New-York tribune., 1886-02-27
TROUBLES or LABORING MEN,
TO Reopen THE M'CoUMICK REAPER wOEKS-oP-
POSING THE KNIGuTa OF LABoK-rHE COKE
DRAWERS.

TO Reopen THE M'coHMicK REAPER woEKS-oP-
POSING THE KNIGHTS OF LABOK-rHE COKE
DRAWERS.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2G tSpccdN.-The annoncc-
ment Il made TIL, afternoon that the Mccormick Reaper
works will start mp again on Monday majority OF
the employees have decided to coucedo that MI McCor
mick the Sht to hiro such workne1 a1 no chooses
Fourteen hundred men went out on the strike on Feb
ruary lG owing to Mr. McCorncts refusal to discharge
four nUnunion iuolderA All other demands male upon
him IA 10 wages and hours had bren conceded. The
committee whIcn ca!lod Mr. Mccormick represented
that a thousand ready and anxious TO 10 to
work. The delegation which called and whose argu-
mcnts decided Mr. Mccormick to reopen his works was
composed Of nine men, most of whom had worked for
the firm for from ten to twenty years They
said that tho plan hold meeting
Of The mcu In the companys yard did not meet with
favor but an attempt would DO made TO hold meeting
which would br less public and less subject to iuterer
ence from Outsiders. The paper which has been cir
culaed and largely sign.d by tho employees and has
eau ,ed the reOpcnng OF the works reads IA follows
eve tho undersigned employees OF the Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Company indorso tho position
taken by officers OF the company and acknowledge
their right hire and discharge whom they please We
also propose defend right to dispose OF our labor
as we see NJ and ready to return To work.
some Of the locked out say that Nj. Mccormick Is
pctting wrong Impression as to the number Of the
men who have expressed themselves anxious to 20 to
work Tney allege that when Mr. Mccormick cOniorms
10 the wishes OF this and opens the factory
he will find that not more than thirty men Will 90 TO
work IIandbills have been distributed calling meeting
md the committee tho matter in hand they
are making list OF all the employees and VIII see that
mono others will admitted They Gay they viii abide
by the decision majority OF the employees as to
what they shall do.
ST. PAUL Feb. 26 tSpeciab. b.-ArchbshOp Heiss OF the
Milwaukee diocese has advised the priests OF his flock
10 use thor Influence In restraining members or their
congregations from Joining the Knights of Labor This
action k the result the conference OF the bishops IN
milwaukee, two weeks agL Tao archbishop Gays that
there will be no issued the priests being simply
10 use influence against the Knights Of Labor,
which orgauizaton he thinks Is becoming dangerous.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 (Sp,cidb-rhe compositors.
members OF Typographical Union. No. l, employed In the
Office Of me Tagebiah n German morning paper, were
discharged Yesterday for refusing To set an ADVERTISE
mcnt wnlon declared tnat tho boycott on Hc GdSeHc
German paper was illegal according 10 to
They declared that the ADVERTISEMENT did not cor
rerty represent the union they wOud not nahuIo H.
1he com osurs refused TO set an editorial Oh tho
boycott written IN favor OF tho paper
PuTsBUEG Feb 2G.-Thc coke drawers at the Morgan
Ponndry and tie White and summit Works, who ycser
dnv an advance OF vo per ton for draw
Ing email ovens returned 10 work TINS morning tho Ope-
rators having conceded tho increase The operators
have declined to release al tho luhE"rlahs ho" u0i
arrest riot except the rlngleadeIa
MILWAUKEE, Via Fob. 26.-Tho nail mill Of the North
Chicago Rolling Mil Company at Bay Wow, which has
bern closed the greater part OF clgh months on h
count of difference between the nailers ana manuIhc
urers AS to wages viii resume operations next MOhaS
The nnion men who out June /. last year. VIII
90 back their old places The scale Ot prices mas Deo
fixed ON what Is known as the " MlngO OASIS