IN THE NEWS - 1904 - (Strike-Breakers) General Gathering of Greek Businessmen of Chicago to Protect Their Business and the Greek Name
Greek Star -- August 26, 1904 General Gathering of Greek Businessmen of Chicago to Protect Their Business and the Greek Name - Consul General Interested The meeting of Greek businessmen last Sunday packed the Greek Orthodox church. The object of the meeting was to find ways and means to protect their business and their racial prestige against attacks by the Chicago press arising from the conduct of 320 Greeks who accepted jobs as strike-breakers. Chicago newspapers have raised a hue and cry against Greeks in general, not taking into consideration the facts that by so doing they injure the business of Greeks who are not engaged in strike-breaking, and that they are also throwing mud at a nation friendly to this Republic. Immediately after the ceremony of the mass, in which over 2,000 took part, the Reverend C. Georgiadis spoke. In a fatherly but businesslike address he brought out what the duties of the Greek businessmen of Chicago are toward those unwise Gre...