Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-08

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Seven men are known to have been
shot and a score of men and one
woman were injured in clashes be-
tween workers, strike sympathizers
and policemen patroliing the stock
yards district. The trouble occurred
when strike sympathizers accosted the
workmen as they left the packing
plants.
Police Use Clubs
Missiles were thrown and police
men used their clubs and guns during
disorders when they attempted to dis
perse the crowds and make arrests.
Reserves were called out to dispense
the crowds before the trouble ended.
Three of those shot were reported
to be union workmen, two were strike
sympathizers, another was employed in
packing plant and the seventh was
said to be strike sympathizer and
member of another union. All will re-
cover. it was thought by doctors.
-Four policemen were among those
injured. They were struck by missiles
thrown during the disorders. The
woman who was hurt was struck by
brick. Women and children partici-
pated in the disorders and taunfed the
policemen when they charged the
crowds.
Police estimated tonight that score
of others suffered minor injuries but
had not reported the fact.
Officials of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America, which called the strike
after wage decrease averaging 10
per cent had been put in effect, We'd
nesday night agreed with spokesmen
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 the new workmen were being en-
ployed, that strikers were asking to be
reinstated and that the plants here
were operating from IS to 100 per cent
normal
Others Harder Hit
It was admitted by the packers that
their plants in other cities we're
harder hit, and a number of indie
pendent plants here were either vir-
tually at standstill or handicapped by
the walkout.
The independent plants and Swift
and company requested an injunction
restraining the butcher workmens
union and its officers and officials
from interfering with the operation of
p plants, through picketing.
At South st. Paul, 500 national
guardsmen patrolled the packing plants
after the unions refused to discontinue
picketing.
Following the shooting of two per-
sons and the beating of a third at
Fort Worth Tuesday, an Injunction
restraining picketing of the packing
plants was granted Wednesday, while
at Omaha an opinion was rendered by
the city attorney that the anti
pieketing law passed by the last Ne
braska legislature was as yet inoper-
ative.
At Kansas City strike sympathizers
were. restrained from picketing plants
by the threat that troops would be
called out if the practice continued.
Conditions Improved.
The packing strike situation In
Kansas City, Kansas, remained un-
changed with the usual statements by
company officials that more men were
back at work and counter statements
by strike headquarters that the num-
Der of men out was increasing.
Members of the Kansas court of in
dustrial relations, who came to the
scene of the strike last week to con-
duct hearing designed to bring
about an amicable settlement, held a
brief session, the purpose Of which
was said to have been to keep the
court in touch with the situation. The
strikers held mass meeting at
which speakers urged them to obey
scrupulously the law in regard to
picketing and to avoid any semblance
of violence