The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-21
RATHER GLOOMY.

Another Strike Makes Matters More Sc
rious Than Ever in the Chicago Lumber
District-~Metal Workers Compromise
An Anarchist Liberated on Bail The
Pullman strike Eiided-Labor Troubles
Elsewhere.
CHICAGO, May 1S.-The opinion OF the
lumber dealers is that the situation is much
more serious than last week. During the
day almost no applications to return to
work were received from the strikers. Less
than one,third Of those at work on Satur-
day we're on hand yesterday. They were
deferred from returning through fear of
violence and the situation III the district
yesterday morning was indeed threatening.
Large crowds of strikers were assembled,
but they were confronted by goodly num-
Der of police who patrolled the streets and
dispersed all gatherings. Some OF the
dealers propose to shut down indefinitely
and allow no men to work until the union
has given W the strike and sent the mem
bers back to the yards. Others propose
to Import laborers.
The dealers it is said, are losing trade
owing to the trouble. Orders are pouring
in, and some of the early ones have been
withdrawn and placed at other points.
The Western trade, which is in dressed lum-
Der, is at a standstiil, and it is feared that
much OF it will 70 elsewhere. If the men
do not return to work in force to-day, the
Lumber Exchange will rroba bly, take meas
ures to raise the blockade with outside
help. The presence of the police in the
yards is at present considered sufficient to
control the strikers.
The coopers employed by the Fairbsnk
establishment we're given eighS hours pay
for eight hours work last Friday Yes
terday they struck, and subsequently ac-
copied an offer of nine hours pay for eight
hours work.
Seventy-fiye of Rothchild's $50 strikers
returned to work yesterday morning.
Others followed later, and the remainder
will probably be at their benches to-day.
A compromise was effected. The firm
granted eight hours work at nine hours
pay and the men abandoned their de-
mand for the abolition of piece work, and
decided not to act longer from sympathy
with the workmen in the Cincinnati fac
tory. The strike at Cincinnati has also
collapsed, and the men are returning.
MANY of the metal-workers returned to
work yesterday. Nearly all the foundries
were running with q reduced force, but
claimed that they could have all the men
they wanted, and that the reduction
had been rendered necessary by the
recent troubles. The manufacturers
were also disposed to claim that
no concessions had been made to
the men, but it was learned that in some
cases an agreement had been made, based
on q secret treaty effected last week in
Pittsburgh, by which the men will work
ten hours a day at ten hours pay until
June IA, after which they will work only
fifty-five hours per week, with continual
ton of the full pay for sixty hours
The Adams d Westlake Manufacturing
Company and the Union Brass Manufac-
turing Company resumed operations.
About one-half of the regular force, the
superintendent said, applied forwork, and
wefe told to go so their benches. No
trouble OF any kind was experienced
Those who are out to stay did not attempt
any interference with the men who wished
to go to work.
The employers and the employees of the
boot and shoe factories in this city having
mutually come to the conclusion that the
rule recently adoptedfor eight hours work
for eight hours pay is neither desirable nol
profitable, have returned to the old system
of ten hours work.
Chris Spies, the brother of August Spies
editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung, and one oil
the ana rchist gang who have been incar
cerated since the Haymarket riot has
been released in bail of Sc, 600 by Judge
Rogers.
The May grand jury for Cook County was
completed yesterday. Judge Rodgers re
ferred to the fact that the cases OF the
alleged anarchist conspirators would come
before the jury, and charged it's members
that no public speaker had right to adj
wise murder or arson, and he could be hello
responsible for the result of incendiary
language.
The strike at Pullman is at an end. TIL,
men will go to work this morning. TIL,
wood-workers and cabinet-makers met a.
Rosedale yesterday forenoon and decided
tosreturn to work The iron-workers hat
a meeting and decided the same way Ii
the afternoon the committee on the strik,
called on Manager Bradley to see if q com
promise could be made, but Mr.. Bradley
said that Mr.. Pullman would make ne
new terms, and that if the men went bacl
at all it must be on the basis they worked
under before the strike. A mass meeting
of all employees last evening was ATTENDED
by over 5000 men. Mr.. Dean the chair
man, reported that the committee had de
cided to call the strike off; that he had beer
assured by Manager Bradley that all tn,
men could go back to work and not b.
molested. The majority cheered wildly
though some seemed anxious to stay on
awhile longer. The meeting Immediately
afterward adjourned, with the full under
standing that all the employees would b.
| working to-day.
DETROIT, Mich, May 1S.-The striker;
| yesterday intimidated the men who have
been working at the Michigan car shops
and only a few went to work. OF thos,
who desired to do so $50 were threatened
| with a boycott and staid out. Other fac
tories and shops are running, but with re
duced forces. Most of the $50 striking
| painters have resumed work, only sixty
five being new idle.
1t is expected that the strikes of Thu
building trades in Boston will speedily enc
in a compromise on a nine-hour basis
Two hundred barb-wire workers employed
by the Southern Wire Company, at St
Louis, struck yesterday for eight hours
and eight hours pay.
There will be a general closing of all the
collar shops and laundries at Troy, n. Y
to-day, owing to the recent strike ir
george Z. lde a. 20. shop. The payroll
in thecollar shops here will average S12O,
600 week
The great strike Of the sugar refinery
'9en at brooklyn, N. Y, came to an ab
tupt close yesterday morning, when the
president OF the union threw up his hands
in disgust and formally declared the strike
at an END.
The seven weeks lockout at the BigeIow
On mill in l.,
IN the country, ended yesterday, over
1000 hands returning to work on the
cornpany's terms. The men who melted
the trouble will not be re-employed.
An Orange Uprising in Ireland.