Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-05-02
HONEST LABOR.
Its Demands for Shorter
Hours.
THE SITUATION AT THE EAST
Thousands out of Employment al
Chicago New York and
Other Places.

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Other Places.
ILSpecialtO the Herald blythe Associated Perss.
CHICAGO, May Five hundrel
striking railroad freight handlers me
at the Harrison street viaduct. near tn
West side union passenger depot, at
! o'clock this morning. Upon the sugges
ton of some one in the crowd the mel
started tor the Wabash freight yards Il
urge the men employed there to stoI
work, The men there at once begaI
quitting work. From there the crowd
increasing in size visited the yards OF tn,
Lake Shore, Rock Island, Louisville
New Albany and Chicago, and the
Michigan Central roads, where nearly
all the men stopped work.
The freight house men on the For
Wayne road this morning made de
mand for eight hours, and will stop al
noon unless it is conceded. The driver,
and conductors of the Blue Island
avenues Of tho Western Division Car
Company demanded that the working
day consist Of eleven hours, without de
crease in pay. The company acceded
without parleying. A hundred men
employed by the same company on The
extension OF their lines struck for eight
hours. The freight handlers on the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road stopped at
10 o'clock of their own accord. A crowd
Of three hundred or four hundred men
are marching in body toward the Nc
CorInick works, on the southwestern
outskirts, with red flag at their head
The Times tomorrow summarizing the
labor situation 10 Chicago. will say that
the events of to-day have added from six
to eight thousand men to the idle army
OF workipgmen which is now standing
around the streets and filling the saloons
OF Chicago, and il can be truthfully said
that IS, 600 men who two days ago were
earning wages and adding to the wealth
of community, are now unemployed, and
the probability is that in about ten per
cent. of the cases in this condition
will last year or more. Themost notable
strike to-day was with the railroads,
all Of the twenty-five in Chicago being af-
fected with the one exception Of the
Baltimore & Ohio, and it will probably
be included in the general round up by
tomorrow. So far only the freight
handlers have gone out. but this means
over three thousand men with the stop
page of the freight business until their
places can be supplied, and the added
fact that the attempt TO supply them
will probably result In trouble which
past experience has shown that Chicago
has neither Mayor nor a Governor who
can handle. In addition the railroads
are hampered with the tear that
the trouble may spread to
other branches Of their service and thus
further complicate matters, and this is
really the gravest side to the situation,
for the stopping of the railroad business
means the paralysis Of every other trade.
The lumber manufacturers made nota-
BILE move in getting together and placing
their affairs in the hands of an executive
committee with full power to act, thus
initiating the furniture manufacturers
and practically forming Union Of em-
ployers to fight the union of employees.
The box makers did practically the same
thing and the iron manufacturers, while
having no association, are practically
united, so that these three large interests
furniture, lumber and iron presented
united front to their men. The packers
have conceded in part what was asked
of them, and as their employees are not
any too anxious to strike, there is little
probability OF trouble in the stock yards
district. As for other industries af-
fected, almost all concerns are fighting
the matter, each for itself, and while in
some instances the demands Of the men
have been yielded to, in the main they
have been refused, and the prospect for
speedy settlement Of the trouble and
the revival of business is by no means
hattering.
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