The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-28
LABOR NOTES.


LABOR NOTES.
The striking employees of the Michi-
gan Car company of Detroit voted to
return to work at the old terms.
The striking employees of the South
ern Barb-Wire company of st. Louis
resolved to return to work on the plan
of ten hours.
Twenty-one Newark IN. j. fur-hat
firms, which locked out the makers on
the 1st., have notified the men to re-
turn to work.
Six hundred Cincinnati harness
makers, who have been granted an
eight-hour day, struck for an increase
of from Is to 20 per cent in wages.
A delegate meeting of the miners in
the Cumberland region declared the
strike off and work will be resumed at
once at the old rate of 40 cents ton.
The strike of the journeymen plumb
ers, which has been in progress at Buff
falo for three weeks, is declared off.
The men will resume work at the old
rates.
The furniture manufacturers of st.
Louis attempted to return to the ten
hour system, and the result was their
two thousand employees went on
strike.
The board of arbitration chosen to
settle the differences between the Pitts
burg street-car men and their employees
made an award sustaining the demands
of the men for twelve hours work.
The sash, door, and blind manufact-
urers of Chicago resolved to return to
the ten-hour system Monday morning.
Their workmen held meeting and re-
solved to insist upon continuance of
the eight-hour day, even at cut wages.
The st. Louis furniture manufacture
ers who granted an eight-hour day to
their employees recently resolved to re-
turn to ten hours, on the ground that
they are unable to compete with man.
ufacturers of other cities whose en-
ployes work ten hours.
The Chicago lumber-shovers have
returned to work almost in body.
They failed to gain any advantage
from their strike. The molders have
formally declared the strike ended. 1t
is an absolute surrender on the part Of
the men and an unqualified victory for
the.metal manufacturers.
A convention of the United Nailers
and Heaters of America has been call
ed to meet in Pittsburg on May 81.
The chief question to be decided is
whether the association shall return in
q body to the Amalgamated Iron and
Steel association or become part of
the Knights of Labor. The nailers'
strike will also be discussed.
A meeting of New York street-car
drivers and conductors now at work
on all of the city lines except the Third
Avenue was held Monday night to dis
cuss the ACCESSIBILITY of tieing up all
the lines in the city in order to bring to
an end, If possible, the strike on the
Third Avenue line. After discussing
until midnight the men decided not to
tie up at present.
Eight thousand tailors were thrown
out of work in New York Monday by
the lockout of the 700 union boss tailors
of that city. The workers are mostly
Hebrews who observe Saturday as holy
day. They demand that the cruel task
system be abolished. and the substitu-
ton of ten hours day from Sunday to
Thursday inclusive, and eight hours on
Friday. The bosses say their contracts
with the wholesale dealers will not per-
NIT any such arrangement.
The'350 men employed in the shops
of the Edison Electric company at New
York are on strike. The company con-
coded them an advance in wages and
reduction in hours, and now they de-
mand that only union men be employ
ed, and that no employe be required to
attend more than one planer. The
company threatens to close down and
have its work done by contract.
The grand lodge of the Brotherhood
of Railway Brakemen in session at
Galesburg, ILL.,, expelled twenty-six of
its members for originating the strike
on the Union Pacific railroad and has
suspended thirty more for ninety days
for participating. The grand lodge is
now considering the cases of those
members who took part in the Mis-
souri, Pacific strike, and intends to ex-
pei those who destroyed or injured
property. Grand Master Wilkinson
says that the brotherhood does not sane
ton strikes.
The Boston carpenters who struck
nearly month ago for ten hours pay
for eight hours, work decided last Fri
day to return to work on the ten-hour
system. Before doing so they passed
some bitter resolutions against the
'bosses" for the refusal to pay for two
hours time each day after work ceased.
The "bosses" thought it a cheeky de-
-mand, and sat down on it for month;
whereupon the carpenters withdrew it.
But all of them will not find work on
the old terms, for the building season
has been spoiled-three millions worth
of building having been withdrawn for
this year on account Of strikes.
GENERAL NEWS.
Prince Bismarck's health is again re-
ported to be bad.
Crop reports from the Northwest