Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-08
LABOR TROUBLES.
Striking for Eight Hours in Different
Sections of the Country.
'he Mccormick Reaper Works at Chicas &c
Attacked by Strikers Several Per
sons Wounded,

CHrcAeo, May at was estimated last
hisnt That 1000 of the 225, 600 wage work
ers OF chicago have already proated by the
e'ghthour movement About 5000 are
supposed to be out on strike this morn
ing Previous to Saturday LOCO
brewers, as many bakers, 800 f,irnit,ire
workers, and 1900 clothing cutters had
secured reduction of the working hours.
among the novel features of the eight-hour
movement here to-day was procession by
about $50 girls from the tailoring establish
ments, McCormick's Reaper Works in
this city were attacked by an immense
mob Tho windows were riddled with
missiles. The police were summoned in
strong force and there was firing on both
sides, and number were wounded An
ollicer taking wounded man
TO bis home was seized and narrowly
escaped being hanged to a lampp post
ST LOUIS, May 3.-The Knights Execu.
tive Board will issue an order tomorrow
morning declaring the strike on the Gould
southwest System OF railways at an end and
the striking Knights will present themselves
for employment to the different railroads
CINCINNATI, May 3.-Four hundred laun
dry girls of this city have formed a Union
and put themselves in readiness for strike
Twenty five hundred carriage makers are
out on strike, and it is not improbable
that there will be general lockout for the
season.
DETROIT MICn., May s. Yesterday after.
noon several hundred journevman pain
tiers met and decided on nine hours as the
proper day, and to-day they worked steadi
iy until that amount OF time passed when
twelve hundred Of them quit They pro
pose to do likewise hereafter. The bosses
have said nothing but will probably yield
Public school janitors think Of striking
for an advance of fifteen dollars per month
PiTrsBuRGH, May 3.-Strkes we're nau
gurated this morning by the stone mason,
and carpenters for reduction from ten tC
nine hours day, About | 500 men in all
quit work The laborers at the court house
to the number Of 40, and % iourneymer
bakers in two shops, also struck to-day fol
decrease in hours. The number of mer
in this city now engaged in the movement
is estimated at $500
CLEvELASb, O., May 3-Stone mason,
| throughout the city have demanded tha
they be put on the eight hour plan The
men engaged on the Garfield Monumen
quit work this morning, and asked the con
| tractor for eight hours and So % dav He
was agreeable to the proposition, and the
men will return to work tomorrow
New YoRK, May 3-Almost every hranct
| Of labor in the city is more or less disturbed
to-day over the determination of the mer
to obtain a reduction in the length of th,
| working day As a general rule the de
| mand for nine hours, five days in the week
| and eight hours on Saturday, has been con
ceded by the employers with little or hc
demur but there is opposition more or les
organized In the different trades to the
| granting OF the eighthou day.
| BALTIMORE, May 3.-A parade under tht
| auspices of the Can makers Mutual Pro
tective Union, went through the principa
streets of the city, 1900 house carpenter,
| who struck for eight hours, 1900 coloreC
brick makers and their helpers, iron mold
ers, varnishers, box makers, furniture
| workers, bakers, talors, piano makers
Socialistic labor party shoemakers, butch
ers, terra-cotta workers, press feeders, tin
| roofers, railroad car wood workers and
others in line, aggregatng 5000. Good or
der prevailed Very little carpeutering
work is being done in the city. The mer
refused 81 50 for nine hours, and demanded
| s. % for eight
CHErESNE, Wy, May 3-The brakemer
on the Union Pacific Railroads, Nebraska
Division, between Sidney and Laramie
struck to-day against the new schedule o
| mileage and pay. Freight trains are being
| tied up here as fast as they arrive, Pas
senger trains are sent out witlrout brake
men.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3.-Seven hundred
cabinet.makers, in forty.six shops, went tC
work this morning on the new time sched
ule OF eight hours per day, and in som'
cases an increase of wages ranging from
ten to twenty per cent Three hundred
men from sixteen shops remain out
BUFFALO May 3-The only strike here il
by the journeymen plumbers and gas
filters. seventy in number, who demant
81. 80 per day The demand of the journey
men bakers for shorter hours has beer
quite generally conceded.