The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-13
THE STRIKE AT CHICAGO.

Messrs. Barry and Butler Given Power to
Arrange Settlement
CHICAGO Oct 1.-THE committee from the
General Assembly Of Knights of Labor this
morning are having consultations with indvid.
ual owners of the packing houses not finding it
possible to meet with committee representing
the entire packing house interest. The general
situation at the stockyards is unchanged. There
are large waiting crowds about the houses this
morning, but no disturbances have occurred.
The beef men continue working, and the Armour
house Is running its pork department. with re-
duced force.
The strike az the yards has spread, the latest
men to 90 out being ITO employees of the Union
Stockyards Transit Company. OF these. sixty
section hands. and the balance work in the
blacksmith shop. The shop has been closed.
The company notified the men that they would
have 20 work ten hours per day, and they
fused. This has not. yet, interfered with the
business of the company.
Fifteens hundred of the strikers met tonight
and listened TO a report from Messrs Barry and
Butler They stated that they had as yet &C.
complished but little in the way of settlement.
A general discussion of the situation ensued,
which resulted in giving the general executive
board of District 81, together with Messrs.
Barry and Butler, full power to arrange a set
Element.
An advisory committee representing the va
riOus branches of the work in the packing
houses was selected, and permanent head
quarters will be established.
A meeting of the packing house proprietors
was held this evening. but the result was not
made public Armour's beef men are. it is un-
derstood, liable to be ordered out tomorrow or
next day. Mr.. Barry was questioned on the
subject tonight and said: 'sIf the pending ne
gotations fall through, the men employed in the
beef department at Armour's will certainly be
ordered out Mr. Butler, of the executive board
of District Assembly 81, and myself will
meet all the packers tomorrow and endeavor
to effect q settlement. We have talked with
most of the packers to-day. There is only
man standing in the way of amicabe settle
ment There is no probability that the men
employed by Nelson, Morris e. Go. and Swift &
Co. will be ordered out. We are satisfied with
their position in this matter. We have sue
eeeded to-day ID systematizng some matters
which were In a state of chaos. The situation
will change materially in the next twenty-four
hours, but it is impossible to predict what the
the change will be-"
In a published interview concerning the stock
yards strike, Mr.. Armour says: 1.-The day of
Chicagos supremacy as pork-packing center
will soon be a thing of the past Kansas City,
Omaha, Cedar Rapps and other Western points
fast taking the business away from here
Take Kansas City. for instance. The price of
hogs there is % cents per hundred less that it
mere, Wnlle 1relgnt rates 70 all western and
Southern points are as low as ours and her
freight rates to the Atlantic seaboard are only
IL, or at the most, Is cents a hundred higher
It other words, Kansas City's freight rates to
the markets where 80 per cent of our products
are sold are just good ours, while hogs are
cheaper What is true of Kansas City is true in
greater or less degree Of other Western points
Ii is the natural course of events. The corn belt
has moved west and with it hog raising 1t is
history repeating itself. Only few years ago
NNK ha frnp nsx.n
natl and ST. Louis To show that this is not
idle talk, brought on by the present trouble. I
will say that have not added single brick to
my packing house property here 10 Chicago
while in Kansas City. where I already have 81
100000 worth Of packinghouse property, have
built $1,000 worth additional this summer
and between now and next January will build
another $500 900 WORTH