New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-06
FIVE THOUSAND MEN ON STRIKE.
ARMOUR's wORKMEN LEAVE HIM AGAIN.
A FINAL EFFORT BY THE CHICAGO PACKING HooeH
EMPLOYEES FOR TIE EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
LEY TELEGRAPH TO TILE TRIBUNE.

A FINAL EFFORT BY THE CHICAGO PAChiNu "NSS|
EMPLOYEES FOR THE KIGHT-HOUR DAY.
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CHICAGO Nov 5-Another strike was begun at the
stock wards to-day, which now involves about o,Ooo
men, The strike WAS ordered, it is SAID, by Master
Workman Butler OF the Knights OF Labor, but the
latter denies his agency in the matter As result Oh
his alleged order all of the employed in the teei
killing establishments at the yards with the exception
of about 800 employed by Armour quit Work early IN
the day The remaining men in Armours stopped WORK
during the forenoon but at noon 200 of them returned
to work ON the promise made by the packers that tey
would be given protection. 1t was declared that inc
o,killers would also be ordered out. thus making
the strike general for an eight-hour working day ana
causing fully 10000 men to quit work. Regarding
the matter, Philip d. Armour said:
|" The fight is again and we shall act promptly
and decidedly, as before Our beef men began going
out this morning do not suppose it will stop with
the beet men, for the hogers will probably be Or
dercd out But all this will not stop business Other
men the road now TO take their places. Ihere
will be this difference from the former STRIKE the new
men who 20 into the houses will go in to stay;
whether the strike ends in day or year. there VIII
be trouble to fill all the old mems places as soon as
1t is known that they vacant"
The strike has none of the elements of popularity OF
the former strike. The storekeepers gloomy over
it. The, their claims against the men endan-
gered and their business for time at least, cut 10
pieces. The striking beet men are as a class men
who have been accustomed to big pay and short hours
The dressed beef business is comparatively new ana
all the 0OOO men who were at work for Armour,
Swift and Norris have ,me here within the past few
years from New-York, Boston or Philadelphia, where
beef saug ghterng used to be done. All three OF the
houses continued sau ghter cattle during the day
but Swift and Morris shipped good many cattle 70
New-l ork and Boston to be sau ghtered The shefln
of the county has been induced to display greater
activity than at the former strike, and 300 men,
mostly Pinkeron men, were sworn in deputy sherlhs
this afternoon and were sent TO the yards 10
property 1t is the general belief that the majority
of the men have heart in the present strike and tha
if the issue pressed by the leaders of the knighs OF
Labor that it will result in srupng the order at the
yards. H. Botsford gro .'nent packer, in speaking
OF the strike said
don't know what those .nc want We have bech
paving higher scale of prices than anywhere else III
the United States The butchers have been getting
S27 week and common laborers get 90 cents more
dav than In the city here don't believe they know
themselves what they intend TO do"
The Sherh's posse met with some jeering as they
entered the yards, but there was no serious disturb