The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-03
THEIR NUMBERS AUGMENTED.
Thousands of Men Inaugurate the Threat
ened Strikes in Chicago.

CHICAGO Ill, May 2-The threatened
strikes in this city which may be said to
have begun On yesterday when organized
labor took its holiday, were made this
morning when the men failed to resume
work at many shops The Black road i'll
the vicinity of the Mccormick reaper
works had much the same appearance tins
morning as it had four years ago today.
None but strikers could be seen and they
had entire possession. Every man, boy
and girl EMPLOYED in the malleable iron
works, corner Twenty-siXth and Rockwell
streets, is out. The total number of en-
ployes is 1900. AT the great Nc
Cormick reaper works about fifty mOulders
went out, but work was progressing
as usual One hundred and fifty men in
the fOundries of BarnUm q Richardson and
q like number in that of the Ajax Forge
company went out and these concerns are
closed. AT the Chicago Car Wheel foun-
dry and the Wells and French car shops,
every one of the I 600 employees went out
and the shops were closed. At Zebeer's it
was said that the men seemed anxious for
either strike or a vacation, so the works
has been shut down till Monday next, to
accommodate them and to make repairs.
Over one hundred men are idle here.
Nearly all the molders at the Chicago Car
Wheel cOmpany'S foundry are out.
The demands of the men in all the strikes
mentioned above were not made known to
the employers. The men struck without
notifying the employers or making any
demands on them. Their object, however,
is TO attain the eight hour day. The en-
tire number of employees of the \. X. Fair
bank company about $50 will 90 out Mon
day The cooper, numbering thirty struck,
his morning. They want eight hours
work and nine hours pay. The cOopers
are earnest in their demand for eight
hours and in all portions of the city the
men are quitting work on d refusal of the
employers to surrender. From three to four
thousand sash, door and blind men walked
out of the various factories in the south
west lumber districts this morning. The
action was apparently without warning
= rumor that the planning mill men
would quit tomorrow morning IS not
traced TO any reliable source. 1t was also
said that all wood workers in whatever
in whrtever branCe of the business were
restless and might join in the strike at ady
moment. Everything remains quiet, not
withStanding the large number of men
idle and the police say they do not antiCi-
pate any disturbance. -Four hundred men
in Deman q Hurka's furniture factory
struck for eight hours this morning and 100
employees of the Chicago Cottage factory
did the same for a like cause. Several
thousand lumber showers in the lumber
district along the Black road are diSSatis-
fled and a strike is anticipated among
them.
The board of arbitration chosen to settle
the difference between the striking carpen-
ters and the new bosses association has
been in secret session all day, and it is I'M
derstOod they have made satisfactory
progress. 1t was announced late this
afternoon that eight hours as a days work
had been agreed on. At the first session
today the letter from the old bosses asSO-
citation was read. 1t claimed that the asSO-
fsiaripr, prnrnlpNpd n ipritKr pf bp
ters of the city and that ineffective settle
ment can be made without the assent of
its secretary. 1t further says the MEM
bers of the association are ready TO CON
cede the eight hours and to treat with
their men as to wages and they
decline TO submit to arbitration or the
proposition TO recognize the union to the
extent of preventing themselves from
hiring or diScharging whatever men they
may choose to employ or discharge.