Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
FIGURING UP.

Interesting Statistics Concerning the Move-
ment for Fewer Hours of Labor-More
Victims of the Chicago Riot-Cincinnati
in Fear of an Outbreak-Other Gossip.
New YORK. May SIN a review OF Che
, strike for shorter hours Bradstrect's sum-
marizes results throughout the country as
follows:
Reported striking for shorter hours, $780,
O0Oi reported last week, 5000; total, 1885,
O0O. Securing shorter hours without strik-
irg, 111,0uu; reported last week,
3 5000, total, $4,000. Number en-
gagged in the short-hour movement,
:99.0OO;. total to whom shorter hours were
granted after striking, 35,UoO. 1t is more
than likely that, with all union strikes in
claded, the grand total on strike will prove
to be nearly 115,O00. In all probability
the 100000 to whom the demands were
granted without any strike will bring up
the total of those actively engaged in the
men.
Shorter hours have been granted to
III, 900 men in % cities, during the week,
without the effort of striking. The largest
total is of $4,000, Chicago packing-house
employees. The cigar-makers aggregate
some 1880 in number. of whom 1000 ire
in New York. !, 800 in Detroit, and l,SoOi in
Chicago. The building Misunderstanding
bricklayers, carpenters, painters, plumbers,
stone-cutters, etc.-furnish a total of q. O9O
to whom shorter hours shave been conceded,
Washington, New York, Chicago and Bal
timore's quota accounting for $4,000. III
the group including miscellaneous trades
there are over 1900. Smaller totals, to
out striking are: Tobacco-factory work
ers, $500 5000 at Baltimore); furniture
makers, 1890 5000 at Grand Rapids), and
$500 m%achinists 1000 at Chicago and 500
at ST. Louis9. The total number reported
striking forshorter hours is 10000 at vari-
New York. 5000; Cincinnati, $1,000;
Milwaukee, 1000; Baltimore, 5000; Boston,
400; Pittsburgh, 1850; Detroit, 5000; st.
Louis o5d 1000; Washington, ll,50o; Newark,
than 1000 each. The total number striking
c%innati, 5000; Boston, 400; Pittsburgh,
300, and Washington. 1,5OW; pattern
makers, 10000 100000 in New York, Brook
Ign and 2 I'D Jersey City, $500 il Cincinnati
makers (7,OW at Chicago and 1000 at Gin
cinnati); 5000 cabinet-makers and 5000
piano-makers (both at New York;, and
5000 laborers 5000 at Cincinnati). The
total number of employees to whom shorter
hours have been granted after striking is
$4,000, one-half Of whom are classified as
miscellaneous, and probably 10000 (of the
11,O0D) are in Cincinnati. There are 5000
among the building trades (1,00O at New
York and LOCO at Newark), 1000 piano
at New York;, and ], 900 observation-disclosures
ment makers.
.In the vicinity of New York City, where
it has been reported there are $50, 900 mem
to secure the %"eight-hour day" has not
taken place. The larger portion Of those
engaged in the movement, the building
trades, secured a concession some time ago
in the shape of nine hours a day on FIVE
days and eight hours on Saturdays. The
and pattern makers in New York City and
vicinity want a nine-hour day. No general
demand has been made, but one shop is be.
ing taken at a time"
CHICAGO, May 1O. Officer Timothy
Tlavin died at the hospital Saturday after
noon, and Officer Michael Sheahan passed
away at his boarding-house, 1913 Dearborn
street, yesterday afternoon. This makes
five policemen who lave died from the ef-
fects OF wounds inflicted by the death.
dealing bomb thrown in Tuesday nights
riot. krueger, the man who shotPoliceman
Madden, and who was in turn shot by the
officer at the Desplaines street viaduct
on Wednesday evening, died Saturday aft
ternoon. Officer Madden is making fair
progress towards recovery.
Frank Lewis, a shoemaker who was shot
through the body in Tuesday nights al
fair, died yesterday forenoon at 2307
Wentworth avenue.
Resolutions strongly condemning the
course OF the Anarchists in p~recipitating
the riot in Haymarket squar last Tues
day night have been adopted by labor
organizations OF this city and throughout
the country. A meeting at Davenport,
Ia, at which the chief speaker expressed
| sympathy with the rioters and charged
that the city police were in the employ of
capitalists, was dispersed by the chief of
police and the orator placed under arrest.
CINCINNATI, O., May 1O.-Everv precau-
ton has been taken to avert an outbreak
among the Anarchists. A force OF State
troops numbering in all about 1900 men
and provided with field and Gatling guns is
encamped near the city, while the First Regi-
ment is under a:ms at it's armory in the
city ready for action at moment notice.
The mayor has caused the police force to
be increased by 1000 special officers, and
has issued a proclamation forbidding pub
lie meetings for the present.
NEW YORK, May 1O.-Thc eight-hour
movement in this city received IL disastrous
blow yesterday when the United Piano.
Makers declared off the demand for Il re.
duction in working hours. al members
on strike were ordered back to work
to-day. The failure was caused through
the refusal OF the men employed
by Stelnway & Sons and Weber a. Co. to
join in the demand, because they consid.
cred ten our a fair days work. About
t~wenty-seven piano-factory owners have
yielded to the eight.hour demand, but
they are expected to return to the former
schedule, since the demand failed oigeneral
recognition.
ST.. LOUIS, May 1O.-The first week of
the eight-hour movement in this city ended
Saturday, and the situation may be
summed up as follows: In the larger in
dustries, where the organization has been
incomplete, strikes or lock-outs lave oc-
Cured, which still continue; in other cases
the employees who have demanded eight
hours have been discharged and new men
employed. The furniture manufacturers
have, without exception, adopted the sys-
tenn. Among the boiler and sheet-iron
workers the short osly is in force, with
double pay for over time. The stone and
marble cutters get eight hours with eight
hours pay, except Ill one establishment,
where ten hours pay for the short hours
was granted. Among the building trades
the men paid by the hour have adopted the
elght-hour system. The planning mill com.
panles and tobacco factories have all