The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-05-08


MATT.
CNCINNATI, May 3.-The Eight-Hour
demonstration advertised to take place
yesterday afternoon was failure as far
as the street parade is concerned. Not
more than twelve hundred men were in
line, and they were principally Swiss and
German Socialists. The trades unions
and Knight of Labor organizations dis
claimed any and all connection with the
affair. The SocialiStic element was only
interested in the exercises and parade,
and the red flag was the color under
which the participants rallied.
After traversing the principal streets,
they moved in the direction of the Belle
vue House, where five thousand persons
congregated to listen to the speech of A.
L. Parsons, editor of the Chicago Alarm,
and VIM. b. Ogden, of this city. Both
were of Socialist tendency. One of the
notable points of 0gden's speech was that
the surplus in the United States Treasury
went to supply standing army with
American rifles to shoot down American
workingmcn. Parsons said: "Capital
raised in the face of labor the black flag
of starvation while they raised in return
the red flag of revolution and liberty, and
the time would come when they would
discharge the employers forever"
The freight handlers of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 4 Dayton, Cincinnati, New
| Orleans & Texas Pacific, Cincinnati
& Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago,
and the Bee line, met Saturday night,
and resolved to go out unless their de-
mands are complied with. The men
want one dollar and fifty cents per day,
twenty cents per hour for overtime, and
two dollars for Sunday work, ten hours
to constitute days work. There are
about four hundred men interested in
this movement.
The Ohio & Mississippi men did not
participate in the meeting, but they are
in sympathy with the strike, and will
operate with them. The Cincinnati, Ham,
ilton & Dayton Company have advertised
for 100 freight handlers, which indicates
noncompliance with the demands OF their
men, aud trouble is looked for to-day.
THE STRUGGLE AS THE NATIONAL CAPT
tai.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-To-morrow II
is expected will begin the struggle be-
tween the master builders of this city and
their iourneymen and other employees
over the Eight-Hour question. Every
thing points to a prolonged deadlock
which many fear will almost paralyze
building operations for the season, as
the deserters on either side are few. The
,lo oh In bn namon6
eight hours include the bricklayers, car
penters, plasterers, stone-cutters, mar
ble-workers, plumbers, painters, timers
brick-makers, hod-carriers, blacksmiths
and ice-drivers, embracing in all nearly
, four thousand men, who average a PEE
diem of $3.50. The men say they viii
| insist on eight hours being considered {
| days work, and if the employers do no
| accede TO their desires they are at perfec
liberty to dismiss all the workmen. Oh
this point the Knights of Labor are deter
mined that no strike shall occur, prefer
ring that the men shall be locked out b.
the employers. Mr.. E. w. Oyster, tn
: president of the Federation of Labor, say
t the men are firmly resolved to in
sist on the reduction of hours, bu
!, If work is suspended tomorrow, a
;. it probably will be, there will b
no violence and no effort to obtai
a by force what the men expect as right
e The scheme is for the men of every trad
!, to 90 to work at half-past seven to-mor
: row morning and work until p. M, un
), less the bosses tell them that they are no
), to do so with the expectation of full
e wages for the eight hours work. TIL
! 90, ,,f,t
!, to the men that ten hours must constitut
l days work at full pay hereafter a
G heretofore, while a number Of contract
$ Ors on work already in progress hay,
5 notified the men that they will accede Il
z the demand for eight hours.
Z GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN BALTIMORE
y BALTIMORE, Md, May Am i'm
mense labor demonstration will be he'll
o in this city to-day, consisting of mon
y, ster parade, followed by grand picni
at Scheutzen Park, where labor addresse
will be made. 1t is estimated that 1900
d men will be in line, and while the demon
o stration is ostensibly in favor of tn
It Eight-Hour system, yet there is n
unanimity on that particular point by tn
0 various Knights OF Labor assemblies an
labor organizations. OF course many {
l. the trades will contend for eight hours
IL but there are many more which will az
J. cept a reduction to nine hours, and as
e the case of the butchers and brewers
e who now work from fourteen to sever
=. teen hours daily, ten hours will be asket
d In fact, the bosses of the butchers an
Is brewers have already virtually agreed
is concede ten hours a day, at the o.
wages, to the men.
" The furniture-workers at a meetir
re yesterday received communications fro
81 twenty shops, employing six hundrC
c, men, that they would adopt the Eigh
he Hour system, while ten shops refuse,
id and the two hundred men employt
therein will strike to-day.
Two thousand carpenters and ioinc
he have asked for eight hours, and ha
il rejected Il compromise on nine hour
-, and will be locked out to-day. Two tho
=" sand can-makers will demand eight hour