Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13
The SHORT HOUR MOVE.

THE SHORT HOUR MOVe-
RI. Extent and Results OF the Movements
Summarized BY Bradstreet's-C Concessions
Granted without Strikes Show y Graft
fying Aggregate to Workingmen-Three
Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Men
| Engaged in Working Out the Prob
| lem.
| NEW YORK, May 8.-One week ago
| Bradstreet's presented the results OF an
extended Geographic inquiry as to the
probable extent of the movement on foot
among trade unionists to secure fewer
| hours of daily labor without decrease In
wages. 1t was shown that so far as then
made public 1885, 900 men would strike
| within the week, that 5000 were already
| on strike to that end, and that eight Cor
other) hours had already been granted TO
| 32, 900 employees at various points. 1t was
plainly indicated that over 225,0o0
| men were moving in the matter, either
! by request alone or with threats to strike.
AS 1t is now made plain, these nghres
were below the marx. BfddStFeets
special Geographic inquiry this week,
while presenting totals materially III ex-
cess of those foreshadowcd on last FRI
dav, shows that the aggregate num-
| Der of strikers for fewer nouns,
work daily has not Peen as iatse
| as some "estimates'' and other careless
editorial utterances have stated them,
possibly for the reason that the MODS OF
| idlers, Anarchists and others at Chicago
and Milwaukee have not been included as
workmen on strike. The totals gwen
herewith will doubtless prove under rain
er than over the actual aggregate, out are
believed to be the result of as close an
enumeration as the present mixed conoi-
ton of affairs at various industriai cehters
will permit.
The ssEisht-Hour" demand has already
heen transformed into "demand for
shorter hours" so many OF the posi-
tons taken originally having been
changed by compromises. An attempt
at this time to distinguish clearly or
fully as to the extent OF the movement
for eight, for nine, or other hours is I'M
practicable. There is reported Go Brad
streets from twenty-five cities hll,OUO
men to whom shorter hours have been
granted within weeE ltnouG
the effort of striking. The tarSesA totai
is of $4,000 Chicago packing a''Fe en-
ployes. The cigar-makers aggregate some
10, 500 in number, of whom 5000 are IN
New York, 800 in Detroit and l,ooo IN
Chicago. The building trades, including
bricklayerS, carpenters, painters, plumo.
ers, stone cutters, etc, furnish total OF
90 900, to whom shorter hours have been
conceded, Washington, New York, Chi
cago and Baltimore quotas accounting 1oI
$4,000.
In the group, including miscellaneous,
there are over II, 900.
Smaller totals, 10 whom shorter hours
were conceded without striking, are:
Tobacco factory workers, 5000 10000
at Baltimore); furniture makers, $500
$1,000 at Grand Rapids), and $500 ma
chinists (2.5O0 at Chicago and 500 at st.
Louis).
The total number reported striking fro
shorter hours Is 100000, at various cit
les, as follows: Chicago, $4,000; New
York. $4,000; Cincinnati, $4,000; Mill
waukee, 1000; Baltimore, 5000; Bos-
ton, 400; Pittsburg, 1880; Detroit, g.
900; st. Louis, 1000; Washington, 900;
Newark, 200, and eleven other cities
with fewer than l 200 each.
The total number striking among the
building trades is $4,000; Cincinnati,
5,00O Boston, 400; Pittsburgh, 3.l00,
and Washington, 800; patternmakers,
100000, 900 New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City; $500 Cincinnati, and 5000
at Chicago; $4,000 furniture makers
1000 Chicago and 4, 1000 Cincinnati; 5000
cabinet makers and 5000 piano-makers,
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 1900 are in Cincinnati.
There are 5000 among the building
trades-1 900 at New York and 1000 at
Newark; 1000 piano-makers at New
York; 5000 machinists-3,000 at New
New York, and 900 agricultural imple-
ment-makers.
Summarizing the results: Total re-
ported striking for shorter hours, $50, 900;
total reported last week, 5000; total,
$4,000.
Total securing shorter hours with strik-
ing. Ill 900; total reported last week,
SO, 900; total, 900.
Total number engaged in the short-hour
movement. 900, 900.
Total to whom shorter hours granted
after striking, $4,000.
1t is more than likely that with all
union strikes included the grand total on
strike will prove to be near 175, 900, with
which, 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 short-hour move.
ment to 325. 900 wOrkinrmen