Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-03
SHUT DOWN.
InnummsrabIs Strikes Occur Yes
terday
All Over the Country, For the
Eight Hour Plan.
The Movement Centres in Chicago
Where Business Is Stopped.
Almost All the Freight Handlers OF
Railroads
centsrlng There Quitting Work and
Marching Over the City.
The Red Flag a Prominent Object
at the Head of Professions.
No viOlenCs However Takes Place.
A List of the Strikes.
The Red Flag a Prominent Object
at the Head of Professions.
No Violence However Takes Place.
A List of the Strikes.

among wage workers at Chlcig were
characterized By quie.ness which was
reminder of Sunday. Ia the msnufactur
ing districts the and seven o'clock whis'
ties were for the most part silent. Tie
streets in the centre OF industry were no.
ticeable by reason of the absence of the
usual huuying crowds Of workmen With
their lunch baskets snd dinner pals in
hand. Such streets as Market, Dearborn,
Monroe, aud Others GA which heavy trucks
are driven, did not contain half as many
teams as usual. Hundreds Of factories were
idle, some shut down on account of strikes,
others ceased for the day to give their en-
ployes holiday. The idea of holding q
great parade to-day uudsr the auspices of
the Trades and Labor Assembly was
abandoned, much to the disappointment of
many. Il was rumo.ed that the furniture
workers would parade. aud meeting OF
that body Was called for this morning. The
irst startling news Of the moruiUg came
at $3.50 o'clock. A crowd Of men from
the lumber yarls aud planning mills, mum
oeriug 5000 or 1000 men, got together in
tae vicinity of Twenty second street and
Blue Island ayenue. A leader was select
ed and liue formed. In the front
rank a man carried a red flag.
rne body of men then moved down
in the direction OF the Mccormick reaper
works. The entire detective force
1t the Chicago police department reported
for duty early and all the chiefs OF police
districts were on hand for consultation
With Superintendent Eoersold. The re-
serve police were all held at their respective
stations for duty 10 the event OF disorder.
The chief had early sdyices of the action
Of the railroad men, but up to II o'clock
had received no special request for protec
ion from any of the railway officials
Chief E1ersold declared that great many
IN IN of for a holiday might be contounded
with the strikers and that the situation
could not be accurately understood before
Monday. This morning in the lumber dis
lrlct not a planning mill opened up The
manufacturers went into session at Fix
[Ispg's office to consider the situation
seventy FIVE to one hundred employees OF
he Quotsble Gas & Fuel Company, en-
gagged IN building tanks on Archer avenue
near Hslstead street, quit work this morn
ing. The men were recently granted a
raise from 81 60 10 Sl.75 for ten hours a
day, ali they asked But this morOipg they
quit because the company refused to ALLOW
the increase aud eight
STRIKERS PARADING.
I'll; 40 srsikipg railroad freight hand
-, =. .ho E.--isoa street Visduct,
near the West Side Union Pass..-.s 'S ~
pot, at 8 o'clock this morning. Their
spokesman were made up Of two or three
leaders, in which they declared that it was
the duty of the freight handlers on all OF
tie Cnlca 90 roads 10 enforce their demand
now for shorter hours while the working
men in all departments OF trade were do
ing 20. The sentiment was cheered and
upon the suggestion OF some one In tae
crowd, the men started for the Wsossn
freight wards to urge the men employed
here to stop work The crowd increasing
in size as it moved entered the Wabash
yards and the men there at once began
quitting work. The freight handlers IN
sns Wabash yards stopped WORK in body
and Joined the procession which then
orccs .ded to the Rock Island yards
where they induced all the men employed
IN the freight houses there to abandon
heir position. The new recruits Jolned
the column which next visited the Evans
vile, New Albany aud Chicago railway
where they were also successful In their Ell
forts with the freight handlers The pro
eession which now numbered some two
thousand circulated around to the different
RAILWAYS. There was much enthusiasm
and cheering 10 their ranks. 1t is reported
that crowd of some 800 or 400 men are
marching in the neighborhood OF the Nc
Cormick works in the Southwestern out
skirts of the city, with red flag at the
read of their column, the works are all
idle to-day, the men having asked for and
been given holiday.
Probable fifty men unloading vessels at
the Rock Island aud Lake Shore railroad
docks on the river struck for eight
hours and stopped work. The officials
N the Rock Island and
Lake Shore yards were clearing
ND all freight in the expectation Of strike
among the men there. The freight house
men of the Fl. Wayne this morning made
a demand for eight hours and will stop at
noon unless it is conceded. The drivers
and conductors on the Blue Island avenue
line OF the West Division Car company de-
msnded reduction of their trips from
seven to elk. combining the working day TO
| IL hours without decrease in pay. The
company sccsded to the demands without
sny particulars. Two hundred men en-
Moved BY the West Division Street Car
Company in the extension of their lines
struck for eight hours. The company al
lowed the men to 60. At South Chicago,
where q firm Of the large lumber yards and
planning mills are located, the yardnen
stopped work The men employed 10
Kinks sosp factory, numbering some seven
hundred, have stopped work, and a process
sion, headed by a band OF music, visited
: the other factories situated on the North
Side, which they will also endesVor to shu
down.
LUMBERFIRNs WILL STAND TOGETHER.
, An important session Of toe lumber
manufacturers of the city was held Thu
morning, st the Office of Felix Lang. Ever
principal planning mill in the city was rep
resented. The situation was fully dis
7 cussed, and as q result they decided Il
stand by each other in whatever actor
! they might take, and appointed commit
5 tee to request the attendance Of repressn
tstives Of every lumber yard and box fac
tory in the city at joint nesting, whicI
{ will be held at the Sherman House to-nigh
to determine upon some course of action
In the meantime no concessions viii b
e made, and pending the meeting al ID
: planning mills, box factories and lumbe
yards have been closed.
MORE FREIGHT HANDLERS OUT.
a Promptly ct ten ociocS, the two huI
9 idred freight handlers Of the Chicago Mi