The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-12
JOIN MEAT STRIKE
Car Repairers at Chicago Stock
yards Walk Out.
Two Thousand New York
Butchers Join in Strike.
UNION WANTS ARBITRATION
Meat Cutters Chiefs Make Trip
to Washington.
Oklahoma City Strikers Advised
to Peaceful Methods.
WANTS ARBITRATION

Chicago, Dec. 12-One thousand
car repair workers walked out in a
body at the Union stockyards today in
sympathy with the striking packing
house workers. The car repairers
were employed on the refrigerator
cars of the packing plants.
This walkout occurred as the pros
pect loomed of a strike of 1000 work
ers in hotels and butcher shops who
are members of the Amalga mated
Food Workers union.
While the situation at the yards was
quiet this morning, the police detail
was undiminished.
Union Seeks Arbitration.
Packing house officials of Chicago
reiterated today that the strike de-
clared one week ago by the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butchers
Workmen has not materially inter
fered With their normal operations
and they also stood firm in their re-
fusal to meet arbitration overtures of
union leaders.
The union officials were seeking
arbitration and Secretary Dennis
Lane has gone to Washington to lay
the strike and the wage question be-
fore President Harding and depart
ment of labor. No reports of violence
have been made to the stockyards
police within the last twenty-four
hours.
Renew Riots at Kansas City.
Kansas City. Dec. II (by the A. P)
Renewed disturbances on the part
of striking packing house workers oc-
CURED this morning outside the plant
of Armour & Co. here. A crowd esti-
mated by the police to be between 200
and 800 gathered outside the Armour
n a no orb Il
to enter the plant. Many women were
in the crowd, which was noisy and
shouted threats to the Armour work
ers.
Kansas City. Kan, police dispersed
the crowd and drove its members
across the state line into Missouri.
There the strikers again formed
crowd and leaders asked permission
to cross into Kansas. The police gave
the permission. but insisted that the
strikers cross in. column of twos. As
they did SO, police searched them for
weapons, bat found none. Arrived at
Seventh street and Central avenue,
Kansas City, Ka~ strikers again
started to form a crowd. They were
again dispersed.
May Call For Troops.
Mayor Harry B. Burton said at
1920 o'clock this morning that he
had summoned packing house union
leaders to his office for a conference.
''As far as I am colc ned" Mayor
Burton said, "t, conference will be
final. If the leaders cannot hold the
men in line anu event these infrac-
tions of the law. there are other ways
in which it can be done. We have not
yet resorted to these means, but we
are prepared to Go So"
Asked whether these means nigh:
imply the presero of national guar4
troops. Mayor Burto- admitted that
that might be on the measures
would seek.
New York Butchers Out.
New York Dec. 1.-Two thousand
employees of big five" slaughter
houses in New York. members of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workers of North America,
quit work today and left wagonloadS
of perishable beef in front of company
plants
A premature report that a reduction
in wages was imminent caused the
waikOut, in the opinion of Leo Joseph,
vice president of one of the meat COM
panies. Independent butchers re-
manned at work.
Warned to Keep Peace.
Oklahoma City. Dec. 12.-EIeven
hundred striking employees of Wilson
& Company and Morris & Company
were addressed in Convention hall last
night by Judge J. S. Estes. a personal
representative of Mayor Jack Walton.
He praised them for their attitude
; toward keeping peace within their
ranks and warned them that the
packers were only waiting a chance to
hire thugs and agitators to stir up
trouble and bring public sentiment to
bear against the strikers"
J. w. Houchin, a representative of
the Oklahoma Farmers union, scath-
ingiy denounced the packers, and said
the Farm erS' union thruOut the state
was in sympathy with the striking
packing house employees.
A resolution was unanimously
adopted which denounced the open
, shop division of the Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce and asked that
it be abolished
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