Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-11
CAVALRY ON THE GROUND.

A New Force to Guard the stock Yards
Against RfOtous Strikers-The First
Step Looking Toward a Compromise
Taken by the Packers.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10.-The situation at the
stock yards has not materially changed since
yesterday. The military force was augment
ed this afternoon by the arrival of body of
cavalry and is now considered sufficient for
any emergency that may arise. All the mill
tiamen have adapted themselves to the rou
tine of guard duty and camp life and for
men right from Offices and stores are doing
remarkably we'll in the new order of things.
Strict discipline is maintained and regular
camp is being established at the yards. 81
am proceeding" said General Fitzsimmons,
ION the theory that we shall be here for one
year. Everything is being done on that
scale, although at the same time I hope the
troops will be called in in few days"
Throughout the day large numbers of men
seeking employment arrived from eastern
and western cities and as fast as they could
be assigned to the different packing houses
entered upon the work relinquished by the
strikers. The majority of the new
arrivals are unskilled workmen, but they
show a strong desire to learn their duties
and most of them will doubtless
prove able helpers in a few days. The
skilled men take hold with a viii and in
quite number of the packing houses work
is going along to day in very busy manner.
About six thousand men in all are at work
and it is thought that by Saturday there will
be from ten to fifteen thousand men employ
ed, or about half the force needed to carry on
the business of the yards. The agents in
other cities of the Packers association will
continue to send reinforcements and from
advices received to-day it is confidently be-
lieved that all the men wanted can be OBJ
tanned in two or three weeks. There were no
exciting incidents attending the strike to-
day. Some arrests were made of strikers
who were disorderly, but the troops had no
accession to use their Springfield rifles or
deadly gatlings. Good feeling exists between
the troops and the strikers. A delegation OF
the latter waited on a number of the militia
officers this morning and informed them that
the boycott against the troops that had been
started by the storekeepers IN the
vicinity of the yards had been done without
authority and would be removed at once.
This was done and now the troops will have
no trouble in purchasing the small articles
they need. The strikers were ont in force
to-day around the yards and greeted many of
the non union men who arrived to take their
places with great groans and eplthets, out IN
the main confined themselves to these slight
demonstrations and made no attempt at overt
acts. They appear to be firm in their deter
| mination to hold out and they
declare the packers will yet be obliged
TO come to terms from sheer in
ability to fill their places. At
| a meeting of the Packers association this
afternoon it was decided to recede from the
| determination not to employ Knights of La
| Dor. 1t is believed this is a step toward a
| compromise of the strike. Delegate Barry OF
| the executive committee, K. OF L., said to
night that he had not as yet been notified OF
| the action of the packers and therefore had
done nothing in regard to the matter.
Dressed Beef shipped East.
ALBANY, Nov. 10.-A train of eight cars
| of dressed beef arrived here to-day from
Chicago, Nine cars of live cattle sfol