The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-06
THE BEEF BUTCHERS.
A STRIKE THAT FIzzLED. OUT,
The Master Workman Denies RssponsIbIlI,
ty for the Inauguration of the DlHiCulty
The Workmen'S sIds-Ths Textile
Strike setued-EmpIOyss Kick,

CHICAGO, Nov 5.-In accordance witt
the order OF Master Workman Butler, al
teen hundred Of the besl.klllsrs employed
in Armour's packing house to-day joinet
the strikers already out, in making q de
mand that their employees should re-estab
lish the eight,hour working day, About
two hundred men remained at work II
Armour's beei department, and tina,
house was killing a few cattle, as usual
this morning. The pork men are all Al
work as usual. II Is stated that O force o
Pinkerton guards will arrive at the yards
during the day, Later information from
the stock yards Of q reliable character, in,
diCates that all the pork men will be or.
dered out by the Knights Of Labor, thus
renewing the strike Tor eight hours in al
its former proportions, throwing between
twenty and twenty-five thousand men ouI
Of employment.
There Is not anything talked OF at the
stock yards among either the men or the
storekeepers but the probable result oil
this strike. The stoTekeepeTs are glum
over 1t, They see thoir claims against the
men endangered, and their buainess, for q
time at least, cut TO pieces, The striking
beef men are, as q class, young, sturdy
fellows who give no thought for the NOR.
row. They have been accustomed to biz
paw and short hours, and for the most part
are nomads who travel light, The dressed
beef business 10 comparatively new, and
all the 5000 men who are now at work
for Armour, Swift and Morris have como
here within the past few years from New
York, Boston or Philadelphia, where beef
slaughtering used to be done. When
Swift and Morris Joined the Packers, AS.
aoCiation the strikers were left without o
weapon. The whole beet business Ia done
here, All the owners are in Combina.
ton. There Ia no squabble among tnem
lor each others customers, and they are
all in the same boat. They will ior this
reason feel very much less anxiety about
orders getting away from them,
WHO WAS REsPoSsIBLE
A large majority OF the beeimen at ar.
mours declined to leave their work at the
order promulgated as coming from NJ, j.
Butler, their Master Workman In the
knights Of Labor, Mr.. Butler refused
to-day to acknowledge having Issued the
order for them 10 strike, and denied be.
ing responsible for any such mandate,
Just 400 men out ot the 1900 employed
In Armour's 9 house obeyed the ins.ruc.
tons to quit Fully $50 Of the 400 quickly
TO work. No clear explanation
Of how the order came to be circulated
was obtained this evening. Master Work.
man Butler said he was unwilling to talk
upon the subject further than to state
he was not at the meeting last night
when the order was read, and
that he must dsclaim all knowl.
edge OF the order. NotWiLhstand.
Ing Mr.. Butler's declaration an empploye
who refused to.day to strike said the order
was not only In the handwriting OF the
Master Workman but 1t had also bis Gig.
nature appended TO 1t. The appearance
at the stock yards this evening Of lao
armed men under command ot a deputy
sheriff and Oapt. Foley, Of Pinkerton'a
private police, created q good deal OF ex.
citement, Zach Of the 100 men, when
summoned, was told 10 report at
tho .Pinkerton headquarters. There a
deputy sheriff awore them in as special
deputies. The fact that the men were
sworn In at the Pinkeston headquarters
gave rise to the report that they we're
wholly or In part members Of the Pinker.
ton guard concerned In the recent shoot.
Ing Of Terrence Begley. This the sheriff
and his deputies al first denied, but later
would only give to interrogatiOns eyasiye
replies.
A meeting Of tWenty.three delsgates