Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-12-19
Liquor Supplied
Strike-Breakers
Is Union Charge
Labor Speaker Says Prohibi-
ton Officers Should Make
Raids on big Five
Plants.

Before mass meeting OF more
than l,500 men and women at
Butcher Workmen headquarters yes
terday afternoon, Jacob H. Davis,
president Of District Council No. S,
of the Butcher Workmen organiza-
ton, made the charge that strike
breakers in the local plants of the
big Five" were being supplied with
Intoxicating liquor to~kecp them on
the job.
If the local prohibition officers
would do their duty they would raid
some of the packing houses of the
South Side which are we'll supplied
with intoxicating liquor said Davis,
"and that is the only way they can
keep strike breakers on the job"
Continuing, President Davis said:
Conditions look better now for the
strikers than they have at any time
since the beginning of the strike.
The packers are in worse fix today
than they have ever been and in my
opinion the strike is won right now.
In 10 days the workers will be back
to work at the wages in effect before
the cut"
Davis urged the workers to get
out on the picket line early this
morning and endeavor to persuade
every strike-breaker to join the strike
and to go to their houses and argue
with them if they couldn't get to
them on the picket line.
Predicts Early End.
S. C. Jackson, secretary of the
Omaha Central Labor council, in All
address to the meeting, said he came
with words of encouragement and
that every labor union in the city
was with the strikers in their fight.
He said in another 10 days the fight
would be won.
"The packers are on the rum" said
B. F. Ballard, president of the Oma-
ha Carpenters union. "Only two
carloads of meat have been shipped
out of Omaha since the strike and if
the strike lasts 10 days longer there
will not be carload of meat hauled
on single railroad in the United
States.
In short talk George A. Steiner,
secretary of the Nebraska State Fed
Grafton of Labor, said every laboring
man in the state was back of the
packing house strikers and would
support them morally and financially.
There were three other meetings
held yesterday of striking workers.
A meeting specially for Lithuanians
was held in New Settlers hall, Thir-
ty-sixth and U streets, at 8 last
night; meeting specially for Po-
lish workers at Thirty-third and L
streets at 2:30 p. m, and a Bohe-
mian meeting in Bohemian National
hall, Twenty-hrst and Q streets, in
the afternoon.
Jacob H. Davis, S. c. Jackson and
B. F. Ballard made addresses at
each of the meetings.
One Arrest Made.
Announcement was made that a
mass meeting would be held tonight
at 8 at Union headquarters and a
meeting of women, the wives, sisters
and friends OF the striking workers.
The women on strike, will meet this
morning at the union hall at 8 for
instructions relative TO the assistance
they are to give in the strike.
Yesterday four arrests were made
in the strike zone, only one of which,
however. was connected with the
strike. w. H. Seger, 2520 Q street,
being arrested at Twenty-hfth and NJ
streets, in front of Union hall, on a
charge of fighting, preferred by John
Mislich, s032 P street. The fight was
said to be the result of an argument
about the strike.