Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-21
THE LABOR WORLD.
ARMOUR NOT TO CONCEDE slGH
HOURS WORK.
Boxmakers Suppliant-An Unchanged Sit
uation Among the Metal Workers
The Bomb Thrower Identified
Boston Builders will not Yield.

CHICAGO, May 1S.-Concerning the at
tempts of Armour & Co. to run their
packing house on the eight hour plan p.
d. Armour says I'VE have yielded to
the men for the sake of the experiment,
but its fallacy rs business measure has
been thoroughly proved 1t would be
suicidal for us to continue under the eight
hour system, and we shall abandon it at
the end of this week. Our men must be-
gin work on ten hour basis next Monday
morning"
But supposng they refuse, what
then ~ "Well, it will be time enough to
cross the bridge when we come to it.
For the present, can only say that our
houses in Kansas City and Milwaukee,
which are conducted under the ten hour
rule, will have to do our entire business
if we are prevented from continuing
here"
The boXmakers made an effort yester-
day to adjust their differences with the
employers by proposing to return to work
at eight hours per day, and eight hours
pay. The manufacturers refuse to accept
the terms.
The situation among the metal workers
remains practically the same, and there is
very little prospect of u settlement with
the bosses. The moulders, who have
strong organization, are very obstinate
and will not return to work unless their
terms are conceded 1t is estimated that
about 1000 metal workers, including the
moulders, are engaged in the strike. AT
the Crane Brothers Manufacturing COM
pany fully 600 more of the Old men ap-
piled for work yesterday morning, includ
ing all the iron mOulderS. The moulders
have made II special arrangement with
the firm and agreed to work 50 hours a
week till June IA, and after that time 80
hours.
The great factories of the Adams &
Westlake company, the Chicago Nckle
Plating company and the Union Brass
manufacturing company were started up
yesterday morning. The ten-hour system
with the old scale of wages is still adj
hered to.
Chicago Anarchist Leaders Identified as
Bomb throwing Plotters.
CHICAGO, May lS.-Malvin NJ. Thomp-
son, young grocer living at No. 1876
South Green street, who was present at
the Haymarket meeting on the night of
May 4, says he overheard August Spies,
Schwab and a third man, whom he did not
know at the time, consulting about the
number of dynamite bombs to be thrown
into the ranks of the police. The three
men were standing in the alley leading
from the east side of Desplaines street
only a few feet from the wagon on which
the speakers stood. Thompson overheard
Spies say: "Will one be enough Had
we not better send for more ~ He could
not catch the reply, but Immediately after
ward Schwab and the third man went
away together, evidently to procure some
thing Thompson has identified Adolph
Fischer of the Arbeiter Zeitung force as
the third party who was consulting with
Spies and Schwab. The fact that Fischer
and Schwab Immediately left together and
were seen later in the evening standing
near the spot from which the fatal bomb
was thrown, gives good ground for the
belief that both these fellows know more
about the identity of the bomb-throwei
than they care to reveal.
VIII Bend to no Labor Society.
BOSTON, May 1S.-the master builders
have issued another circular in which
they maintain their original position of re
fusing to arbitrate with the carpenters
union as Il body. Norcross Brothers who
were reported as having yielded to tn,
strikers demands for eight hours, pub
lish a card tonight saying that they in
structed their foreman to make the bes
price possible with the men, but they
could not and would not sign any agree
ment with any society.