed daily; all
contracts and current orders are be-
ing filed. and there is normal sup
ply of beef, mutton and provisions at
all plants in the United States, while
sales are being made at lower prices
than before the strike commenced.
In table accompanying the statement
1t is shown that the total number of
men at work at all points is more
than $4,000.
With this number of men at work
the packers claim to have shipped
a total of S3t cars loads of fresh
Beyond seeing that the order prohib-
ting the deliveries of ice to retail
ers who have been hauling their
meats from the stock yards them
selves since the teamsters struck, the
strikers yesterday did very little. Up
to date the ice supply of loo OF these
markets has been cut off.
Chicago, Aug. 6.-The strike In the
packing houses was practically lost
| sight of yesterday in the excitement
attending a run on the Drovers' Trust
| c, Savings bank, one of the stock
Yards institutions. The rush of the
| iepositors to the bank started early
| N the day, because of an unfo.lnded
umor that one of the packers repre-
,entatives had withdrawn his money
rom the institution and reports that
| he bank was being used by the pack
ng companies as en- adjunct in paying
| If their new employees who have
aiken the places of the strikers. All
| flaw long. hundreds Of excited de-
positors, most of whom had only
small accounts in the bank, stood in
line to withdraw their deposits. When
closing time came in the afternoon,
there were at least a thousand persons
waiting for their money
Chicago, Aug S.-All the labor
unions in Chicago have irdorsed the
butchers strike. After listening to
the strikers side of the controversy
which was presented to them by
Michael ]. Donnelly, president or the
striking butchers union, the Chicago
Federation of Labor, which is compos'
ed of every labor organization in Chi
cago has membership of nearly SOO,.
600. adopted resolutions last night
pledging the moral and fiscal support
of the federated body as long as the
strike continues. Each member of the
central body will be assessed small
sum each week ana the whole amount
will be turned over to the striking
unions to help in the support OF the
strikers and their families during the
struggles with the packers. The ex'
act amount each member y to be as
sassed was left in "a hands OF a