Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-01
THE WORLDS NEWS.
MATTERS AND THINGS AT THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Labor Troubles-Tu Notes
The Rate War-Fireman Be-
headed-Foreign News.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE EEcoRD-UNIoN.l
DOMESTIC.
The Labor Troubles.

The Labor Troubles.
New YORK, April Both. - Tomorrow
nights mass meeting and parade in favor
of eight hours labor per day is viewed
with much anxiety by the city officials.
Your correspondent learns from the police
headquarters that every precautIon is being
taken to preserve good order. The police
are utterly tagged out. Since the strike on
the Third-avenue road began, the patrol
men have been working twenty-five hours
daily. Ii is claimed by the Knights of
Labor that the parade tomorrow night
will be the beginning OF a new era in New
York. Saturday night was chosen for the
demonstration because most of the MEM
bers of the labor organizations are paid off
then, and VIII attend the mass meeting in
great numbers
CAR WORKS SHUT DOWN.
PHILADELPHIA, April 30th.-The Allison
car works have shut down and locked out
800 employees. The men, one week ago.
demanded an increase of to l6 per cent.
The men to-day notified the company that
the increase was not satisfactory. The
company Immediately shut down the
works.
STRIKES IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, April 30th-315 P. M.-The
freight-handiers on the Burlington and
Alton roads have stopped work, owing to
q refusal to accede to the demand for eight
hours. As soon as the freight now on
hand is cleared up the houses will be
closed.
At o'clock this afternoon $50 employees
of the Union Brass Manufacturing Com
pany quit work. They demanded eight
hours work and ten hours pay, which the
company refused.
All the plumbing shops in the city have
conceded eight hours work at nine hours
pay.
THE STREET CARS OF NEW YORK.
New YORK, April 30th.-Your CORE
spondent took Third avenue car from the
depot this morning. Two big policemen
stood on the front platform. Inside the
car were two others. The conductor and
driver, both new men, looked anxious
There was no disturbance of any kind along
the route AT each street corner two police
men were stationed. Numbers of drivers
OF trucks and wagons attempted to block
the horse ears by driving ahead on the
track, but the police forced them to drive
in the roadway. The Fire Department
Chiefs drive at intervals up and down on
the avenue, on the lookout for incendiary
attempts. The strikers are still unable to
engage stages and horses. This morning
only one stage was running, driven by a
Knight OF Labor wearing a high hat, a
button-hole Ouquet and broadcloih suit.
Around the top of the stage was a broad
white band of linen, on which was printed
Injury to one is injury to all The strik-
-er S stage was drawn By pair of inferior
horses, and provoked considerable ridicule
from the crowds on the sidewalks
-TaE CONGRESSIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE AND
CITIZENS.
ST. LOUIS, April 3Oth.-At about noon.
a delegation of citizens, headed bv Mayor
Francis and INCLUDING l.. n Cobb Presi-
dent of the Merchants Exchange and
, other prominent business men. had an
hours conference with the Congressional
Labor Committee. A few minutes later
Nice-President Hoxie, General Superin-
tendent Kerrigan, Superintendents Sibley
al Sedalia and Herrin of Texas, and Judge
Ports, General Attorney of the Missouri
Pacific system, were invited to the COM
mittee-room, and will be followed by
delegation of prominent Knights of Labor.
When the consultations have been termi-
mated, the committee will decide whether
ii will stop here now and take testimony,
or whether ii will appoint subcommittee
to go to Sedalia, Kansas City, Atchison,
Fort Worth and other places in the sys-
TEN, and return here and examine wit
neSSes.
WILL BEGIN TAKING TESTIMONY.
ST. LOUIS, April 3Oth-The committee
near. they would remain over here to-mor-
row and begin the taking of testimony.
Vice President Hoxie will be the first wit
ness.
THE EIGHT-HoUR SYSTEM IN BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, April 30th-The first public
demonstration of organized labor in this
city in favor of the eight-hour system took
place last night. There was monster
torchlight procession, in which many
thousand men, representing ali classes of
labor, took part. and which was followed
by q mass meeting at the Concordia Opera
House II is understood that the house
carpenters will demand the enforcement of
the eight-hour system after May lst. Build
ers are willing to compromise on nine
hours, but there is not much probability of
an amicable settlement, and 4 strike is
looked for. Last nights meeting was very
enthusiastic. and it is said that all branches
of labor will demand shorter hours before
very long.
THEORY FOR THE LABOR DISTURBANCES.
New YoRK, April 30th.-The SIMS Lon
don cable special of April 30;h says ::
Emile Laveleve. the celebrated political
economist, has sent to London an advance
copy of a remarkable paper, which will
shortly be published, upon the economic
crisis in Europe and America. Layeleye
asserts that the scarcity of gold is the main
cause of the decline in prices, and that
anh-silver legislation is directly answer
able for the present disturbed relations oe-
tween labor and capital.
INDICTED BY THE GRAND Jury.
New YORK, April 3Oth-The entire Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Empire Pro-
tective Association has been indicted by the
Grand Jury for conspiracy and coercion in
connection with the Third-ayenue strike.
THE SITUATION IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, April 30ih.-The TTmes..to-mor-
row. summarizing the situation, will say
Twenty-Five thousand is the fairest esti-
mate of the number of men who quit work
Yesterday (Friday), and went out of the
various shops and factories in Chicago be.
cause their employers would not consent
to an eight-hour working day with ten
hours pay. How many will do the
same to-day Saturday is problematic,
but the prospect for a repetition oi
yesterdays performance is exceedingly
brilliant. The trades most affected are the
furniture manufacturers, the lumber inter
eSts, in all their numerous ramifications
and the iron men. With the furniture
people it was practically general lock-ou
all over the city, and in all 900 mer
employed in the various Chicago furni
ture factories are to. day idle, and will
probably continue SO for some time t
come. The refusal of the manufacturer:
to grant the demands was the result of :
meeting last week, when the Manufactur
efs' Association was formed and an Exc
cutive Committee appointed to take charg
of the business of the various members
1t was then decided that if the men de
manded eight hours on Friday every fac
tory should close down.
The Arch Traitor in Georgia.
ATLANTA (Ga), April 30th = The tw,
special cars that LETT for Montgomery YES
terday TO bring JEFF. Davis to Atlanta ar
rived this afternoon. An immense Grove
greeted him at the depot, and the who'll
city is beautifully decorated. At ever,
station along the route from Montgomeri