The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-05-10

At Green q Daniels thread mill. at
Pleasant View, the hands went out At
o'clock on Thursday, but the mill was run
on full time ON Friday
The Warren Mandatory Co. Of Warren,
anticipated strike, and posted up notice
to the effect that any employe who did
not propose to be governed by the rules,
might call at the the office, settle, and take
his discharge" The operatives refused to
work except on their own terms A meet
ing was held on the common, and the op-
eratlves addressed by one Of the ten hour
league.
~ PROVIDENCE
the movement has been an entire failure
Ii was thought that there would be- general
strike Of the steam mill hands. but only a
dozen left work. At the mill on Carpen-
ter street about one third q the operatives
refused to work on Friday morning In
the extensive mill district Of the north end
there is but little open sympathy with the
strikers. In the Lonsdale mills, owned by
Brown a Ives, and the Sprague mills
owned by A. W. Sprague, there has been
no disturbance Excepting Woonsocket
and Central Falls, the villages IF the
blackstone Valley, probably the most
dense mill district IN the United States.
are taking no part IN the struggle
IN BRISTOL
the operative have been successful The
Richmond mandatory Company. of Bris-
toll, have reduced their time 10 sixty hours
per week
OLSEYYILLE
henceforth will bear the unenylable rrputa-
tion Of making the strongest efforts 70
crush the movement and the capitalists
found willing hands to do their dirty work
SeverA days ago Instructions we're ~
sued TO Overseers to ascertain how many
Of the operatives were gong 70 continde al
eleven hours per day. Accordingly, those
who had the manhood to announce their
principle in advance of the designated
time, we're paid and discharged, and those
who were willing to continue at eleven
hours we're retained.
THE SCENE or THURSDAYS STRUGGLE.
The Atlantic Delain mill, situated on
the banks Of the Wooni squatuckot, il
| Olneyville vas the central point Of Thurs
DAYS struggle. About nineteen hundred
/ persons are engaged III these mills, anC
nearly twelve hundred men, women. anC
children struck On Thursday evening ~
! the appointed time All employed in IN,
wooden, carding and spinning department
4 stopped work and joined the crowd out
I side the mills. which, BY this time mum
Y bered about two thousand At half pas
siN the mil stopped. usual. and the
I eleven hour parties left the mill, and, a.
\ they appeared outsi le, we're greeted witt
I Jeers by the vast throng ~ men, women ant
7 children J W Jordan. uyerseer. b.
I came somewhat excited and alarmed a
\ the motion q the crowd, and, feeling
consciousness Il doing wrong, and behev
/ ing he vas going t. receive hIs just r.
I wards drew his revolver With this eX
4 ceptlOn, there has been no disturbance
\ The Olneyville manufacturers are wealth,
and influential, the Sprague family beini
largely Interested there. They are ~
solved "a run their mills eleven hours. If "a
all
IN wOONSO, KET,
a large manufacturing town on the Black
stone. about sixteen miles from Prov
dene there Sas a general turnout ~
/ Thursday Taft. Weedin a CO.. who hav
a lease Of the Harris Wooden Company
new mill until June. were DESTROYS Of run
ming until that time, and, therefore, agree
tO work ten and half hours a day froI
/ Friday. and that If ten hours should be
come established with the other mill,
they would also work ten hours. q
Thursday afternoon the operatives III thi
mill refused to work AT SIX o'clock til
Harris and LippIt wooden mills the Gee
G. Ballou a son. ami ,he Clinton. had Z
stop, the operatives leaving Most ~ VII
Social Companys and Gruton Company
employees also LETT. but these mills RAJ
till the usual hour. q 30 The operative
of the Noonspckct Company, Ponds var
mill and the American Braid Works work
ed the usual time In Nuonsocket, also
il Is the general determination II the man
ufacturers o. stop their mills rather tina
yield the hour
One 81 tn, DvlaIne mil operatives hay
been arrested tur yelling and cheering
The only wonder j. that more are not al
rested, for the people # this place have u
sympathy for working people, and as the
(the working people, 40 not enjoy til
power ~ universal suffrage the Nabob
~ the place care but little about them
Yours. etc OPERATIVE