Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-15
rsE LABOR TROUBLES.

,Fhe Carriage ShOPs-Other StrhRes
 About Town-NO Work for ADout
 One-Third of the Carriage Makers
 who struck = Business Butler at W1nchesterss.
 The carriage body makers strike, what there is left of it, still continues That IS to
 say, one-half of the body makers are still out | of employment The strikers who have not | returned to work still hold themselves to- gether as an organization and maintain 8 de- termined front The strike seems to be en- | tirely settled as far as the Hooker shop, the largest in the city. is concerned. This shop has all the force it needs. Before the strike, when the spring business looked inspiring l and hopeful, about twenty seven body mak- CTS were at work at this establishment. The firm has now fifteen body makers at work, which is all they ask for, the carriage business
 being now dull At some of the other shops numbers of the best body makers, it is said, l have returned, and in all the shops where | strikers have returned to work the employers treated with the men individually and on 8
 very satisfactory basis to both parties.
 Carriage makers estimate that fully one third of the five hundred carriage workers of | the different branches who were out on l strike will not be able to get work in town at present because of the fact that business is so much daller than it was before the strike. -DUL.LER TIMES AT wINCHEsTER's-kEssH HOURS OF LABOR INDICATED.
 The cartridge department at Winchester's | armory, employing some three hundred peo- | pie, will be shut down Friday and Saturday
 of each week until further orders in conss- quence of decreased business. Unless there | is revival in trade the one thousand gun | makers will probably have their hours of la | bor shortened by July 1.
 THE EIGHT-HoUR STRIKE OF THE CABINET l MAKERS.
 The strike of the cabinet makers in New York reaches out it's influence in many direc tions and is felt in this city, the cabinet makers at $. Peck & Co.'S, seven in number l guls in New York. The strike in New Fork is for eight hours. Peck 6 Co. were last evening considering the advisability of shut ting down the shop, which if done will throw fifty poen out of work.
 PLUMBERS AND THINKERS ORGANIZING. An effort is being made in the city to form plumbers and timers union. Previous efforts made in th1s line have been unsuc cessful. This time the projectors say they will succeed if possible. A committee of six representing the plumbers has visited the l principal stove stores with written petition | asking for nine hours, the same as the join CTS and painters have obtained. The first
  store on Chapel street. MT. Crane recover ing from his surprise at finding committee before him said his men were all satisfied got good wages and had not complained and that there was no use in talking as long as his workmen were perfectly satisfied. MT. Crane said his three timers got from $15 to S16 a week each and that he employed skill ed werkmen and that there was no dearth of
 competent men applying for work. The de-
 sign in forming the proposed union is to
 have it independent of the Knights of Labor
 and get ten hours pay for nine hours work.
 AT sARGENT's SHOP.
 The absence of seventy-fiye men at Sar-
 gent & Co.'s makes hardly an appreciable
 difference in the throngs of employees who go
 back and forth to work at this establishment.
 As previously stated the force at this shop is reduced but seventy-fve men, and this is only half the force employed at the north foundry. This leaves 1, ,550 hands still at work-a force nearly as numerous as two whole regiments of the State militia. The pay roll still amounts to SIS, 900 week, or
 well on to million dollars a year paid out for labor at this one establishment
 HARTFORD PAINTERS WANT NINE HOURS ON SATURDAY.
 All the union painters in Hartford will
 cease work at o'clock this afternoon. The
 paper circulated by them asking the employ
 CTS to stop work on Saturdays at o'clock re-
 ceiyed the signatures of all excepting George
 s. Burnham & Co.,, Buckley Brothers and George B. Johnson. It is expected that these three firms will follow the course of their competitors. The claims of the paint CTS are that they live so far from their places of employment that after getting through work at o'clock Saturdays they get home too late to enjoy any of the pleasures of the evening; and that Saturday being pay day they sometimes have to wait as late as 8 o'clock to square up accounts. The o'clock closing, they say, will straighten out the