Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-06
THE EIGHr-HOUR MOVEMENT.
Twenty-Ihree FOundrics in COOh
County Adopt short Time,

ANpHNy-AhhGC OOOh
County Adopt short Time.
CHICAGO, May IA large number of
foundrymen held an eight-hour mass.
meeting yesterday afternoon. Reports
We're called for from every shop in the
county. They showed that go shops had
yielded to the demand for eight hours
and will pay for eight hours work, giving
double pay for extra time. Three Of
these shops have agreed to pay for nine
hours work. Five shops have refused to
adopt the eight-hour day and two of them
have shut down indefinitely. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, We consider 1t injudicious to
burden the eight-hour question with the
wage question, believing that the wage
question will regulate itself In the near
future therefore,
proposed to give eight hours work with
pay for eight hours, we recommend that
the proposition be accepted.
THE co OPERATION OF OTHER CITIES THAN
CHICAGO NEEDED THE AMERICAN BETTER
THAN THE RED FLAG.
CHICAGO, May Sat n meeting of the
trades assembly yesterday George Schill-
ing said the fact that other cite Alad not
gone into the eight-hour movement with
the same energy rs Chicago made il
harder to convince employers that it was
feasible, and efforts should be made to
spread the doctrine throughout the
country. II was important to have united
action and then the most serious obiec-
ton of manufacturers, that of competition
from outside, would be done away with.
To accomplish this he wanted an execu
tive council appointed which should have
regular headquarters and attend to the
whole eight-hour question, both in Chi
cago and as far as possible in neighbor-
ing cities. A sum of money should be
| given the council to aid us in the work,
and other central labor organizations
should be invited to confer with the ex-
ecutiye council on the best means of
meeting the question at issue,
| The report was accepted, but A. O.
Cameron started row by saying that If
the executive council be appointed il
should not affiliate with the Central Labor
Union, an organization that had not a
single idea in common with the trade and
labor assembly, which should take an
unequivocal position in this affair, and
have it distinctly understood that il did
not have any communication with the
Central Labor Union, and that 10 do go
would cast discredit on members of the
former body that would blast them for
ever in tho eyes of the public.
Schilling took exceptions to the re-
marks of the speaker, and, while admit
ting that he was a Socialist, said he was
not in harmony with the extremists.
w. Il. Johnson vehemently opposed
having anything to do with the Central
Labor Union or the various organizations
that acted under its authority. can
organization he said, ''that cannot
recognize the American flag as its banner
should not be allowed to associate with n
body or men who are American in prin-
ciple, aiming to better their condition
while upholding their national character.
When the men who now carry the red flag
become naturalized and adopt American
ideas it will be time enough to 90 hand in
hand with them in the attainment of their
just rights"
The feeling among the members of the
assembly became very warm at this point,
and some personalities passed between
Mark Crawford and George Schilling on
account of the remark of the former That
whenever the red flag popped up in the
discussions of the body il always ema-
mated from the latter. Crawford, con.
tinuing, said that the only function of
the new executive council sought to be
created was to spend 300 or SO, and that
could be done with the committees
already appointed. The matter was
finally settled bya motion that the execu-
tive and eight-hour committees of the
assembly act together on all questions re-
lating TO the agitation for an eight-hour
day.