The true northerner., 1886-05-06
The situation I'm Chicago.

The Situation I'm Chicago.
The labor and industrial situation at Chicago
ON Monday, the 3d inst, was thus outlined by
special dispatches from that city of that date I:
1t was estimated last night that 10000 of the
225 00J wage-workers of Chicago have already
'profited by the eight-hour movement About
Is, 900 are supposed TO be out strike this
morning In many instances, where large
bodies of men are solidifed under trade move
ment long strikes are threatened il the present
attitude of the employers is maintained. The
movement has not yet been attended by any
violence, though in some quarters the socialist
ic element has caused seeming pickering and
disquiet. This is particularly true of the lum-
Der region and North Side furniture district
The report received that the Milwaukee a. St
Paul Company was sending 400 men into the city
to take the places OF the striking freight handlers
caused no little uneasiness in railroad quarters
The strikers decided 10 resist any attempt of
the importt d men to handle the freight
Previous TO Saturday 1000 brewers, rs many
bakers, 500 furniture workers, 1000 clothing
cutters, and 100 tuck pointers had secured u re-
duction OF their working hours.
According TO the reports received up TO mid
night 10y Mr.. George A. Schlling, chair
man of the eight-hour committee, the de-
mands of the following have been satisfied
Eight hundred tobacco handlers, 700
street-car employees, all the members of the
Cigar-Makers' Union. 800 beer-barrel makers,
$50 dry-goods and notion store employees.
$500 packers, and large number of workmen
employed in smaller industries. Besides, the
following unions have adopted the eight-hour
standard: Brick-Layers', Stone-Masons, Hod-
out Of the thirty-seven establishments where
in iron-molders are employed, twenty-three
shC ps have won, five OF the firms resisting
the movement. and the remainder are negotiat-
ing. The Machinists and Blacksniths' Assem-
bly,, which is striking for eight hours.
with the ten-hours wages scaled, re-
ports general success. The upholsterers
are being resisted in nearly every instance.
Thrty-three hundred brickmakers are striking
for eight hours work at ten hours pay. About
one-half of the $50 butchers in the ciuy have Sc
cured reductions from sixteen 10 ten hours. The
Shoemakers Assembly has modified its demands
to eight hours pay for eight hours work, and ex-
poets TO gain this concession. The Clerks
Union will be satisfied with ten hours. Four
hundred wagonmakers begin work to-day under
the eight-hour reform The marble-w workers
have also won under the eight-hours pay agree
ment. The Coopers Assembly is still standing
out for nine hours pay
The larger iron and brass works closed to
await events. Only one planing-mill was in
operation Yesterday. The laborers of the Equit-
able Gas Company struck for eight hours work
and full pay. The agitation in Chicago has thus
far resulted in no acts of violence.
Following is summary OF the workers in
the leading trades Of Chicago; Fifty packing
houses, $4,000 TO 20 900; twenty-five brewer ries,
800; fifty wholesale bakeries, 100; three gas
companies. 1200; four street railways, 800
railroads, 1900; one hundred cigar facto-
ries, 1900; five express companies, 200
telegraph and telephone companies, 1900
sixty-seven boos and shoe. .nanufactories, $500 !;
forty wholesale clothing manufactures, 5000
twelve dry-goOds dealers, 5000; twenty brass
loundries, 900; twenty tame ries 800 eighty
seven foundries, iron-works, and rolling mills
5000; 100 carriage and wagon factories 800
lao furniture and upholstry, 6 900 forty planning
mills and box factories. 2 500; 200 lumber yards,
1000; 20 600 men are employed in the building
trade as carpenters, paper hangers, lathers,
painters, stone and brick workers, stone-cutters,
plumbers and gas-fitters, roofers and skaters.