New-York tribune., 1886-05-08
wORKMEN WHO WANT TO WORK LESS.

WORKMEN WHO WANT TO WORK LESS
HOW rHE DEMAND FOR FEWER HOURS is BEING
MRT-1HE srEINwAYs FIRM.
The piapomakers succeeded yesterday In
getting the employees OF stenway Sons. In Newforh'
to l,y tho following demands before their employers:
M We demand that ezht hours shall constitute days
vr Cent on the BASIS Of pay eight hours work.
To this Steinway Sons made this reply
majority 3 % tne en "a our factory which is our
second largest establishment ,..,o,r IN s,s,n
way the oyerwning majority Of "r our snrkmes
employed in seihway Hall building are unanimously
against the same
facts sid down in our umatu OF April 2s that the nro
ucon OF tue system IN I p p Of the in
We are therefore compelled to refuse this demand OF the
minority Of workmen in their owu interest," anu fh ha
In onr three bishmeuts above mentioned and
that such OF employees who arc wiling % @ STnps %
needed protection on tbs part OF our nrn
There is difference OF opinion to the success OF the
eeht.hour movement in the furniture trade. At the
HEADQUARTERS of the United Strike Committee OF the
cabuetmakers upholstcrers and woodcarvers 1t Is re-
nored that nearly every OF the $500 members Is at
work under tho cghthour rule and that only three OF
four OF bosses holding out against It, On the
other hand, 1t is claimed by tho Furniture Mahulact
urers Association that only three or four have adopteo
the change, and they only temporarily. "The assoca-
tiop" said OF its members yesterday, comprises
the largest furnture manufacturers in this city and
vicinity and controls several thousand workmen Ihey
have been compelled to organize to resist the UNJUST
and ruinous demands made upon them, not 80 much
BY their own workingmen by the leaders who are
wfuly misleading thcm Tho leaders make untrue and
misleading reports in order make the believe that
success ia near at when In point OF fact 1t will
never come" The association has adopted the fol-
lowing:
urers socation OF New. city and vicinity will run
their OF hours days work from
belonging TO this Association shall strike Dy reason
rue pledge ourselves that we Will one ana az
closed until the matter
jusfed pledge ourselves that w1i sign an agree
mn earry into S eject h, y m TO whom
shall be referred all questions In dispute between epoye
and empoye
A Joint meeting Of tho three unions will bc held to
night In order to hear reports as TO the progress VI no
movement all over the country. -, .s..
The varnishers report tnat about hity more Oh tne
men have gone to work under the nlnehour rue, anu
they hope that by Monday morning all hanus VIII nave
returned work. Among the firms VINO Rramteu tuc
demand Yesterday Bradley Il Hubbard OF twenty
second-st and First-ave l..
consultation and u Is supposed than scttomcht W IN
be effected to-day by which all the furniture marpe
workers 90 to work. The building marDe WorAorS
nearly all at work now. ., -
The carriage aud wagon makers are hopetul OF an
| early settlement OF their troubles. G. Hofmann OF
Morrisana, granted tho demand yesterday.
10 Developments were reported az the neauquar,
OF furriers. All the worknen remain out snu
no movement looking toward settlement mas Doen
made The manufacturers hold that the granting OF tne
| demand would ruin trade and are equally nrm n hass
| meeting OF the strikers will be held to-day.
The clothing cutters expect an answer to-day 10 tne
demands for 4 Saturday half-hoday and nine hours
day The effect Monday and there may
he some strikes though majority Of the larger cothiers
have granted the demand.