Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-15
ANOTHER STRIKEE ENDED.
Grand Master Powderly and the Exec
utiYe Committee X. Of l.. Declare
the Chicago Strike on.
powDERLY srops n.

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CHICAGO, Ill, Nov l4-At the meet
ing Of the striking packers last night, q
dispatch was read by MIR. Barry from Mr..
Powderly, ordering the strikers TO return
TO work. The sentiment OF the meeting
was equally divided, and further action
on the matter was postponed until Mon
day. Itsppears that Mr.. Barry has had
the order IN his possession since Wednes-
day. He claims TO have delayed It's read
/ ing solely for the purpose OF satisfying
| Himself OF its authenticity. The scene
In the meeting was an extra.
ordinary one. Mr.. Barry had not
finished the announcement before
the assemblage was In an uproar. The
men rose to their feet and shouted that
they would never 20 back; that they
would starve before they would surreD-
der; that they would have eight hours or
nothing. After much heated talk the
question OF obeying or not obeying, was
left open by postponement until Mon
day AT late hour Mr. Barry, looking
weary and careworn, made the following
statement to The reporters; "The ball
was crowded-1lled to OVERLOOKING. My
order TO the men TO return to work at
ten hours day aud Mr.. Powderly's dis
patch 10 then, were both read. They
were received with displeasure by
the men, who manifested their displeasure
IN loud protests and general cries of ono
ten hours, " 1--WE won't go back" "eight
hours only" and "we'll die first" 1t
was the most excited body ever saw.
and others counseled them to obey the
order and return to work, not to take &C
ton tonight when they were excited but
at meeting Of their assem-
blies tomorrow decide on the matter.
My judgment in ordering the men would
have been otherwise than that Of Mr..
Powderly and the general executive board,
and think II other members Of the board
had been mere they would have thought
the same. l did not care to give my rea-
sons In detail. The Knights of Labor
favor the eight hour plan; the view OF
the general board was that so many peo.
pie worked from eleven TO sixteen hours a
day that they had better seem to have
the ten-hour plan established first The
closing OF the strike depends on the
men, whether they will obey or not. am
in hopes they will obey the order after
listening with cool heads to wise counsel
did not know that the dispatch which
came on Wednesday was authentic, so l
wired Mr.. Powderly on Thursday. ON
Friday afternoon, he replied that
it was authentic. l then SAW more
OF the packers, and finally took
steps to bring about the meeting of to-
night for the purpose of reading the dis
patch and issuing the order for the resump-
ton of work on Monday morning. /
sought to have none but union men en-
Moved in the nackinp-honsps and IN hava
the imported men removed. l was given
to understand that the packers would
hold no non-unionis's. This is
not healthy atmosphere for
non 'unionists at present, though
In my Judgment the struggle on the part
OF the packers was q political move to
contest the town election next spring and
not question of eight or ten hours. |
have received information from reliable
sources to the effect that the showing of
the large labor vote at the last election
caused them to fear labor men might be
elected to the town Offices, especially
those of assessor, the town board and
supervisors The packers are alleged to
have said that they would lodge and feed
in the yards this winter 5000 men, so as
to control their votes next spring, and so
capture the town. The old valuation Of
the stock yards was $4,000 Now it has
been raised to Ss0O,O00 The real valua-
tion is from S27 100000 to $50, 900, 900.
They feared that the representatives of
LABOR would raise their assessments aud
make them pay their honest share as well
as the poor men. They may go on with
their cooperative scheme. They are ter
rlbly In earnest over it,"