The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-12-09
Z SHOT DURING
PACKING RIOTS
Score Or More Injured At
Chicago; Injunctions
Being Sought

Chicago, Dec. Legal proceed
ings to restrain the striking packing
house workers from interfering with
the operation Of packing plants by
picketing or molesting employees,
we're either pending or in effect I'm
five cities in the Middle West tonight.
AS the third day of the strike came
to close, quiet prevailed, at most
packing house centers, but in Chica-
go the first serious disorders in con-
nection with the strike occurred to-
night when several persons were
shot and slugged in clashes between
strike sympathizers, stockyard work.
ers and police patrolling the stock
yards.
Seven men are known to have been
shot and a score of men and one
woman injured in the clashes. The
trouble started when strike sympa-
thizers accosted the workmen al
they left the packing plants. Mis-
sizes were thrown and policemen used
their clubs and guns in an effort to
dispense the crowds. Police reserves
were called out before the trouble
ended.
All VIII Recover.
Three of those shot were reported
to be union wofkmen, two were
strike sympathizers, another was
employed in a packing plant and the
seventh was said to be strike sym
pathizer and member of another
union. All will recover, it was
thought by doctors tonight. Four
policemen were among those injured.
The woman was hurt when struck by
a brick.
Officials of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen or
North America, which called the
strike after a wage decrease averag-
ing 10 per cent had been put in eff
feet tonight agreed with spokesman
for the big five" packers that there
was little change in the situation.
Union officials asserted that workers
in allied crafts in the packing plants
had walked out while the packers
said that new workmen were being
employed, that strikers were asking
to be reinstated and that plants here
were operating from IS to 100 per
cent normal.
1t was admitted by the packers
that their plants in other cities were
harder hit and a number of indie
pendent plants here were either vir-
tually at a standstill or handicapped
by the walkout.
Injunctions Are Asked. ~~
The independent plants and Swift
G. Co. today requested an Injunction
restraining the butcher work'len's
union and its officers and officials
from interfering with the operation
of twenty-five plants thru picketing-
At South St. Paul five hundred ma
tional guardsmen patrolled the pack
ing plants todas after the ruicns re-
fused to discontinue picketing.
At Fort Worth an injunc. OH re-
straining picketing of the packing
plants was granted today. while at
Omaha an opinion was rendered by
the city attorney that the, anti-picl<et-
ing law passed by the last Nebraska
Legislature was as yet imperative,
At Kansas City strike sympathizers
were restrained from picketing plants
by the threat that troops would be
called out if the practice continued.
Omaha Has Street Riot.
Omaha. Neb, Dec. street right
ing: followed by dozen arrests, in
Guiding two women marked the clos
ing hours of the afternoon here in
the packing house district, where
strike of butcher workmen and meat
cutters Is in force.
Following conference-of city and
police officials late today. every
North Side policeman, detective and
traffic officer was sent to South Oma-
ha. Thirty riot guns. with bayo-
nets, and loaded with buckshot. also
we're sent to the south side
The fighting, which was between
strike sympathizers and workmen.
was confined to fists and bricks, and
nothing of serious nature had been
tonight.