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Show HUNGRY STRIKERS HUNT ALL NIGHTrFOR STEERS; ' WILL EAIiMEAT TODAY CHICAGO", 'Aug. Packing-house employees and hungry strikers vied with each other In a steer hunt which extended throughout the night follow -tag the riot precipitated by the appearance appear-ance of eleven runaway beeves from Morris a Co.'i plant In the district west, of the stock yards last evening. '.Today the carcasses of four were accounted for. "Little beyond the hoofs and horns j remained to tell the story, and there was an ample beef supply In many a home to which such a luxury has long been a stranger. . The fate of five of the remainder Is still In doubt, as only two have been rounded up and driven back to the yards. Scouting paries representing both the big packing firms and the hungry hun-gry throng that battled with the police scoured the prairies south and west of the yards all night, and when the latter located its prey the creature was slain and disappeared as hough by magic The herd - was valued at more than J1000.; . Recording Secretary Shanahan of the packing-house teamsters' union declared de-clared today that In his opinion It would be necessary to call on strike all teamsters team-sters connected with delivery toor from retail markets in .Chicago.. He 'said he believed this would have to be done to win the strike. President Donnelly and Vice-President John Flo re ch of the butchers' na-tonal na-tonal organisation made a tour of the stock yards, "I passed an hour mingling with the throng of non-union men preparing to enter on , their day's work," said Mr. Donnelly.. "They are a hard crowd, and we have nothing to fear from them as permanent factors at the yards. The majority are negroes, and some of the types I saw suggested a Southern convict con-vict camp. The white men are nearly all Greeks." President Donnelly announced that labor leaders will be sent tomorrow to ' Kansas City, St. Paul and St Joseph to report Iocl conditions to the strikers there. Donnelly will himself go to East St Louis and then to Indiana, where he will meet President Mitchell of the miners, mi-ners, and expects to receive financial support .i. f |