St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-02
FOR TEN HOURS TIME.
The Employers at the Chicago Stock Yards
Contemplate Radical and Sum-
mary Measures.
They Want an 0ld-Fashioned Days Labor
From the Men in Their
Factories,
And If Eight Hours is Insisted on Will
Lock Out Over 10000
Workers.
A Pfttsburg Firm Makes It's Hands q
Generous Financial Pro-
position.
AGreatLock-Out.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-The statement is re-
published this afternoon that great lock-
out at the stock yards had been decided
upon sometime during this month. The
packing houses will all close down and re-
main closed until the question of eight
hours or ten hours is settled. One of the
large packers said this morning:
Trouble is CT course expected. 1t will be
a long fight, but we can't run on eight hours
with the other houses around US running on
ten hours. So the trouble might as well
come at once as to drag along until we are
compelled to shut down by losses. 1t is likely
that several of the houses will start I'D in a
small way on the ten-hour schedule, and
make the fight
The Chicago Packing & Provision COM
pany has already shut down for repairs.
That is what all the packing company Of
ticers say, and this is probably the
SECRET OF THE DENIAL
of the packers that this is to be '.lock-
out" The houses will shut down one
after another for repairs. When they open
/ it will be on ten hours time or not at all.
At this time of the year it is customary for
all the houses which have been running all
summer to shut down for repairs. This
October, however, the shut down will be
ohSdlLO0AI- IL Will lllO uOuS6S LIE
opportunity to throw on their men the
onus of the fighting. The houses will be
closed. Those who apply for work can go
to w ork On ten hours OF
THEY CAN STAY OUT.
Meanwhile all the houses at Kansas City,
Omaha, Milwaukee, Springfield. ST. Louis
apd elsewhere will be running day and
night. The fact of the lockout is authori-
tative. So is the tact that the packers are
all acting together. There is no doubt at
all about there being concert of action.
Yet the packers are all SO reticent, and
some of them deny the fact so glibly that
to one not verSed in their ways their denialS
would be accepted. There is, however, no
doubt that the lockout is agreed to. as prep
arationS are going forward to make long
and stubborn fight for the ten-hour ques-
ton. A hog buyer said this morning:
There is plainly something in the wind at
the stock yards, but just what it is nobody
knows. The houses are going to close down
very soon. They can better afford to make a
fight in October than in November. Hogs
are high now, and by cutting down and fore
ing the ten-hour fight the packers would really
make their expenses by the depression of the
price Of hogs.
Twenty thousand people will be deprived
of employment by the great lockout. 1t is
OAPCSlCO eua9 WILL OuSI q SluDbOIu To-
sistance, and it is not thought improbable
that the fight will lead to Dloodshed.
Giving Their Men Show.
PITTsBURG, Pa. Oct. 1.-The Rochester
Lumber company has notified their en-
pl0yes that part of the concerns profits
will be distributed among them at the end
of the term beginning Oct. 4, 1886, and con-
Guiding October. 1887. tits also proposed
to distribute about $4,000 among the men
as recognition of faithful service. The
money will be paid as a bonus for making
big wages. The employees earning the
largest wages will be given $3.50, the second
1925 and so down to the tenth man, who
will receive $40. The shop making the
largest turn will be given 500. to be di-
vided among the men, and the boy who is
not absent turn will be presented with
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