Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-23

omaha Greeks until all trouble is past. We
don not expect to give up our residences
here and our people, we expect, viii re-
sumo their work IN the packing houses"
Must Leave Packing Plants.
Greeks must 90 from the packing houses
the packers don't care and claim they do
not have a great number employed at the
present time, probably 300 In all the plants.
An attorney for the Cudahy Packing com
pany is authority for the statement that
trouble had been anticipated for some time
and the general policy of the company was
to weed out the Greeks as fast as possible.
Manager Murphy said about fifteen re-
maine and were all employed in the beef
killing room. He did not know whether
this number would show up or not when
killing started in the afternoon.
Swift and Co. said 100 would cover
every Greek in any department OF the
plant. They had received no demand from
anyone to discharge the Greeks, but were
not feeling badly because many of the
sons Of the NEUROLOGICAL gods had not re-
turned to work in their house Monday
morning.
Armour & Co. have few Greeks working
in any Of the departments and the same
condition is said to exist in the smaller
plants.
What the Greeks do is a matter OF
mystery. Many Of them are engaged in
merchandising and trading. One little
store on Q street near the viaduct was
found to have four ~"proprietors." In al
most every small shop from two to six
are supported from the profits"
Police Are Prepared.
South omaha police were prepared for
trouble Monday morning and detailed
many extra officers to the packing district
to prevent trouble.
But an unusual condition developed.
While the Greeks had been Trimmed out
and only a few appeared for work., It was
noticeable that the white men had also
disappeared.
"They are asleep somewhere resting up
after driving the Greeks out" said Chief
Briggs, who was in the packing district
early.
"While I did not desire to take any
chances on trouble, I did not anticipate
that the workers would make trouble at
the packing houses. Most OF them desire
to hold their Jobs and know that a riot
or any rough treatment administered to
Greeks or any one else will not be toler-
ated around the big plants. 1 do not look
for trouble at the packing houses now, but
1 am afraid to have these Americans rest
ing up. If they rest all day today, they
are apt to start in again this evening""
Both officers and citizens believe the
Grecian population of South Omaha has
diminished by 80 per cent since Sunday
noon and packers do not expect to have
more than 100 working in the plants by
Saturday night.
Boy Shot in the Leg.
Fred O'Mallin, Forty-ninth and Q streets,
was added to the list of injured. He is a
boy OF 9 years and was shot in the leg
opposite Armour & Co.'s office Sunday
evening. Three duck shot struck him. They
were discharged from a shotgun during the
progress Of the riot. He was attended by
DR.. A. H. Koenig, who extracted one of
the shot which had lodged in the leg upon
the larger bone below the knee. The in |
jury was classed as slight.
DR.. John Koutsky reported that the girl
he attended Sunday afternoon was seri-
ously hurt. but as yet he has received no
second call. He did not take her name,
and no one seems to know who she was.
1t was thought she lived at Thirty-second
ana 5 streets, but people in that neighbor-
hood don't know OF the injury.
1t 10 reported that Miss Mary Demos and
her mother are both on the verge of in
sanity from the fright and grief they en-
dured in the wrecking OF their place of
business at Twentyrfourth and L streets.
The young women, Rena and Mary Demos.
and the mother were there alone during
the riot.
Several OF the injured Greeks remain at
the city jail. DIR. w. ]. McCrann, who at
tended Frank Sweeney and Joe Gamble,
were wounded with bird shot, reported
no complications. He took shot out of three
other boys from the same fusilIade. They
were very slightly hurt and he did not keep
the names.