May
19, 1904 – Because J. S. Bangs, manager of Swift & Co.’s
plant at South St. Paul, refused to dismiss a nonunion butcher who was employed
in the pork department, 229 union butchers went out on strike today at noon.
The men say that they will not return until the man has been put out, and the
management insisted today that he would remain.
Swift & Co. meat packing plant in South St. Paul. Swift’s Silver Leaf (far left) was a
lard manufacturing plant.1
J. S. Bangs said today that the trouble only concerned the men in the pork department, and that he did not think the strike would extend to the other departments.
The strikers are members of the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters’ Union of America, which was organized last year, and which includes all the butchers at the South St. Paul plant. The union was formally recognized a year ago, when schedules were adopted and the packing plants of Chicago, Omaha and South St. Paul were placed under union regulation.
The local union has a membership of 1,200, all of whom are employed at South St. Paul, and if the trouble in the pork department is not adjusted within a few days a general strike may occur.
The Saint Paul Globe; “South St. Paul Butchers Strike; Men in Pork Department of Swift & Company’s Plant Walk Out.”; May 20, 1904; p. 10.
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