Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-03
STRIKES AND LABOR GRIEVANCES.
A Split on the Question of Proft-shnring-
Other Disturbances.
nv lelegraph 70 the Dlspatch


Cu1cACo. Nav "A strike of miners
throughout the northern and middle Hill
nOis coal-fcl2s was decided upon after
midnight. The Joint conference Of work
men and mine-owners split irrec0ncllably
upon the question of including dGy-laborers
in the scheme Of protit-sharing, the owners
declaring there was no margin Tor the
laborers. An executive session of four
hours by the wOrkmen's representatives
followed the final adjournment OF the
ioint conference. The decision TO strike
was the result. The Indiana miners and
operators also failed to reach an under
standing, and a strike in that state IS also
not improbable.
IRoN-MoUIDEEs AND OTHER vORKMES OFT.
Chicago, Nav 2.--The signal-men and
the irOn-moulders In most OF the large
manufacturing establishments OF Chicago
went out on strike at o'clock, or rather
declined to 90 to work at the old rates.
Tho fires under the furnaces Of the Mallea-
bic Iron Works were banked this morning,
the seventy-fye moulders there having 1e-
clined TO resume work. They asked for an
oigbt-hour day and uniform rate OF
WAGES. This was refused. sixteen hun
dred men are employed at the Malleable
Iron-Works. and il tho mOulders strike
long continues the entire plant Will be
compelled to shut down. The men simply
declined TO return 10 work this morning,
and pickets were posted about the works
to see that no non-unlOn men went TO
work. At the Mccormick Haryestlng-M
chine Works $50 moulders declined 10 so
to work. All the moulders' helpers are
also out, and the strike threatens TO spread
to the balance Of the employees VI the
works, which employ $500 men. Ihe
moulders also posted pickets az this
place. and any attempt to put non-union
men to work will be met by determined re-
sistance. The strike spread 10 Bowen x
Richardson's establishment, and $50 mould
ers there refused 70 go TO work. All the
moulders at Grifin's iron-foundry also
struck. There were 50 men employed
there. The Illinois Steel Company granted
200 of their moulders eight hours day,
and n strike was ayerted. The moulders
employed at the Deering Reaper Works
and a number of Anarchists struck this
morning. The Iairbank Canning Company
has refused a demand of 800 employees for
the elght-hour day, and a strike will be in
augurated Monday. Eighty coopers struc
this morning. len thousand employees IN
the sash, door, and blind-factories,
planing-mills, and other such like bust
nes-es struck this morning for eight hours.
There are about $500 Of them all told IN
the city, and 1t is understood the remain
inc men will strike tonight unless the'I
demands are complied with.
PLASISG-MILL EMPLOYEES STRIKE.
Later. The strike of this morning coyors
fhe southwest division of the city and the
mills on the North Pier The demand Il
for eight hours work andelght hours' pay;
The move was decided upon last night and
around oil the planing-mills this morning
workmen were collected IN little knots.
The men quit without notifying their en-
ployers, Among all planning mills there
was but one where the men were at work
this morning. and that was at A. Nennets
At A. II. Behps some non-union men were
nj work. Three hundred strikers started
for the place TO "clean ont the establish
ment," as they said. Behl, beeoming
frightened, sent for the police, and pa
troll wagon was sent to the scene OF pro-
spectiye trouble.
Before night the strikers claim every
planing-mil employee in the. city. vii
strike. Theplaning men number all the
way from % 900 TO $4,000 men
STRIKE or CARPENTERS AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 2.-Of the l,2G.
iourneymen carpenters in this city, be
tween 800 and 900 struck to-day for eight
hours and twenty-five cents an hour as I
minimum of wages. Non-unionists ar'
fast Joining the strikers. and by to-mor
row but a handful will be at work. On'
contractor only has signed the Arbitration
Committees agreement and the Builders
Exchange has so far ignored the move
ant