Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-29
EIGHT HOURS FOR A DAY.
THE NEW SCHEME STIRRING UP
CHICAGO EMPLOYEES.


Employers in Many Lines OF Manufac-
turing Asked to CODceds to shorter
Hours without Reductio on OF Pay-rhe
Union Label a Source OF Trouble at st,
Louis.
CHICAGO, April 2S.-The Western Boot
and Shoe Manufacturers Association Was
formed last night. Sixty firms were rep
resented in person, and 100 in all by letter
throughout the West. The object of the
ASSOCIATION is for mutual protection. A
committee from the Boot aud shoe Trim
mers' and Cutters Union was present and
requested ten hours pay for eight hours
work, claiming that In the East wages
were higher and that in Cincinnati they
would demand $l6, SIS and $50 per week.
The committee said that the union
after May ] would expect ten hours
pay for eight hours work. The
cutters, with others OF the union, are OPP
posed TO any reduction in wages, but in
sst on eight hours for a days work. The
manufacturers on beng asked If they
could afford to give ten hours pay for eight
| hours work, gave n unanimous 'n0," 1t
was resolved by them that they agree to
adopt the same scale of wages for the same
class and amount OF work, and the same
number Of hours for days work that is
adopted in the East.
BOX MANUFACTURERS
A meeting Of box manufacturers was
held last night to receive a committee
from the Box Makers aud Sawyers' AS
| semblY OF the Knights OF Labor in refer
ence TO the declaration of the manufac-
turers declining to accede to the eight
| hour system. A committee from the
workmen emphasized the demand of the
assembly for eight hours, but declined TO
say anything about wages, the impression
being that that would be considered later.
After much elaboration the manufac-
turers adopted a resolution as a COM
promise. "rhat owing 10 the peculiar
condition and character OF our business
we cannot consistently cOncede TO the
eight-hour rule, and that in lieu thereof
we agree to pay an advance OF lOper cent.
on the present wages on the basis OF ten
hours labor, and otherwise run our busi-
ness as heretofore, namely: ten hours per
day." The employees committee will con-
fer with their assembly.
CABINETMAKERs OUT.
Two hundred and seventy-fve cabinet
makers and furniture workers at the large
factory of r. ROthschilds' Sons, went out
on strike this morning. They demanded
ten hours pay for eight hours work, and
the firm concluded they could not meet
the demand. This strike is the outcome
of the one in their factory at Cincinnati.
This morning there was no disorder, the
men for the most part staying away from
the vicinity of the factory.
One Of the morning papers publishes in
terviews with all the leading iron and
steel manufacturers of the city who de-
| clare that the present S-hOur movement
| among their men has been badly con-
ceived, that the real laborlng men are not
back Of it, but that it is fOmented by
nOn-labOring agItatOrs, and that they will
not accede to the S-hour demand,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
The feeling among the contractors and
| builders in regard to the ei9ht-h0ur move
ment is one of uncertainty. They seem
to realize that they are occupying very
peculiar position. On one hand, they say,
they have labOring men who are demand
ing eight hours work and ten hours pay,
while on the other hand are the owners OF
lots, who are anxious to improve them,
but who will not expose pan while the
price of labor is unsettled.
The eight-bour movement has taken a
firm hold OF the men employed in the
brass fOundries and finiening shops
the present week all the firms in that
business Will have heard from the COM
mittee Of their men and have taken a
stand for or against the adoption of the
short day. Some OF the larger manufac-
turers OF brass and copper goods have
already received notice from their en-
ployes that they want hours work with
10 hours pay.
BILLIARD TABLE HANDS CAROM.
The Brunswick Balke-Collender Bill
lard Table Company men, numbering 400
80, nra ant s..o ri 10 = "a
time they struck three weeks ago Mr..
Bepsinger agreed. according TO the men,
| 10 discharge all mont MON men, but he
kept one lumber-measurer- Yesterday a
| committee asked for the discharge Of this
msn, or TO have him given work outside
OF the factory, and Mr.. Bensinger prom
! Ised to give them an answer last night.
| The men were at their benches mt O'clock
! this morning. As no word came from Mr..
I Bensinger by s o'clock, delegates in each
Of he departments ordered the men out,
and they went.
The Iron Moulders' Union informs the
! iron manufacturers OF the city that on
and after May the hours OF labor shall
be eight per day, except in cases Of emer-
gency, and then all over time shall be paid
| at the rate OF double the usual wages.
The Furniture Manufacturers Associa-
ton OF Chicago tonight refused 10 agree
! to eight hours for n days work and 20
per cent. increase in wages.
MINERS AND OPERATORS OK THE LAW.
COLUMBUS, o., April 2S.-The Nation al
Board OF Arbitration OF m iners and oper-
| ators. twelve Of the twenty members
present. met to-day and adopted reso-
luton recommending that the operator
members OF the board call meeting Of
operators Of their respective States at an
early day To consider the eight-hOur ques-
ton and to instruct members OF the board
80 they can come TO the July meeting pre-
pared TO act
FURNITURE woRKERsAND EIGHT HOURS.
CINCINNATI, April 2e.-rbe furniture
/ workers are very generally giving notice
OF a demand for eight hours day with
the present pay, and few men in one Of
the smaller manufactures have already
gone out