Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-20
THE BEEF BUTCHERS OUT.
Twelve Hundred Armour Beef Butchers
Join the Hog Killers I'm Idleness.

Twelve Hundred Armour Beef Butchers
Join the Hog Killers An Idleness.
CHICAGO, H., Oct. 15.-The situa-
ton at the Stock Yards was further
complicated, this morning, by the re-
fusal OF the 1,2OO beef-butchers en-
ployed by Armour TO 60 to work.
This long-threatened move-the strike
of the observation-disclosures decided on
at p meeting last night.
Knight of Labor Barry, sent here
from Richmond to try and effect a.
settlement, says he is satisfied he can
do no good here, as the packers will
not treat with him as an association,
and he will leave for Richmond imme-
diately, to lay the case before the
Knights convention.
Packingtown, the scene of the great
strike, was filed this morning with
crowds of men, who stood idly about
discussing the situation,
The order for the beef and sheep
killers to strike this morning was con-
fined to the Armour establishment.
The beef departments of the other
houses are running as usual. This is
taken as indicating that the fight by
the Knights of Labor is being directed
solely against Armour, and the latter
states it as his view that the General
Assembly Of the Knights of Labor
will not countenance this move, as he
declares that the situations the same
| In all the houses, and that the only
difference is that his firm is employing
q larger number of men than any
other. The Armour firm is not at
tempting to operate either its beef Or
pork killing departments, this morn
ing. The firm now has 600 men at
work preparing goods for shipment,
but announces that it will start up all
branches as soon as g. sufficient num-
Der of workmen have been engaged,
and to this end is Offering large induce
ments to men to enter it's employ.
The firm does not expect to be able to
resume in all it's departments for two
or three weeks. Everything was quiet
at the yards, this morning.
A BITTER FIGHT.
The opinion is gaining ground that
long and bitter contest between the
packers and their employees at the
stock yards is inevitable. All at
tempts by Delegates Barry and Butler
to negotiate or compromise the ques-
tions raised by the strike have signal
~ failed. The packers havenot shown
disposition to discuss the matter in
an official manner, and the strikers are
disposed to regard this treatment in
the light of challenge.
Illustrating general feeling among
the packers, one of the most promi-
nent ones said to reporter when APP
preached on the subject: "We won't
submit to any system but that of ten
hours for days work at ten hours
pay; in other words, an unconditional
surrender or nothing. attended
meeting Of the packers, the other day,
when the matter was fully dis
cussed." The gentleman said it
had been determined upon to hire
new men. He said the green hands
could be easily broken in, in spite of
the statement OF the strikers that their
places could not be filed. "Of course"
said he, sit will take time to fill all the
houses. We, as an association, intend
to start the big concerns going first.
We have advertisements and men all
over the country, and already the
men are beginning to come in
as result of these agencies.
Armour and the Anglo-American
will be running with full forces next
week. When these two houses are
running full-handed the fight is practi-
cally won. We can easily lay up for
few weeks-months for that matter.
Ten hours we will have, and we don't
intend to see any committee either. If
the men wish to return on that basis
they can do so as individuals" The
opinion of this packer was read to
others and was pretty generally en-
dorsed.
After the meeting of District Assem-
bly, No. 81 had adjourned at an early
hour this morning, Delegate Barry
said, referring to the ordering out of
Armour's beef men: "We haveformal-
ly declared war on the big pork specu-
lator, and it will be war to the knife,
and the knife to the hilt. I shall get
to Richmond now before the conven-
ton adjourns, and you may depend
upon it that Mr.. Armour's meats
throughout the United States will be
an unknown quantity in less than three
months. We intend to fight an aggres-
sive battle, and Armour with his mill
ions will either be brought to terms
or be relegated to the position of re-
tired, if not a bankrupt pork-packer.
shall take care of them; besides, the
closing down of the industry here does
not necessarily do away with it alto
gether. The demand is bound to be
supplied; if not here, elsewhere"