Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-13
SHORTER WORKING HOURS.
Progress OF the Great Movement In
the Cities Looking Toward
That End.
Some Manufacturers Accede to the De-
mand, Others Refuse, and Others
I Are Waiting. 49,

Outside of the city OF Chicago the movement
by the trades unions for the adoption Of rule
making eight hours days labor was not as gen-
eral as had been expected. There appeared to
be no concert OF action among the workingmen.
and in only one city-Milwaukee-did the
city the demands OF the brewery Iemployes
were refused, and 5000 Of them struck. This
number included the drivers, and the breweries
can deliver no beer. The men in Il. p. Allis q
Co.'S machine shops went out, and enough
men in various other trades to swell the num-
Der OF strikers in tho Cream City to nearly
5000. 1t Is reported that an equal number OF
men are forced into idleness in consequence.
In st. Louis, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Indianaps.
lis, Akron, o., Boston, Pittsburg, and number
OF smaller cities dement's were made by but
few OF the trades. In some cases the reduced
hours were granted by the employers, in many
more answer was deferred. and in others strikes
ensued. There is no report Of demands being
made by railroad employees. In New York tho
movement was confined to the carpenters and
joiners. There was n monster demonstration in
Union Square, at which 20, 900 people listened to
addresses by friends of the short time, move
ment II was free from disorder or Commun-
ism. In Chicago thousands of men from the
lumber-yards and planning mills paraded the
streets with red flags and listened to inoendiary
speeches in foreign tongues. The most notable
strike at Chicago was with the railroads, all Of
tho twenty-five in Chicago being affected, with
the lone exception OF the Baltimore and Ohio.
The Situation In Chicago.
The labor and industrial situation at Chicago
on Monday, the Sd inst. was thus outlined by
special dispatches from that city of that date :
1t was estimated last night that 40 900 of the
225 600 wage-workers Of Chicago have already
prodted by the eight-hour movement About
$4,000 are supposed to be out on strike this
morning. In many instances, whore large
bodies Of men are solidi6ed under trade move
ment, long strikes are threatened II the present
attitude OF the employers is maintained. The
movement has not yet been attended by any
violence, though in some quarters the socialist
ic element has caused seeming pickering and
Der region and NoSr sdS tue St thS jun
The report received that the Milwaukee & st.
Paul Company was sending 400 men into the city
to take the places Of the striking freight handlers
caused no little uneasiness in railroad quarters.
The strikers decided to resist any attempt OF
the imported men to handle the freight.
Previous to Saturday 900 brewers, as many
bakers, 800 furniture workers. 1900 clothing
cutters, and 100 tuck pointers had secured q re-
duction of their working hours.
According to the reports received up to mid
night by Mr.. George A. Schilling, chair
man of the oight-hour committee, the de-
sbt o. the have bse1 satsd
Btreet-car employees, all the members OF the
Cigar Makers Union, 800 beer-barrel makers,
$50 dry,goods and notion store employees.
$500 packers, and large number Of workmen
employed in smaller Industries. Besides, the
following unions have adopted the eight-hour
standard Brick-Layers, Stone Masons' Hod-
Carriers. Plasterers, and Lathers.
Out Of the thirty-seven establishments where
in iron-molders are employed, twenty three
shops have won, nVe OF the nrmS are resisting
the moyement. and the remainder are a1Hovias Hs.s
ing. Inc M~ehiIaists and Dleoksmiths' Assem-
bly,, which is striking for eight hours.
with the ten-hours wages scaled, re-
ports general success. The upholsterers
are being resisted in nearly every instance.
Thirty-three hundred brickmakers are striking
for eight hours work at ton hours pay. About
one half of tho $50 butchers in the city have
cured reductions from sixteen 10 ten hours. Tho
Shoemakers Assembly has modified its demands
to eight hours pay for eight hours work, and ex-
poets to gain this concession. The Clerks
Union will be satisfied with ten hours. Four
hundred wagonmakers begin work to-day under
the eight-hour reform. The marble-workers
have also won under the eight-hours' pay agree
ment The Coopers' Assembly is still standing
out for nine hours pay.
The larger iron and brass works are closed to
await events. Only ono planing-min was in
operation yesterday. The laborers OF the Equit-
and full pay. The agitation in Chicago has thus
far resulted in no acts Of violence.
Following is a summary Of the workers in
the leading trades OF Chicago: Fifty packing
houses, 5000 to 20,000; twenty-five breweres,
1900 fifty wholesale bakeries, ], 100; three gas
companies. 300; four street railways, $500
railroads, $1,000; one hundred cigar facto-
ries 1900; Ave express companies, 1900
telegraph and telephone companies, 1,900
sixty boot and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 1850 |;
forty wholesale clothing manufactures, 5000
twelve dry-goods dealers, 5000; twenty brass
foundres, 1000; twenty tanneries, 1900 eighty
seven foundries, iron-works, and rolling-mills,
5000; 100 carriage and wagon factories, 1,5OO
140 furniture and upholstry, 900 forty planning
mills and box factories. $500 200 lumber yards.
1000; 200 men are employed in the building
trade as carpenters, paper hangers, lnthers,
painters, stone and brick workers. stone-cutters,
plumbers and gas-ftters, roofers and skaters.