The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-08
Labor Notes.

Labor Notes.
The employees in the breweries at
Milwaukee, being refused an advance
OF SO month all around, walked
out on the 1st inst, to the number OF
nearly 600
Twelve thousand people, with ban
ners, flags and transparencies, as
sembled IN Union square, New York,
on the evening OF the 1st, in behalf OF
the elght-hour movement. John Swim
ton was one OF the speakers.
The men employed onthe new water
works a East st, Louis struck on the
1st inst.
The plumbers OF st. Paul and Min
neapolls went ont on the 1st inst, on
the refusal OF their employers to pay
them So so for eight hours.
Between 600 and 500 carpenters
employed by the master builders OF
Milwaukee, went out on the 1st inst,
pending a settlement of the eight-hour
question. 1t is estimated that about
$4,000 men in different trades were
idle in that city On that date.
The furniture factories at Grand
Rapids Mich, have all acceded to the
demand for eight hours. Those Of
Pittsburg refused, and 600 men went
out.
An eight-hour demonstration was
held in Milwaukee on the 2d inst, in
which 3 000 people took part.
An estimate OF idle laboring men in
Chicago on the Sd inst, placed the
number at 65, 600
A dispatch from St. Louis on the I'd
inst, says a secret conference OF the
national executive committee OF the
Knights OF Labor was heldiu that city,
after which it was stated on good au-
thority that the committee had decid-
ed to expel Martin Irons from the or
ganizatjon.
Freight handlers in Chicago to the
number OF about 8 900 struck on the
1st inst.
At Detroit the carpenters have Sc
cared a ) per cent. increase and nine
hours. The stove works employees re-
cave an advance OF 10 per cent.
Many additions were made at Chica-
60 on the 30th to the large number OF
men already made idle in the effort to
secure an eight-hour day. Among the
Establishments affected were the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
whose freight handlers, to the mum
Der OF 800, went out; the Union Brass
Manufacturing Company, which en-
.plOys $50 men, and Clark Bros. & Co.,
furniture manufacturers, 500 men.
About 40 sewing machine makers,
employed by the June Manufacturing
Company, also struck for eight hours.
The immense iron works of the Crane
BIOS. Manufactu ing Company are
about to close temporarily on account
OF the labor troubles. The number of
idle men IN the city on account of the
various strikes is estimated at 25 600
Tie strike for eight hours by the
mer unemployed in the North Chicago
Rolling Mills is over, the company aC-
cedDg to the demand OF the employees.
The thirty-nine stOne-cutt ters OF
Mayer q Son, Newark, n. j., struck
for quart of beer a day instead OF g
pint The firm granted the increase, ard
themen went to work.
The fires in the O'Hara Glass Works,
Pitlsourg, were drawn on the 29th, and
the actory closed down indefinitely,
on account OF wages differences between
the irm and some OF their employees.
Over 800 men will be thrown out OF en-
plo~ment.
There is little change in the New
York street car strike. All the roads
are running as usual except the Third
Avenue, which are putting on cars as
fast as men are procured to run them.
A novel feature has been added by the
employment of large number OF Tex
as cowboys in place OF the striking
drivers.
The striking laborers at the Lake
Superior mine, Ishpeming, Mich, have
returned to work, with the exception
OF the ringleaders, who we're DIS
charged.
-Four hundred cigarmakers, at Key
West, Fla, are out on a strike.
The New York master bakers have
decided to resist any demands OF
iourneymen below twelve hours.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company
refuses to accede to the demands Oflts
employees to make eight hours day
work.
All the miners in the Kanawha coal
region, about 5000 men, have struck
for higher wages.
A general strike of machinists has
been inaugurated in Jersey City. The
demand is for fewer hours and more
pay.
Brown & Co iron and steel works
at Pittsburg were closed on the Goth,
the laborers and engineers having
struck for an increase in wages.
The freight handlers on the Ohio q
Mississippi Railway at Storr Station,
o., have gone back 70 work, the com
pany having agreed to advance wages.
Ani1nmense demonstration OF work
ingmen in favor OF the eight-hour sys-
tenn took place in Baltimore on the
night of the 29th. Speeches were made
by P. ]. Mcclure, OF Cleveland, J. j.
Mcnamara, OF Washington, and 9th
ers
The employesin he architectural de-
partment OF the UDion Brass Works,
Chicago, struck for an advance In
wages on the 2Sth.
\ notice was posted in the factory
OF the Adams & Westlake Manufact-
turing Company, Chicago, on the 2Sth,
reducing hours and pay after May !.
holucGnuu x SONS luEHlt ut6idCtDEy ,
Chicago, was closed by strike on the
2Sth for eight hours. The firms fac
tory at Cincinnati IS closed for the
same reason.
a pastoral letter was received At
Montreal on the 28th from Cardinal
Taschereau, conGemning the Knights
OF Labor IS secret organization IN
lmical to the interests OF religion and
good morals Great efforts have been
made by the local officers o. the order
to influence the cardinal and prevent
the issue OF this pastoral The car
dInal, it IS underst GOD, before issuing
It conferred with all the principal
bishops, who All agreed With his de