The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-08
THE STRIKE ENDED.
Chicago Carpenters and New
Bosses Settle the Last Detail
of Arbitration.
Eight Hours to Constitute a
Days Work With a Com
promise on Wages.

CHICAGO Special.-The great carpenters
strike is finally settled. The necessary pa
pers were signed to-day and ratified by
both sides concerned in the arbitration. A
last report will be made tomorrow to
the judicial umpires and Thursday morn
ing scores of buildings that for four
weeks have been practically deserted, will
echo with the sounds of hammer and saw
in the hands of fully 1000 journeymen car
penters. The two arbitration committees
of the new boss carpenters associa-
ton and the strikers met tonight at
the Grand Pacific hotel, with Judges
briggs, Mcconnell and Tuley and after a
session of three hours length settled the
last detail. The iourneymen achieved an
almost sweeping victory. They made con-
ce3sions on but two points, and every
iourneyman carpenter throughout the
city was jubilant tonight over the
result. The only disappointment was that
the stubbornness of the old association has
left its members wholly out of the final deal.
The official statement of the terms of settle
ment will not be issued by the two par
ties to the arbitration till tomorrow, but it
is reliably stated that the document signed
in the presence of the three judges provides
eight hours shall constitute days work,
to begin at 8 A. NJ. and end at P. NJ. The
noon hour may be curtailed
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
between the foreman and the ma ajOrity Of
the workmen, but not in such a way as to
permit more than eight hours work be-
tween the hours named Over time shall
only be allowed between certain stipulated
hours at night. The minimum rate of
wages has been fixed at 35 cents an hour up
to Aug. and thereafter at 374 cents an
hour. Over time is to be rated at time and
a half and Sunday time as double time.
In the matter of apprentices conces-
sions were made by both parties. The
employers agree to employ only union
men, even for foremen required to work
with non union men. Nearly all the work
ers who went out on strike along the black
road Friday returned to work to day, the
most of them under the conditions against
which they rcbelled. At the Mccormick
works the full orcereported for duty. Att
car shops of Wells, French & Co., two
thirds of the LOO employees returned to
work at the former rate of wages and hours
of labor, but it is understood that all ar
rangement will be entered into upon the re-
turn of one of the officers of the company
who is in Europe. The employees of the
malleable iron works are still out but
they expect to effect a settlement with the
company in day or two. The condition
of the strike amp the strikers i'll relation to
the eight-hour movement in the planning
mill district seems to be somewhat con-
fused, and, taken as a whole, the strike
may be put down 9s failure. AT some of
the mills the men
HAVE RETURNED TO WORK
on the old ten-hour baS's. a. others the
eight-hour day with ten hours wages has
been conceded pending further negotiations,
while at still other shops the eight hour has
been adopted by the proprietors ard eight
hours pay has been accepted by the men.
At the stock yards there was not O sugges-
ton of a strike to-day, one large packing
house starting up after an idleness of some
days. and 500 more men seeking employ
ment than could be cared for The recent
success of the whitewashers in securing rec
milton fol their union, better pay and
shorter hours, has caused the Inauguration
OF similar movement by the colored wait
ers. AS a preliminary the forty men at
Brockway's restaurant struch tonight on
being refused their demands. The strikers
went in a body to Milan's restaur-
ant close by and were persuading
The walters there to go out when the
proprietors promised to grant whatever the
strikers obtained. The milan walters con-
cluded to Jet the Brockway men
do the fighting. Trouble in 9TH
er establishments is looked for. Sew
eral meetings of sash, door and
blind factory employees were held to-day
for the purpose of effecting an organization
1t is understood that the movement is
backed by the carpenters, who, it is said
| have agreed to set no work turned out by
mills which refuse to concede the eight.
who wentto work this morning, knocked
off when notified Of the new movement.
EIGHT HOURS GRANTED.
New YORK, Special.-The carpenters o
| this city, as a body did not have to strike
| to-day to enforce their demands for eigh
| hours as days work. At the carpenters
meeting hall to-day it was stated tha
200 bosses had granted the demand and tina
only thirty-tve had refused. In the latte
places the men had struck, but it is ex
pected that all the difficulties will be set
tied within week. The house smiths die
been complied with. The latest return
-gFoGf the stTiik ers1headquafters show tina
only 122 men are out OF work. Sy. fort!
shops are holding out.
| PITTsBURG Special.-The Jeanette, Pa.
carpenters about two hundred in number
| who have been striking for eight hours
| hate been granted their demands.