The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09

moving along as usual at the stockyards. The
town of Lake police force are patrolling the
tracks from Thirty ninth to Forty ninth street
A very important meeting of manufacturers
of metal goods held here to-day. The fol-
lowing resolution was put and carried:
Tt is hereby agreed that when any member of this
association shall report to the executive committee
tne nams ana case OF any person Win ms
by the executive committee-in of prosecution
this association shall pay all necessary legal ex-
penses
This was ordered printed. as was the following
notice:
We are ready to start our works up as soon as
sufficient mum ber. of men ready to resume work
at ten hours per day, paying the same rates per
hour as paid heretofore. and we will furnish work
for as many mon as the present state of trade war
rants.
This notice and resolution were posted at the
door of each factory. Fully one hundred and
forty manufacturers in Cook county were repre-
sented, who employ about twelve thousand men.
1t includes all the large stove factories, the gas
pipe and fitting establishments, the brass work
ers plate iron and boiler makers, and every other
line of metal work of any Importance. The
association to-day made formal statement of
reasons why. in the opinion of employers the
elght-hour system could not be conceded to the
workmen in the metal manufactures of Chicago.
Competition from various Eastern and Southern
points. in none of which the eight-hour eystem
has been adopted, is the first reason assigned.
vanced that THE city should lead the
van,' and that others would soon follow. Were
our faith equal to the occasion 1t would
be an expensive, disastrous experiment, and
Chicago would suffer the consequences Some
of us have tried shorter shifts, but the expert.
ence has been that they are Improbable. even
moro than double overtime" The address
argues that prices for goods cannot be advanced,
'at single jump such as you propose to the
manufacturers of this city in regard to wages.
Even if prices were advanced. the cost of living
would then also advance. Employees working
less hours would be compelled to deny their
families their small wants. because they had
been cut down forty or fifty cents day. And
for what reasona To make room for a very
large thrush of European labor In conclusion,
the members OF the association ''think that the
movement can have but one ending from the
unfortunate way it has been thrust before those
who could have done it so much good had their
cooperation been secured"
Punishment that Came Upon Five Rioters.
CHICAGO, May 8.--The fact was developed. to-
night, that when tho drug store of Samuel Ros-
enfield, on the corner of Center avenue and
Eighteenth street, was raided by the mob OF
Anarchists, Wednesday. and the rabble seized
upon every bottle that had the appearance of
being the receptacle of spirits, large bottle
of carbolic acid was among the others
carried away, and, owing to it's color,
and general resemblance to whisky, 1t was passed
from hand TO hand after the raid and drunk by
half dozen more of tho ROB- The acid
began to take effect soon as 1t entered the
stnmachs of the rioters, and in spite of the best
efforts of doctors and emetcs two OF the drinkers
are dead and three moro are at deaths door,
The residence of three of the victims is located
on West Seventeenth street. near the scene of
the fray, and the others are on Twenty-first
street