Telegram-herald., 1886-05-03
THE WAGE WORKERS
An Unsatisfactory Condition
OF Affairs az Chicago.
TROUBLE ANTICIPATED TO-DAY.
The Labor Demonstrators al CIR
Cianati and Baltimore - The
Struggle tor Eight Hours
So Far Accomplished
Without Bioodshed.

/ CBicAso, Nay Although to.iay's meet
iug 81 lhc Trade and Labor assembly vas
looked 81 @i,h more than ordinary interest.
The attendance Vas bat small Geo. Schil-
/ LOG a giving the abstract OF the success of
the lght.h0nF movement 50 far. remarked
I that the situation vas exceedingly hopeful
Chicago Was leading the country. bat the
Jniied States would remain behind aud this
might compel Chicago 10 - back for a
time Inen there were tNO other difficulties
one Was that all 81 the trades were lot a.
com pletely organized a. could be desired
This might DC reilsdied by hard work on
the part 0f the trade, assemblies. The
more imperalise ~as the question "f
wages some trades notably the furniture
Workers. had insisted and were insisting
upon All aiyancr of Wages aud unless such
increase was oi tainei in other cities lt
wouli not be granted by the manufactures
of This city. Something must be done. aud
must be done al once. lie advised the es-
tebiishmrnt OF an executive eight hour
labor council 10 keep the whole move
meur under control and help ln adjusting
existing or arising difficulties. As the
practical results OF the e!ght-honr move
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about 100. had secured a reduction o.
working hours from sixteen 10 ten.
bakers from fourteeu and sixteen
20 ten furniture makers eighteen
firms lad consented 10 eight hours
work with ten hours pay; clothing cutters
and tuck pointers had secured some ad-
vantage Employees OF the South Side cable
line had secured eight hours work with
nine hours pay the international Cigar
makers niOn had reduced hours from
nine 10 eight, the beer barrel makers had
reduced hours 10 ten, and in most of the
important building trades, such as brick
makers, stone masons, carpenters AMI hod
carriers. eight hours were an established
fact This bad been secured by TypOgraph-
ical Unions. they having adopted a six
hour system OF composition, machinists and
blacksmiths had eight hours work with
eight hours pay, and the most important of
the packing hDases had adopted eight
hours work and nine hours pay. This was
true Of Hutchinson establishment, Ar
mOur would inaugurate the eight hour
system 10 morrow aud not make any redu,-
tiOu from WAGES under 81, Schuttlcr wagon
manufacturers had adopted the eight hour
system, butchers. fully 900 in number,
would work ten instead of fourteen hours,
and several leading dry goods houses had
voluntarily iatrOdnced eight hours work.
At 4 meeting Of he striking freight hand
lers tonight. vas agreed 20 stand firm
until the company accede To their demands.
Al indications point To an exciting day
tomorrow. Heavy forces of police and fire.
men will be Kept in readiness At each sta
tion. lt i stated tonight that the thousands
of strikers Will move on the Mccormick
reaper works az seven O'Clock tomorrow
morning and force the men employed there
to quit work.
Al midnight it is stated that two hun
dred frc;shi handlers from Iowa and Wis.
consin have been imported To this city dur
ing the day by tile Burlington road and
that they have all been sworn in as depu-
ties. Il Is learned that the company is
building barracks for the new men in their
depot. Strikers are threatening TO blow
them up with dynamite. For three hours
tonight incendiary speeches We're made by
some of the leading spirits of the strikers,
and II is very probable that should the
company attempt u move any freight to-
morrow that they will be resisted by force