Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-25
In Regard TO the Eight Hour Move.
ment and Its Chances
of Success.
He Says the Working Man is Now
Thoroughly Aroused to
the Situation q
AnL IS Bound to Succeed if it Takes
Lifetime to Accom-
plish It.
The Eight-Hou Movement.

AAAo
CHICAGO, April 21.-''The eight.hour
day is the sole idea now being considered
by the labor world" said Samuel Com
pera, president of the American fedora
ton of labor, this morning. I'm the his
tory of the social and economic move
ments of the world there has not been
one which has received at nee and COM
pletely the same sympathy and support
that has been accorded to the eight-hour
movement. It has covered Europe, and
on May LIST the working people of that
continent will demand the eight-hour
day. The labor organizations of this
country are devoted solely to this one
idea. We think we can do one thing at
a time better than to multiply our
things. To the end of obtaining an eight
hour work day we are concentrating all
our energy, and all our ability, and all
our intelligence. We are doing it with
the least possible injurious results to
business or commerce. We do not want
to stop the wheels of industry; we want
to help them work more smoothly. We
want to remove instead of increase fric-
ton, so we proceed by degrees. We
have singled out the eight-hour day
as the first thing to be attained.
Then we have selected only
one trade for which at first
this improvement must be secured. We
have chosen the carpenters as the first
craft for which to win this benefit. When
the carpenters shall have won we will
demand it for miners and mine laborere.
In this way the entire change of the in
dustrial system to eight hours a day shall
have been accomplished without the least
is no doubt of the success of the move
ment. In the American federation of
labor, to which by common consent the
beginning Of the eight-hour movement is
granted, there are 100000 members. In
the movement besides these there are
more than enough to bring the force up
to 100000. The movement for tho
eight-hour day is on a different basis
now from it's status in 1886. Then we
had al army of enthusiastic raw recruits.
Now we have a force of cool, trained vet
Grams. The movement of 1886 was chao-
tic, disintegrated unsystematic. To-day
it is methodical, organized, prepared. We
will secure the eight-hour day for the
workmen of the world, not if it takes all
summer, but if it takes the rest of our
lives"
THE CARPENTERS STRIKE UNCHANGED.
The labor organizations of Chicago
have appointed a committee to arrange
for a monster eight hour a day process
sion on May 1. They expect to have
seventy thousand men in line. No pro-
gress was made towards a settlement of
the carpenters strike to-day; in fact, set
Element seems further off than ever. It
was understood that as soon as
the new master carpenters association
should become strong enough to give
employment to 1000 men, that work by
that number would be resumed. The
leaders Of the strikers now say they
talked with the new organization as q
matter of courtesy, but that in no event
will any of the strikers be allowed to re-
turn to work until bosses representing
seven eighths of the employing capacity
of the city have given in and recognized
the union. It is not probable this will
be done The citizens committee
which was appointed to bring about a
settlement of the trouble, was to have
met a committee of the employing car
penters for the purpose of talking over
the matter this afternoon, but their con.
ference was given up under circumstan-
ces which point to a failure to effect any,
thing in that direction. Seven of the
dissatisfied employees of the u. S. express
company rendered their designations to-
day.