The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-13
The eight-hour committee Of the Trades
A aeemblv has issued the following cincuIar

The elgnt-nOur cOmmltuoo OF the trades
Assembly has issued the following circular:
To the worl1ingmen of Chicago:
If ever there was a time in the history Of
control your councils and actions, the pres
at this juncture may defeat the very object
you have in view. Under these cIrcum-
you to keep this important fact in
mind, and shape you demands accord
ingly: Our advice is. that where a
view the employer or employees through .
committee composed of your most trusted,
discrete and reliable rePresentaryes. Base
front. Determine to secure the adoption of
the eight-hour system, even If concession to
men, as ~law-abiding citizens should. Dis !
countenance all resort to violence. remem- I
bering thai you can not AFFORD to offend that
success. Remember, also. that if you refuse
to act upon these suggestions you will have
yourselves to blame if the present golden
opportunity passes unimproved.
MILITIA CALLED OUT AT MILWAUKEE.
MILWAUKEE, May 5.-Since the bank
riots twenty years ago Milwaukee has never
experienced such exciting scenes as yester-
day. The whole city was in a state of
commotion all day and insurance agents re-
port unparalleled business. Bands Of
drunken rioters were at work till late at
night and compelled hundreds of men to
lay down their work. With the exception
of Miller's brewery, all the brewers have
given in and granted the demands of the
strikers, and will start up again to-day.
At seven o'clock in the morning a molly
crowd, mostly Poles, and numbering about
| five hundred, left the Polish quarters and
marched towards Bay View, where they
first closed up the Malable iron works.
Three patrol wagons with fifty men were
dispatched to the scene. They collided with
the armed mob, but a serious affray was
prevented eventually. The crowd was now
at the city limits and the police could not
| follow further. The mob had now increased
to 2, 600. and as it rolled on towards the
North Chicago rolling mills deputy sheriffs
were in waiting. They quietly stepped
back, however, when they saw the threat
ening attitude of the multitude.
Superintendent Parks had a long consul
tation with acommittee of the rioters. They
demanded for the employees Of the mills the
introduction of the eight-hour system. This
Mr.. Parks positively refused to comply
with, adding that all his men had expressed
satisfaction with the wages paid and the
present arrangements. He further denied
the committee permission to enter the
grounds and speak to his men. His reply
caused wild threats. Amidst the jeers and
howls of the mob he was finally persuaded
to permit the committee to talk to the men
while they were inside of the works.
Governor Rusk, who is in the city person.
ally advising the authorities, yielded to the
demand of the sheriff and sent two com-
panies of the State militia down to Bay
| View. Their arrival made the men frantic
with rage. Insults were offered freely by
them.
After several hours the committee re-
turned and reported that the directors Of
the mills had positively refused to grant the
demands and had concluded to shut dow
Immediately. This was received with
cheers. Soon after the 2, 900 employees left
the premises and the militia filed in imme-
diately, a shower of bricks, rocks and clubs
flying after them, injuring many seriously.
rected mainly toward the Kosczuiska
Guards. consisting of Polanders. Without
command they turned around and fired one
volley. Three men were shot, but not fatal
ly. The militia took up a position inside OF
the grounds.
At six o'clock last evening the entire
First regiment, comprising eleven COM
panies, from outside of the city had reported
here and it is expected that nine more com
panies will arrive during the evening.
Soldiers are stationed at the st. Paul
railroad shops, AlIis & Co.'s works and the
freight houses, while achievements have
been sent out to Bay View. Rioting is 60
ing on on the West Side of the city and the
police are doing yeOman service.
E. P. Allis has announced his intention of
opening his works to-day in spite of the
mol and will be protected, by the order of
the Governor, by two companies of militia.
RETURNING TO WORK AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, May 5.-About 200 men sought
employment from the Missouri Pacific yes
terday and about forty were employed. Thu
yNahach nnnrINxyao in N0rfh Ct anic pnpn-
bering forty or fifty yardmen, did not go to
work, but say that most of them will be at
work to-day. MI. Hoxie is still confined to
his house on account of illness. In East st.
Louis the strikers were surprised, and not
altogether pleased, when the official order
was received. A numbe of officials of the
railroads centered there declare they will
keep all their new employees if they desire
to remain Two companies of militia from
GaleSburg and Moline left for home in the
afternoon.
Reports from different points west and
southwest are to the effect that but a small
percentage of the men succeeded in obtain
ing unemployment yesterday, but it has
been arranged that a larger number will be
put to work.
Martin Irons, by whom the Gould South
western strike was ordered, when asked
what effect he anticipated the method of
| Viii LIN blOuplO "oulu loNO apoh WV
Knights, said: 1--WE were fighting for recog-
milton and we got it from Congress, which
represents all citizens of the United States.
Is not that complete recognition? Our
order will grow after this, even more rapidly
than it has during the past few weeks, when
applications for charters have been so
numerous that we could scarcely find time
to consider them"
NEW YORK, May 5.-The great struggle
in this city for shorter hours ~inaugurated
Monday continues, and thus far has been
fought only with strikes and lock-outs. No
violence has occurred. There are about
5000 men out, principally piano-makers,
marble-cutters, furniture-worker, machin-
lists and metal-workers. One thousand two
hundred. silk-weaverS are out at Union Hill,
N. j., for increase of wages and shorter
hours. Nine walters, charged with con-
spiracy and coercion in boycotting Thesis
Garden, on Fourteenth street, where they
were formerly employed, were arrested and
lodged in police headquarters.
Twelve hundred men belonging to the
Varnishers' Union. employed in the build
ing and furniture trades, struck yesterday.
They demand a uniform scale Of three dol
lars per day for nine hours work. One
hundred and sixty-ive shops, employing
$780,, of a total of 8, 700 men belonging to
the Furniture Makers Union. have con-
coded the mems demand for eight hours q
day at their present rate of pay.
One hundred and twenty-five men en-
ployed in the machine and boiler shops Of
McWilliams & Brown, Jersey City, were re-
fused their demand yesterday for shorter
hours. A general strike is probable in all
the machine shops of the city.
Everything is quiet in the Williamsburg
and Greenpoint sugar house district. A
number of men with red ribbons move up
and down the streets making vain efforts to
punish the men who returned to work.
At the offices of the Third avenue rail-
road the strike is now regarded as practi-
cally over, so far as its effect on the opera
lions of the road are concerned. Tile first
car was started at 4:30 yesterday morning
and sixty-twO cars were run up to noon. A
number of new drivers were taken on. The
company's officials say cars will be run all
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