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...Scab" is a nasty word. In reading your article [p. 11, TIME. Aug. 6] which describes the Chicago Stock Yards strike where 75,000 starving and thirsty cattle from the drought areas were left to suffer without water by the striking livestock handlers, I was surprised, pained and grieved to find TIME describing as "scabs" these "boys from droughty farms...
...award made by Judge Sullivan in settlement of a similar strike last November. For 36 hours General Johnson sweated with the disputants, got the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. to promise a minimum of 48 hours work to its regular handlers during every week that 4,000 carloads of livestock were received. All other questions in dispute were again left to Judge Sullivan's decision. Despite his interrupted golf game, the Judge listened to General Johnson's plea, agreed to act again...
...rose again. It was the dawn of the hottest day in Chicago's history: official temperature, 104°, stock yard temperature, 110°. But no one went to feed the cattle, no one gave them water, no one hurried them to the mercy of the slaughterhouse. The 800 livestock handlers of Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.- "the cowboys of the stock yards"-were in the street instead of in the pens, pacing slowly back & forth, bearing placards: THIS PLACE UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR...
...points in the cattle country. Shipments of "direct" cattle, private and Government owned, continued and soon began to increase. Chicago's commission men, who normally receive the bulk of the cattle and over half the hogs on consignment at the stock yards, virtually shut up shop. Their own livestock handlers would have struck in sympathy with the stock yards' handlers had not the Live Stock Exchange, of which all commission men are members, made that unnecessary by suspending all trading...
...have lost confidence in Judge Sullivan," said a union leader. Thus the strike began. Last week two Federal mediators were trying to patch up the dispute. Chief danger was that the livestock handlers might persuade the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen to strike in sympathy, thus closing the huge packing houses and threatening a meat famine...