The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
| STOCK YARDS STRIKERS.
THE ASS OCIATION BEATS THEM
By DISsOLVING.

ROADS Interested Eut 1nelr own
Men at Work-Ihe Big Packing
Firms among the Heaviest Losers.
CHICAGO, Aug 26-Tne strike Of the
switchmen of the Stock Yards Switching
Associatiol, after the grievances Of the
engineers and fremen had been adjusted
yesterday. put a new phase on the situation.
aud this morning it was decided to dissolve
the association and allow each road to do
Its own switching. Supt. Berro of the
Rock Island, aud Supt. Besler of the Bur -
lington, together with several other mem
bers Of the old directory of the switching
association, went TO the stock yards to per
sonally assume the direction of the fight
The striking swtchmen were told
that their services were no longer required,
and new men were procured TO do the
switching. During the early hours of the
morning little was done in the way of clear
ing the tracks OF freight cars, but it was
announced that the work would commence
In earnest shortly before noon. Supt
Marsh went down to the stock yards this
morning at the head of 300 men to take
charge Of the police arrangements there and
see that no violence as committed.
The stockyard switchmeu have given up
the fight The dissolution OF the Switching
Association left them nothing TO strike
against. Five different roads had seven
| engines at work in the yards this afternoon,
and the yards were cleared by nightfall.
COST 100000
The strike has cost those directly inter
ested not far from $500, 900 The packers
who shipped their meat to meet certain
steamers and markets have been unable to
| do so, and contracts made have
been forfeited. There were this
morning fully $50 cars of dressed meat in
| the yard, and eech car contained q, 900
| pounds, and the loss at the market price
means considerable. Swift 81 Co. S cars, that
have been standing near their house since
Friday, were opened this morning and their
contents found to be spoiled totally and
unit for anything but tanklng purposes.
NO KILLING DONE.
| None Of the big packers. with the excep-
ton of Swift & Armour. did any killiug to-
day, and they did very little. In the stock
Yards but little purchasing is being done
The buyers aud sellers this morning assem-
bled under the runways and discussed the
| strike. The receipts are decidedly large,
| considering the circumstances.
| The police have driven all the strikers
out of the yards, and have formed Gordon
about the place to keep them ont.
The first road to make a move was the
| w dOdSll. IL 1du UuTbb engines Tue YdTuS,
and when the engineers refused to take
them out, officers of the road mounted the
cabs in the opacity of engineers and fire.
men, while others undertook the duties of
swltchmen, and the engines were taken to
the roundhouse amid tue ieers of he idlers
| Then came the ne VS. to the STR King switch
men assembled in conference that the
switching association had been dissolved
The meeting broke up hurriedly, the strikers
zIn fhaff haxy cf-ilx
space.
| HAVEN'T ASKED TO BE TAKEN BACK.
A report circulated early in the evening
that the striking stockyard switchmen had
repented of their haste and asked to be
taken back by the association at the old
rate of wages, is found to be groundless
The swltchmen are still out tonight and
Packing Town is idle once more The roads
have dissolved their switching association,
| declared the strikers discharged and say
each road will do its own switching.
MAY BE A GENERAL TIE-UP.
EVERY Chicago railroad and all their
connections, and every railroad in the
United States will be tied up unless there is
a withdrawal of the demands Of the strik-
ing Swltchmen of the Stockyards Switch
ing Association" These were the words of
General Manager Chappell of the Chicago
and Alton railway to-day in speaking of the
strike at the yards inauguarated last even
ing by the switchmen employed
by the Stockyards Switching
Association after the strike of
the engineers and firemen had been settled.
THE railways will not grant the demands
OF the switchmen and will not yield to their
threats. No amount of injury to property
or months of idlenes;, and not even absolute
loss of every cent of revenue by the Chicago
roads will swerve the roads from this
course.
DISCUSSED BY THE MANAGERS.
"This matter was discussed at meeting
OF the general managers last night
after word had been received that
the stockyard switchmen had
struck. The general managers of
nearly all the roads were present, and they
were fortified by the presence of many
presidents and vice presidents. All were
authorized at previous consultation TO
enter into an agreement to fight to the end,
no matter what the result may be,
and every man entered into
such an agreement, which is that all the
Chicago railroads will stand together to
oppose the UNJUST demands made on the
stockyards' association, or upon any of
the interested railroads.
DON'T CARE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES.
1T is the first time that the railways
ever united They will stand as firm as a
rock, however, If it ties up every
road in the country indefinitely
and bankrupts all of those
making wars. 1t has come to a question of
the roads being bankrupted by their en-
ployes, and the roads have decided to fight.
l expect that every Chicago road will be tied
up. How much further the war will extend
no one can foretell, but the fullest scope of
stagnatlon has been canvassed throughout.
and our course is laid out Our course as
agreed upon has been made necessary
by the demands and lawess conduct of the
men. They quit work without a moments
notice, leaving thousands of dollars worth
of freight to perish. They do not meet us
fl st in arbitration, but inflict injury that is
beyond calculation in dollars and cents.
There seems to be no power in the courts
TO check the men. To get
that power is the reason of
the combine entered into by the railroads.
As to this last unwarranted demand, | will
say that it means an advance Of the pay of
every switchlnan in the country.
PRESENT PAY OF THE swITCHMEN.
THE present pay Of the switchmen is SIS
per month for the night foremen of crews.
$40 foe day foremen and S65 for day help
erS. These figures are on the basis of tea
hours per day for twenty-six days.
Over time and Sundays are paid for at an
advance over the scale. The men all earn
from SS5 to S95 month This scale of
wages was given the men in the settlement
OF the strike of 1881. II is the standard
scale and extends all over the country