Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-02
LABOR MATTERS.
Tho First Of May Witnessing Gen.
erai Labor Lockout In
Chicago.
Hactorias Shit Down IN conss quonpe 81 a
demand for Ten Hours Par for
Eight Hours work.



sued a paper to-day called The State
ment, and proposes 70 keep II up IN
definitely u IL principally devoted 70
vigorous uenuHclatlous Of the Evening
Times, the force Of nof.uulor printers
on IT, ard william Ferguson,
It's editor, whom " designateB as "Scab-
Labor ferguson, being prominent
Knight Of Labor. He was q; one time a
Baptist minister IN 81 Louis.
MARHHAIL.
special 10 tho Gazette
MARSHAL, Tx, May 1.--i1pon In
spectlOn 81 the Texas q Pecinc shops this
afternoon everything wka found 70 be
working smoothly. IN the car depart
ment there are IA men, and IN the mo.
tive power department 1872, mahing a To-.
tai Of 828. But for occasional groups OF
Idle men ON the streets, there are no
signs OF q strike here.
Marshal Reagan returned from New
Orleans to-day. While there he pre-.
scented vouchers 10 tic court for money
70 pay the deputies he he's had employed
IN his district on the Texas q Peciilc.
Said vouchers called for 3 per day for
each man. The marshal was SLOWED
checks tor the foil amount, and $1,000
will be received here Monday, AZ which
VINO lut nfDHHtH VIII bI DNlU VII huu
some Of them let out Marshal Reagan
now has twenty OF this place
OyRR THR COUNTRY.
me strikers OF the sugar fehnerles 10
Brooklyn are stil out, hot the ware
housemen have gone back 10 work
The coal miners u Mah0Ding valley,
5000 IA number, ara ont on a demand for
an increaseef 10 cents per ton.
IN pitiEbtirn H01 furnlturayr1ak are
out on strike Tor eight hours.
IN Chicago 1910 men are out IN al
trades demanding eight hours
IN milwaukee, 200 brewers ana 2OO0
other laborers struck yesterday me
brewers Tor an Increase 81 w per month,
the Others Tor eight hours.
In Phllndclphia 900 brewers, 800 iurnl-
ture and mattress makers ana GOO car
pentefs are ont for eight hours Other
mechanics 20 the number OF 400 de-
mand the same thing.
In ST Louis, planing-Inill merj carpen4
tera, tobaccoswOrker- aud furniture men
TO the fiinber OF 1900 went out yester-
day Tor eight hours.
IN anumber Of cities Monday ~ fixed
as the day on which the eighth hour rule
must 20 into effect or the strikers rants
will be augmented.
Nhtif4. iAN bNNiN hkmFNt
rutoAoo. m. May 1y-.nThe Etght-
Honr nav inc ofIlcIaf organ Of tho fbi.
ca1o tra,isa, and labor aasetnhiles In tts
issi,e thla mornlnp ppbJishad n tonr edl.
torjnl m teply Ia a recent luterylew with
,Iay could on tbe labor situation. ftoallg
him uthe modern bigbwnvtnan al the
rail- and saya that M order that no may
rnutuve nubiIr sentlinent he very airnltly
declares himself n favor al acme labor
ornanlzatlons nmnne them The protber.
hood az I ,oeomotIye pnginarra This il
perhaps retutnjne a Commitment ~ Clblet
Arthur far ihe slliv and unnailed. mr. az.
taek ha made IN Ia Hnighta ~ tabnr
some weeks aro. WThen he elaborates
what an ofgaui,ation should do
Tor Ala wnrkere In nrnvla,ng
agalnAt sickness, accident and
death but he says not one word about
protection against an interruptions EN-
ployer, which is the first nRd primal func-
tlon " labor organization" II quotes
from Mr.. Goud's plan for laboring
man'A Insurance organization, and adds.
"lndced, strange II would no Il any
scheme evolved by this national sand.bag.
ger did not accrue 70 HIS benefit The
truth No. the whole scheme Ia nothing
more nor less than an organization hos
plt0l With Gould rs it's warden, which
throws u system OF compulsory taxation
on his employees, aud only seeks 10 pro.
Vide for the worker In sickness accident
or DEATH This system, Il says,
would make q semislsye OF the
man who, after paying several a..
sessments, would endure many
wrongs rather than forfeit his chances
OF benefits by striking, and says 'eTakcn
Into view as whole Il may be regarded
az the granuest combination Of ialsahood,
deception, adroltness and cheek ever
placed before the American publlc.n II
concluded by calling Gould hard names
and that realizing that the labor move
cannot be stopped he IL seeking TO arrest
IL,
HoricF 10 LuMnRR-YAnD rRopRiBruns
The pruprletors of every one az ma
nluety. three lumber Yards m the CITY ~.
cclved to-day q circular from the Lumber.
mems tinlot, demanding substantially ION
hours pay for eight hours, work,
commencing May . A meeting was M
once called, st which eighty four Of the
ninety. three nrnprletors were present,
az ui ihem hau pceh taken by ahr.
prlses Inc rroptietofs IN the meeting
uiu not commit themselves 10 any
course ~ resnru 70 the uemaud further
,nen ~ appV.nt A." oonnil'.ee 10 meet
ualiy ehu ehuesN OF 70 settie the problem
WIN we men ~ thr various Yards on .
basls y mutual ouncgssiun ny thp work
men anu ptopi,e'uis, Aocorulhg 70 stale
meht ~ .he chauhan o. the committee
appohte9 ~ we neetlnR general
Nulke ~ lne iumpsf yatus OF chicago
Wpuiu ul,seNy n.9Ne Morkhen TO the
hnihper OF az least lsloVV,
MILL IfOfn THEM NHNlXiNNIMf.E.
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