The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-14
THE LABOR
Many Thousand Men on II Strike in CHI
caro- Items fran Other Points.

Many Thousand Men on u Strike in CHI
cago-Ite,ns from Other Points.
The Chicago Times of May LIST says:
Twenty-Five thousand is IA fair estimate OF
the number OF men who quit work Friday
and walked out OF the various shops and
factories in Chicago because their employees
would not consent to an eight.hour work
ing day and the same wages which have
been paid when ten hours were the rule.
How many will do tho same to-day
is probletnatical, but the prospects Tor
a repetition OF the performances OF
to-day are cxccedinelybrilliant. Thetrades
most affected are the furniture manuiact-
urers, the lumber interests in all their NUM-
erous ramitications and the iron men.
With the furniture people it was practi-
cally a general lockout all over the city,
and all the $500 men employed in the
various Chicago factories are to day idle,
n probably will continue &c for some
time to come. Every furniture factory in
Chicago, including Brunswick & Bake
and Rothschild Bros, where strikes were
already in progress, is practically in the
hands OF the executive committee OF the
association, and will not be reopened until
it so desires. Asomewhat similar situation
exists in the lumber trade. including the
planning mills and the box factories. No
concerted action was had among the EN-
pioSCS uubli NO-utN, DuG iii SACGpO lIlIeSIC-
fused the demands of the men, and in q
NEE ting aiterward decided to stand by one
another end not to take their men back en-
cept at the bosses terms. The number OF
men in this trade out OF employment in
consequence can only be approximated,
but 5000 is Il low figure. With the iron
people the idea of running only eight
hours a day could not be entertained
for n moment by the larger concerns,
~ ND ~ rxr 49, -, 81 IL 1000 49,
on refused their mems demands. and Crane
Bros, with their 1900 employees, set the
example OF closing down, and with the ex-
ception OF the rolling mills, where no de-
mands were made and no trouble is antici.
pated. TIL majority Of the large iron
works OF Chicago are to-day closed. The
railroads have, with one exception, SO far,
escaped trouble, but their time will come
to-day, and it is feared that when it does
come, the extent cannot be foretold. The
packers will probably safer little. The
employers are somewhat disposed to yield
in part the demands OF the men, while the
latter are not at all disposed to strike.
Still, it depends a good deal on what Ar
mour will do" Every business in the city
is more or less implicated, and this morn
ing the general unrest among the working
men is exactly balanced by the anxiety
among the employers.
. oouIliti ol new 1uTk, on
Saturday, printed an extended review OF
the eight hour labor question, saying:
There is apparently II very general de-
mand for reduced hours OF daily labor
among the trades unions. 1t is probable
that tire larger proportions of the en-
ployes' demands will be settled by com-
promise or Neutrality-suspicious.. In others,
to II significant degree, the demand for
eight hours with ten hours pay will be
rI,agEpI with civilian Tln u,-, lN,,- 49,
prises have generally been based on ten
hours wages, amounting to an advance of
10 per cent. in pay. Active resistance is
promised by many manufacturers to pay
ing 20 per cent. advance in wages, or ten
hours pay for eight hours work. Brad
streets reports 1O5, 900 men who will strike
$4,000 for eight hours and 10000 for
nine hours; 5000 men now on a strike for
eight hours, and eight bours have been
granted to 80, 900 employees at various
points. There are additionally 49, O
men who have asked for the tight-hour
rule but who have not stated that they
Will strike. At leading centers alone, it is
probable that over two hundred and TWEEN
ty-tive thousand industrial employees are
actively interested in this movement.
The New York Tribune says: 1t is hard.
ly expected that the short-hcur movement
will cause manys strikers or lock-outs lust
- ASS>tS AA AAcot toS NllC III
Bile arrangement cannot be made between
the employers and the men the matter will
be held in allegiance. Much has been ac-
complished within the last month in the
way OF shortening hours of labor. In all
the building trades, which are the most
perfectly organized, an agreement has been
entered into between the men and the boss
es making nine hours n days work. and
eight hours on Saturday. The system of
paying by the hour instead of the day has
also been introduced. In these trades
there will certainly not be any trouble.
The trade in which trouble is most likely
to take place is the piano-making industry.
The grand jury OF the court of general
sessions at New FORK was disch argcd after
Foreman Brown had handed to Recorder
Smythc n presentmcnt condemning boy
cottlng' The pr~esentment severely CON
dennis Police Justice Weide who, when
boycotters were arrested and brought be.
lore him Tor annoying ~Cavanaugh. Sanford
Co, the t%ailors, promptly discharged
them on the ground that they had not VIC.
lated the law Police Captains Williams,
Mccullough and Copeland had confessed
that they were powerless to relieve the
boycotted firms from the nuisance as long
as the police justices failed to commit the
prisoners.
The movement of the labor unions in
tittsbure for a reduction in working hours
is confined almost exclusively to building
trades. Those trades which have de.
manded a reduction in hours generally
show n disposition to compromise on nine
hours, and no extended or general strike
to-day is anticipated. The plumb beers,
b~rlcklayers, hod carriers, plasterers, stone.
cutters and s~tonemasons lave already
settled with their employers or the nine
our basis.
At a recent meeting the 5000 employees
OF the large Milwaukee breweries decided to
strike unless the wages were advanced $40
per month. The companies havc made
large concessions in the way offewcrhours'
work but they will not accept the terms
proposed.