Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
Labor Notes.

The eight-hour agitation continues at Chi cago.
 Mir. Powderly opposes any eight-hour move ment on the lst of May, as was contemplated.
 The journeymen and shop tailors of Milwau- kee, numbering about five hundred, are on a strike.
 More than 2,OO0 workers in the sugar houses are out of work in Brooklyn on account of the strike.
 The Knights of Labor are calling out their men in factories which furnish supplies to the Missouri Pacific road.
 Chicago Knights have sent $10 000 to St. Louis and to the strikers on the Gould system, and they are willing to send SIG, GOO more,
 The resident directors of the Missouri Pacif c at St. Louis have rejec ed the overtures of the Citizens Committee looking to arbitra- ton.
 Delamater X Co. of New York, have granted the demands of their foundry men and ma chinists for an increase of wages by ten per cent,
 At Sundays meeting of the Central Labor Union in New York resolutions were unani- mously adopted condemning Jay Gould for the St. Louis disturbances.
 The strike of the sugar workers in Williams burg developed several fights between the police and the strikers. in which number of persons were seriously hurt
 The closing of the foundry of the ,Phladel phia & Reading Railroad Company in Read ing, Pa., by strikers, throws nearly two hun dred men out of employment.
 William Stappon and Lewis Raster were committed to prison for trial in Philadelphia for posting bills and distributing circulars boycotting basketmaklng firm.
 The Baltimore and Ohio Switchmen's strike at Chicago has been settled. The Lake Shore men are still out and 8 mob stopped train and severely beat the fireman and engineer.
 MT. Blackburn (Dem., Ky.) introduced a lxxll- cl-. after be legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding $5 in any one payment.
 The cotton mill presidents at Augusta, Ga., received communication from the Knights of Labor and notified their employees that they would recognize no organization. The Knights resolved to insist on recognition.
 The strike of the switchmen on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road in Chi cago came to 8 peaceful end through an agreement with the company. The men against whom the switchmen struck continue at work.
 A strike on the Third avenue surface line including four roads in New York, began Fri day morning. The cause of the strike was that the road would not discharge seven drivr- CTS and conductors on the road who did not belong to the Knights.
 Mobs gathered at the Lake Shore Railroad yards near Chicago, obstructed freight trains and assaulted men at work The Governor arrived on the scene later and cautioned the crowd, declaring that the whole force of the State would be employed to protect the roads,
 The members of the Laborers' Union, in New York, an organization composed Of seven thousand men employed helpers to the skilled men in the building trades, struck on Mon ay for S2.50 day of nine hours and g. 75 for plasterers helpers. Nearly all the employers conceded the demand.
 The Hoboken cgarmakers indicted for con- spiracy for boycotting cigar manufacturer were acquitted in the Hudson County Court of Sessions. The first ballot showed seven for conviction and five for acquittal. Alter deliberating for three hours the seven yielded and the boycotters were discharged.
 Governor Hill, of New York, signed Sena- tor Murphy's bill making twelve hours days work on all horse-car roads in the State in cities of over five hundred thousand inhabi- tants. The bill allows a reasonable time for meals. This bill has been regarded as one of the most important labor measures of the sea- son.
 In New York seven members of the Bakers Union, who have been boycotting Mrs. Gray's bakery, were taken before Recorder Smith t., answer to indictments for conspiracy and coercion, and after pleading not guilty were held for trial under bonds of $500 each. The Grand Jury indicted thirteen of the boycotters. They had been employed by the Bakers Union to parade in front of her shop. dis tribute circulars and try to drive her custom CTS away.