Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-10
PLENTY OF MEN AT WORK.

The stock Yards Running With q
Fairly Large Force-A Troop of Cav.
airy to Stop Desultory Attacks ON the
New WOrkmen.
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-Everything is quiet al
the stock yards this afternoon. The railroads
are helping the packers in every way as the
speedy close of the strike is of the greatest
possible moment to them. All the roads
coming in here are offering to bring men
here and return them free in case they are
dissatisfied. At Armour's down town Offices
| fifty men were out in the hallway awaiting
| transportation to the yards. Manager Cudaby
| was found up to his ears at work at Ar
| men at work and was getting along all right.
There were about the same number employed
at Swift's. Craig & Fleming have also a
number of men at work and with the three
hundred and fifty at Morris and some
smaller houses there are between four thou
sand five hundred and five thousand men at
work, many old hands. The majority of the
strikers seem to rejoice over the resolutions
against the Knights of Labor that have been
adopted by the packers. 81 think we were
wrong when the last strike was ordered"
said leader to day, ''but the packers by.
their outlawry resolutions have put us in the
right. Yesterday the general assembly of
the Knights could not consistently take up
our fight; to-day and from this on they will
do battle for us. The order has been attacked
and every officer and man must stand up for
u.s."
ttWill Powderiy Gomez at do not know"
he replied, :'but think he will, and if he
does not he will send along several of his
most trusty lieutenants. We are being vic
timized-that we must forswear ourselves,
and he must do something and do it prompt
ly. The nerve, the Inconsistency of the
packers, rich all of them and well able to
take care of themselves, forming powerful
organization themselves and solemnly de-
claring that poor men with families shall
not have the right to combine for their self
protection! This thing would be laughable
if it were not serious. Thousands of men
will starve before they will agree to the hu-
initiating conditions forced upon them. The
packers are good union men and am glad to
see they are proud of it."
The first excitement of the day at the
yards occurred at l o'clock this afternoon.
At that hour word was sent to the head
quarters of the deputy sheriffs that their SER
vices were needed at Forty second street and
Ashland avenue. Fifty deputies immedi-
ately hurried to the place and were quickly
followed by four companies of troops. An
investigation was made and it was found
that four deputies who mad been left to patrol
an alley had been fired on by some unknown
parties. The fire was returned, but the ag
gressors escaped.
The presence of the militia in the stock
yards is having a salutary effect upon the
more turbulent characters of the striking
butchers. To day the militia was deployed
on all the adjacent thoroughfares and formed
complete Gordon about the yards for the
purpose of protecting men going to work.
In consequence of these precautions there
were no cases reported to-day of Struggling"
non-union men in the town of Lake, although
the strikers were out in force on the streets
standing around in the rain discussing the
important movement they had entered upon.
They vented their wrath by calling the
non unionists hard names and occasionally
hurting an obnoxious word at the militia
and police. Employees of the packing
houses who live in the city were unfortn-
nately unprotected while going to work and
several of them were assaulted by the strik-
ers before they could reach the military
lines: Three men were severely beaten be-
fore the patrol could reach them. The lead
ers of the mob were not arrested, although
the police hunted for them A detail from
the First. cavalry will go on duty at the
yards to morrow. This move comes
of demand to have on the
ground troop of mounted men
for the purpose of putting a
stop to desultory depredations that are be-
ing committed by men who manage to escape
before they can be arrested. New men to
take places of the strikers have arrived in
numbers to-day and large gangs are expected
and Thursday. From present ap-
pearances there is no prospect of an imnedi-
ate termination of the strike.