The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-22
NEW YORK.
The Great Strike OF the Cigar N Ak
ers Fifteen Thousand Men Voiun-
tarily IdIe-The Vile of Gilman
the FOrger.

tarily Idle-The Vile of Gilman
the FOrger.
New YORK, October 20.-The cigar
makers OF this city have been trying their
hand at striking for the past week or
two, and are very persistent IN their un-
dertaking, which has little to encourage
it Fifteen or twenty thousand men are
voluntarily out of employment They
demand increased wages, and the
employers are determined not to acs
cede to their demands. On Fri
day night plumber of Manufacturers
held 3 meeting to consider the subject
afresh. Thirty-fve firms were repre-
sented. A resolution declaring that the
demand oi the cigar makers must, under
no circumstances, be- scCeded to, was
adopted unanimously. 1t was also dc
cided that the strike must be put down,
and the Union broken up. Al Execu-
tive Committee of five members WAS ap-
pointed TO prepare statement. They
object to the demand that certsin o. the
rules under which their business is con-
Quoted be modified or abolished.
At the meeting of the Central Organ
zstian Of strikers to-day reference was
made to the resolutions passed by the
large manufacturers, and the chairman
stated that the strikers would i've on
bread and water before they would back
down from the position they have taken.
A delegate from Breslin & Boiler, large
manuia cturers, reported that Mr.. Breslin
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jobs from his stores, and would pay high
er prices provided the strikers would
show that any other manufacturers paid
better than he. Geo BunCe, an
other manufacturer, III consultation
with the Executive Committee of
the Central OrgsnizAtlos, said that
he had written 10 bis customers
asking if they were willing to pay an in
crease of 81 per 1000 on orders, and de.
cared that he would give that increase
to his hands if he receivedsn affirmative
reply, adding that they might 90 to
work on Monday The small cigar man
ufscturers and shop keepers held meet
ing In favor OF the cause of the strikers,
and arrangements were made TO hold u
meeting OF sympathy on Wednesday
evening. Many OF the people are tene
ment house hands. 1t hss been the GUS
tom of the employer to keep the rent sc-
counts for his workmen, and settle such
bills. Great Indignation was expressed
that Third street tenement house man
utacturer had Withdrawn his books from
his workmen and informed them that
they must hereafter pay their reat 10 the
owner of the tenement, and no. to him
self as heretofore
An early sequel OF Gilman; cine Is
the insanity OF Mrs. Gilman, his wi:e
who has just been taken to d asylum
The friends of the family sadly vel the
particulars of this terrible result; but
while Gilman may live comparatively
easy Ii Q in prison, his unconscious wife is
M asylum maniac.
The large bosconstrictor now at the
Aquarium gave birth to hi Eht to about
fifty young. This is a most unusual cir
cumstance, and one never known to have
taken place in any country. The young
fellows are doing rs well rs can be ex-
pected, and sre confined in n large glass
box. The mother in size is about thirteen
feet long, its young from two to two and
half feet. Their eyes are not a. yet
open, and they present ali the appear
ance of the ordinary snakes exc ,pt that
they are perfectly helpless and unable 10
move.