The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-05-13
: T4T s4oaT 4oUR Movg.


The Extent and Results of the Movement
Summarized By Bradstreet's-Concessio
Granted without strikes Show . GrstI-
flying Aggregate to workingmen-Three
Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Men
Engaged In Working Out, the Prob
,sNEw Yokk May s!-ouss waek ago
Bradstreet's presented the results Of an
extended teIegfaphic inquiry as toe the
probable extent OF tlfe movement ontfoot
among trade unTonists to secdre fewer
hours Of daily labor without decrease In
wages. It was shown that so far as then
made public I05 200 men would strike
within the weelS, that {, 900 were already
on strikeg to- thate teusiss and that eight (or
other) hours had already been granted to
s2, 900 employees at various points. Itw
plainly indicated that over 5000
men were moving in the matter, either
by request alone or with threats to strike.
As it is now made plain, these figures
were below the InarK. BrddstTeets
special telegraphic inquiry this week,
while presenting totals materially In ex-
cess of those fOreshadowcd on last FRI
day, shows that the aggregate num-
ber of strikers for fewer hours
work dailVs has mot been as large
as some s"estimatesn and other careless
editorial utterances have stated them,
poss IDLY for the reason that the mobs of
idlers, Anarchists and others at Chicago
and Milwaukee have not been included as
workmen on strike. The totals given
herewith will doubtless prove under rath-
er than over the actual aggregate, but are
believed to be the result Of as close an
enumeration as the present mixed condi-
ton of affairs at various industrial centers
will permit. aEas,..A -HF8
The ''Eight-Hour" demand has already
been transformed into a ''demand for
shorter hours" so many OF the posi-
tions taken originally having been
changed by compromises. An attempt
at this time to distinguish clearly or
fully as to the extent of the movement
for eight for nine, or other hours Is i'm
practicable. There IS reported to Brad
streets from twenty-five cities Ill 900
men to whom shorter hours have been
granted within week without
the effort of striking. The largest total
Is Of $4,000 Chicago packing-house en-
ployes. The cigar-makers aggregate some
10, 500 in number, of whom 200 are in
ha 20
Chicago. The building trades, including
bricklayers, carpenters, painters, plumb
ers, stone cutters, etc., furnish total of
20, 900, to whom shorter hours have been
conceded, Washington, New York, Chi
cago and Baltimore quotas accounting for
$4,000.
In the group, including miscellaneous,
there are over $4,000.
Smaller totals, 20 whom shorter hours
were conceded without striking, are:
Tobacco factory workers, $500 5000
at Baltimore); furniture makers, $500
g, 900 at Grand Rapids), and $500 ma
chinists (2,50O at Chicago and 800 at st.
Louis). r~ .5..t
The total number reported striking fro
shorter hours Is 150, 900, at various cit
les, as follows: Chicago, $4,000; New
York, $4,000; Cincinnati, $4,000; Mill
waukee, 1000; Baltimore, 5000; Bos-
ton, 400; Pittsburg, 1880; Detroit, 81
000t St. Louis, 1000; Washington, 800;
Newark, 200, and eleven other cities
with fewer than I 900 each.
The total number striking among the
building trades is 25,000;. Cincinnati,
5000; Boston, 400; Pittsburgh g 100,
and Washington, 800; patternmakers,
Sa.OOO-20, 900 New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City; $500 Cincinnati, and 5000
at Chicago; $4,000 furniture-makers-
1000 Chicago and 1900 Cincinnatii 5000
cabinet. makers and 5000 piano-makers,
both at New York, and 5000 flaborers-
5000 at Cincinnati. o. .,, .tr,
The total number Of employees to whom
shorter hours have been granted after
striking is 5000, half of whom are
classified as miscellaneous and probably
10, 600 of the 17,0e0 are in Cincinnati.
There are 5000 among the building
trades-1 900 at New York and 1000 at
Newark; 1000 piano-makers at New
York; 5000 machinists-3,00 900 at New
New York, and l, 900 agricultural imple-
ment-makers.
Summarizing the results: Total re-
ported striking for shorter hours, loo, 900;
total reported last week, 5000; total,
l56,000. .-f. t, ' -"Fnl
Total securing shorter hours with strik-
ing. Ill 900; total reported last week,
32 1000; total, 143,000s 49, a#l
Total number engaged in the short-hour
movement, 299, 900.
Total to whom shorter hours granted
after striking, $4,000. f.,.g
1t is more than likely that with all
union strikes Included the grand total on
strike will prove to be near 10000, with
which, in all probability, the 100000 to
whom the demands were granted without
any strike will bring up the total OF those
actively engaged in the short-hour, move
ment to S25, 900 workingmen.
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The Labor Question In Pittsburgh.
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