Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-24
THE LABOR AGITATION.
Pittsburg Builders and WOrkmen Con
prOmise-New York Business Me
Disguised ut the Breakdown Of tn
Lake ShOre-Other Matters

| PITTsBURG, April 24.-The agitation for a
reduction of hours, which it had been feared
would have prejudicial effect on the building
trades this season, is being ended peaceably by
amicabie arrangements between employers
and workmen. The journeymen plum bers
who had demanded that eight hours be day
work at the old wages. have Withdrawn their
demand and submitted a substitute PROPOSE.
| tion that nine hours shall be considered a DAVIS
work, with eight hours on Saturday. These
terms will probably be accepted by the master
plumbers. The carpenters, stonemasons and
other building trades expect to arrange a com.
promise on similar terms, and thus prevent the
seasons work from being crippled by strikes.
| GREATLY PERTURBED ABOUT AMERICAN
FREEDOM.
NEW YORK, April 2A.-The pmments heard
| In business circles here on e back-down o
| the Lake Shore railroad com any at Chicago
| are not complimentary TO job Ne we'll and the
Fairbanks Packing company, 10 whose in.
fiuence President Newell seems TO have sue
cumbed.
"If men are to be driven out of employment ~
said one, lat the dictation OF secret oat D.
bound union, OF selfappointed committees, Tor
refusing TO surrender their independence,
America is no longer the land OF the free and
the brave. IL is plain that the cowardice OF
John Newell should not have been pitted
against the audacity OF the strikers, and that
the Vanderbilt estate should retire him 10 a
cupidity of Millionaire Fairbanks should be
sent to the rear until the rights of the great
mass OF citizens are made secure"
"RuSSia, said another, "is a much freer
country than America. There, il one only lets
the government alone, one is undisturbed
either as employer or employe in his social re-
lations. We have now got TO decide whether
the communists who have fed from Europe are
superior to native-born Americans, and the
course of the Lake Shore road makes the con-
test harder. But there is no doubt about the
result. American blood and love of liberty will
tell in the end"
GOV. MARMADUKE ON THE SOUTHWESTERN
TROUBLES.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Ciov. John s. Marina
duke, OF Missouri, was seen at the st. james
hotel this morning, and in answer To a request
that he give his views concerning the labor
troubles III the southwest lac said: IL think
that SO far as the strike is concerned public
sentiment is demanding that commerce should
move. railroads not only represent private
interests, they represent public interests as
well. The great interest OF the country demand
that our railroad traffic be not disturbed, and
that sentiment Is growing stronger each day,
Railroad magnates and railrod laborers must
recognize this and obey. do not know about
the tfafflc on the roads, except that il is grow
ing daily. l believe that the civil authority
should be used AS far possible in the settle
ment OF these matters. This is a government
OF the people, and We should use the bayonet
only wnen absolutely necessary. L think the
matter is settling down, and that soon the
troubles will be over.
THE ARRESTED SwITCHMEN DISCHARGED.
CHICAGO, April 24.-The cases against the
Lake Shore switcnmen-T. +. Collins, A
Haight, Vim. McGlasson, James Kander and
until to-day, came before Justice Mech this
morning. Pliny Il. Smith, the solicitor Tor the
company, announced that AS the men had re-
turned to work and that there was no obstruc-
tion To the transit Of traffic over the road, he
did not wish to prosecute the switchmen.
The differences having been amicably adj
justed, he would make no charge against the
men. Justice Mech accordingly dismissed
the cases Tor want OF prosecution.
Vice President Marvin Hughitt said this
morning that he had given no answer 10 the
petition OF the BOO men in the employ of the
freight shops OF the Northwestern railway who
q few days ago asked Tor an advance OF twenty
per cent ana an eight-hour day. The railway
officials have the matter under consideration
but Mr.. Hughitt was disnc.ined To make any
mention OF what they intended doing.