Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-08
LABOR NOTES.

!, At Mansfield. Pa, 600 miners struck TO
I the Columbus scale of 2& cents per bushe
for mining.
Three thousand brewers of milwaukee
> have struck for eight hours work and tn
l pay of the past.
The strike of the longshoremen of Brook
,, ly N. Y, ended, the men received thei
demanded increase.
Six Thousand workingmen of Louisville
) KY, paraded the streets of that city an(
, held picnic at National park.
There was an organized effort in Cincin
natl to obtain less hours, but individual
, demands were made in several instances anG
: obtained.
The employees of the furniture manufac
tory of r. E. Pople, Chicago, to the mum
Der of LIS men, struck for eight hours wOrl
and ten hours pay.
J The coal operators of the Mahoning Val
ley of Ohio. have refused to grant an in.
crease of 10 per cent to their men and 9
strike is expected.
The furniture exchange of Louisville
KY, decided to shut down all the works in
that city unless the workmen accept eight
hour pay for eight hour work.
The brass finshers of Pittsburg have pre-
sented demands for half holiday on Satur-
day instead of reduction of hours. Their
demands will probably be granted.
makers employed by the June Manufactur-
ing company, of Chicago, struck, upon re-
ceiving a refusal to their eight hour de-
Hands.
Committees representing 2,OOO men en-
employed in the Chicago rolling mills, re-
ported back to the men and they decided for
the present to continue working on the
eight hour plan.
Two thousand house carpenters of Balti-
more have notified their employers that they
will not return to work until guaranteed 81
per day for eight hours work until August l
and $2.5Oper day thereafter.
Twelve thousand laboring men of New
York City held q great mass meeting in
Union square in favor of the eight hour
movement. The crowd was most orderly,
while the speeches were enthuastic.
The Excelsior Iron works and the Link
Belt Manufacturing company, of Chicago,
employing respectively 100 and 165 men, de-
cided to shut down indefinitely, owing to the
existing condition of the labor situation.
The immense iron works of Crane Bros
| Manufacturing company have closed, for
several weeks. The company intimates that
it will inaugurate the eight hour system and
deems shut down necessary to arrange for
the new order of affairs.
The WOODBURY. Sarver Wheel company,
of Indianapolis, the largest establishment Of
the kind in the country, has shut down its
works. The company is willing to adopt
eight hours work. The company employs
about 500 men.
The great packers at the Union stock yards
in Chicago we're called upon to grant an
eight hour day. They give employment to
between $1,000 and $1,000, and delegation
waited upon the heads of each with a request
that they adopt the eight hour system.
A Dubois, Pa, dispatch says the official
of the Amalgamted Miners and LabOrs'
association have issued circular calling
upon the 5000 miners in the Clearfeld
regions to quit work unless all operators
sign the scale adopted by the Columbus,
Ohio convention, at once.
In Cincinnati the furniture workers un-
ion, numbering about 1900 men, held a
the emancipation of the workingmen. The
unionists say they have been working for
the eight hour system for twenty years, and
are now going to celebrate its adoption.
Clark Bros. & Co.'s furniture factory in
struck. The men demand eight hours work
with ten hours pay. The firm told them
they could not agree to this, and they all left.
The firm say that the factory will be kept
closed until the labor question is definitely
settled.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
of Cd ~ Vu,fb ;xo QO0
shop men near Chicago. The men demanded
an eight hour work day. The company
grants q nine-hour work day, Saturday, with
full pay, and makes a concession to the men
in the matter of railroad fare between
Chicago and the shops.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, says: The
movement of the labor unions in this city
for a reduction in working hours is confined
almost exclusively to the building trades. |
The largest local industries coal and
glass-are not being disturbed by the de-
mand. Those trades which have demanded
a reduction in hours generally show a dis
position to compromise to nine hours, and |
no general strike is anticipated.
The general impression prevails in st. |
Louis that but little trouble will ensue from |
the contemplated demand by the various
trades unions and associations that after |
May /, eight hours shall constitute days |
work. In several cases. employees have sig |
nifed their willingness to grant the demand. |
with proportionate decrease in pay, and |
where the demand has been refused the |
probabilities are that but few, if any strikes,
will occur.
Bradstreet's says concerning tho labor sit |
uation There are at least 0,OO0 employees |
ON strike, against 1900 lastweek, in addi-.
ton to those seeking to enforce the adoption |
of the eight hour rule. We find that there |
are at least 275, 900 men at industrial centers |
are actively moving to secure fewer hours of |
labor daily. OF this number 6O,0OO are ON /
strike, 81 600 have had their demands grant
ed, and 1O5, 900 threaten to strike. There
are u, 900 who have not yet accompanied |
their requests with threats to strike.
The proprietors of every one of the nine
ty- three lumber yards in Chicago received q
circular from the Lumbermen's union de-
handing substantially ten hours pay for
eight hours work. A meeting was at once
called, at which eighty four of the ninety
three proprietors were represented. All Of |
them had oeen taken by surprise, there hav-
ing been little or no indication of an eight /
hour movement among the men In the lum-
Der yards. The 2roprietors in their meet
ing did not commit themselves 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 on the basis of mutual
STRIKING FREIGHT HAHDLKRs AT CHICAGO.
CHIcAoo, liz, May Fully five hundred
striking railroad freight handlers met at
Harrison street, near the west side passenger
depot, at O'Clock this morning. Speeches