The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-03
noUE MOVEMENT.
strikes without Number for Fewer Hours

strikes without Number for Fewer Hours
and Same Pay.
CHICAGO, May 1.-The attempt OF many
thousands Of mechanics, laboring men
and working people Of every sort to in.
auSurate the eight.hour system in Chicago
to-day has been, up to the present writing,
attended with no violence or bloodshed
1t is as yet too early to determine what
will be the permanent outcome OF the
movement. In many instances employees
have demanded an advance OF wages at
the same time with a reduction OF the
working hours, and this adds to the COM
plicstion oi tho situation between EN-.
ployers and employees. Iu many other
instances manufacturing establishments
have simply closed to make this holiday
for their men and bridge over the crisis.
What they will do OH Monday remains
to be seen. Meanwhile the streets
in various parts Of the city have been
sounding all day with the blare Of bands
and tho tramp oil professions. In the
southwestern part OF the city ten thou.
sand lumbermen marched and displayed
two red aags. On the North Side there
we're peaceable PROFESSIONS Of furniture
workers and planning mill hands, display.
ing American flags and banners, giving
praise to those firms which have conceded
to the eight.hour day.
The movement began with the freight
handlers Of the Wabash road going out
early in the morning, The strikers formed
a procession and marched to the Lake
Shore road where the main body OF men
at work joined them. The Fort Wayne
employees stopped work, but the North.
western men refused to Join In the strike.
Though the freight handlers employed
by the Northwestern, the Illinois Central
and the Baltimore 4 Ohio remained at
work all day, the l4O truCksters at the
freight houses OF the Illinois Central rail.
road called upon Assistant Freight Agent
Gushing about noon and asked that their
working hours be reduced from ten to
eight, and their compensation remain un.
disturbed, or that they be paid 81 rs for
ten hours, which is an advance OF twenty.
Eve cents per day on present wages. Mr..
Gushing promised 10 submit their request
10 the officials Of the road.
MEETING or THE STRIKERS.
An enthusiastically prolonged meeting
Of the striking frelsht.hapdlers was held
this evening. Excepting the baltimore
and Ohio, delegations from every road en-.
terinH the city packed the little West
Lake Street Hall 10 BuHoCation, and the
confusion at times was o Babel,
Mr.. Burke, Of the Panhandle, was made
temporary Chairman, aud, amid great
cheering, declared that until the demand
for eight hours with ten hours pay was
acceded to not one OF the men would 20
back.
Mr.. O'uonnor, OF the Milwaukee and ST.
Paul, was hilafiouSly elected permanent
chairman. He made red,hot speech,
declaring that ho was out for good Until
the eight.hour system was adopted, and
that he was only one oil the $50 Milwaukee
ireight.handlerB who would do the same.
Wild applause interrupted 0'Connor's
speech.
He was followed by q great number OF
speakers, each road having mouth.pieCe.
The most intense earnestness was shown,
especially when chairman 0'Connor read
q dispatch from New York, stating that
Vice President Sykes, ol the NORTH vest.
ern road, had suggested that II would be
foolish for the roads 10 attempt q light at
this junCttre, and that ConCillatlun was
the tieedful policy.
The scene which followed the reading
Of the dispatch was indescribable. Men
llung Lhelf bats toward the ceiling, not
caring where they fell, and yelling and
stamping their feet until utterly exhaust.
cd. Another wild time ensied when
Chairman Q'Connor announced that
twenty-five men brought here from Nil.
wauk6e, by the Milwaukee 4 81. Paul, "a
lake the places Of the strikers, had refused
10 20 10 work upon hearing The situation
from the Rtfikefh.
Alter much talking committee, con.
sistlng Of nine delegates from each road
was appointed u prepare articles Of or
ganiEatlon ior 0 Ffelghthandlefs' Union
and report at q meeting tomorrow after
noon.
rHE PoRK FACkRRs.
The proptletors ot oil the great packing
houses and kindred establishments Aslt
A secret meeting this afternoon, ant
when, alter several hours session, the,
separated, their faces presented ahylhinI
hul hanhV Aabanl EaAh saasIisinsa y