The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-18
Symptoms Of Riot in New York, VII
Harrisburg and HobOken.
THE CoACHMAKERs CAPITULATE.
Meetings Of the Metal Workers, Master Masons,
wheelwrights and Blacksmiths, Coach Paint
ero, Steam Filters, Brass Founders and
Finishers, Granite Cutters, Car
Drivers and Shirt Cutters
Progress of the Strikes in Hoboken and
Williamsburg.

Yesterday was full OF import to the unions en-
gagged in the strike for the eight-hour system The
metal workers took such action as will ex-
tend and give force to the movement and
that gave q new lease of hope and in
creased enthusiasm to the men. The pianoforte
manufacturers, however, who held meeting In
Union square, stated that two-thirds OF the men
had returned to work under the ten-hour system,
and that only four establishments were wholly Idle.
The Messrs Brewster 4 Co., OF Broome street,
also announce in a note to the HERALD that their
entire force Is again at work ten hours per day and
without any increase OF wages
The cabinet makers OF Philadelphia, in telegram
received at Teutona Hall in this city yesterday,
complain OF lying dispatches sent to their city by
employers here, and promise that they will hold
out to the bitter end
over one hundred men. employees OF the Union
White Lead Works Brooklyn, and the workmen In
Hall, Bradley Co.'s Lead Works, struck yesterday
morning. and the entire police force Of the city, 1t
Is stated, has been on duty day and night for the
last ten days.
Though the sugar renners of the city are and
employed at Durant's refinery, in East Twenty tfth
street, have for some reason refused to join the
movement. A large delegation nom the Union
unsuccessful News Of the gathering having been
end street police station, he, with fifty patroimen
FASTENED to the scene. He ordered them to dis
ne IN hes M sraes e
thing but the order they had received,
and bleeding. Some three hundred Of them, at q
later hour, assembled at the Walhalla Hall, in Or
chard street, and made plteous complaints OF the
q hat
In their humble position and quiet action they
should receive kinder treatment. The story Of
these men was first published some weeks since In
the HERALD They work for thirteen to fourteen
hours day In rooms heated to eighty or ninety
degrees Fahrenheit, and receive only 81 80 per day.
All they ask Is 81 SO for ten hours work
The Iron and Metal Workers-Delega-
tions Sent Out East, West and South
to Agitate the Eight-Hour Question.
All yesterday the iron and metal workers were in
session at Germania Assembly Rooms, Bowery, and
alarge.amount OF business was despatched.
delegation Of twelve was sent to make tour
OF the Eastern cities to agitate the eghthour ques
ton. These men organized a meeting last night at
Bridgeport and hold another tonight in New
Haven.
delegation OF six went away to organize unions
In the towns OF New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Maryland. They held meeting last night at Perth
Amboy and hold one tonight ut Chester, Pa;
thence they go to Philadelphia and to Wilmington
Del
delegation OF two from the iron and metal
workers joined a large committee from the Erie
Railway machinists, and with them Will visit all
the large manufacturing towns on the Erie road,
through to Buffalo and Dunkirk.
Reports were received from eight additional
shops as having capitulated The men returned to
work in these, and there are now 800 members OF
this organization working under the eght-hour
system.
Committees from the Singer Protective Union re-
the company that unless they are Immediately
furnished with supplies they will have to put other
machines In the market to replace theirs. The
men argue nom this that the mandatory can
not much longer suspend operations, but will be
reOpened early next week.
The employees OF the New York Needle Company,
whose factory Is in Forty-first street. have joined
the strike, and yesterday sent committee to In
form the metal workers OF the fact
1t was announced superintendent Kelso had
dered that no police should take the field In future
without there we're absolute riOtous demonstrations
on the part OF the wOrkingmen.
The receipts of the Treasurer OF this organization
from the $500 men now working are $4,000 per
week, these men paying as already announced In
the HERALD, So each weekly. On Friday the first
distribution to the men who require funds for the
support OF their families will take place.
steel shaft, about five feet and half in length
and weighing about fifty pounds, was presented to
the organization. 1t was used In an attack upon
one Of the men recently, and when he attempted to
escape 1t was hurled after him into the street.
where 1t was picked up and carried away 'fn me-
ntOr1dn' OF q narrow escape from death.