St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-01
ing day with all its employees. on the basis
OF elght-hours pay, beginning tomorrow.

ing day with all its employees. on the basis
OF elght-hours pay, beginning tomorrow.
The immense iron works of the Crane
BROS. Manufacturing company will close
down tonight for several weeks to
come. The company intimateS that 1T will
then lnaugurate the eight-hour system, and
deems the shut down necessary to arrange
Tor the new order of affairs.
committees representing the 2. 600 men
employed in the Chicago rolling mills,
after consulting with the owners of the
mills. reported back to the men. and they
decided for the present to continue working
on the eight-hour plan.
The employees of the extensive coal docks
and yards at South Chicago struck for an
increase of two cents per ton for handling
coal. AS there were several barges at the
dock awaiting to be discharged, the compa-
nies had no option, and paid the men the
advance.
Clark Bros. & Co.'s furniture factory, at
Blue Island avenue and Robey street. is
idle, the 500 employees having struck. The
men demand eight hours work for ten
hours pay. The firm told them they could
not agree TO this, and they all left. The
firm say the factory will be kept closed
until the labor question is definitely settled.
The Hercules iron works, on Canal
street, will inaugurate the eight-hour sys-
tenn with the ten-hour pay, beginning to-
dyy, for one month.
All the plumbing shots in the city have
conceded eight hours work at nine hours
pay.
The employees of the furniture manufac-
turers, Il. E. Pohe and William Giffert,
numbering 115 men, struck to-day for eight
rrf,rl~r n fo,,
One hundred and forty sewing machine
makers employed by the June Manufacture
ing company also struck upon receiving a
refusal to similar demands.
The Excelsior Iron works and the Link
Belt Manufacturing company, employing
respectively 100 and 165 men. decided to-
night to shut down tomorrow indefinitely,
owing to the existing condition in the labor
situation.
The great packers at the Union stock
yards are the latest representative en-
ployers called upon to grant an eight-hour
day. They give employment to between
$4,000 and SO, 900 men, and this afternoon
delegations waited upon the heads of each.
with the request that the adopt the eight
hour system after May 1. The firms were
Armour & Co., Fowler Bros, Hatley,
Nelson Morris, Jones and Stiles. and Silver
thorn. 1t is only within the past few days that
the elght-hour question was agitated at the
stock yards. The men, with few eXcep-
tions. belong to no labor union, and their
desire to adopt the new labor day was only
formed within the past week. Yesterday
Mr.. Sid Kent told his 1,500 employees that
after May L they need only work eight
homS day for which they would be paid
for nine hours work. This concession
caused the men employed in other houses
to demand that eight hours be hereafter
considered days work.
The strike at Rothschild's furniture
works has widened. Reports were received
to-day that the workmen in the firms shops
at st. Louis, Kansas City and Denver struck
this morning in sympathy with the men
here and at Cincinnati. Tomorrow morn
ing the Furniture Makers union, number
ing about 4, 900 men, will hold a meeting to
be preceded by parade. in honor OF the
Emancipation of the Workingman." The
unionistS say they have been working for
the eight-hour system for twenty years,
and are now going to celebrate its adop
ton.
The proprietors of every one of the
nlnety-three lumber yards in the city re-
ceived to-day a circular from the Lumber
mems union, demanding substantially ten
hours pay for eight hours work, COM
mencing May 3. A meeting was atonce
called. at which eighty-four of the ninety
three proprietors were represented, All of
them had been taken by surprise. there
having been little or no indication OF an;
eight-hour movement among the men in the
lumber yards. The proprietors in this
meeting did not commit themselves upon
in tn oa nd fI1r
than to appoint committee, to meet
daily and endeavor to settle the problem
with the men in the various yards On
basis of mutual concessions by the work
men and the proprietors. According to a
statement of the chairman of the commit
tee appointed at the meeting, general
strike in the lumber yards Of Chicago
would directly involve workmen to the
number of at least $4,000.
New York Artisans.