The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07

htItet, anu every CtFV ISit 1uUO line. i ne
leader gave the word, the carts moved,
and work on Fifth street ceased. The head
OF the column made for thu Eight-street
Improvement, where the carriers and team
STEERS dumped their loads and fell quickly
into line. The work Oh Eighth street
stopped. Other strikers proceeded down
Eighth street to where the bowler-crushel
was at work on Central avenue. The cart
ers there dumped their loads and joined
the procession. Aecessions from all the
other streets on which improvements are
being made strengthened the column to
about Jour squares as it moved up Fifth
street. About 700 workmen, engaged in
laying granite blocks in thestreets, struck.
CINCINNATI, May 5.-Several hundred men
employed by the Hall Safe and Lock Com
pany quit work at four o clock yesterday
afternoon. They were followed soon after
by 500 men from the Mosler Bahman &
Co.'s establishment. The strike is for eight
hours work and twenty per cent. increase
| in wages.
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.
The Brick-layers Union of Montreal has
demanded shorter hours, including hall a
day holiday on Saturday. The masters
seem inclined to grant the demand.
The situation of the strike in Washing
ton, d. c., remains unchanged. About
800 carpenters are nov locked out, and
many from various other trades The
workmen are sanguine of success. The ut
most good humor prevails.
The employees of the Michigan Car-shops
al Detroit are still out but are quiet. The
other strikes in that city show no change.
All the furniture planufac curing houses
in Baltimore, with one exception, shut
down yesterday. The men demand eight
hours and the manufacturers refuse to
comply with their request, They are, how
ever, willing to pay for ten hours work q
slight increase of wages. Five or six hun
dred are affected by Che strike.
The trackmen . in the various railway
yards at Kansas City, with the exception
of the Missouri Pacific, went on general
strike Tuesday for an advance OF twenty
five cents per day.
The labor troubles in Chicago have re-
| suited in virtual suspension OF business
at Muskegon, Mich, from which port there
was but one clearance Tuesday.
THE GOULD LINES.
ST.. LOUIS, May 5.-Formal notice declar-
ing the Gould line strike off was sent out
to all the district assemblies on the system
this morning. A circular was also issued
stating that The order was intended to
cover all the knights employed in East St
Louis. The announcement of the end OF
the strike has been received with Joy by the
better class of working-men, who were
forced to go out and who took no part in
acts OF violence, but among the opposite
element there is much grumbling. All the
| men who could get their old places went to
work this morning.
The strikers in East st. Louis are not
happy, and there will probably be great
| deal of trouble before matters settle down
| to their normal condition. The railroad
| companies will not discharge any of the
new men, and at least 300 strikers will be
left without employment.
A meeting of strikers was held yesterday
| afternoon and a resolution adopted to
| obey the order of the executive board, APP.
| ply for their old places and 60 to work as
usual 1t has been learned from a private
| source that the militia will be withdrawn
| on Thursday and the discordant element
is quietly waiting for Chat event in order
| to get even with the 'scabs.'
| General Manager Hoxie, of the Missouri
| Pacific railroad. has sent instructions to
| General Superintendent Kerrgan to guide
| him in dealing with the applications for
| work by the late strikers. He quot ties as
| part of these instructions the wording oil
| vertsements for help published during
the strike, in which the company under
takes not to ask any questions of appli-
| cants as to whether or not they are mem
bers of any laboring or other organization;
| agreeing to pay the rates of wages recon-
mended by the Governors OF Missouri and
! Kansas in the adjustment of March, 1885,
or rate equal to that paid by other roads
| in the same section of country. Mr.. Ker-
rigan is instructed that men who have been
| engaged during the strike are not to be
discharged that men who have committed
acts of violence against the company, OF
| who have advised such acts, are not to be
| taken back, such having already been an
nounced as the company's terms.
| Martin Irons, by whom the Gould South
western system strike was ordered, when
| asked what effect he anticipated the meth
| cd OF ending the trouble would have
| upon the Knights of Labor, said 1--WE
were fighting for recognition and we got
| it from Congress, which represents all citi-
zens of the United States. Is not that
enough recognition Our order will grow
| after this even more rapidly than it has
during the past few weeks, when applica-
tions have been SO numerous for charters
that we could scarcely find time to consid-
| er them"