The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-20
Labor notes: Nearly every member

Labor notes: Nearly every member
of the United Nailers, Rollers and Heaters
association has signed a petitiQR askipg fer
stfAe of bakers at Pittsburk resulted ina
bread fanlss, atthe65w, small ssAbhshneeHs
/ N operation ~ only supply their fsgt1sr
customers. The Ajsa Fdse Company and the
car works of Vslls &Frsnch, chicago, opened
t1t the old RAE Of wageAs
'McCormick'sreap works, Chicago. are run
ming with a full force for the first time since
the strike. Nearly all the railroads opened mp
at Chicago on Monday with a full force of
freght-handlers, and the strike seems to be
over Many Of the old men who applied for
work were taken back, but some Of the roads
refused to re-employ their old hands. The
Malleable Iron Works, Chicago, started up
with 800 men at nine hours pay for eight
hours work. t0t.t f
The Cullom interstate commerce bill,
as 1t passed the United States Senate, provides
as follows:
A commission Of Ave persons shall be ap.
pointed by the President by and with the adj
vice and consent OF the Senate TO carry out the
purpose OF the bill Not more than three of the
five commissioners shall be appointed fro n the
same political party and all persons holding
stocks or bonds of any common carrier. or hold
ing official relations 70 such corporal .ols, are
ineligible. The commissioners must not en-
gage in any other business. The commits
sion is given authority to inquire into the bust.
ness and management of all common carriers
subject to the provisions Of ths bill, and TO OBJ
tain full and complete information "a to such
business may require the Attendance and testi-
mony of witnesses aud the production OF all
books, papers, agreements, tariffs, and docu-
ments relating TO matter under investigation,
and may to that end invoke thee aid OF the
United States Courts. All complaints shall
be made in writing to the commission.
The commission shall send the complaint to
the common carrier. and require either sat
isfaction Of the complaint or nm answer in writ
ing within a reasonable time specified. III repa-
ration il not made within the time stated the
commission shall investigate the complaint
The commission shall also investigate all oou-
plants forwarded to il by State commissions,
and may institute inquiries on it's own motion.
Complaints shall not be dismissed because OF
the absence OF direct damage TO the complain
ant. The reports of the commission shall be in
writing, and it's decision shall be made priIna-
facia evidence in all judicial proceedings
Before the Curtin Labor Investigat-
ing Committee at St Louis several employees
OF the Missouri Pacific Railroad shops testified
that not only had the March QSS5) agreement
been broken but its provisions had in several
instances not even been put into effect Father
OLeary, editor of the Catholic World, testi-
fed that he knew many strikers who were
good honest men and church members. He
saw that the company was doing it's utmost to
crush the Knights of Labor, using unscrupu-
lous means to accomplish it's ends The cause
of the strike he had studied and thought he
knew The Knights were society formed TO
teach it's members justice and equity, but
looking at the entire railway system, he
thought it was carried on by trickery and un-
fairness, from Mr.. Gould down to the lowest
subordinate. He said that the employees of
the road who were not knights of Labor were
afraid TO speak to members of that organiza-
ton for fear of being discharged-LAbor
notes: Several of the new freight-handlers ON
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road
at Chicago became i'll from the change of
water and diet They were doctored up with
whisky and ginger, and nearly all the rest of
the gang, on discovering what sort of medicine
was being given ont, became violently afflicted
with cramps One Seidell, a boycotter, was
fined s25 and costs at Milwaukee by Justice
Mallory, who denounced the boycotting bust
ness as an outrage. About eleven hundred
carpenters at Allegheny City have struck for
nine hours work at full pay. The Chicago
steam filters aud their helpers have struck for
more pay and less hours. The switch
mems strike at Indianapolis has proved a
failure. The Pittsburgh ice companies have
granted the demands of their striking en-
ployes for an advance in wages of 81 per week,
and all have returned to work There were
II, 800 lumber showers on a strike in Chicago
last Thursday. The strikers at the Standard
Coke Works at Mount Pleasant, Pa, have re-
turned to work, compromise having been
effected
Nearly all the boot and shoe manu-
facturers OF Chicago having tried the eight
hour system for two weeks met and resolved
to return 10 the ten-hour schedule and not to
knowingly employ an anarchist or socialist.
The cutting departments of all the wholesale
clothing houses in Chicago closed for an indef-
mite period on account Of a strike Of male and
female tailors for better pay. The bakers and
the ice men of Pittsburgh obtained their de-
mands and have returned TO work The wash
erwomen Of Pittsburgh have organized close
union, and will hereafter demand 81 n day for
six hours work
The Erie Railroad Company has or
ganized the Erie Express, which will take the
place of the United States Express on all the
lines and branches Of the road