Omaha daily bee., 1921-12-09
Bring New
Workers
From K. C.
City Commissioner Hopkins
Says He Will Demand Inves.
tigation by Health Com.
missioner Pinto.
Seeks Vaccination Of Men

Strike breakers arc reported on
their way 10 Omaha 10 take the
place OF skilled workmen vino walk
ed out in South Sid. pack & plants
Monday.
City Commissioner Hopkins de-
clarcd yesterday he had received re-
ports that strike breakers were being
brought to Omaha from Kansas
City, wh,.e an epidemic OF small
pox RACES. and that he would re-
quest Health Commissioner Pinto TO
make an investigation.
Robert X. Hunter, chairman oi
the butcher workr;en's publicity
committee, also said reports OF im-
portations OF strike breakers had
reached strikers headquarters.
Managers Deny Reports.
Managers of local packing plants,
however, deny that strike breakers
are being imported, although they
admit purchases OF large number
OF cots to be placed in packing
house offices for the use of workers
who prefer to remain inside the
plants at night.
There's no need for bringing
strike breakers to Omaha" said NJ
r. Murphy of Cudahy's. Omaha is
over-crowded with laborers now. We
can get all the men we need here
OF course, we could use skilled hog
killers, though"
Mr.. Murphy admitted his firm had
purchased 100 cots to be placed in
the office of his plant. He said
however, they were not for strike
breakers, but for the use OF employees
who chose to remain on the job and
did not want to venture away from
the plant.
Former State Representative Jerry
Howard, in all open letter to Mayor
Dahlman and the city commissioners,
yesterday, charged that men were
being housed in the packing plants
under unsanitary conditions and in
violation of the law. He held that
iris might result in a contagious
disease epidemic breaking out and
urged the city authorities to enforce
the law.
Both sides in the packing house
strike in Omaha yesterday continued
display happy faces aud spoke op.
tipisticatly.
Things arc so good that am al.
most afraid something will happen
said a high official of the strikers
SAT least 90 per cent of the workers
are out and determined to stay out
The packers own reports Of pur.
chases OF stock Wednesday show
they arc almost at a standstill With
the price Of meat rising and the
price of live stock dropping. cor
sumers and stockmen soon are 60
ing to demand fair settlement oi
this dispute
Packing house managers declared
yesterday that they are holding theil
own. Every manager Of the Big
Five plants said that as many mer
were at work yesterday as Wedncs.
Cav.
Attorney Defends Strikers
An attorney was on hand in South
Side police court today to defend al
strikers or sympathizers brought into
court.
At late hour last night arrests 70,
the preceding "a hours had totalet
more than &c. the majority being or
assault charges. Conditions at the
time The Bee went to press were re.
ported quiet.
Joe Postuny, 571S South Thirty.
second street, striking employe O
the Cudahy plant, was fined $40 fol
alleged assault on John Myers
Forty-third and I streets, non
striker at Swiit's. Postuny ap
pealed and put up a $l00 bond.
Mike Tom, 1925 Q street, a Bul
garian, was shouting "to hell with
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