Telegram-herald., 1886-05-01
FROM TIN TO EIGHT
The Change ID Working Hours
10 be General
4 FREIGHT BlOCMD; ftaRID
Indications That here Nil oe TnIrtf
thousand hea on a Strike ln
Chicago Today ~ Trouble
Feared at : the
Stock Yards.

CHIcAGo. April - The indications ia
this city are that there Sill bee trouble in
many eases in Inausafating the changes IN
| the working hours from ten 10 eight But
there Is every reason 10 believe that IN
nearly every case the qneslio a. issze can
be settled, and the new system pat 10 a test
Al least without interruption 10 business
Almost every trade union in the city aud
throughout the couEty Is pledged 70 stand
for eight hours and demand that only. but
as the time draws near for enforcing il
| trade after trade and uniou after union has
| begun TO break the line aud vary the de
mand Many have coupled their request
| for short hours with an expressed determi-
nation To accept nothing lees than The ter
hours pay. This the leaders OF the move
ment, as a rdle fear Is the great and only
| danger 60 is successful termination Ia the
North Chicago ~ ling mill al South
| Chicago, there Is great excite
meut because the men employed
ia the blast furnace, about Two hundred aud
nifty in nun Der. are threatening To stTike.
The work men ia ali other departments are
entirely satisfied with the treatment they
have received from the company. President
of the blast furnace men, 20 the Others say,
and has offered to submit the other points
of difference, which are not of serious ma
ture 10 arbitraiisn, but this did not satisfy
them and for day or two past they have
assumed threatening attitude. II they
quit. work $500 will se compelled 10 re
main idle The district assembly, Knights
OF Labor, has given the malcOntents nctlce
that If they strike they viii be denounced
and subjected 10 such disciplinary treatment
as the order can exert. The stand taken by
the Knights of Labor viii probably be emu
lated by the Trades ard Labor Assembly
We are rapidly drifting into a state of
chaos said George A. Scniiling, a prOmin-
ent leader of that order. today. Strikes
are occurring by the half dozen all over the
country, aud the Central Executive, which
should be the guide and director OF the labor
forces has no means of keeping track Of or
checking things With view of bringing
order out at this condition of affairs We
have resolved TO form a central governing
body consisting of delegates from the Trades
Assem- bly,, the Central Union, Eight-hOur
Commission. and every other organization
involved in this struggle. This body
will meet every night 10 size up the
actions and movements Of the day Every
strike will be reported and recorded and
general information and reciprocity in
uatiOn Schilling is of the opinion that the
following unions which are determined 10
fight for the eight-hOur demand will prob
ably meet with vigorous resistance from
their employers Brcklay9rs and stone
masons, numbering over 900, bod carriers.
carpenters unions brickmakers, number
ing g. 800. metal workers. numbering pa,
furniture workers AT Pullman, lumber shov-
ers, butchers, co, pers, latherS. shoe.
nd
The unions that will probably take
no action are painters. BARRIERS.
bench moulders, harness makers. horse
shoers, blacksmithS, and tanners and cur
riers, united nailers, rollers and heaters,
watch case makers and paper hangers The
Master Plumbers Association Which in
cludes all the plumbing shops in the city.
decided this afternoon to give nine hours
paw for eight hours work. The North
western railroad has settled with its 500
shop men By allowing the shops to be
closed an hour earlier Saturday without loss
| of pay, and reducing the rates of fare To
| employees who patrOnlze the company
/ trains. The immense works of the crane
| Bros. Manufacturing company will close
| down tomorrow until the labor question is
settled. Five hundred employees in
| Clark Bros. & Co.'S furniture factory
struck today for eight hours work
| employees OF the Union Brass Manuiactur-
company went out for eight hours pay and
| eight hours work. The freight handlers at
the Chicago. Burlington x Quincy ard
| Chicago & Alton freight houses, struck this
afternoon for an increase in wages Rock
Island aud Lake Shore freight handlers. II is
| reported will quit work tomorrow. There
are about three thousand freight handlers,
employees of the different roads, and il is
~. l.
OF the railroad freight business that will in
volve every con- pany runninS out of Chi
cAgo.
Directly after the Burlington freight
| handlers had quit work they started in full
force on pro-elyting tour The Pennsyl-
vana men promised that If the strike be
came general theT would join il. AT the
Alton. st. Paul and Rock Island freight
houses assurance was given that they would
| be in line in the morning II Is reasonably Y
! certain that pressure will be brought 20 bear
! in other houses and % nred surprise no one
| If a net pound Of freight is handled IN tie
/ city after tomorrow noon. A general meet
/ ing Of freight handlers has been called for
/ O'Clock tomorrow morning. From pres
/ ent Indications there will be on a stIike to-
morrow, outside Of men locked out by
| friendly employers who have smut down
| until matters become more settled. and
! those who have already been conceded their
| demands. fully thirty thousand men. All
the men employed by the Mccormick Reap
er Company have agreed 10 work through
/ the season but have been granted permis-
| sion 70 lsv idle tomorrow. the lab0rers hoi-
idsy. The action II the twenty-five thous-
and union stock yards employees is uncer-
| tsin, bar 10 = hardly believed they can es-
cape the striking isver.
/ New Michigan Postma-terS