The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-05-14

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we House, where 0ve tnousan1 peE.o9o
i. hrsons, editor a The Chicago AIorn.
ana WIN. h. Ogden. ol this city, Both
were of Socialist tendency. One q the
notable points q Oxdcn's speech Was that
the surplus In the United States Treasury
went 90 supply : standing arspy with
American rifles 70 shoot DOVE American
workingmen. PArsons said: s'Capital
raised In the face Of labor the black dag
Of starvation while they raised In return
the red DAG 81 revelation and liberty, and
the time would come when they would
discharge the employers forever"
The freight handlers Of the Cincinnati.
Hamilton 4 Dayton, Cincinnati. New
Orleans . Texas Pacific, Cincinnati
Ipdinnapclis. ST. Louis . Chicago
and the Bee lire. met Saturday night,
and resolved 20 20 out unicss their d.
mands are complied with The mea
want one dollar and flfty cents per day.
twenty cents per hour for overtime. and
two dollars for Sunday work, ten hours
70 constitute . days work There are
about four hundred men interested In
this movement.
The Ohio : Mississippi men did NOS
participate In TIE meeting. but they Are
in sympathy with the strike, and viii
operate with them. The Cincinnati. Ham
ilton : Dayton Company have advertised
for 100 freight handlers, which indicates
Noncompliance with the demands o. tneif
men, and trouble il looked Tor to-day.
THE STRUGGLE A. INK NATIONAL Carl
TAI.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-To-morrow u
Is expected will begin the struggle Be-
tween the master builders Of this city and
their iourneymen and other employees
over the Eight-Hour question Every.
thing points to : prolonged dead-iock,
| which many fear will almost paralyze
| building operations for the season, -
| the de<erfers on either side are few. The
| classes which unite in the demand Tor
| eight hours include the bricklayers, car
| penters. plasterers. stone-cutters, mar
| ble-workers, plumbers. painters. timers,
| brick-makers. hod-carriers. biacksmitns
| and ice-drlvers, embracing in all nearly
| four thousand men. who average per
| diem OF $3.50. The men say they viii
| insist on eisst hours being considered
1 DAYS work. and II 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.. L. W. Oyster, the
prt sident Of the Federation Of Labor, sAy1
the men are firmly resolved 20 in
sist on the reduction Of hours, but
II work Is suspended tomorrow, -
IL probably will be, there will %
no violence aud no effort to obtair
hy force what the men expect IS right
The scheme is for the men Of every trade
TO 20 10 work At half-past seven to-mor
row morning and work until p m, un
less the bosses tell them that they are not
to do 50 with the expectation OF Jul
wages for the eight hours work Iht
master painters have given public notice
20 tie men that ten hours must constitute
days work at full pay hereafter =
heretofore. while = number Of contract
ors on work already in progress have
notified the men that they will acceoe q
the demand for eight hours
4 GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS IN BALTIMORE
i BALTIMORE, Nd. May San i'm
mense labor demonstration VIII De hei'
in this city to-day, consisting Of mon
ster parade, followed by : grand picni
At Scheufzen Park. where labor addresse
VIII be made. 1t Is estimated that 90
men viii be in line, and while the demon
, stration Is osiensibly in favor Of n
2 Ei.ht-Hour system, yet there -
D unanimity on that particular point BY "a
. various Knights Of Labor assemblies an
| labor organizations OF course many {
I | the trades will contend for eight hour
J | INT there are many more which Will y
81 cent 4 reduction 10 nine hours, and a.
II the case Of the butchers and brewer
: 4 who now work from fourteen 20 seve'
4 | teen hours daily. ten hours will be aske'
Z n fact. the bosses Of the butchers an
brewers have already virtually agreed
, j concede ten hours q day, At the O
| wages. 70 the men.
The furniture-worker At meeui
, yesterday received communications ITO
| twenty shops, employing six hnnurs
Z men, that they would adopt the Eisn
. Hour system, while ten shops refuse
8 and the two hundred men cmpioy'
therein will strike to-day
. Two thousand carpenters and lofne
have asked for eight hours. and hs
= rejected 4 compromise on nine hour
II and will lie locked out to-day Two tho
; sand can-makcrs will demand eight houI
e and a. they work by the piece, stne
= mand will probably be granted
, Mount Royal Assembly Of two thousa'
a men. EMPLOYED in the Northern Cent?
ID railroad shops, will ask for eight houl
u but noncompliance Of the company "
hardly result in = strike. The same %
he said Of the varnishcrs' and Oil FINS
. erss Assembly. The i've hundrud pia
u makers. Of whom four hundred are e
{, ploved By VIM. knabe, have request
e thai their hours Of labor Be reduceh
d eight. Mr.. Knabe intimaics that ne =
Be sovenes: BY the action q New 70
manufacturers.
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