Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-03
News from the Large Cities Where
Strikes are Threatened or i'm Progress.

The movement tor eight hours is very gene
raj, especially in the west 1t is estimated that
upwards OF 100, 900 work men are engaged in
the movement, and there is every indication
that this great army will grow much larger.
In Chicago many thousands of workmen are
idle. The trades most affected are the furniture
manufacturers, the lumber interests and the
iron men, although every business i'm the city
is implicated. the railroads. too, are great SUP
ferers tor the freight handlers have, for The
practical lockout in the furniture factories, and
II is estimated that 1910 men there are CLAIM
oring for eight hours aud no reduction OF pay.
Somewha: similar situation exists in the box
factories and planning mills n special commit
tee of the Lumbermens Exchange decided not
to grant the demands, and an immense process
sion made the rounds of the lumber yards on
Saturday and all the workmen quit. This
strike involves 1900 men.
Six hundred employees Of furniture factories
in Cincinnati have started the movement
there, which is expected TO spread. In Milwau-
kee 5000 malsters and brewers have struck
Tor an advance OF wages, and in Detroit 25o
journeymen brewers have Quit work The fur
niture manufacturers of St Louis have granted
eight hours on a like basis OF pay. All the st.
planning mills are expected to Quit to-day. The
men employed in the East st. Louis water
works have stopped: Nearly all the furniture
idle and the carpenters Will strike to-day.
The movement in the east has not yet as
sumed great proportions, but unless the de-
mandS of the laborerS are conceded or there
are mutual concessions great strikes are looked
for during the week. In New York, Boston
especially in New York the workingmen are
cIamorous for a reduction OF the hours OF labor
without proportionate reduction in wages.
There was an immense maSs-lneeting in Union
square on Saturday night and the speakers, the
principal of whom was John Swinton, called
loudly for their rights.
The eighthour system will be inaugurated in
Philadelphia to-day. Between thirty-five and
forty OF the cabinet manufacturers have &C
a,At
The big manufacturers however will resist the
demand, and il is probable there will be great
strike.
Several thousand New York piano makers
threaten to strike tor eight hours to-day.
At the meeting OF the Central Labor Union in
New York yesterday the brass-workers re-
ported that they have invited their employers
70 confer with them on Tuesday. The fresco-
painters, cabinet-makers, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
cigar-makers, both International and Progress
sive uuiOns, are arranging for an eight-hour
day. Delegates OF the turriers' union reported
that, In consequence OF the bosses refusal to
grant an eight-hour working day, they will 90
on strike in every shop. There are about 500
German printers union, indicate that the
eight-hour rule is observed in nearly all the
German printing offices. The delegates of the
marble-poliShers, rubbers and sawyers reported
that nearly all Of the representative firms in
the business have adopted the nine-hour rule,
at the same tine advanced wages ten per cent,
A resolution was adopted protesting against
1.-THE proposed high-handed Interference OF our
public officials with the liberties of the repre-
sentatives OF organized labor and the threat
ened collision OF said officers with monopoly
as against the common interests" This Is di-
rected against the prosecutions OF boycotters
now going on in New York. Gen. Roger A.
Pryor VIII be retained by the union to defend
the accused men.
An important item Of strike news is the dec
laratfon by Archbishop Gibbons that the object
OF the knights Is in no way opposed to the
views OF the Catholic church, and that "the
Catholic prelates will to q man declare in favor
OF the organization Of labor"
The striking miners in the Cumberland coal
region have determined TO continue the strike