Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-05
THE BATTLE l[1ll Of III TIE G GIANTS. Mt !
Capital and Labor Still Continue to
Clash Throughout the Eflete
.,.g Eastern States.
Eight Hours Work or No Work at All
the Slogan of King Labor's
Mighty Hosts.
Mammoth Demonstrations and Stirring
Speeches Last Night In Chi
cagO and New York.

CHICAGO, May 1.-Five hundred striki
freight handlers met at the Harrison Sire
viaduct near the west side Union passene
depot at q. m. Speeches were made
, two on three leaders declaring it was t
duty of freight handlers OF all Chica,
roads to enforce their demands now f
shorter hours while the working men
other departments were doing SO. Upc
the suggestion Of some one in the crow
the men started for the Wabash freigl
yards to urge the men employed there
stop work. The crowd increasing in size
it moved, entered the Wabash yards, on
the men at once began quitting work. Fro
there the crowd increasing in size, visite
the yards OF the Lake Shore, Rock islam,
Louisville, New Albany Il Chicago an
Michigan Central road, where nearly all
the men stopped. In the Michigan Centrs
ten men refused to quit work, and th
police arriving the crowd was driven fror
| the yard. 2.
| OBTAINED LESS HOURS.
The drivers and conductors of the Blu
| Island Vvenue lines of the Western Divit
ion Car Company, denanded-a reduction
| OF their trips from seven to six, confinin
| the working day to eleven hours withou
| q decrease in pay. The company accede,
without parleying. One hundred incl
employed by the same company in the ex
tension OF their lines struck for eight hours
GENERAL CHICAGO NOTES.
The freight handlers on the Milwaukee
& St. Paul road stopped at 10 O'Clock Q
their own accord. A crowd of 300 or 4O(
men marched in a body towards tn,
Mccormick Works ON the southwestern
outskirts with a red flag at the head o
their column. The works are idle to-day
the men having been given n holiday. All
the lumber yards, box factories and plan
ing mills in the city are closed down. The
owners will take positive action tonight
The large packing houses at the stock yards
are all running. No shut down expected
before Monday.
ST. LOUIS CARPENTERS.
ST. LOUIS. Nav l.-Several hundred car
penters decided that beginning to-day they
would 60 to work at 8 o'clock in the morn
ing. take an hour for dinner, and quit ut 5
O'Clock in the afternoon, thus being in SER
vice eight hours. No strike is expected to
grow out of this action as the bosses have
agreed to the proposition, and the men de-
mand pay for but eight hours work.
FIVE HUNDRED STRIKERS.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 1.-Five hundred
employees Of the furniture manufactures
and one hundred employees of the Bruns-
wick e. Bake billiard mandatory are out
in consequence of refusal to grant ten
other branches OF the industry, while there
is a general feeling in favor of eight hours a
day, nothing has been done towards en-
forcing the system. -
BosToN's CONTINGENT.
BosToN, May LIN this city the Trades
Union of Carpenters, the Brotherhood of
Carpenters, and Joiners of America, the
Amal:amated Society of Carpenters and
the Plumbers Union, five Thousand in all,
have resolved to demand eight hours Mon
day, and will strike if the demand is re-
fused. The Master Builders Association.
200 strong, unanimously condemn the
action OF the workmen, laying the whole
blame on the labor unions, and declaring
the demands cannot be complied with
with. ut disaster to business and workmen
both, and they will close up business rather
than submit to any interference.
AFRAID OF MOB.
The proprietor of the wooden mills in
Penacook has made oath that he believes
his property is threatened by mob violence
and he has notified the Selectmen of Bos-
,owen that he shall hold the town RESPONSE
bic for his property. Special police have
been appointed who will be on duty day
and night until the danger is passed, and
the Selectmen have notified the officers of
The Knights OF Labor who ordered the
strike in these mills they will be held ans
werable in the courts for any damage
suffered by the town.
BREWERS STRIKE.
PHILADELPHIA, May ALI the employees
)f BetZ Il Sons. extensive brewery in this
.ity struck this morning.
BoYCoTTERs ARRESTED.
New YORK, May 1.-Michael Stroh, bar
lender, Hans Holdrs, musician, and Paul
Witzig, waiter, all members Of the Sahm
Club r, r,cently engaged in systematic boy
,otting ofconce1t saloons, were arrested to.
,xtortion. They were indicted by the
Grand Jury yesterday. They not only
ooycot ted a concert saloon, but imposed
fine of 800 on the proprietor, which he
paid. Maximum penalty for the offense is
i've years in prison.
CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
CHICAGO, May 1.-Sever;l mass meetings
occurred in the lumber districts this fore
L
largely of Bohemians and they we're ad-
dressed by hot-headed leaders, and finally
the cro" d resolved Itself into q marching
column, and headed by a band Of music
and carrying red flags proceeded to the
Reaper Works, where some non
union men working in the yards were
frightened away. The procession moved
vest on Blue Island Avenne to "~t
street where a mass meeting was heIo IN a
va cant lot. The crowd grew larger as it
moved along and grew more boisterous.
The police Kept advised OF its movements
but up to noon no trouble had occurred.
GENERAL STRIKE.
PIrTsBuRG, Pa, May 1.-The furniture
urers having refused to grant
their employees their demands for reduc-
ton in days la Dor from ten hours to eight
hours, general strike was inaugurated to-
day. Nearly every furniture factory in
and Allegheny is closed. and over
600 men are idle. The stone-cutters in the
two cities are also out for nine hours a
day, but will return to work Monday, the
employers generally conceding their de-
mands.
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-Two hundred men
employed on the water works in East st.
Louis struck To-Day tOr elgnI nOufs WORK
per day and ten hours wages. The city re-
fused to grant the demand and will en-
deavor to procure men to fill the strikers
places. The employees OF the Glendale
Zinc Works struck this morning for the
adoption OF the short-hour system and
more equal scale OF wages. Two
hundred and fifty men are out. The
employees of numerous planning mills
the city made demand upon
their employers last night that the eight
hour system be adopted by them to-day,
and this morning notices were posted In
the mills that those who desired to work
eight hours for eight hours pay could do so,
hut that the machinery would be kept in
motion ten hours, thus enabling those who
wished to work longer time to do so. The
men are dissatisfied and will strike Mon
day.
STRIKING BREWERS.
DETROIT, May 1.-The journeymen brewers,
numbering between $50 and $50, struck
this morning They demand nine-hour
Sav and ten hours pay. 1t is refused by
ali the brewers except i've, who granted the
demands of the men.
DEMONSTRATION At GOTHAM.
Alo- 1-Tvolvo fh0naa nd