Show Ordered Out CHICAGO 230 p m Novembers The Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor have just issued an order directing all the men employed in the packing establishments of the Union stockyards in both beet and pork packing departments to stop work at 3 oclock this afternoon This makes the strike general and throws fully 25000 men out of work It is not known jet whether the men wiHrespjnd promptly to this new order CHICAGO 330 p m November The men employed in three of the packing pack-ing houses quit work shortly after 3 o clock The men at Armours remained re-mained at work and it was thought they would not stop work this afternoon after-noon There sems to be indications that the strikes of the packing town are weaken ing A careful review of the situation tonight reveals that the contract re ferred in thee dispatches between Nelson Morris and the executive board of Cattle Butchers assembly thouzh i not signed by the parties of the second part was tacitly accepted by them and went into effect Monday morning This is admitted by two members of that board while another tonight denied any knowledge of the contract and said no order to strike had been issued by the general executive board and claimed that not more than a thousand man were out It is learned from the Chicago Time that fully 10000 men are out among them being employees of every packing I house At the yards very few of i Armours men are out however the strikers being mostly employees of Fowler Brothers Silberhorn and the Chicago Packing Company There is a difference of opinion among employees as to the authority of District Master Workman Butler to order the strike some claiming that such action lies only in the province of the executive board It is said that the steadier and cooler heads of employees are very much opposed to a general strike while the movement is chiefly agitated by restless characters and the socalled hoodlum element There is nothing i whatever in the nature of a disturbance at the yards tonight Half an hotr i after closing time scarcely an employee was to be seen about tbefyardd |