The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-02
THE STRIKES.
The Situation in Chicago on
Saturday.
THE CARPENTERS IN BOSTON.
The Knights Held Responsible-Ihe
Carpenters Fix It-A Billiard
Ball Strike.
The Strike In Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 1.-Five hundred strik-
ing railroad freight handlers met at Il Q
Harrison Street Viaduct near the west
side OF the Union passenger depot this
morning. Speeches were made by two
or three leaders, declaring it was the
duty of freight handlers on all Chicago
roads to enforce their demands now for
shorter hours while the workingmen in
the other departments were doing so,
and upon the suggestion of some one n
the crowd, the men started for the
Wabash freight yards to urge the men
employed there to stop work. The
crowd. increasing in size as il moved.
entered the Wabash yards: the men
there at once began quitting work; fr, m
there the crowds, still increasing in siz.
visited the yards of the Lake Shore
Rock Island, louisville. New Al
bany & Chicago and Michigan
Central roads VII re nearly all
OF the men stopped. In The Michi-
gan Central ten men refused to quit
work, and the police arriving the crowd
was driven from the yard. The freight
house men OF the Fort Wayne road this
morning made a demand for eight
hours, and Will stop at noon unless il is
conceded. The drivers and conductors
OF the Blue Island Avenue lines of the
Western Division Car Company demand
reduction in Iheir trips from seven to
six, contning the working day to eleven
hours without decrease in pay. The
company acceded without parleying.
A hundred men employed by the same
company on their extension lines,
struck for eight hours. The freight
handlers on the Milwaukee &
st. Paul road stopped work al
10 O'Clock, of their own accord
A crowd Of three or four hundred men
are marching in q body toward the
Mccormick works on the southwestern
outskirts with red flag at the head of
tn ir columns. The works are idle to-
day, the men having been given a holi.
day. All the lumber yards. box factories
and planning mills in the city are closed
down. The owners Will take Joint
action tonight. The large packing
houses at the stock yards are all run
ming and no shut down is expected
before Monday. The procession in the
lumber yards dissolved at about /
O'Clock without causing any damage.
The lum Der owners express anxiety as
TO the safety of their property and are
setting about for better protection OF
their yards. At O'Clock IN the after
noon there was large gathering of all
classes of strikers on Lake Street. near
Desplaines, where they are being adj
dressed by labor agitators.
Several mass meetings occurred in
the lumber districts this forenoon. The
crowd was composed largely of Bohem-
ians and Germans. They were addressed
by the hot-headed leaders and finally
the crowd resolved itself into march
ing column, and headed by band of
music and carrying red flags, proceeded
10 the Mccormick reaper works where
some non-union men were working in
the yards, and frightened them away
The procession moved west on Blue
Island Avenue 10 Robert Street, where
mass meeting was held on a vacant
lot. The crowd grew larger as it moved
along. and grew more boisterous. The
police kept advised of its movements
but up to noon no trouble had occurred.