The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-14

THE Chicago police raided a hall and
captured several hundred rifles the other
night. They belonged to a company of
zouaves composed of foreign socialists.
the Chicago lumbermen claim the con-
dition of trade will not Justify them in ac-
ceding to their employees demands for
shorter days and more wages.
THE Chicago Trades Assembly on the
4tb issued a circular to the worl<ingmen of
Chicago, which says: 5''Our advice is, that
where disagreement as to terms exist, in
terview the employer through committee.
Determine to secure the adoption of the
eight-hour system, even if concession to OBJ
tain it must be made
THE strike on the Union Pacific was com
plete on the 5th. No freight trains were
running.
Two hundred Government troops were
sent from Columbus, o., TO Cincinnati re-
Gently to guard the Government building
there in anticipation Of riots.
MEssRs CURTIN, Stewart and Burnes, of
the Congressional Investigating Commit
tee, opened the inquiry into the South
western labor troubles al Kansas City on
the 5th.
RIoTISG was partially renewed at Chica
60 on the 5th. The police raided many of
the houses OF prominent anarchists, cap
NuIAuk weapons boliluo anu u AAaNAAbG- n
policeman named Madden had an encOun-
ter with an anarchist on Desplaines street.
The anarchist was shot dend after he had
mortally wounded the policeman.
A woRRINGNIEN's IS mass meeting was held
recently at New York under the auspices
of the Knights of Labor. Resolutions were
passed denouncing the violence at Chicago,
| deploring acts looking to anarchy and
cialism, and asking for a State labor arbi-
tration board
THE London Standard, commenting on
the Chicago tragedies, says the bombs and
dynamite were probably originally in
tended for the destruction of foreign po-
tentates. Il would help Congress to get
out of its indifference in dealing with so
cialistic conspirators.
SEVENTEEN members of the Bohemian
Bakers Union of New York, engaged in
boycotting Mra Langraf, were arrested re-
Gently.
FoUR laborers were killed under the fallen
walls of the Crockett block at Minneapolis,
/ Mimi, recently.
RIoTTNG in Chicago was renewed on the
4th, with serious loss of life. In attempt
I ing to disperse crowd of anarchists in the
1 HRymarket part of the city, bombs were
thrown by the mob, the result being that
four policemen were killed and twenty
two wounded. The anarchists lost about
forty wounded
SPIES, Fielding and Parsons, the anarch
lists who melted the riot at Chicago were
arrested next day t&#NF
SEVENTEEN hundred employees Of the
| Deering Harvester Works, at Chicago,
struck ON the 5th. Three thousand men en-
ployed in the car shops also quit work st
l Chicago the same day.
/ The Third avenue New York; street car
\ strike has ended. Many OF the strikers
\ were dissatisfied with the agreement. as it
only stipulated for the re-engagement of a
| portion of the old hands
THE Deering Harvester Company at Chi
/ cago acceded to the demands of its em-
ployes on the eight-hour question.
/ NOR on the 5th, threatened to attack
the rolling mill at Bay View, near Milwau-
kee, Wis, when they were fired On by the
militia. Four of the rioters were shot dead
and four mortally wounded. Milwaukee
was in ferment of excitement.
THE switchmen of the railroads coming
| i'm over the Chicago & Western Indiana
| track struck on the 9th. They demanded
/ S55 per month, a raise OF $40. They were
| followed by the shopmen Of the same road.
| The action of the switchmen seriously coIu-
plicated railroad matters.
AMoNe the places in Chicago closed for
! fear Of riots by order of the mayor was the
/ Casino rink. where tbs Rev. Dwight L.
Moody was conducting revival services
TUE blockade on the Western Indiana
track at Chicago, caused by the strike, was
raised on the 7th. Labor matters were re-
ported quieting down everywhere
/ THREE hundred builders and laborers in
the employ of Mertz q Sons, Rochester, y.
/ Y, struck on the 9Th for nine hours work
l except Saturdays, when they want eight.
1 UNEMPLOYED workingmen held a mass
meeting in Manchester, Eng, the other
day. Eight arrests FOR discrderly conducs
/ were made.
THREE hundred employees Of the Pitts
\ burgh glass factories have struck for an in
| crease in wages.
/ SIXTY hands in Knapp, Stout q Co.'S ex-
l teusive saw mill st. Louis. struck recently
1 for ten hours work instead OF eleven, as at
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