| Show GROWING POWER fop fon some days past the dispatches have had bad considerable to say regarding the stock yards strike at chicago it is very extensive and is materially affecting an important industry th the e preparation of beef for market one of its most striking features is the clr ch comstance cum stance that the differences that led to it are not to be settled between the strikers aud and packers direct but between the packers and the officers of the national organization of the knights ot labor the packers and strikers are in chicago but one of the parties to the negotiations for a settlement grand master workman powderly is in richmond va and no compromise not approved by him will be agreed to it appears that a mr barry has been empowered to agree upon terms in behalf of the strikers but as he is only the representative of powderly and will undoubtedly be governed by instructions from him it is virtually powderly who is negotiating with the packers powderly in turn is the chosen leader and agent of a vast organization of bone and muscle the knights of labor who are now beginning to make their power felt in the settlement of strikes riken st no matter in what portion of the union they occur and so thoroughly are they perfecting their organization and policy that they are able to wield a power calculated to make capitalists tremble no better illustration of this fact is needed than to see a great strike in chicago settled upon terms dictated by leaders ot of the knights of labor in convention asse assembled in richmond vaas the one in question seems about to be |
