Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-08
NO FURTHER DISTURBANCES AT
CHCAG0PACKING PLANTS; 500
POLICE ON WATCH FOR TROUBLE
Injunction Granted To Check
Activities OF Picket,; Se,,
eral Injured In Fighting In
Stockyards On Wednesday
Night.

Chicago, Dec. 3.-A temporary in
junction prohibiting members of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen's union from
"picketing or otherwise molesting."
workers in the stockyards was granted
in superior court by Judge Dennis
Sullivan today A. petition for the in
junction was filed by Swift and COM
pany and 81 other packers.
Following another outburst by
strike sympathizers who attacked an
elevated train carrying packing house
workers to the stockyards early to-
day, packing towns settled down in it's
fourth day of the strike with no fur
ther disturbances. but with $500 po-
lice keeping watch for trouble. A few
more defecionS were reported by the
big Ave packers today but the plants
we're still operating. Reports from.
other packing centers said there was
: little disturbance and little change in
the situation.
Many Injured.
Chicago, Dec. S.-Fifteen hundred
policemen were sent to the stockyards
early this morning, when long before
daylight. several groups Of persons. in
cluding few women, gathered about
the stockyards. Only a few hours be-
fore 200 policemen had fired into
thousands Of strike sympathizers who
attacked plant employees and finally
the policemen. Last nights toll OF
casualties included nine seriously In
jured and an uncounted number hurt
when mounted police charged into the
crowd with drawn batons.
All saloons in the neighhorhood of
the yards were c;t,sed today by order
OF Chief of Police Fitzmorris. The
IA .s~t3
stopped at any cost.
Women Hard to Deal With.
THE women are more difficult to
deal with than the men," Chief Fitz-
morris said this morning, "they carry
red pepper and throw it in the police
mems eyes. Tacks have been scat
tered through the adjacent streets in
an effort to stop the motor policemen.
.'But we're going to control the dis
order in this strike. We may have to
use every available policeman in the
city and then call upon the reserves,
but we'll do It." ,~
When the strike began Monday
there was little trouble and the Htua.
ton remained quiet until last night
when workers began to leave the
yards. The few hundred strikers on
picket duty and a few hRngers-on in
tarcepted thelez raAHaSeSto tnSsS4ft1nSs
and: policemen endeavoredsS to make
lanes through sthe. crowd.
& Riot Call Sent In. /.
Without previous warning larg.
numbers Of persons began to augment
the strike sympathizers until they
overwhelmed the few hundred police.
men or duty and riot calls were SEN
in. When reinforcements arrived thu
crowd was finally scattered and thu
streets cleared at midnight. No fur
ther trouble was expected at the tipt
and the heavy, guards were PARTIAL!
withdrawn.
However. early this morning the!
began wandering back and the mum
Der Increased SO quickly that the reg
ular 500 policemen on duty were In
creased to $500.
Injured viii Recover. r
Chicago, Dec. 8.-Three Of thos
shot were reported to be union work
men, two were strike sympathfzers
another was employed in a packin'
plant and the seventh was said to b.
a strike sympathizer and member o
another union. All will recover,
was thought by doctors tonight.
Four policemen were among thos
injured. They were struck oy mis-
siies thrown during the disorders
The woman who was hu.,. was struc'
by brick. Women and children par
N.4r.+ed IN tho disorders and tauNte