Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-09
CHICAGO'S LAST STRIKE.
The Employees Of Chicago's Big
Packlng-HOuses Refuse to Return
to the Ten-Hour System,
An Attack is Made upon the Employees
Of One Factory and Several Men
are Ipiured.
The strikers Doing Everything Possible TO
win Pebble sympatby-The Packing
Houses Guarded.

FIGHTING rHE RETURN TO TEN hours.
| CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. S.--The 10, 900 en-
! p,oyes of the twenty-one packing houses
at the stock yards have almost unani-
mously resolved not to return to the
packing district Monday. The question
as to whether the hog men will allow the
beef men TO work Is now being discussed.
The prevailing impression is that the
locked out men will not allow anybody
TO work in any OF the packing houses.
Should they conclude to prevent the beef
men from working about 90 900 men Will
be thrown out 81 employment
A wALK-oUT.
The great strike of the employees OF the
Chicago packing houses against the
proposition to return to the teu-hour
system OF work began this morning. A
committee OF 1900 men waited on the
foreman of the works and demanded that
the notices be taken down. This was re.
fused, and the men at once left the build
ing and were Joined by 500 men employed
IN the SilherhoTn works, Thus rein
forced, the large force went In body 10
the Armour works TO induce the men
there to stop work. There is great ex-
element at the yards, but no trouble has
yet occurred.
RIOT
CHICAGO, ILL Oct. s.--The crowd OF
strikers failed to induce the Armour em-
/ ployes and the Anglo. American work.
men to stop work and departed without
attempting anything compulsory. This
afternoon large body OF additional
workmen went on strike aud a riot oc-
Cured at the works of John Morrell,
where a number Of persons were hurt,
The entire police force of the Town of
Lake has gene TO the scene Two Of
Plnkerton's men, armed with rifles, have
gone to the scene.
GUARDED ny PINKERroN's MEN.
Affairs became more quiet after the ar
rival of the police. II was found that
some of Morrel's employees were injured
by the attack made upon them, but none
of them seriously. The 800
pinkerton men are guarding the houses
tonight. The representative OF the
Silberhorn packing-house declared
that New York and other
Eastern buyers we're sending their
orders TO Kansas City which necessitated
the change 10 ten hours, Armour & Co.
posted notice tonight notifying their
men TO ,pome and reneiye tiiUir pay TO
morrow. 1t Is deemed positive that they
shall keep closed doors, for short time
at least.
S. W. Meek, attorney for the executive
board Of the Knights of Labor, to night
issued the following statement TO the
press; The posting OF the announcement
OF return to the ten-hour system on
Thursday by the packers without expla-
nation caused the men employed by
the Chicago Packing and Provision COM
pany and Silberhorn & Co. to leave their
work, not for violence and mob rule, but
thoroughly organized for determined re-
sistance In a fair and honorable way, and
they ask that the people be not preju-
diced against them by hasty and erroneous
reports OF violence to serve the interests
Of the packers. The working men
have taken their stand only after
every effort for fair and
honest settlement of their differences has
been refused by their employers. Con-
tracts embodying agreements already had
between the packers and their employees
have been rejected by the packers
and it is simply question
of the packers keeping their agreements.
They are on trial and not
the workingmen. The action Of the cut.
tiers In returning TO their work and care
fully cleaning stock in hand by direction
OF their leaders shows both the spirit of
fairness with which they regard
the interests OF their employers and the
absence of all desire on their part to
cause loss aud waste of the necessarles of
life. II shows, moreover, the perfect or.
ganization never before attained by the
workingmen, portion of them returning
to their work for definite time, at
the declaration of their leaders, for
the express purpose OF saving their
employers from the loss OF perishable
property, and the workingmen involved
ask of the public only fair and honest
| judgement on their actions, and TO re-
member that their interests are the inter
ests OF the whole people Of America.
At p m. 100 Pinkerton detectives
sat down for supper, at the
Transit house with Winchester re,
peater rifles between their knees.
Capt Foley in charge, said by tomorrow
he would have 800 men in and about
the yards as an emergency. com
mittee of the Pinkertons arrived at the
yards at p. m. and were greeted with
derislve yells from crowd OF 1000 which
! filled the street. The Plnkertons then
went to town and were all sworn In
as specials and they were taken back In
| the cars, and the crowd made Its own
time pass pleasant. However, from the
fact that Capt. Foley formed his com
mand into four companies and headed for
the Transit house the strikers express the
idea the packers have deep laid scheme
to I'LL the house with new men willing
to work ten hours 1t is said that
to this end the employers have been col
lecting men at outside points for months,
The feature Of the strike to-day was the
beef men coming out at Armour's
This was surprise TO the packers, who,
apparently, intended to confine the fight
20 the hog interests. The Arm is left
with 4500head of cattle In the yard to feed
Armour's coopers came out also, They
had asked Tor 70 cents advance, and II
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