The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-10-14
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st the stock yards have Al
most unanimously resolved not TO return
to the packing district Monday. The
question as to whether the hog men Will
allow the beef men to work Is now being
discussed and the prevailing impressions
il that the locked out men will not allow
ANYBODY 10 work IN any of the packing
houses. Should they conclude 70 prevent
the beet men from working, about SoOOO-
men will be thrown out Of employment,
There seems no way TO avoid q crisis as
the packers are determined and the men
cay they will never accede.
The great strike of the employees OF the
Chicago packing house against PROPOSE
ton to return to ten hours Tor Working
day began this morning. A commtsee o.
fifteen hundred men employed BY the Chi
cago Packing s. Provision Co, visited on
the foreman OF the works and demanded
that the notice be taken down. The de-
mand Was refus' and the men at once
| left the building, ard were Joined BY 500
men employed in the Silver Horn works.
Thus reinforced the large force went in a.
body to the Armour works 10 induce the
men there to stop work. There 10 great
| excitement at the yards but no trouble
has yet occurred.
| The crowd OF strikers failed 10 induce
/ the Armour employees and Anglo American
workmen TO stop work and departed with
out attempting anything compulsory.
1 Everything lie quiet at the yards.
| This afternoon large BODY OF edol.
tional workmen went on a strike and riot
occurred at the works OF John Morrill,
where q number OF persons were nurt-
| The entire police force Of the town OF
Lake and two PinkeTton men armed with
rifles, have gone to the scene.
Affairs became more quiet after the
arrival of the police. It was found that
some Of the Morren employees were In.
iured by the attack made on them, bus
none seriously. Three hundred Pinker-
ton men are guarding the houses to-
night. The representatives OF the sl1vef
Horn packing house declared that New
York and other eastern buyers were
sending their orders to Kansas City,
which necessitated the change to the
same hours there.
Armour & Co. posted 9 notice to-night
notifying to come and receive iheir pay
to morrow. Il is deemed positive that
; the houses all contemplate keeping closed
down, for q short time at least. 8. w.
Meek, attorney for the executive board
of the Knights Of Labor, to- night, on be-
half OF the workiDgmen involved, issued
the following statement to the press:
The posting of the announcement OF
return to the ten-hour system on
Thursday by the packers caused
the men employed by the Chicago pack:
ing house and provision company and
SIIyerhorn s. Co. to leave their work, not
for violence and mob rule. but thorough
Iy organized for determined resistance in
fair and honorable way, and they ask
. that the people be not PIT JUDGED against
them hv hssty and erroneous reports OF
violence, written to serve the interests OF
the pSckers. The worktDRmen have
taken their stand only after an otter OF 9
fair and hOnC st settlement OF their di!-
ferences has been refused BY their
employers. Contracts EMPLOYING the
agreements already had between the
packers and their employees have been
rejected by the packers, and II ts simply
question of the packers their
agreements. They are on trial and moi
tue workingmen. The action OF the cute
!. ters In returning to their work and care
D fully clearing up and completing the
work on hand by the directions Of their
leaders, shows both the spirit OF fairness
with which they regard the interests OF
D their employers and the absence OF all
desire on their part TO cause loss
or waste of the necessaries OF life. It
shows, moreover, the perfect organization
never before attained by the working
men. q portion of them returning TO
their work for . d. flute time by direc-
ton of their leaders, for the express pur-
pose Of saving their employers from loss
D of perishsble property. The working
men involved ask Of the public only
: fair and honest judgment of their actions
and TO remember that their interests are
the interests OF the wholeop-
America.
= At6p. ID, 1853 PIckerton detectives 50
down to supper at the Transit house with
: Winchester rifles between their knees.
Captain Foley in charge said that by 20
morrow he would have 5000 men in and
about the pards. The strikers express the
idea that the packers have deep laid
scheme to fill the houses with new men
: willing TO work ten hours day. Ii 10
said that to thste nd the employers hEd oeeH
conflicting men at the outside tor months.
CHICAGO, Oct. 0-Advlces from tho
D stock yards report the situation unchanged
| there this morning and no disturbances OF
any kind have occurred. Armour q 20.
say that the report that their beef killers
had also Joined the strikers, is mistake,
: and that this part of their establishment
as we'll as those of other packers IL run
ming as usual. The strikers have been
confined TO the hog killers.
Over one hundred and fifty Pinkertnn
men were lodged and breakiasted at the
Trar sit house last night and at z O'Clock
this morning, they emerged from the
dining room and ehouldered their Win
chester rifles, which were stacked IN the
lobby. Capt Foley called the men TO cat
tention." They were then marched OF
through the yard and at each packing house
q squad OF men were lett IN me snu II
charge of q sergeant, and were defiled
throught the yards and were stationed at
various corners, where they could COM
mend q view of the entire premises. This
morning IL was rumored throughout the
y yards that the packers had appointed q
committee to adjust the difficulties with
the men. 1t was asserted that the packers
had been making money under
the schedule of wages and were
satisfied with an advance but could not
2 afford to allow their machinery to remain
9 idle for two extra hours. The terms OF
{ settlement to be offered to the men, II was
claimed, was to advance their wages for
p ten hours work to the same rate per hour
paid during the last five months for eight
D hours. This, IL was said by some OF the
men, will be satisfactory. The situstion
from business point of view is decidedly
gloomy one, for the market is very dull.
There is no demand for fat hogs for pack
ing, but there is some little demand for
light hogs tor the eastern market.