The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
the time would come. when they would
discharge the employers forever.n

u4oCud1SC LuC employers lOr6N6Ts
The freight handlers of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton Dayton, Cincinnati, New
Orleans Texas Pacific, Cincinnati
& indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago.
and the Bee line, met Saturday night,
and resolved to go out unless their de-
mandS are complied with. The men
want one dollar and fifty cents per day,
twenty cents per hour for overtime, and
two dollars for Sunday work, ten hours
to constitute a days work. There ara
about four hundred men interested in
this movement.
The Ohio & Mississippi men did not
participate in the meeting, but they are
in sympathy with the strike, and will
operate with them. The Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton Company have advertised
for 100 freight handlers, which indicates
noncompliance with the demands of their
men, and trouble is looked for to-day.
THE STRUGGLE AS THE NATIONAL CAPI-
tai.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-To-morrOw it
is expected will begin the struggle be-
tween the master builders of this city and
their journeymen and other employees
over the Eight-Hour question. Every
thing points to prolonged deadlock,
which many fear will almost paralyze
building operations for the season, as
the deserters on either side are few. The
classes which unite in the demand for
eight hours include the bricklayers, car
penters, plasterers, stone-cutters, mar
ble-workers, plumbers, painters, timers,
brick-makers, hod-carriers, blacksmiths
and ice-drivers, embracing in all nearly
four thousand men, who average a per
diem of $50. The men say they will
insist on eight hours being considered a
days work, and if the employers do not
accede to their desires they are at perfect
liberty to dismiss all the WOrkmen. On
this point the knights of Labor are deter
mined that no strike shall occur, prefer
ring that the men shall be locked out by
the employers. Mr.. e. w. Oyster, the
president of the Federation of Labor, says
the men are firmly resolved to in
sist on the reduction of hours, but
if work is suspended tomorrow, as
it probably will be, there will be
no violence and no effort to obtain
by force what the men expect as right.
The scheme is for the men of every trade
to go to work at half-past seven to-mOr-
row morning and work until 4 p. m, un-
less the bosses tell them that they are not
to do so with the expectation OF tull
wages for the eight hours work. The
master painters have given public notice
to tile men that ten hours must constitute
a days work at full pay hereafter as
heretofore, while a number of contract
ors on work already in progress have
notified the men that they will accede to
the demand for eight hours.
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, May 3.-An inn
mense labor demonstration viii be held
in this city to-day, consisting of a mon
ster parade, followed by grand picnic
at Scheutzen Park, where labor addresses
will be made. It is estimated that 10, 900
men will be in line, and while the demon
stration is ostensibly in favor Of the
Eight-Hour system, yet there is no
unanimitY on that particular point by the
various knights of Labor assemblies and
labor organizations. OF course many of
the trades will contend for eight hours,
but there are many more which will ac-
cept reduction to nine hours, and as in
the case of the butchers and brewers,
who now work from fourteen to seven
teen hours daily, ten hours will be asked.
In fact, the bosses of the butchers and
brewers have already virtually agreed to
cOncede ten hours day, at the old
wages, to the men.
The furniture-workers at a meeting
yesterday received communications from
twenty shops, employing six hundred
Hour system, while ten shops refused
and the two hundred men employe
therein will strike to-day.
Two thousand carpenters and joiners
have asked for eight hours, and have
rejected a compromise on nine hours,
and will be locked out to-day. Two thou
sand can-makers will demand eight hours,
and as they work by the piece, ;the de-
mand will probably be granted.
Mount ROYAL A of txAyO
men, employed in the Northern Central
railroad shops, win ask for eight hours,
but noncompliance of the company will
hardly result in a strike. The same may
be said of the Varnishers' and Oil Finish
ers' Assembly. The five hundrud piano
makers, of whom four hundred arc cm-
ployed by VIM. Knabe, have requested
that their hours of labor be reduced to
eight. Mr.. Knabe intimates that he will
be governed by the action of New York
manufacturers.