The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-27
STRIKE OF THE CARPENTERS.

The JOurneymen Carpenters and Joiners
still Struggling for ssEight Hours''-
Earnest Attitude OF the Men Ycster-
day-Opposition Of the Boss Carpenters--
Excitement Among the Organized
Bodies-A General Strike Expected To-
Day.
The members of the various societies and
Of carpenters and oners presented to their employers
and to the public at large very earnest attitude yeser
day, with the discrimination of securing the
adoption OF the ''eight hour system" This
course of action has doubt been the result
Of their spirited meeting last Friday evening
in Republican Hall, when II was unanimously
resolved that general strike for eight hours should be
made on before to-day. The employers were taken
by this hurried and well plan
ton could hardly made cognizant yesterday that
the hour was last approaching when their workshops
executive body met yesterday in private rendez-
ws6e: plans Of the society, which had CAREFULLY
curing bs nd s Idle eis m
they hold discussions and buoyed up with fresh
soP Ss s ss encouraging opinions which each man gives
both the and west side the greater number Of
work Yesterday and though violence xpected
stil employed in very many establishments, yet
efns No az Pocs % %
perinendent Matse Instructed Inspector bikes to tee
e ss
s we not me %
tention of violence to exist among the men,
At Munzinger's Hall, In Thirty-seco street. where
the eiRht-hour men generally assemble large number
the III and U hold
ing continual during the day IN which they
invariably Denounced the policy of those bosses who
during the Winter gave their eight hours and who
@ e be pressed e ss s % c
sderate enough to comply with their wishes by increas
ing the number OF men In their employ but all ten hour
shops according the statements OF several society
men, TO be visited to-day under the direction OF special
solicited or forced to leave that some serious trouble
AT the Germania Assembly Rooms Teutonia Hall,
Military Hall and Demit Hail. the east side, various
last evening The definite action OF the societies 70 be
made known to-day The principal trades unions Of this
branch Of mechanics hold their conferences secretly ana
unless spoken TO individually seldom make known their
direct Intentions and hence their strike 70 always unex-
pected and almost always successful. . ~,
The boss carpenters and builders held an opposition
meeting Yesterday afternoon at the Mechanics and
Traders Exchange 70 counterfeit the action OF the
journeymen was the general but delusive impression
among them that there was impending 50 much
had they been taken by surprise They complained, as
usual Of stagnaon OF trade and the pressing OF con.
tracts and said that y per cent OF were
at present out OF work, while the men employed
are tbe, Raa forty cent an nss for sa
circumstances they saw no reasonableness IN the
non society men have been employed to the great dis
satisfaction q the trades WHO are GENERALLY opposed to
their Intention Of keeping society men at work and
ofpermttng the others to leave, while they also make
under every circumstance Large crowds carpenters
walked the streets idle yesterday. and to-day general
outbreak of the societies and much excitement Is ex
pectcd,