The morning call., 1890-05-03
A Serious Outbreak Threatened
at TourcOing.
4 Government Printing House al BARGE
Iona Taken by a Mob.
GladstOne's Letter Of AdYlee-Many Labor
Ing Men at Chicago Quit WOrk-The
Lumber District Deserted.
Special by the California Associated Press

PARIS, May "A dispatch from Tour
coing an extensive manufacturing town in
the Department of the North, states that
serious trouble has broken out there.
The hands employed in twenty-six mills
went on strike this morning, and great
crowds gathered about the streets. These
strikers were soon augmented by 5000
strikers from Roubaix, another manu-
featuring town. Soon after this all the
hands began to show an ugly feeling, which
eliminated in serious roting, which was
progressing at noon.
A dispatch from Tourcoing this evening
says that 10000 strikers are parading the
streets and committing every species of
excess. The cavalry charged upon and dis
persed number of groups and made
twenty arrests.
MOBS AT BARCELONA.
BARCELONA, May "A mob Of strikers
set fire to a tool-hut to-day. The guard
charged the mob, and two of the strik ers
were injured. Several shots we're fired.
Another group of strikers attacked a
printing office IN which siege proclama-
tions were being printed, and put stop to
have the prOclamatiOns printed elsewhere,
under military protection.
GLADsToNE'S ADVICE.
LONDON, May 2-Gladstone has written
a letter TO Lloyd's News for Sunday, in
which he exhorts the working classes to
consider closely their present condition.
He says: There may come time when
labor will prove too strong for capital and
may use its strength unjustly, but capital
Will surely hold its own" In conclusion
he expresses wish to see labor and art
allied, with view to alleviating and adorn-
ing the life Of man.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, May From 5000 to 1000 sash,
door and blind men walked out of various
factories in the southwest lumber district
this morning. Their action was apparently
without warning. The men started to work
when the whistles blew, but an hour later
walked out, giving no explanation but that
they want eight hours i day work.
The strike IS likely to spread TO all the
wood-workers in the city, numbering 1000
men.
1t is reported that 500 men in the sash,
door and blind factory of the Palmer IL
Fuller Company are out on strike; also
800 men at the Hinsey & Loss factory.
Every man, boy and girl at work in the
malleable iron works struck this morning,
numbering 1900, without stating their griev-
ances. Fifty core girls also Joined the
strikers. The entire number of employees
OF \. h. Fairbank u Co., about $50. will go
out Monday.
struck this morning This will be followed
by all the coopers in town. Two hundred
men at Ryan's shop also quit this morning.
The men in Wills & French's foundry,
numbering 1000. struck at noon.
Everything is quiet. The men simply
stopped work, and the police have had
nothing to do so far.
1t is rumored that President Goldie of the
old Boss Carpenters and Builders Asso-
citation has rendered his resignation and
that the association will now send a dele
gate to the Arbitration Committee and that
the strike Of carpenters will soon be over.
The Board Of Arbitration appointed to
settle the carpenters strike between the
new bosses association ana the strikers
commenced its labor to-day, with Judge
Tuley presiding.
The striking molders having been granted
some concessions by the bosses will return
to work IN the morning. The basis of set
tlement is kept secret, but il is believed
that the men get their hours of labor re-
duced from fourteen to ten.
Representatives of the Culinary Alliance
have waited upon the managers of the res
taurants where union men are employed
and notified the managers unless certain
demands are complied with they will quit
work Monday.
Everything was quiet at the stock-yards
to-day and the hundreds Of special police had
nothing to do but lounge around the en-
frances.
INDIANA's CoAL-MINERs.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 2.-There is great
uncertainty IN Indiana coalmining circles
The Green County miners demand IS cents
yearly rate and the operators will offer but
~ cents. The EN- ployes of the Island City
mines are all out. The block and bitumi-
nous mlners.In Clay County are all out, but
VIII be governed by the result of the Chi
cago conference.
MILWAUKEE.
MILWAUKEE, May 2.-The strike which
II was thought might occur to-day did not
materlalZe, and the change from the ten
hour system TO the eight-hour was effected
ever.
LOUISVILLE,
LOUISVILLE, May about 1000 carpen-
ters went out on strike here this morning.
They demand eight hours work About
twenty bosses have conceded their de-
nand. The others will make fight.
PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2.-The strike situ-
alton is quiet. Sixty-two bosses have ac-
ceded to the mems demands. A number of
non-unlon men who went out proceeded to
organize and Joined the union men.
DETROIT.
DETROIT, May 2.-The carpenters strike
situation here to-day is unchanged, save
that lew small contractors have conceded
eight hours day and the scale Of wages de-
manded by the strikers.
ELMIRA.
ELMIRA, May 2.-Five hundred miners in
the Blossburg Coal Company's mines at
Arriot. Pa, struck to-day for higher wages.
There was no disturbance.
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