New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-27
A srRIRE WITHOUT FORCE
TIE ErGur-uouR REVOLT OF THE CARPENTERS ONLY
PARTIAL.

TIE FrGuT-HoUR REVOLT OF THE CAHuENIEis oNii
PARTIAL.
The foremost gltatoTs for the uhlVersai en-
,,,,, 81, an eight. hour rule among the Journeymen
carpeuters seem have thought that the noisy Ee" OF
tho meeting Of Friday night, and its emphatic accept
once NJ the resolution ordering the men working more
,bap eight hours TO strike to-day, woul bring about the
A,tion OF the Objectionable shops without further
Trt The comparatively iuconsiderable and scattered
accession OF Yesterday proved their mistake The lack
Of unity aud concentration In their strife against en-
ployers made exceedingly difficult to get definite de-
tails Of the exact extent Of yesterdays movement.
The leaders OF the journeymen had evidently hardened
their hearts against newsgatherers. They ret-
cent and would only make va oval state
,-suu and geps--s &C.,.
ments of their position and prospects. They had during
the day fixed Headquarters wherea to receive reports
from the several employers with whom they were ut
odds, and sent about subcommittee to clear the
stubborn shops OF society This work they now
put down for this morning.
A TRIBUNE reporter visited number OF establish
ments, and conversed with many employers and
journeymen in the Of tho day. The largest car
penter shops are for the most part the west side of
the city, many of them in its upper part Tho majority
of the and nnehour shops above Forty-second-
ST. and not few Of them IN Harlem Most OF the shops
below Forty seeondst under the eighthour system
though nanng it uneasy. Being OF longer establish
ment than the young shops toward the northern part OF
NewYork and busted with larger single contracts they
forced TO so sharp competition as the uptown
establishments. which are generally occupied with
dwellings put upon speculation with narrow margin for
carpenters profits Consequently the older shops can
better bear the egnthour arrangement than the others
On account Of this state Of things the
principal places below FOrty-second-st were not even
ruflled by yesterdays stir, and as most OF the
largest shops uptown employ nonsociety men, and the
nadp rhnH6
those who refused to Join them, there was little notable
IN yesterdays abOrtive endeayOr. II did not wholly
agitation In the usual large number OF lille carpenters
about tOwnneary half OF that class OF worknen being
unemployed because Of the dizziness OF the season
to be observed, but there were several OF the
smaller shops where the society either refused TO
rule left their work at the close OF eight hours labor
Others went further than to make demand for eight
hours, and threaten TO strike in ease or refusal
John H. YoOrhs, prominent stair builder, and chair
man for the employers Of the Conference Committee
with the iOurneyDeu when asked his views as TO the
position OF the carpenters and the effect OF their action
replied that the jOurneymen had put themselves IN te
have waited-s they had before protested their Wiling
tc waitt the employers committed an overt act
by refusing longer abide by the elghthour system
strike for eight EOurs would not however, inure ms own
establishment more than few shops below Forty
seCOnd-st-and those the smaller Onesas the leading
employers already on an eghthOur basis Most OF
| them were unwilling to adhere to this through the
season claiming that the trade was injured egt-
profit cut of thereby but there are some nruis
oJably the large house Of L. NJ Snth Sons On North
| Moure-st) which favor eight hours and oppose any
lengtneu hours labor by the bosses. In his
OPINION about so per the employers required
OuY eight hours the rest Zine ten. Tie negotiations
| winch were going with the w0rkmen for cOmprO-
mise cut of by the stand taken by the Journeynen
The regular quarterly IAeetns o. the Master Carpenters
Association wOud be he'd June 5, III Cooper Ihsil g.
when the present position OF the w0rknen would come
under consideration.
Last evening the United Order OF American Carpen-
tiers aud JOuers met In secret session. in Dent Hail. at
SecOnd-lve. anu FOrtytnrdst. The meeting was very
long. Tue Oc would selOse no more OF its business
than that many members were enrolled, ana the
efforts VI the day discussed.