Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-02
EASTERN NEWS.
Labor Troubles Reported from Many
Eastern Cities.
A GENERAL STRIKE FOR EIGHT
HOURS WORK.
Railroad Employees, Tradesman, Brewers
and Others Interested.
TIE DEMAND IS GENERALLY
REFUSED.
A Mill Proprietor Fears Mob
Violence.
THE DEATH OF BISHOP ROB-
ERTSoN, OF MISSOURI.
THE DEATH OF BISHOP ROB-
ERTSoN, OF MISSOURI.
SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Labor Troubles I'm Chicago.

ShlCAuOs may AH-AAfO
striking railroad freight handlers met st
the H~arrison-street viaduct, near the West
Side Union passenger depos,s at eight O'Clock
this morning. Speeches were made by two
or three leaders, declaring il was the duty
of freight handlers OF sll Chicago roads to
enforce their demands now for shorter
hours while the working men in the de-
partments were doing so. and upon the
suggestion OF some one in the crowd the
men started for the Wabash freight yards
to urge she men employed there to stop
work, the crowd increasing in size as it
moved. As II entered the Wabash yards
the men there at once began quitting work.
From there the crowds. increasing in size,
visited the yards of the Lake Shore, Rock
leland, Louisville, New Albany and the
Chicago and Michigan Central roads,
where nearly all OF the men stopped. In
the Michigan Central 10 men refused to
quit work, and the police arriving the
crowd was driven from the yard.
The freight-house men at Fort Wayne
this morning made a demand for eight
hours, and will stop at noon, unless IL is
conceded.
The drivers and conductors of the Blue
Island Avenue lines of the Western Diyis-
ion Car Company demanded a reduction
in their trips from seven 10 six, confin-
ing the working day to II hours, without
q decrease in pay. The company acceded
| without parleying. A hundred men en-
ployed by the same company in the extern
sion of their lines struck for eight hours.
The freight handlers of the Milwaukee
and ST. Paul road stopped at 10 O'Clock OF
| their OWN accord.
A crowd of three or four hundred men
| marched in a body toward the Mccormick
| works on the southwestern outskirts, with
a red flag at the head OF their column.
| The works are idle, and the men have been
| given q holiday.
All the lumber yards, box factories and
| planning mills in the city are closed down
The owners will take Joint action tonight
The large packing-houses at the stock
yards are all running. No shutdown Is ex'
pected before Monday.
Several mass meetings occurred in the
lumber districts this forenoon. The crowd
is composed largely Of Bohemians and
Germans. They were addressed by hot
headed leaders, and finally the crowd re-
solved itself into q marching column, and
headed by 9 band Of music and carrying
red flags, proceeded to the Mccormick
reaper works. where some non-Union men
working in the yards were frightened
away. The procession moved west on
Blue Island Avenue to Robert street. where
q mass meeting was held in a vacant lot
The crowd grew larger as it moved along
and grew more b~oisserous. The police
kept advised of its movements. but up te
noon no trouble had occurred.
The procession in the lumber yards dis
solved at about 1 o'clock without causing
anv damage. The lumber owners express
anxiety az to the safety of their property
and are setting about for the better pro
lection OF their yards.
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon there was 9
large gathering of all classes of strikers on
Lake street, near Desplaines, where they
are being addressed by labor agitators.
The Eight.HOur System I'm st,
Louis.
ST.. LOUIS. May 1.-Two hundred meD
employed on the water works in East st
Louis struck to-day for eight hours worl
per day, and ten hours wages. The city
refused to grant the demand, and will en-
desvor to procure new men to fill the
strikers places.
The employees OF the Glendale Zinc
works struck this morning for the adop-
ton OF the short-hour system and q more
equal scale Of wages. Two hundred and
fifty men are out.
The employees of numerous planning
mills throughout the city made q demand
upon their employers last night that the
| eight-hour system be adopted by them to-
| day, and this morning notices were in the
| mills that those who desire TO work eight
hours for eight hours pay could do 80, but
| that the machinery would be kept in mo-
| ton for 10 hours. thus enabling those who
| wished to work q longer time to do so.
| The men are dissatisfied, and will strike
Monday.
Several hundred carpenters decided that
| beginning with to-day they would go to
| work at 8 O'Clock in the morning. take an
hour for dinner and quit at 5 o'clock in
| the afternoon. thus being in service eight
hours. No strike is expected to grow out
| of this action as the bosses have agreed to
the proposition, and the men demand pay
for but eight hours work.
I'm Fear of Strikers.
CONCORD. N. H., May 1.-The proprietor
OF the wooden mills in Peacock has made
an oath that he believes his property is
threatened by mob Of violence, and has
notified Selectman Boscawen that he shall
hold the town responsible for Its protec-
ton. Special police have been appointed.
who will be on duty day and night until
the danger has passed. and the selectmen
have notified the officers Of the Knights OF
Labor, who ordered the strike in these
mills, that they will be held answerable in
the courts for any damage suffered by the
town.
hoy c0tters Arrested.
New York, May 1.-Michael Stroh, a
bartender, Han Holdraf. q musician, and