Telegram-herald., 1890-05-02
BREWERS STRIKE
Ffty- Seven Brewery Employees
VIII Quit Work.
FEVER HOURS Or INCREASE WAGES
xhs Carsers SIN oat-Msaafastarsrs
s.y TheF Have NJ Ssties or latina
slsA That ths OthsJ Msa VIII
strlks-ssuas Interviews

lne brewers are working ten hours q
day and putting In about two hours
every sunday besides. They begin At 5
oelock n the morning and quit al 5
O'Clock n the eyeping with an hour for
breakfast and an hour for dinner.
They want fewer hours Of work or an
increase OF wages. They are willing 70
iei tle week day hours stand as they
are duung the summer season, but for
tAc winter season. beginning October l.,
alI ending May /, they ask that the
hours be changed 20. from . o'clock IN
tAo morning % Cat night instead OF 5.
They also want double pay for the
work tney DO on Sundays and more
wages per week.
No satisfactory conclusion was
reached, The lourneymen brewers
merely submitted tne.r proposition and
10 W4s scusscd at some length. The
manufacturers would not accept the
proposition, and no compromise was
offered. The brewers walked out with
out announcing what they would DO IN
IT, matter.
Ado.ph Goetz, Of the National Brew
cry, sad 90 the TELEGRAsl-HEEALD: 4
don't know what the result of the
meeting will be. The bosses refused to
accede to the demands OF the brewers.
aud the latter went out. / suppose
there WILL be strike. although they
may 20 back % work. | can tell you
nothing more until tomorrow except
that We cannot accede % their demand
q a.
% our business, and We propose TO
stand firm"
A meeting OF the Brewers Union was
held last evening at Central Labor
JmOn hall. After tie meeting Presl-
dent Fred. schmidt said 10 a IELEGRAa-
Herald reporter. "We Will not 20 to
work tomorrow unless they Will give US
regular hours and more pay. We are
often made 20 work after hours and
often on sunday 50 that we do not
know when our time IS our own. When
We work Sunday We want double paw
Fitty-seyen brewers belong to the
UNION"
As To THE cARvERs' STRIKE,
Elias Matter, of Nelson, Matter &
Co.. said 10 4 TELEGRAM-HERALD man
last evening: There seems TO be no
danger Of a strike among any class of
the furniture workers except the cary
crs. They are all watca n the result
OF tnc STRIKE that 5 nov on. Since the
trouble amOi z the carverS IN our fac
tory the mon as work have made more
money than they ever did before. The
union men walked out because some of
tnclr number signed time contracts.
The signers We're expelled from the
union, and as they were allowed to
work IN the factory the union men were
ordered out. our best caryerS are now
making e2S 4 week on an average, and
some make q high as S32 per week. l
believe IN unions, tor / consider that
the working men rs a class are Op-
pressed by their employers. The Carv-
ers have about as little reason TO COM
PLAIN rs any, "a their wages are scaled
AZ $3.50 a day, ami that Is not very
bad"
81 am in favor Of the adoption of 4
nino-nOur system, but 10 must be gener-
ally adopted IN some one trade in order
o. be maintained. No one factory can
afford 90 pay ten hours wages for nine
hours work when Its competitors are
getting more work for the same money.
The national convention OF furniture
manufacturers VIII meet N Chicago IN
june and. believe, that Il the furul-
ture workers all over the country VIII
make a concerted effort. aud VII lay
before ttat body petition for tine ad0p-
t'ou 0f the uDe-hour system, 10 VIII be
generally adopted among furniture men.
Nuen one particular trade has adopted
the system throughout the country.
then the system VIII spread 10 other
H.aa . rF.t.a Hrrr
Uii adopt C, they can Iu q short time
THF Gem hours wages Tor nine hours
work.
'l shall bc very glad 90 sse % settled
bus if cag not no done all at Ouce.'
Another gentleman vino .s connected
vIth wel-suowl and ertsrpris.ug
taruluv saI. "0f . emn0Ves tuo
c1rrrrs should be the iast % 90 ON a
susc. Their work IS pleasant, and
larger wages dre paint for Carvcrs i1
t1.s Cfv tnIu ln any other city u The
country. Iu Cincinnati they only Iu 4
Sand S17o per daT. while in t1is CITY
fhe WAGES are from g. 90 $50 We
have bad no notice shat any other 0t
cur men viii leave. and they have
made no demands. Therefore. wc
have no reason 90 believe that any 0i
the other workers viii take part IN tie
strike
"Is 10 50 that you manufactures
blame WddicOmb for the existing
state of affairs
CT think he e 70 blame - a certain
extent. We can not give The carvers nine
nours. unless " give the rest Of our
erupioves the same hours lf We should
zivs Al the men one hour out ct thC
Ten. it would decrease our output one
TENN. Instead Of decreasing 0ur ont
put. Ne want - increase 10. But mi
order - keep up even our present out
Pit. with toe men working only rlnr
hours it would necesstate the eniarv
lng ot our plant, whIch would cost us q
large snOuut I can nOt sce wa
TessOn the csrvers have for str KING.
= President Joseph piiion of the Carv
sr's union sald. ftTn al the IsrEe cities
the csrvers are work az only 3 1ht and
pine hours, vhile the average pav
better than here. TIE bosses here NAY
have had applications for work from
cSTveTs from other cities. varv. very
fs~ z anv of che men viii row c0ne
for a. the large cItes have been wlre Z
srd union men notified n cur ur,ou
= al weak - our employers seem tC
tfiuk 70 - quite ur-e we f1ur3 e 0ut
Anvhcw. " are rr0vrsonef for three
months and propose to see tne thn-
through. We only Ask nre hos~s ray
frr nins kcurs v0rE. request that
night he granted without q fEcuitv a ~
Fl Ne % not eet e. wf rcf - cui
fsalt. The report thGt err cr l-
Ests that none u lBe members shaL re