The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-07
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.


carpenters of Baltimore are on strike
for eight hours work and pay. The
bosses are ready to concede ten hours
wages for nine hours labor.
The pg0pTietors of all the planning
mills at Evansville, Indiana, have
agreed to open their doors this morn
| ing 10 employees AT sight hours work
period peri dR"'' VI ''''' ''f ~ i'''iii''
All departments of Brown 81 Co. s
iron and steel works at Pittsburg, Pa,
except the steel mill, are closed, the
laborers and engineers having struck
for an advance of 10 per cent in wages.
About 300 men are affected.
All the quarrymen employed by the
Utica Hydraulic Cement Company at
Ottawa, ILL.,, struck for an increase of
wages. They are now receiving 81 rs
and they. demand $1.50 per day. No
violence by the men is likely to occur.
The fires in the O'Hara glass works
at Pittsburg, Pa, were drawn and the
factory closed down indefinitely on ac-
count of wages differences between the
firm and some of their employees. Over
three hundred men will be thrown out
of employment.
The mine operators in the Mahoning
Valley refused to give the miners an
OF mining, and it is probable general
strike will shortly be inaugurated. This
advance was demanded at mass con-
vention Of miners Saturday.
1t is said that the Pennsylvania Coal
company will not accede to the de-
mands of it's miners for eight hours as
days work. If the Pennsylvania
company refuses, the Reading COM
pany, which is favorable to the eight
hour system, will not grant the de-
mand.
The brakemen on the western divis-
ion of the Union Pacific road have
struck against the new schedule of
wages. -Four thousand men connected
with the building trades in Boston fail
ed to resume work yesterday. About
two thousand men are out in st. Louis,
and like number of furniture makers
in Louisville. A mob of strikers at
Milwaukee made a raid on Allis' ma
chine-shOp, and was repulsed with wa
ter from huge hose.
Every planning mill of importance in
Milwaukee shut down Friday in conse-
quence of demands by workmen. The
men recently organized an assembly of
knights of Labor with membership
of about five hundred, and their de-
mands for eight hours work at the
present ten-hOur wages were rejected
by the proprietors. A strike was order
ed and every mill is shut down and will
stay so until the men accept what the
prOprietors claim to be more reason
able terms. In addition to the Knights
of Labor several hundred other work
men at the mills are thrown out of
work by the shutdown.
The strike on the Gould system of
railways has been declared Mt an end
by the executive board of knights of
Labor, and every striker is requested
| to apply for unemployment. The
strikers appear anxious to return to
work on any terms, and there are more
applications for places than can be con-
sidered. The railroads still hold out
| firmly in their determination not to
employ those who have taken promi-
nent part in the strike, and will not
discharge any "scabs" to make room
for old employees. The result will be
that hundreds of the strikers will have
to seek work at other points. Their
disposition tofight seems to have died
out completely, and desire TO get en-
ployment has taken its place
The republicans of Oregon have
nominated Thomas II. Cornelius fol
governor.
The total imports of general mer-
chandise at New York during the last