The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-14
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Many Thousand Men on u Strike in CHI
caEo-Item from Other Points.

Many Thousand Men on 10 Strike in Chi
caso-Items from Other Points.
The Chicago Times OF May LIST says:
Twenty-Five thousand is a fair estimate OF
the number OF mel who quit work Friday
and walked out OF the various shops and
factories in Chicago because their employees
would not consent to an eisht.hour work
ing day and the rame wages which have
been paid when ten hours were the rule.
How many will do tho same to-day
is p~roblematical, but the prospects for
a repetition of the performances OF
to-day are Observation-Disclosures. The trades
most affected are the furniture manufact-
urers, the lumber interests in ali their mum.
erous ramifcations and the iron men.
With the furniture people it was practi-
and all the $500 men employed in the
various Chicago factories are to day idle,
and probably will continue so for some
tfmo to come. Every furniture factory in
Chicago, including Brunswick & Bake
and Rothschild Bros, where strikes were
already in progress, is practically in the
hands of the executive committee OF the
association, and will not be reopened until
1T so desires. Asomewhatsi similar situation
exists in the lumber trade. including the
pianing mills and the box factories. No
concerted action was had among the en-
ployes until to-day, but all except three re-
fused the demands OF the men, and in n
NEE ting aiterward decided to stand by one
another and not to take their men back ex-
cept at the bosses terms. The number Of
men in this trade out OF employment in
consequence can only be approximated,
but 5000 is u low figure. With the iron
people the idea of running only eight
hours u day could not be entertained
Tor a momcn by the larger concerns,
and In consequence all who were waited
on refused their mems demands. and Crane
Bros, with their 1900 employees, set the
example OF closing down, and with the ex-
ception OF the rolling mills, where no de.
mands were made and no trouble is antici,
Pated. The majority OF the large iron
works OF Chicago are to-day closed. The
railroads have, with one exception, SO far,
escaped trouble, but their time will come
to-day, and it is feared that when it does
come, the extent cannot be foretold. The
packers will probably suffer little. The
employers are somewhat disposed to yield
in part the demands OF the men, while the
latter are not at all disposed to strike.
Still, it depends a good deal on what Ar.
mour will do" Every business in the city
IS more or less implicated, and his morn
ing the general unrest among the working.
men is exactly balanced by the anxiety
among the employers.
y L ot New lOrK, on
Saturday, printed an extended review OF
the eight hour labor question, saying:
There is apparently a very general de-
mand for reduced hours of daily labor
among the trades unions. 1t is probable
That tie larger proportions OF the en-
ployes' demands will be settled by com.
promise or mutual concessions. In others,
TO a significant degree, the demand for
eight hours with ten hours pay will be
pressed with strikes. The nine hour COM
prises have generally been based on ten
hours wages, amounting to an advance of
IL per cent. in pay. Active resistance is
promised by many manufacturers to pay
Ing 20 per cent. advance in wages, or ten
hours pay for eight hours work. Brad
streets reports 100, 600 men who will strike
Tor eight hours and 20, 600 for
nine hours; 5000 men now on a strike for
eight hours, and eight hours have been
granted to $4,000 employees at various
points. There are additionally $4,000
men who have asked for the eight-hour
rule but who have not stated that they
VIII strike. At leading centerS alone, it is
probable that over two hundred and TWEEN
ty-tve thousand Industrial employees are
actively interested in this movement.
The New York Tribune says: 1t is hard.
~ expected that the short-hour movement
Will cause many strikers or lock-outs lust
at present. In most cases when an AMIGA.
BILE arrangement cannot be made between
the employers and the men the matter will
be held in allegiance. Much has been ac-
complished within the last month in the
way of shortening hours OF labor. In all
the building trades, which are the most
perfectly organized, an agreement has been
entered into between the men and the boss
es making nine hours a days work, and
eight hours on Saturday. The system of
paying by the hour instead OF the day has
also been introduced. In these trades
there will certainly not be any trouble.
The trade in which trouble is most likely
to take place is the piano-making ind ustry.
The grand jury OF the court OF general
sessions at New York was disch argcd after
Foreman Brown had handed to Recorder
hmythe u prcsentmcnt %condemning boy
cotting. Tn presentment severely con-
dennis Police Justice Wcide who, when
boycOtters were arrested and brought be.
lore him for annoying ~Cavanaush, Sanford
Co., the tailors, promptly discharged
them on the ground that they had not vio-
lated the law. Police CAPTAINS Williams.
Mccullough and Copeland had confessed
that they were powerless to relieve the
boycotted firms from the nuisance as long
as the police justices failed to ommit the
prisoners.
The movement of the labor unions in
Pittsburg for n reduction in working hours
is confined almost exclusively to building
trades. Those trades which have de.
manded a reduction in hours generally
show n disposition to compromise on nine
hours, and no extended or general strike
to-day is anticipated. The plum bers.
bricklayers. hod carriers, plasterers. stone.
cutters and stonemasons nave already
settled with their employers on the nine
hour basis.
At Il recent meeting the 5000 employees
OF the large Milwaukee brewerics decided to
strike unless the wages were advanced $40
per month. The companies have made
large concessions in the way offewer hours
work but they will not accept the terms
proposed.