Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-09
TROOPS FACE THE M0BS.
STIRRING SCENES AMONG THE
PACKING HOUSES.
Nou- Union w worRmen BrutalIy Assaulted

Nou-Union workmen Brutally Assaulted
by strikers and One Hurled from n
Bridge The Pack ng FIRMS RUE
Knights of Labor from Their Houses
! F"r~ver-Excit+nen at Fever Heat
Throughout the City.
CHICAGO, Nov. S.-The members of the
First and Second regiments of the Ma
tonal Guard ass I'm bled at their armory
this morning at O'Clock in obedience to
orders from Gov. O4lesby, transmitted
| through Gen. Ft2simmons, Commander
Of the First Brigade.
Perfect quiet reigned in the stock yards
this morning. The tracks in the vicinity
OF the packing houses were patroled by
! deputy sherifs, who kept the small
crowos which congregated on the cor
ners moving. Around the outskirts of
the yards the scene was different. Gangs
OF strikers stood at the entrances, and
men with their dinner pals in their
hands we're deprived Of their pals, and
| in number OF instances were severely
| thrashed. There seem, to ee a deter
mined effort on the part OF the strikers to
! prevent any new men from applying for
! positions winch the former nave lett.
On the other hand the employers seemed
determined not to re-engaSe any of the
strikers.
Capt, Mackey, OF the town of Lake
! police, assured the men who applied every
minute at the town ball that they would
! he protected.
A MONSTER AFFAIR.
To-day marked the commencement of
the greatest strike ever insugurated in
! PackIngtOwn. At 80 O'Clock this morn
ing there were nearly 1900 less men at
| work than at the same time one 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. This morning the status OF
| the strike was somewhat indefinite, the
| only thing absolutely certain being that
the men who were ordered out on Satur-
day unanimously obeyed the order and
| lett their WORK Just in the condition 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 tue mon, not
| auly those In Armour e. Co.'s house
seemed TO doubt tue authenticity OF the
order, and seemed disposed to refuse to
obey 1t, but the appearance of several
| well known comm tteemen allaVed all
| doubts on the subject, and lett the doubt
ers no alternative but to obey or renounee
| their allegiance to the Knights OF Labor.
Many of the men seemed dissatisfied at
being called out. Some openly expressed
their sentiments on the subject, but the
great majority accepted the situation and
went home without murmur.
| TROOPS ON THE MARCH.
| At 10 O'Clock this morning the First and
Second regiments marched from their
| armory to the Lake Shore station aud
| from there were at once transported to
The stock yards. There had been no serI-
| Ous disturbance at the yards vet, but as
! saults on non union men were gro owing
more frequent. AS the morning pro-
gTessed the crowd surrounding the en-
frances to the yards increased. The
strikers became more desperate and The
deputy sherltts found greater difficulty
in dispensing them. Armour 81 Co
had about 150 OF their old men,
who refused to strike, at work
killing hogs, but this was the only hog
house in the yards running. Knight
of LABOR Barry said be had not as vet
been able to get at all the facts in regard
to the strike and did not know what ac-
tion be would take. He proposed, how
ever. TO have talk with the packers dur.
Ing the day, and hoped TO soon bring about
an amicable settlement of the trou Oles
| About O'Clock the crowd at the Yards
grew more turbulent, and the 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 Viaduct which leads to tbs
house. Three or tour men picked MIN uD
and three him over on TO the ground be-
| low, a distance of over 30 feet. He wes
very badly injured.
THE COMMITTEE NOT UNANIMOUS.
The committee which Issued the order
to strike was by no means a unit on the
| subject as to the position of the pack.
| ers. This morning reports diff red. Swift
a. Co, and Nelson Morris had a number
OF imported meU in their houses, and had
made provision to feed and lodge them.
Early this morning a number OF
men arrived from Boston and
were taken to swlfrs house. These
made the number OF new men
there about 800. Nelson Morris had
about 400 aud expected to have a number
more to-day. swift Il Co., have adver-
tised in the Chicago papers for more men,
and have also inserted notices to the
same effect in Eastern papers and the pa
pers oI Milwaukee, st. Louis and Kansas
City.
READY TO SHUT DOWN.
On the other hand Michael Cudahy,
who is manager OF Armour IL CO.'S house,
SAID TO Mr.. j. G. Hately: "Well, Pm
ready 10 smut down Tor thirty or sixty
| days aud give these fellows all they
| want"
$50 am l." said Mr.. Hately, and the
two head men Of the packesr committee
| separated, each 10 90 TO his OWL house,
One of the smaller packers said that
| everything Indicated that the pork houses
would shut down for an indefinite period,
! while the beet houses would be run with
imported men. The butchers have in-
serted notices In the papers of all lar1e
cities warning all wOrkingmen to keep
away from the stock yards.
CALLING OUT THE TROOPS.
A special Dispatch from Springfield,
ILL.,, referring 10 the ordering out of the
State troops at Chicago, says: "GOv.
Oglesby says he does not care TO tax
about the strike and the action he has
taken in ordering out the militia. He ap-
pears TO be lully aware OF tue gravity Of
the situation, and there is no doubt he
will act promptly and edectually TO pre-
serve the peace and project life and prop
erty." A gentleman, present at an inter-
view with Sheriff Hanchett, says: "1he
Sheriff represented to the vernon that
there were $4,000 men on strike at the
ChIcagO stockyards, and that be was ut
terly pOwerless TO cUDe with 30 large q
| body OF strikers with the force at bis COM
mand. He considered il OF the utmost
/ that lha militia ahnutA 10