Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-15
IN THE LABOR WORLD.

The Situation in Chicago Becoming Crit
ical-Another Week Will Throw Out
100000 Men-other Labor Troubles.
CHICAGO, April ia fight to the Bit
ter end commenced between the striking
carpenters and the Carpenters and
Builders association Monday.
The bosses did not attempt last week
to supply the places of the men who
walked out, and the result was that COM
paratively few collisions occurred. but
beginning with Monday morning the
bosses will begin to work with such men
as are at their disposal, and have ar
ranged to guard the men with ample
police protection.
Intimidation.
President Goldie, of the Boss Carpen.
tiers association, said: ave expect the
strikers to attempt intimidation, but the
first man who molests or mterferes in
any way with carpenters at work will
be arrested
At the strikers headquarters, on
Washington street. there Is very little
excitement, but the men are apparently
very comfortable over the situation.
Il see the masters intend putting men
to work, said Secretary Howard. Just
let them import a lot of non-umon men
and attempt TO put them on building
where there are union bricklayers, and
you will see one of the tallest strikes Chi
cago ever had. The brcklayers will
join US If any such attempt is made, and
then there will be fun"
Becoming Critical,
The industrial situation in this city is
fast becoming critical Should the
strike continue another week its effect
will be to throw $50, 600 men out of en-
ployment, as there will be nothing for
bricklayers, hodcarriers, fathers, plas-
terers, painters and the vast army of
laborers who find work in connection
with building operations to do, and they
must all wait for the settlement of the
carpenters strike before they can re-
sumo their operations.
1t needs no argument to show how dis
asterous such condition of affairs is
likely to be. Ii will have a depressing
effect on every branch of trade and in
dustry in the city, and the longer the
strife is continued the worse will the con-
sequences be.
Complete Failure.
The attempted resumption of work by
the master carpenters Monday morning
may be reckoned a complete failure
Very few of the iourneymen who on
Saturday promised to go to work were
on hand, and of these but fewer still had
the haldihood to go to work.
That this is the state of affairs is
affirmed by the strikers and admitted by
the bosses
eve have telephone reports from the
north, south and southwest sides as to
how things stand this morning, and they
all say that work is shut down tighter
than ever" said Secretary Howard, of
the strikers, Monday.
81 had eight men promise me to go to
work this morning. said master car
penter at the Builders Exchange Mon
day, "and only two of them showed up,
and they wouldn't go to work, They
said they were afraid.
In the same building were plumbers
and gastitters and other tradesmen, all
strongly in sympathy with the strikers,
and my two carpenters were afraid of
these men. | offered them police pro
lection but they refused to work under
such circumstances, So instead of hav-
ing eight men at work as | expected,
have none"
Every one of the builders who had APP
peared at the exchange up to II o'clock
had practically the same story to tell.