Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-10
LAB0R'S GREAT DAY.
The EightHour Demonstration in
America and Europe.
A Great Parade in Chicago antl n Small
Meeting tn New Yorls-Somh Bosses
Yield Less Work, More Pay.

A Grcnt Parade iIi Chicago ami n Small
Meeting ia New Yorl-somh Bosses
Yield Loss Work, More Pay.
The first of Mny was q memorable day in
labor circles throughout the United States,
Europe aud Canada. The fears. of trouble in
the large cities of Europe were not realized
excepting at Pesth and Paris where riotous de-
monstrations at the rolling mills were soon
quelled by the troops and the police. The
large military end police forces massed OF Ber-
lin, Vienna, Paris, and the other centerg on the
Continent had nothing to do. In London the
procession of worllingmen wasnot halfso large
as expected.
Nearly n million men are on strike in Aus
tria and Hungary. :,
There was partial stoppage of work;in all
the cities Of Italy.
In Paris troops Of cavalry cleared the streets
of crowds of excited worF;ingmen.
At Chareroi thirty thousand men marched
the street singing the Marseillaise.
Twenty thousand Socia lists attended meet
ing in the interest OF IL normal work day ut
Copenhagen.
In Lisbon there was Issued n workingmcu' 8
manifesto declaring for eight hours.
There was procession in Berlin, but the
paraders were orderly, and quiet prevailed
throughout Germany.
In Ottawa, Canada, fifteen hundred men in
the building trades struck for nine hours with
ten honrs pay.
Throughout the United States the agitation
was confined principally the building trades,
the carpenters leading the list. In New Eng.
land the stonccutters and quarrymen united
with the building trades. The carpenters move
ment for eight hours was general i'll the large
-. Rul
more, Cincinnati and several other other
places.
4 mass meeting ofworkingmcn was held in
Union Square, New York, al night.
Three thousand carpenters i'll Philadelphia
struck, and by noon Il number oil the bosses
had conceded.
Eighteen hundred carpenters went out on
strike in Boston, and two thousand in Detroit.
In The latter city some Of the bosses conceded.
Ten thousand men parallel in Louisville,
Ky, and President Gompers, Of the Fedora
ton of Labor, made an address TO them.
The biggest demonstration III any American
city was Chicago. where over 10000 men were
in the procession carrying banners inscribed
for eight hours.
The Milwaukee carpenters did notmect with
much opposition from the bosses, because they
only asked eight hours pay for eight hours
work.
AT .Johnstown, Pa, the carpenters, brick
layers and Stonemasonsc came out Tor ulne hours
and an increase in wages.
Kansas City beim. Il non-union town, there
WAS 10 agitation Of the cight-hour question.
The packing-house employees are trying to or
ganizc, but so far with little success.
All the stonecutters at Montpelier, VT,
struck, as did also the granitecutters of New
London, ct.
AT Lancaster, Pa only one firm of boss car
penters refused the union demands, and the
hod-cnrricrs received an advance in wages.
At Taunton, Mass, all the boss masons but
one granted nine hours work and ten hours
pay.
The shoe and leather workers Of New Eng
land, though still agitating the eight-hour ques-
ton, have made no formal demand.
The brewery employees Of Toledo, Ohio, OBJ.
taimed reduction III the hours Of labor.
The quarrymcn and drillcrs, at Westerly, R.
J., went ont.
In Cincinnati five hundred molders were
the only men OH 4 strike.
The caryers at The chair manufactures i'll
Grand Rapids, Mich went out for eight hours.
In Hayerhill, Mass, the master carpenters
signed the agreement granting nine hours rs L
days work. ut the old pay OF S15 per week.
Two hundred sash, door and blind makers
of Rochester, ~ y, struck for nine hours
without reduced pay, and ten factories are idle.
The reduction jn wages of the United States
Expressmen was enforced.
The boss bakers of Buffalo, \. Y, granted
the len hours demand Of the men.
The German printers was the only tradeth
made demands in Pittsburg; all the building
trades had made their scale nine hours, and
the bosses promptly accepted. The timers re-
ceiyed an advance Of twenty-five cents II day.