New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-05-14
THE STRIKE ENDED.
Chicago Carpenters and New
Bosses Settle the Last Detail
of Arbitration.
Eight Hours to Constitute a
Days Work With a Com
promise on Wages.

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CHICAGO, Special.-The great carpenters
strike is finally settled. The necessary pa
peTs were signed to-day and ratified by
both sides concerned in the arbitration. A
last report will be made tomorrow to
the judicial umpires and Thursday morn
Ing scores of buildings that for four
weeks have been practically deserted, will
echo with the sounds of hammer and saw
in the hands Of fully 4 900 journeymen car
penters. The two arbitration committees
of the new boss carpenters associa-
] ton and the strikers met tonight at
the Grand Pacific hotel with Judges
briggs, Mcconnell and Tuley, and after a
session of three hours length settled the
last detail. The iourneymen achieved an
almost sweeping victory. They made con-
cessions on but two points, and every
iourneyman carpenter throughout the
city was jubilant tonight over the
result The only Disappointment was that
the stubbornpess of the old association has
left its members wholly out of the final deal.
The official statement of the terms of settle
meht will not be issued by. the two par
ties to the arbitration till tomorrow, but it
lis reliably stated that the document signed
in the presence of the three judges provides
eight hours shall constitute days work,
to begin at A. NJ. and end at P. NJ. The
noon hour may be curtailed
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
between the foreman and the majority of
the worAinen, but not in such way as to
- nit more than eight hours work be-
zen the hours named. Over time shall
ly be allowed between certain stipulated
ursi at night. The minimum rate of
ges has been fixed at 35 cents an hour up
Aug. and thereafter at 371 cents an
III. Over time is to be rated at time and
lalf, and Sunday time as double time
the matter of apprentices conces-
ms were made by both parties. The
lployers agree to employ only union
en-, even for foremen required to work
th'non-union men. Nearly all the work
;who went out on strike along the .black
ADJ Friday returned to work to-day, the
ost Of them under the conditions against
hch they rebelled. At the Mccormick
orks the full force reported for duty. AT the
shops Of Wells, French & Co., two
irds Of the LOO employees returned to
)rk at the former rate of wages and hours
labor, but it is understood that an ar
,gemeht will be entered into upon the re-
oe one of the officers of the company
in Europe The employees Of the
BILE iron works are still out, but
:pect to effect settlement with the
ny in day or two. The condition
itrike amp the strikers in relation to
;ht-hour movement in the planning
istrict seems to be somewhat con-
AM, taken as whole the strike
be put down os a failure. At some of
mills the men
HAVE RETURNED TO WORK
the old ten-hour basis, at others the
.t-hour day with ten hours wages has
conceded pending further negotiations,
eat still other shops the eight hourhas
adopted by the proprietors ard eight
s'pay has been accepted by the men.
ae.stock yards there was not sugges-
of a strike to-day one large packing
,estarting up after an idleness of some
!, and 500 more men seeking employ
this" 1uld be cared for The recent
lie WhiteWashers in securing rec
,on fol- their union, better pay and
lorter hours, has caused the Inauguration
ia similar movement by the colored wait
Is. As a preliminary the forty men at
Srockway's restaurant struch tonight on
'eiAg refused their demands The strikers
mt close by and. were persuading
The walters there to go out when the
roprietors promised to grant whatever the
trikers obtained The milan walters con-
luded to let the Brockway men
. the fighting. Trouble in 9th
establishments is looked for. Sew
meetings of sash, door and
tory employees were held to-day
lrpose of effecting an organization.
derstood that the movement is
! the carpenters, who, it is said,
eed to set no work turned out by
licn refuse to concede the eight
- At one or two mills, the men
went to work this morning, knocked
- when notified Of the new movement.
EIGHT HOURS GRANTED.
New York, Special.-The carpenters of
This city, as body. did not have to strike
to-day to enforce their demands for eight
hours as a days work At tie carpenters
meeting hall to-day it was stated that
200 bosses had granted the demand and that
only thirty-fye had refused. In the latter
splaces the mem had struck, but it is ex-
s9ected thataii the difficulties will be set
ssd within week. The house smiths did
nc Sc on strike, their demands having
been complied with The latest returns
from the strikers headquarters show that
only 122 men are out of work Only forty
shops are holding out.
oITTsBURG. Special.-The Jeanette, Pa,
oenters. about two hundred in number
,have been striking for eight hours,
e been granted their demands.
ENGLISHMEN AMAZED.
Il Marvellous Manner in Which Amer
j lea is Becoming Settled.
LONDON, Special. The statement that only