New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-05
TWO OR THEE THOUSAND STRIKERS.

In accordance with their plan, the mar
ble-cutters and polishers numbering Dctweei
two and three thousand, struck Monday for highe
wages Their demand was that the cutters should re
reve 50 so day and the polisAers So over one
hundred OF the men have been strike since Thurs
dav They stopped work at that time the promise
that the strike should become general on day The
principal grievance Of the they assert Is the sys
TEN Of lob work. by which it is hard to earn Sl2
a week At the meeting OF the strikers,
which was held Monday at Academy Hall, in Third
ave. said that the men had not struck for large
wages they were cOntencd at present TO work for a
moderate price but they wished to be paid by the day
When they secured this privilege, they intend to
make further demands for higher wages The strikers
are confident that the bosses will give the wages
they ask for They held meeting yesterday morning
at which committees were appointed to visit number
of shops with the intention Of persuadng the bosses
To accede to the demands which had been made. The
committees reported at the afternoon meeting that
three firms had made the concessions,
but that the Others refused to yield In
many OF the shops the employers were willing to in
crease the wages but not 10 abandon the job system
which the strikers claim is particularly obnoxious to
them. The said yesterday that they would
continue the strike all summer If the bosses did
cede to their demands.
All the hodcarrers belonging to the Laborers Union
who were not receiving 81 so day. increase Of rs
cents made demand for that rate Of wages The great
tyity in the building trades made almost impossible for
the boss masOns refuse them, and the concession
was made nearly every without the men having
TO quit work One boss, however, at
the new buldng at Fifty eghth-st. and
hadisonave, refused 10 give the advance and the
struck All society laborers have been ordered not TO
work this job untl the demand OF the union Is
meeting OF Bricklayers' Union No was held last
night a. FarTels Hall in East seventyseventh-st Al
though the receiving 81 day, the union
is being strengthened and when the busy season reaches
rs ag tIe s men % s,ke iOr - 90
held last night at Emmet Hail in West Thirty
sse TO- make men dcpEd for SOSh sher ware e
End to sustain it with strike If necessary.
meeting No. 10 stantonst last night to consider fur
ther the matter OF the recent price is which some OF
the price list should be adhered To by the men, if
strike had to be made.
meeting the journeymen horseshoers also held
At Millnan's Hall. III seventhave., Monday night An
effort s being made by the men to strengthen their
The extensive strike Of the Doulders employed the
locomotive shops and other manufactures IN Patterson,
Of the Danforth Locomotive and Machine Company
where the prOpretOrs had acquiesced In schedule
vanced according TO ability the monders were busy as
usual. At the Rogers Locomotive Works a delegation of
tne inouiers IN the morning applied for an advance OF
meeting and were refused It, About onehan
selves satisfied, saying that those who have struck
are the least efficient worknen, that they belong
only, which they have spent ia stirring up trouble AT
The Grant Locomotive Works tho mOulders made SINH
lar request and told that they would have TO walt
unt the next morning for an answer. Repairs to the
furnace were in progress and 1t would have been npos
elDle for them resume work Monday in any event.
At the machine shops Of ]. C. Todd & Co the entire
force OF Douders, TO the number OF thirty, refused
TO 20 work, the Is per increase being
denied them. At the Watson Machine Company's works
where about twenty men are employed, the whole
force joined In the strike, excepting foreman and
few apprentices. The men employed at Benjamin Hill
tons foundry did not take part in the strike and all
bt work. The iron mOuldeIs at the McNab & Harlin
Brass and Iron Works, numbering ten, demanded adj
OF 10 per cent and did get IT, They left the
shops and TONED the oilers. at the Union Bolt Works
the men still at work under compromise arrange
men. The feeling the striking moulders is not
very bitter rule and disturbance is anticipated
he carpenters and jOners Of Newark md Orange,
j., and the adjacent townships have resolved that a
general strike OF all carpenters be ordered until the
bosses consent to pay an advance of so day
committee has been appointed to visit the various shops
anu inuuce al wOikmen TO JOIN In the movement A |
number Oi the bosses have sgned their Willingness
pay lhe advance The masOns and bricklayers of New
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