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j WORLDS LARGEST STOCK i YARDS STRIKE-BOUND j With the Chicago stock yards strike-bound and its once teeming cattle pens empty, business on many other livestock markets in the nation boomed today. Receipts on the open market at the Chicago yards, normally the worlds biggest and busiest, dwindled to nothing, as the strike called by six hundred members of the CIO Live-Stock Handlers Union, entered its twelfth day with no signs of a settlement. Other than a few show animals, there was not a single head of cattle, sheep or hogs in the yards. The .two-thirds of a square mile of weather-beaten shoulder-high board pens stood empty and silent, a "No Mans Land" of shabby fences. One thousand commission men, forced into idleness because of the strike, stood glumly around, watching the CIO pickets patrolling the entrances to the yards or talked among themselves about the unions demands for higher pay, a closed shop, and the "checkoff." The strike was directed at the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, and not at the commission men nor meat packers. The Stock Yards company charges shippers from fifteen to twenty cents a day for feeding and makes a yardage charge of from ten to forty-five cents a head on every head of livestock received.
