The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-12-12
PACKERS DECLARE
STRIKE HERE WILL
NOT AFFECT PRICES
5000 Men Out and Plaut2
Crippled by Walkout To.
Day, Say Union Leaders.

New York's strike OF meat cutters,
drivers, slaughterers and other en-
ployees of six large packing plants
who walked out to-day in sympathy
with the strikers in the West will not
increase the price of beef in this city,
it was announced by the Institute OF
4.morican Meat Packers, No. II East
4od Street.
The six plants in this city, which
are all subsidiaries OF the big
Five" kill little of the beef consumed
in New York except that consumed
by the kosher trade, 1t was explained,
and the effects OF the strike. the
statement continued, are not expect
cd to be serious locally.
Union estimates of the number OF
the strikers are 5000, but employers
stated this afternoon that only about
5000 men are employed in the six
plants and that only $500 of them
walked out.
Other plants at which the men went
on strike are: United Dressed Beef
Company, 44th Street and First Ave-
nue.; New York Butchers Dressed
Meat Company, 4Oth Street and 11th
Avenue; Stern & Co., 10th Street and
North River. J. j. Harrington G. Co,
43d Street and First Avenue, and
Nagle & Co., Jersey City. The unions
refer to these concerns as the Local
Big Five"
w. A. Lynde, general manager OF
the Wilson & CO. station here, ad-
Initted that all the 600 packers, driv-
ers, chauffeur5 and butchers employed
by his company arc out and thirty
FIVE wagons tied up. He declared
there had been no previous warning,
and was at loss to explain the strike
except as a sympathetic walkout with
the Chicago unions. First Avenue
from 42d to 46th Streets, the packing
house district, was lined with trucks
this morning.
At union headquarters it was said
the strike was called in obedience to
orders from the International office
in Chicago as a protest against the
alleged tactics used there to force the
men into the company's unions. They
based their charges of sympathetic
action by the packers on the failure
Of a conference here Saturday night.
The men declared their contract had
expired several months ago and rep
resentatives OF the unions and the
butchers had been comforting to draw
up new working agreement. The
unions yesterday voted on the strike.
The men, all members OF the Anal
gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
workmen's Union of North America,
declared they were making from $50
to $50 a week and recently received a
10 per cent. cut in wages.
So far there has been no troubla.
Firms not so far aftsGted by tho
strike declare that even should it ex-
tend to them there is sufficient meat
! in stock here 10 last a week without
any shortage in the retail trade being
felt.
Shortly after 500 employees of the
Nagle Packing Co. walked out In
Jersey City, it was reported that
employees of the Swift. Armour, and
Cudahy plants would go out this
afternoon. Chief of Police Battersby
sent 200 policement to the Nagle plant
IS a precaution against possible
trouble. Trucks were loaded witt
meat at the Nagle plant when tn,
men walked ont and the drivers re,
fused to move them. At the Swift 6
co. plant in Harrison, \. j.. $50 mer
walked out at noon.
The statement OF the packers saiC
that the walkouc was great sur
prise to them because they had al
agreement with the men which haC
five months to run-