Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Labor Notes.


Labor Notes.
An agent of the Knights of Labor has in
duced most of the retail tradesmen at ST..
Joseph, Mo-, to refrain from buying two
carloads of boycotted nails from the Cal
umet Steel Works, at South Chicago.
The delegates to the national convention
of teegraphers, in session at st. Louis on
Friday, resolved to Join the Knights of La
Dor.
The striking street-car employees of Pitts
burg have started lines of wagons on the
Wylie Avenue and Oakland tracks, and OBJ
tain a fair patronage.
The hat finishers strike at Fittsburg is
virtually at an end, the advance asked for
having been generally granted.
1t was reported at meeting OF cigar
makers at Baltimore, on the 18th, that
1O1 factories, employing 400 men, had
agreed to give the new prices-about 20 per
cent. advance on an average. Four or five
OF the large factories have not yet given an
answer.
A national convention of carpet.weavers
is to be held in New York in July, to secure
uniformity in the carpet-weaving schedules.
About 300 journeymen sheep butchers at
Newark, N. j., have struck for an increase
of 2 per cent. per head.
The jury in the case of the Missouri Pa
cifc Railroad Company against the thirteen
ex employees, active in the late Southwest
ern railroad strike, returned verdict of
not guilty, at st. Louis, on the 10th. The
men were indicted on seven charges, but
were tried only on four, and the railroad
company will demand another trial upon
the remaining three, which include melting
to riot, impeding interstate traffic and
trespass.
The strike of journeymen bakers in But
falo has been declared OFF, both sides having
made concessions.
The master builders of st. Louis employ
ing / 900 men, at meeting Oh the 9th, de-
cided to discontinue the eight hour plan, in
augurated May !, and to notify their en-
ployes in the building trade that after
June 15, they will be required to work ten
hours and that, If they refuse, men from
other cities will be employed. The laborers
state that they will return to the old plan
under no consideration, and feel confident
that they can persuade the new men not to
60 to work.
At New York, on the 9th, District Master
Workman Graham said that the Third
Avenue strike had been declared off, and
not one-fifth of the working union men had
ever paid their So q week assessment. He
said also that the strikers were fools and
had beaten themselves. The Third Avenue
strikers, or the remnant of them still idle,
have concluded to abandon the executive
committee and fight the Third Avenue Com
pany alone.
P. D. Davis, master workman of the
Knights OF Labor assembly at Pacific, Mo-,
was sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary and fined $500 in the circuit court of
Franklin County, at Union, Mo-, on the
9th, for attempting to wreck the first
freight train that left st. Louis during the
strike on March %, and shooting at the
guards.
At Pittsburg, on the 8th, the Oakland
Street Car Company entered suits in the
United States court against Richard Camp
bell master workman of the street car as
sembly, Knights of Labor, and Messrs. Ed
ward Woods, Henry Gamble and Robert
Eberhardt, charging them with conspiracy.
The accused were in the employ of the com.
pany and struck recently for the twelve
hour schedule. President Gordon, of the
company, alleges that they conspired to pre-
vent the running of the cars and interfered
with the men that wanted to work. Woods
and Gamble were arrested and held for O.
hearing in $500 bail each. Warrants are
now out for Campbell and Eberhardt. The
suits were entered under section 5 ,5O7 OF
the laws OF the United States that provides
that two or more persons who conspire,
Cypress or threaten a citizen in the dis
charge OF his duties or pursuit of business,
shall be subject on conviction to a fine Of
1000 or ten years imprisonment.
The strike OF the New York tailors grows
worse every day. Nearly all of the 600
"boss" tailors who belong to the Boss
Tailors' Union are almost as poor as their
journeymen, and on the 9Th many of them
received financial aid from their union.
About seventy five of the boss tailors, en-
ploying nearly 600 men, have deserted the
union because their families were starving.
Close estimates make the number of idle
tailors in New York, Williamsburg and
Newark, 22, $50.