Biennial Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Nebraska (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... REPORT. Headquarters First Brigade, N. N. G., Beatrice, Nebraska, September 25, 1894 To'the Adjutant General: Sir--I have the honor to make the following report of the service of the Nebraska National Guard under my command, called out for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens of the state during the occasion of the strike and riots at South Omaha in the month of August, 1894: In the early part of July, the great packing and stock interests of Nebraska, located at South Omaha, were threatened by the unlawful operations of the employes engaged in such worknumbering several thousand men. Tbere were daily rumors of organization among the different classes of workmen for the purpose of forcing a change of employment or increase of pay. About the 1st of August these threatened difficulties and dangers were consummated by a strike in two of the packing houses to the number of nearly one thousand employes. On August 3d the laborers at four of the packing houses stopped work, and some fifteen hundred persons left the employ of the several companies engaged in the packing and stock business. A large number of idlers and unemployed, some of them of the worst and lowest characters from the city of Omaha, joined with the strikers at South Omaha, resisting and overpowering the civil authorities, preventing by force hundreds of workmen, who were desirous of continuing their labor, from proceeding to their places of employment, and performing acts of lawlessness generally against law-abiding citizens. On the 4th day of August the general lawlessness and violence increased; peaceable citizens were assaulted, property was destroyed, laborers were waylaid and beaten, and open threats were made to burn and destroy the stock yards, packing houses, and some...