Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-03
THE EIGHT HOUR MOVEMENT.
A Great Struggle to Begin i'm the Bufld-
 ing Line To-Day at New York.

| A Great Struggle to Begin in the Build ing Line To-Day at New York. NEW YORK, May 2.-To-morrow it is ex
 pected the struggle between the master builders of this city and their journeymen and other employees will begin over the eight hour question. Everything points to pro- tracted deadlock which many fear will par alyze building operations for the season, as the deserters on either side are few. The classes united in the demand include the bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, stone cut ters, marble workers, plumbers, painters, timers, brick makers, hodcarriers, black smiths and ice drivers, embracing in all nearly four thousand men who average per diem of $3.50. They say they will insist on eight hours being considered days work and if the employers do not aecede to their desires they are at perfect liberty to dismiss all the workmen. On this point the Knights of Labor are determined to have no strike, preferring that the men shall be locked out by the employers.
 MT. E. w. Oyster, president of the fedora JlOn of labor, says the men are firmly re- solved to insist 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 men expect as a right. The scheme is for the men of every trade to go to work at 7:3O to- morrow morning and work until p. m. un- til the bosses tell them not to do so with the expectation of full wages for eight hours work. The master painters have given public notice that ten hours must constitute a days work as heretofore, while a number of contractors on work in progress have noti- fed the men that they will accede to the de- mand for eight hours.
 Four thousand piano makers will strike for eight hours work tomorrow. The ques- tion of wages will be arranged between em ployers and employees and then submitted to the executive committee of united piano makers for approval
 Baltimore WorkIngmen Divided.
 BALTIMORE, May 2.-An immense labor demonstration will be held in this city to- morrow embracing monster parade fol- lowed by grand picnic at Schutzen Park where labor addresses will be made. It is estimated that fifteen thousand men will be in line and while the demonstration is osten- sibly in favor of the eight hour system there is no unanimity on that particular point of the various Knights of Labor assemblies and labor organizations. Of course many of the trades will contend for eight hours, but there are many who will accept a reduction to eight hours and as in the cases of the butch CTS and brewers who work from fourteen to seventeen hours daily ten hours will be asked In fact the boss butchers and brew erys have virtually agreed to concede ten hours day at the old wages. The furniture workers at a meeting to-day received com munication from twenty shops employing six hundred men that they would adopt the eight hour system, while ten shops refused and the two hundred men employed therein will strike tomorrow Two thousand carpenters and joiners have asked for eight hours, rejected a compromise of nine and will be locked out Two thousand can makers will demand eight hours tomorrow and as they work by the piece their demands will probably be grant ed. The Mt. Royal assembly of two thou sand men in the Northern Central shops will ask reduction of the hours of labor, but noncompliance by the company will hardly result in a strike. The same may be said of the varnishers and oil fnishers assemblies. The five hundred piano makers, of whom four hundred are employed by William Knabe, have requested that their hours be reduced to eight Knabe intimated that he will be governed by the action of the New York manufacturers. At meetings to-day of the Federation of Labor and the Central La bor union it was resolved to permit poli- ticians to address the workingmen to-mor- TOW.