Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-11
A CAVALRY REGIMENT
REQUIRED TO REINFORCE THE MIL
TIA AT THE STOCK YARDS.

| A Number of New York Workmen Start
for Chieaso-Between 5000 and 5000
Men Now Working-knights Expelled
from the Order-The Boycott Begun on
Armours Products.
CHICAGO, Nov 1.-THE troops were dis
tributed about the stock yards Wednesday
morning Just as they We're Tuesday morning.
New men reported for duty at nearly all of
the houses Wednesday morning and kept
coming all the forenoon A detachment Of
fifty men came out to Armour's on the Lake
Shore dummy train, mixed crowd OF white
and colorei men
The experience of the first two days con-
WINGED Gen. Fitz-Simons that his infantry
roull lie reinforced with advantage by a
regiment Of cavalry He conSt quently.
made requisition on the governor for the
First cavalry To be sent down Wednesday
morning.
Sheriff Hanchett received "A dispatch from
ten Ftz Slmons Wednesday morning stat
ing that between 500 or 1000 men were at
work in the packing houses.
The Butchers assembly has taken action
to prevent its affairs being carried to the
packers camp by expelling alleged unfaith-
full members Master Workman Sylvester
Gamt E. r. Harper and Thomas F. Dolan,
OF assembly 1,s02, have been voted out The
present strike is said to have been the result
If an exposure to the packers of scheme
to have kent's men strike between Nov. Z
and II, and I've recalled on the eight hour
schedule. Mr. Barry also accuses Master
Workman Butler of opposing the plans of
the general executive board put in operation
by him as delegate, III order to affect his po-
titical prospects as candidate for sheriff Do
lanS otfense consisted in writing letters to the
papers, in which he said too much
Sylvester Count, the expelled master work
man of the butchers assembly, denies Mr.
Barry statement that he was unfaithful to
the strikers. He says that the only issue is
that Mr. Barry insists upon holding out for
eight hours against the opinion of Mr. Pow
derby, with which Count agrees that it is
notyet time for such stand and against the
interests of the men The packers, he says,
with their millions, and fortified as they are,
are bound to win, and Barry is only iniuring
the men by his belligorent tactics Barrys
act was that of ID demagogue, Count said in
conclusion
a telegram from New York says: Fowler
Bros, the Chicago packers, inserted an adj
vertlseInent i'll a morning paper Tuesday
morning for ,0A3 workmen to go west imme-
dlateiy. They offered to butchers. trimmcrs,
aud labnfers steady work at good pay and |
- many men were anxious to accept that |
the street in front OF their Broad street office
was bloc&aded for over an hour Each APP
piicant was asked a series of questions as to |
his age. nativity. and experience in the bust |
ness, and thoS- who seemed the most |
robust were accepted. At 80 O'Clock |
Tuesday night 5l2 men were put on
board on Erie railroad transfer boat on the |
North river under a guard Of thirty police
men, and ten minutes later thu boat left for
the Erie depot in Jersey City On landing
the men We're hurried On board u special train
OF seven eHli-rant cars that awaited them
and which formed the second section of the
regular 9 p. III. Chicago express 1t left at
9:2O and as it pulled away the doors of the
cars were locked and guarded So as To pre-
vent any "ne from leaving the train. This |
guard Viii L. kept up until the train reaches
Chicago
The boycott has already been declared by |
the general executive board of the Knights |
Of Labor. sad Mr. Barry, at noon Wednes- |
day. 1t begins ON Armour'S meats and |
other products How far We shall extend it
us to other packers | can not say yet"
"Nill MIR Powderly come here
81 don't think So but hr may do 81 before |!
this thing Is over"
Is there any change in the situationT
None that ! know of. | have given up |
making any efforts to arhitrate We are now |
on the warPath for Scalps~
There was "a crowd Of j. 900 or & On0 men at |