The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-24
The LONG STRIKE.
Beginning Of the Eighth Week Of
the Uprising.
A Review and Condition of the
City Yesterday.
Meetings in Town and
Elsewhere.

erings OF the men connected with the labor move
ment yesterday, though they had entered upon the
OF the eighth week OF the revolt What is to be
the termination OF the STRIKE or when it is to be
reached, is a secret that time only can tell. The in
cendiary Speeches and still more ncendiary articles
In some OF their organs have failed to entice the
men into violation Of law and consequent ruin.
On no Sunday OF the two months that have
passed since the inception OF the strike has greater
quiet prevailed or fewer men been seen upon the
streets or in public places. The cessation of indus
try In country of hercuean projects and labors
like this Is fraught with many evil consequences to
all classes at best and it thing to be thank
ul for that the possess the sterling good quail
ties that enable them to resist the Establishments
OF false friends parasites and demagogues who feed
upon them at all times, and who fatten faster in
exact proportion to the depth OF their misery or
the magnitude of their misfoI tunes.
The course OF the iron and metal workers has so
far, and from the first, been such as to inspire
appreciation, and in the prompt denial they made
OF any sympathy with rioters and law-breakers
they won additional aure ts the prospects now
singnaiy peaceful one, and in the event of success
or failure the men engaged IN it will have estab-
llshed purer record than has attached to any
similar uprising of labor, and one TO which they
can If kept unstained, point back on any future
occasion with pride.
The JOurneymen BARRIERS.
The third meeting of this guild was held at the
Teutonia Rooms yesterday, the President, S. Cor
bett in the chair, thanked by Vice President
kafnerere ana the secretary, MT. HlDcr. Inerc
were about two hundred and fifty in attendance
the organization being about seven hundred strong
and representing, it is said, some four hundred
shops
The members of this association are all either
German, Italian French, and the business OF
their meetings is transacted in the German Ian
| guage Committees visiting every ward OF the
city report only about one shop in every fifteen as
opposed to the adoption of the short-hour system.
In the Eleventh ward there forty-six shops
reported, and only one employer against them.
| AS the Vice President justly observed, they
| have In this trade little capital to oppose them,
| the great majority of the shop owners being them
| selves wOlkmen. The BARRIERS claim that the
/ washerwOmen and newsboys are about to strike,
or at least so far as advices have been received,
are willing to, and why should not they They also
claim an unusual amount OF intelligence especially
In regard to the subject OF politics. all picked up in
gossip at the chair. they appeal to the general
| public in support OF this assertion.
The Figar0s assembled at the TeutOnia Rooms
were, indeed, very 1neooking body of men, ele-
Judging rom the manner in which their hair was
dressed and mustaches twisted for the occasion, it
was lair to presume that little friendly proies-
| meeting.
The President in an eloquent and forcible address
stated that the employers who refused to adopt the
proposed new system gave as their reasons that
they wished to wait till July. If, however. the
| jOurneymen consented to this, people would say
| there was nothing in the movement and they were
oil "dumbheits" Not only this, but by and by the
BARRIERS WHO went into the country with the
of every summer would have returned to the city
and would take the plac 8 OIL those who strike. He
detailed at some length, amid shouts OF laughter
and cries OF ''Bravo! bravo ~ an interview which
lately asa MH man. ws e' sed out
that the olice rushed in and the station house
moved block nearer, while the 'sawdust made on
the noor' rushed into the street. TIM eatened in
frantic tones to hold out to tile bitter end, yea,
even to shaving his customers with green hands.
lie hau, ne said, three DO s. who might as wen I'M
|
boards out OF aged and wrnkled faces by the roots
as to 20 out peiniless upon the streets to Join the
washerwomen and newsboys, who, too, In the
melee medtated strike.
The Pl esident is Frenchman, but speaks b 9th
English and German, and he gave very humorous
description OF u conversation he overheard Just
previous to the meeting in the lager beer saloon
practical Joke on the BARRIERS, or to seriously I'm
pose upon then-it did not appear which-were
plotting TO lock them III while they were IN session.
| The whol. conversation as over heard was given,
and created great merr.ment.
member proposed that pecuniary assistance
should be extended TO uptown BARRIERS on apphca-
ton to those down town, and his remarks were re-
ceived with every token OF delight and an enight-
ened appreciation of the Dement'S likely to follow.
| 1t apI cared from the applause that the majority
resided and practised the tonsorial art in uptown
| districts.
The Vice President stated that In the Twenty-frst
ward ali the employers but one were in favor of the
adoption of shorter hours OF labor. This one, Mr..
Hagenburger, was denounced as having visited the
| employers OF the wal d and attemi ted to influence
them against the journeymen's movement. Failing
in this. he Was charged with having premeditately
resolved, and advocated among the others, to pun
| istl them next winter, when work Is hard to obtain
and clothes and fuel are ditto.
A stirring address made by the President,
warning them against their iate II action de-
ferred and the rigorous climatic changes caught
them fOOlng about
1t was then arranged that the men should strike
to-day In those shops where concessions were re-
fused, and that those who were employed should
assist those locked out. The BARRIERS say they can
not be classed among the egnthour ag tators
they only ask for slight reduction from the length
| oil time they nave been required to work. They are
| determined enthusiastic and confident of u sue
cesSfu issue to the movement
meeting of jOurneyman BARRIERS also held
| In Brooklyn yesterday, and the general business
transacted was much the same as that which char
actcrizcd the Tcutonia Hall meeting
The Sugar Rcfiners.
The men lately employed in the sugar refneries