Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-03
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T'pes strike for More Pay-Also
"eavers at Dexter, Me.
>tupendons Eight-hour Movement h,
the Chicago Laborers.
All tiasse> of " Orkmen Form a Gi-au,;,
Procession
Aud Parade the Streets. With Rod "a. >,
her> Waving at the Head OF
their Columns.
The Boycott System BEING Slammed On,
in New YORK.


haaan' contractor in laying the pipes of the
Tor'iand Water Co. in Deerlng left work
Saturday morning. They have been getting
si.3o day and it is understood thew want
5l.75. They have presented no request ia
their employers and it is not yet known how
the strike viii result. 1t is understood thar
the demand will be granted.
DEXTER, May l.
Inc weavers of No. mill of the Dexter
WOODEN mills. numbering about 40, struck
Saturday morning at 8 o'clock. No com
plant has been made as to wages and the
strike was wholly unexpected. The mills
viii probably be shut down, throwing some
200 iaborers out of employment.
CHICAGO, May l.
The morning hours of May |, the day set
for the inauguration of the eght-ho day
among wage workers of Chicago, were char.
acterlzed by qnietness which was a remind
er OF Sunday. In the manufacturing dis
tricts, the 6 and o'clock whistles were for
the most part silent. The streets in the CEN
tres Of industry were noticeable bv reason of
the absence Of the usual hurrving crowds of
workingnen. Hundreds of factories were
Idle Some shut down on account of strikes,
others closed for the day to give the employees
a holiday The idea of holding great pa
rade today, under the auspices of the trades
and labor assembly, was abandoned. The
hrt startling news OF the morning came at
$50 O'Clock. A crowd If men from the lum-
Der yard and planning mills, numbering 1000
or 4o0O, got together in the vicinity OF
Twenty-second streets and Blue Island. A
leader was selected and line formed. In
the front rank man carried red flag.
Chief Ebersold declared that great many
men who were off for holiday might be
coDfounded with the strikers, and that the
situation could not be accurately understood
before MONDAY. This o-nng in the lum-
ber district not planning mill opened up
The manufacturers went into session at Felix
Longs office to consider the situation. Sew
en,y five to 100 employees OF the Equitable
Gas and Fuel Company, engaged in building
tanks on Archer avenue, near ullsted street,
quit work this morning. The men were re-
Gently granted "A raise from 81 60 to Sl75
for ten hours day, all they asked But
this morning they quit because the company
r@fnsed to allow the increase and eight hour.
work
About ten Of the men employed in the
Michigan Central yards refused to join the
strike. and about this time police protection
was sought by officials of the road Lieut.
Laughlln and squad of police soon appeared
and succeeded in clearing the depot without
using violence, although the men grumbled
at h'ing forced back, claiming that their in-
tentions were peaceable.
Several mass meetings occurred in the
LUMBER districts in the Southwestern portion
Of the city during the forenoon The crow d
was composed very largely of Bohemians and
Germans. They were addressed by their
hot-headed leaders. and finally the crowd re-
solved itself into marching column, and
preceded by band of music and carrying
red flags, proceeded to the McCormic reaper
v orks, where some non union men working
IN the yards were frightened away. The pro-
cesslon moved west on Blue Island avenue
to Robey street, where mass meeting was
held III vacant lot. The crowd grew larger
and larger as it moved along and more bois-
ferrous.
Fully 500 striking railroad freight hands
met at the Harrison street viaduct, near the
west side Union passenger depot at o'clock
this morning. Speeches were made by two
or three leaders, IN which it was declared
that 1t was the duty of the freight handlers on
all the Chicago roads to enforce their demands
now for shorter hours while the workngmen
in all Departments of trade were doing so.
The sentiment was cheered. and, upon the
suggestion of some one in 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 it moved,
entered the W abash Yards, and the men there
at oRse stopped work in body and Joined
the pr cesslOn, which then proceeded to the
Rock Island yards. where they induced all
thp men rmploved in the freight houses there
to - andon their positions The new recruits
iuned the column, which next visited the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway,
where they were also successful in their eff
forts with the freight hand ers.
Eight turniture factories have closed their
doors TO await the action of tEe executive
committee of the Furniture Manufacturers
Association regarding the eight-hour move
ment.
Last night the committees appointed to wait
on the packers reported that the International
Packing Company had consented to adopt the
tight-hour plan on Monday next. The report
from Fowler Bros. was favorable, but not
agreed to abide by the action of the majority
MIR. Cudahy of Armour's house said he was
in favor of the movement, but would wait
the action of the conference of packers.
Nelson Morris would wait until Monday.
The New York packing house will abide by
the action of the majority, and the Silver
Horn Company has promised to adopt the
eieht-hour system.
The news this morning say At late hour
last night the following, which is self-explan-
atory. was brough to the Daily News Office
by the executive committee of the machinists,
Knights of Labor, assembly 5l34
please do us the favor to publish the fol-
lowing in your issue tomorrow morning
Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers, proprietors OF
the leading machine shop in Chicago and the
northwest, who have always paid the highest
wages in the trade, and have never had any
trouble with their employees, have, with their
usual liberality, conceded the eight hours to
their employees, and will run their shop with
two shifts, in future, if necessary. Messrs.
Brane Bros. have also conceded to all their
employees the eight hour rule, and If over
time is necessary they will pay time and