The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-01


1900 employees that 1t would not grant the ten
hours pay for eight hours work. The employees
are still at work.
The Hercules iron works. on Canal street, will
inaugurate the eight-hour system with the ten
hour pay beginning tomorrow. for one month.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com
pany has effected a settlement with its 1900
shopmen, near this city, who demanded an eight
hour working day. The company grants nine
hour working day with full pay, and made con-
cession to the men in the matter of railroad fare
between this city and the shops. The chairman
of the committee representing the workmen says:
'"rhe men have decided 10 acceptthe proposition
for the present The original demand still re-
mains in force, and we expect the company TO
act on it at some future time, when business
may improve. That is the way it stands, and
think can say, authoritatively, that there Will
be no trouble here"
One hundred freght-handlers on the Grand
Trunk railroad made dema and for an eight hour
Gay, and said they would wait for decision un-
til noon tomorrow.
The immense iron works Of the Crane Broth
ers' Manufacturing Company will close down to-
morrow night for several weeks. at least The
company intimates that it will then inaugurate
the eight hour system, and deems the shut
down necessary to arrange for the new order OF
affairs.
The Goss & Phillips Manufacturing Company.
which owns very extensive planning mills, has
arranged for an eight-hour working day with all
its employees, on the basis of eight hours pay, be-
ginning tomorrow.
Committees representing the 1000 men en-
ployed in the Chicago rolling mills, after consult
ing with the owners of the mills. reported back
to the men, and they decided, for the present,
to continue working on the eght-hour plan.
The employees of the extensive coal docks and
yards at South Chicago have struck for an in
crease of cents per ton for handling coal. AS
there were several cargoes at the dock awaiting
TO be discharged, the companies had no option,
and paid theSmen the advance
The freight-handlers on the Burlington and
Alton roads have stopped work. owing to re-
fusal to accede to demand for eight hours. AS
soon as the freight now on hand is cleared up the
houses will close.
At o'clock this afternoon the $50 employees of
the Union Brass Manufacturing Company quit
work. They demanded eight hours work and
eight hours pay, which the company refused.
All the plumbing shops in the city have con-
ceded eight hours work at nine hours pay.
Mr.. Gano. foreman of the Chicago, Burlington
81 Quincy out-freight house, called on Vice pres
ident Potter and Superintendent Stone at noon
to-day and asked for an increase of pay for his
men for ten hours' work, and also that the sala-
ries OF the check clerks be equalized He re-
turned to the depot little before o'clock, and
reported that his request had not been granted,
though Messrs. Potter and Stone had promised
20 see what could be done at some future time,
when matters had quieted down little
By o'clock in the afternoon all of the Burling-
ton frelght-house men, numbering nearly 300.
had gone out. The Chicago & Alton men went
out very shortly thereafter.
The employees of the furniture manufacturers.
r. E. Pople and William Gffeert, numbering
], 800 men, struck, to-day for eight hours work
and ten hours pay.
One hundred and forty sewing machine max
ers, employed by the June Manufacturing Com
pany, also struck upon receiving refusal of
similar demands.
The Excelsior iron-works and the Link Belt
Manufacturing Companyy employing, respect
lively, 100 and 165 men, decided tonight. to shut
down to morrow indefinitely. owing to the exist
ing conditions in the labor situation.
The strike at Rothschildss furniture works
has widened. Reports were received to-day that
the workmen in the firms shops at ST. Louis,
Kansas City and Denver struck this morning, in
company with the men here and at Cincinnati
10 morrow morning the Furniture workers
Union, numbering about 1000 men, will hold
meetingto be preceded by parade in honor of
the emancipation of the worklngman" The
union say they have been working for the eight
hour system for twenty years. and are now 60
ing to celebrate its adoption.
The proprietors of every one of the ninety
three lum Der yards in the city received, to day.
circular from the lumbermens union, demand
ing substantially ten hours pay for eight hours
work, commencing May g. A meeting was at
once called, at which eighty four of the ninety
three proprietors were represented. All of them
had been taken by surprise, there having been
little or no indication of an eight hour movement
among the men in the lumber yards The pro-
prletors, in their meeting, did not commit them
selves on any course in regard to the demand
further than to appoint committee to meet
daily and endeavor to settle the problem with
the men in the various yards the basis of
mutual concessions by the workmen and the
proprietors. According to statement by the
chairman of the committee appointed at the
meeting, a general strike in the lumber yards
of Chicago would directly involve workmen to
the number of at least r. O0O
The Chicago & Alton freight handlers have
stopped work. The men had a meeting after
quitting work this evening, and decided to join
the eight hour movement should the company
not comply with their petition tomorrow morn.
ing. 1t was agreed to assemble at the freight
house at the usual time, but to make no move
toward going to work unless the company sent
word that the eight hour rule had been favorably
considered.
The Northwestern freight-handlers on the Ga
lena division worked on through the day without
taking any action looking toward going ont. The
demand made by them had not been referred 10
the higher officials nor acted upon by the latter
Hope was entertained that the division superin-
tendent and the local agent could dissuade the
men, and thus avoid what would otherwise come
to an open rupture. The men on the Wisconsin
division made no move If the others insist
upon formal reply it will probably be given
them tomorrow, and there is doubt but it
will be in the form of complete refusal
The Milwaukee & ST. Paul men continued
their labors without interruption until the clos
ing hour. II was stated that they were to have
an answer at o'clock, and at that time the local
agent. G. e. Wilson. informed the committee
that the company would unquaifedly refuse to
accede to the demands.
The Grand Trunk freight handlers made de-
mand of the same tenor-eight hours and no re-
duction OF wages. They are promised an answer
at noon tomorrow. Rnmors were plentiful in
regard to all of the other roads, but were unreli-
able and untruthful. born of the excitement and
circulated as the strike gossip of the day.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC.