Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-20
THE EIGHT-HouR SYSTEM.

my tb-uSlA tSolcu ClIEuldF 10 all traUe and
labor associations of Chicago and vicinity.
announcing that May 1st had been set apart
for a general inauguration of the eight
hour system, and that the Trade Assemblies
of Chicago, being the most influential body
OF organized labor west of New York CITY,
1t was natural that the working people and
public should hold it responsible in great
measure for the success or failure of the
eight-hour movement; that there is uni
form understanding with the different
Unions to accept q corresponding reduction
in wages, If necessary 70 bring the eight
hour system into operation, and advising
all trades which have not vet completed
their arrangements to select suitable COM
mittees and prepare for a mutual solution
of the question at the time mentioned.
COLLISION BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE
STRIKERS.
New YORK, April 19th.-About half-past
4 this afternoon the Third avenue line
started the first of the twenty-five cars they
proposed to run over the line Inspector
Byrne and four men were on the platform.
At Sixtyiourth street Z big fellow rushed
out, grabbed the horses by the bits and
drew knife to cut the reins. He had not
accomplished bis purpose when Inspector
Byrnes put him to sleep" with his club.
The man was left senseless in the street.
and the car went on. The next car was
| driven by new driver, and when at Fifty
ninth street one of the horses fell on the
pavement, the crowds of strikers on the
street cheered and jeered in derision. The
tumult grew greater, and finally the crowd
began hurting bricks from a new building
on the corner. The windows were
smashed and the car demolished. Two of
fcers were hurt by the missiles. The
police then charged the crowd, and seventy
of them were injured. Eight prisoners
were taken, and in the pockets of two of
them were found licenses as drivers on the
Fourth-avenue line, the men of which
road have no grievances, and are out be-
| cause ordered to tie up. The telegram says
that several up town clubs have made up
list of twenty fashionable young men of
their membership who will take out
licenses and volunteer to drive cars for the
ied-up lines without pay, on the sole
proviso that the public shall be allowed to
ride free of charge.
FAILURE OF ARBITRATION.
NEW YORK, April 19th.-The Railroad
Commissioners spent the entire day in
series OF conferences with representatives
OF the Third Avenue road and the strikers
committee. The strikers presented finally
a long list of demands, fixing the hours
all its departments, obligating the COM
pany to take back all the strikers and
to discharge all the employees who are
obnoxious to the strikers The company
submitted series of propositions offering,
after the men should have returned to
work, to submit the questions of hours and
pay to arbitration. but positively refusing
to discharge any of the men now employed,
or to employ any more of the strikers than
was necessary. These terms were net ac-
ceptable to the strikers, and all attempts to
arbitrate the matter were abandoned
MORT SOLID SENSE FROM PowDERLY.
SCRANTON fPa.), April 19th.-General
Master Workman Pewderly, who was the
first to start the eight-hour agitation, said
to-day, with emphasis, that the Knights OF
Labor do not contemplate making an effort
TO enforce the eight hour rule for the pres
ent. The country is not yet ready for it,
he said, land before such a step
is taken the subject must be thor
oughly discussed by manufacturers and
men, and fully understood by employers
as well as employed. You know how sin
cerely am in favor of reducing the hours
of labor, but don't want to see it done
radically or rashly, and don't want to see
any effort of that kind undertaken that
would prove failure, and retard, rather