The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-24
LABOR'S FIGHT FOR PELF.
CHICAGO's CARPENTERS APT TO
BE OUT TWO MONTHS.

Owners of Unfinished Buildings Try
ing to Arrange for a Resumption
Under the New Bosses Electric
Street Railway Hands Want Shorter
Hours, and the Right to Smoke
While on Duty.
CHICAGO, April 23.--The eight-hour
movement is spreading to the women work
ers of the city. The makers Of coats and
vests are preparing for strike in case their
demand for a reduction in their hours OF
labor Is not conceded.
The strike of the brick makers promises
to be short-lived. According to reports
they are going back TO work.
AT the headquarters of the carpenters to-
day, it was said that the strike bids fair to
last q couple of months It's duration, the
strikers think, win depend on the time nec-
essary for the new Boss Carpenters Associa-
tion 20 grow strong enough to employ seven
eights Of the strikers. The new organiza-
tion secured some new additions to-day, and
now claims to be able to give work to over
400 men. The pressure on the striking car
penters by the property owners whose build
ings are unfinished, and who are suffering
loss by the delay, may result in some ar
rangement by which the carpenters coun-
ell will undertake to do the work. IL is
said that the strike has already resulted in
an increase Of rents in the business districts.
Mammoth office buildings which
were to have been completed by
June are now in an indefinite state as to
the date of occupancy. Meanwhile business
nen who expected TO occuny stores or
offices in the new structures find themselves
Obliged to remain In their old quarters, aud
ia many instances at a much larger rent.
The same condition applies to the big apart
ment houses and their prospective tenants.
President Gompers of the Federation of
Labor left for Detroit this morning. He
will deliver an address there tonight.
HARNEssMAKERs WANT AN INCREASE.
The demands Of the harnessmakers for
an increase of 10 per cent. on the present.
rate Of wages, both for day and piece work
and the establishment of a minimum rate
per day for filters aud stitchers hired by the
week, were presented to the manufacturers
to-day.
The gas filters of the city win go out on
a strike next Monday morning to enforce a
demand for an eight-hour day and mimi
mum rate of wages of SO 80 per day. The
employers have decided to discharge all the
gas filters Saturday night.
BATTLE OF THE BRICKMAKERs.
The situation among the strikers in the
fifty odd brickyards ON the north side prac-
tically remains unchanged. In Ave yards
bosses have agreed TO comply with the
demands of the men, and work was resumed
this morning. The trouble appears
to be conferred on the amount Of
brick which the bosses require to
that 1000 bricks instead of 5000, as for
merly, be recognized as days work, and
they further ask an increase Of 50 cents per
day on their wages. The men out are hand
brickmakers, in distinction from machine
brickmakers, who are paid ON different
basis. It is said that the conditions are
favorable to the men, the market be-
made bricks, which are necessary
on some classes of buildings. The bosses
who have not given in say they cannot
afford to accede to the strikers demands
owing to the competition of the machine
brickmakers and they threaten to give up
hand brick manufacture altogether. Police
men are stationed throughout the district,
as the strikers have threatsned violence in
case new men are put in their places.
GoTHAM's BRIcKLAYERs.
New YORK, April -Bricklayers'
Union No. z Of this city appointed a COM
mittee to wait upon the heads of the diff
ferent city departments, and ask the same
pay for city bricklayers as outside men re-
ceive The committee called upon the
park commissioners, at their meeting to-
day, and made demand for "a S4 eight
hOhA Aato AOA WOIhuOut anu % pay lot
Inspectors. Their written demand was
filed. At an informal conference after the
regular meeting the delegation said to the
park board that they asked union rates as
their right. They numbered $500 Ameri--
can voters, and proposed to enforce their
rights at the ballot-box at the next election.
AUSTRIAN woRKMEN RESUME.
VIENNA, April 23.--All the striking work.
men in the Ostran and Karwin districts
With the exception Of 1900 have resumed
work.
The Statthalter Of lower Austria has is
sued notice to the effect that the severest
penalties win be inflicted for May day ex~
ceses.
RAILWAY PoRTERS OUT IN ERIN.
Cork, April 23-The railway porters'
strike is spreading to other towns. The
situation Is serious.
A meeting of the affiliated trades has ap-
proved Mr.. Davitt's telegram, advising all
except the railway strikers to resume work
WANTED TO SMOKE ON DUTY.
OTTUMwA, la, April 23-The conduc-
tors and engineers on the electric street
railway struck to-day for shorter hours
and the privilege Of smoking on duty. Their
places were filed after a short delay.
ST. ETIENNE's MINERS.
PARIS, April 23.-The St. Etienns miners
congress has resolved to demand working
day Of eight hours and uniform wages in
all the collieries; and If these demands are
not complied with, to strike on May day.
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