Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-09

which COngregated ou the corners moving
on. Around the outskirts of the yards
the scene was different Gangs of strikers
stood at the entrances, and the men with
dinner pals in their hands were deprived
of their pals, and in number of instances
were severely thrashed. There seemed to
bea
DETERMINED EFFORT
on the part of the strikers to prevent any
new men from applying for positions which
the former have left. On the other hand
employers seemed determined not to re-en-
gage any of the strikers. Capt. Mackey,
of the Town of Lake police, assured the
men who applied every minute at the Town
Hall that they would be protected. To-day
marks the commencement of the greatest
strike ever inaugurated in Packingtown.
At 7:3O o'clock this morning there were
nearly II, 900 less men at work than at the
same time week ago, and the men that
did report for duty were, almost without
exception, those that had been imported
by the beef packers to take the places of
the 5000 men who struck last week. So
| far the
STATUS OF THE STRIKE
is somewhat indefinite, the one thing abso-
lutely certain being that men were ordered
out on Saturday unanimously Obeyed the
order and left the work Just in the condi-
| tion in which it was when the committee
appeared among them and read to them
| the instructions of the committee OF the
butchers assembly of the Knights Of
Labor. At that time some of the men,
notably those in Armour & Co.'S have
seemed to doubt the authenticity
of the order and seemed dis
posed to refuse to obey it, but the appear
ance of several well-known members of
the committee allayed all doubts on the
subject and left the dOubters no alternative
but to obey or renounce their allegiance to
the Knights of Labor.
Many of the men seemed satisfied ut
being called out, and some eagerly eX-
pressed their sentiments on the subject,
but the great majority accepted the situa-
ton and went home without a 1murmur.
| The committee which issued the order was
by no means unit on the subject. As to
| the position of the packers reports differ.
Swift Il Co. and Nelson Morris have
number of
IMPORTED MEN
| in their houses and have made provision
to feed and lodge them. Early this morn
ing number of men arrived from Boston
and were taken to Swift's house, where
they are now. about 500 men. Nelson
Morris has about 400 and expects to have
number more to-day. Swift & Co. have
advertised in the Chicago papers for more
men and have also inserted notices to the
same effect in the Eastern papers and
those of Milwaukee, st. Louis and Kansas
City, Mr.. Michael Cudaway, who is man.
ager Of Armour Il Co. s house, said to Mr.
j. c. Hately:
"Well, / am ready to shut down for
thirty or sixty days, and give these fellows
all they want"
$50 am l." said Mr.. Hately, and the
two head men of the Packers Committee
separated, each to 90 to his own house.
One of the smaller packers said that
the pork houses would probably shut
down for an indefinite period, while the
beef houses would be run with imported
men. Butchers have inserted notices in
the papers Of all the large cities warning
men to stay away from the stock yards.
THE MILITIA.
| At II o'clock this forenoon the first reg
iment marched from their armOry to the
Lake Shore station and from there they
were transported TO the stock yards
! There has been no serious disturbance at
the yards yet, hut the assaults on the
nOn-uniOn men are growing more frequent.
| As working progressed the crowds sur
rounding the entrances TO the yards IN
creased. The strikers became most obsti-
nate and the Deputy Sheriffs found greater
difficulty in dispensing them. Armour 4
Co. had about $50 of their old men who
had refused to strike, at work killing hogs,
but this was the only hog house in the
yards running. Knight of Labor Barry
said he had not as vet been able to get all
the facts in regard to the strike, and did
not know what action he would take. He
proposed. however, to have q talk with
the packers during the day, and hoped TO
secure the coming about of an amicable
settlement of the trouble. About 9
o'clock the crowds at the yards got more
| turbulent and assaults on non-union men
became more frequent. One man who was
on his way to Fowler's packing house was
intercepted while walking over a viaduct
which leads to the house.
Three or four men picked him up and
threw him over to the ground below, a
distance of over thirty feet He was very
badly injured.
RIOTOUS STRIKERS ARRESTED.
Pat Collins and Mike Sullivan were
brought to the Armory Police Station dur
ing the morning and charged with assault.
They were arrested by officer McGraw and
Flannigan, of the Thirtieth street station.
About seven o'clock Henry Sharp and
VIM. Oakley passed Thirty-eighth and
Laurel streets on their way to work at
Armour's A crowd of over two hundred,
the leaders of whom are alleged to be Col
lins and Sullivan, attacked the two work
ingmen. Oakley was almost killed, the
assailants jumping on him and kicking
him in a frightful manner. But for the
arrival of officers Flannigan and McGraw,
who drove the crowd back at the point of
their revolvers, the two men would proba-
bly, have lost their lives.
The militia numbering about 700 men
arrived at the stock yards without incl
dent. They left the cars at Forty-third
street, marched through the yards to Fur
guson's packing house. The crowds cheer
ed them family on their arrival but yelled
and jeered at the PinkertOn men on their
rounds. All the men arrested for making
assaults this morning were taken before 4
Justice and fined from $50 TO 500 each.
oNINOUS QUIET.
At Sis this evening an Associated
Press reporter arrived direct from Pack
ingtOwn and the headquarters of the First
and Second Regiments /. \. G. At 7:30
all was perfectly quiet in the vicinity of
the Stock Yards. No disturbance had
occurred during the day, and there were
no grounds for fears Of any during the
night. The neighborhOOd is now deserted,
save for the First and Second Regiments
State Militia stationed there, and the sher-
IFS deputiesand Pinkerton men, who have
been on guard duty since the trouble