Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-28
TOLLS WAR CRY RINGS
All Along the Line Labor's Legions
Marshal.
DISASTER AT STAUNTON TODAY
A Train Running at the Rate of
Eighty Miles an Hour.
ONE KILLED AND MANY BADLY HURT.
THE TOMER'S BATTLE.
chicago Employers Demanding Protec-
tion From the City.

tiou FROM the S1ty.
CHICAGO. April 2S-The members OF the
Master Carpenters and Builders Association
will today present to Mayor Cregier a written
demand for police protection. They declare that
If this is not granted they cannot employ the
non-union men who stand ready 20 go TO work
and will make an appeal to Gov. Fifer within
day or two. since they claim that there are
more non-unlon men in the CITY than would
suffice for them to finish the contracts that
have been delayed for the last three weeks and
on which they would probably suffer heavy loss
by forfeits shonld deal be made between the
strikers and the new association.
STATISTICS.
The Times prints advance sheets from the
city's official compilation of the number of
wage-earners. male and female. in the old
wards of the city at the present time The
statistics were secured for the light thev cast
ON the anticipated labor troubles predicted Tor
! May l. The Times saws: "A mere glance At
the tables viii! suffice TO show the extravaganza
OF the scare-head announcements made by
some of the local newspapers The tables
include all who would be likely to inaugurate
an eight-hour movement. The gross number
Is shown to be 304, 704. OF these 46 2SI are
women, who, by common assent. are wholly
without organization and not meditating a
strike. According to the reports that have
been circulated fully one-half of the remaining
25S, 423 will go out May /. When it is remem-
Dered that the cigar makers the paper hangers.
the stone masons, the brick layers. the
plumbers, the piasterers now have AN eight
hour day; when il is further remembered that
all employees of the carrying trade. all clerks
wholesale and retail, all bakers. brewers tam
ners. all professional men, all bank, broker
and real estate employes-in short all except
the few crafts that have pushed themselves TO
public notice in the projected movement have
no intention of striking. the extravaganza of
the reports alluded TO becomes apparent tits
thought that actual figures will furnish but few
OF the 100000 or 10000 strikers expected by
labor agitators.
STOCK YARDS MEN.
1t is now practically certain that the enl-
ployes of the Union stock yards will go on
strike to the number of about 40 600 Nav 1.
1t has heen arranged by the men
to go out Thursday morning unless
the packers sound the whistles for commenc-
ing and quitting work at s.m. and $50 y. m.
on Wednesday. thus indicating their acceptance
of the eight-hour day and the other terms de-
manded The employers are a unit in refus-
ing. They have filled up their cooling houses
IN New York. Baltimore and Boston with fresh
beef
SoN-USIoS MEN POURING IL.
The lines laid down by both sides in the car
penters' strike are well defined and both sides
began the struggle this morning. Non-union
men. In numbers larger than even the strikers
care to admit, are pouring into Chicago
and it is believed that the master
carpenters, anticipating the fruitless confer
ence of Saturday, had agents in other cities
securing all the non-union carpenters they
could lind. The strikers are vigilant however
and this morning captured large number of
non-union men and induced them TO refnse TO
go to work. boss carpenter named Smythe
attempted to put some non-union men at work
on building on North avenue. but the strikers
drove the men away. Chief Marsh saws that
non-union men will be protected in their work
If II takes the entire police force In the mean
time the boss carpenters association and car
penters council are making arrangements TO
put 900 carpenters at work
A teamster Iii the employ of one of the
largest contractors in Chicago was hanlinc
some carpenters tools this morning when his
team was stopped by gang of strikers The
horses were cut from the wagon and the team
ster dragged to the ground and given a severe
beating. The strikers then cut the harness to
pieces and wrecked the wagon.
IN BOSTON,
BosToN, April 28.-This morning the Globe
publishes article showing the situation in
New England regarding the labor demonstra-
ton to take place May l. Ii SAYS that Boston
and worcester Will be he main battle grounds
be for working day of eight hours. The
greater part of the three thousand carpenters
employed in Boston win strike for eight hours
but they make no demand for an increase in
the hour rate of wages. They believe that a
decrease in hours will cause an increase i'm
wages according to the law of supply and de-
mand The carpenters are so well organized
all through New England and even the Cana
dian provinces that there is little fear of out
side carpenters coming here 10 take their
places.
1t is said that in Worcester the painters.
plum bers and skaters will ask for nine hours.
with the same pay they now get for ten hours
work.
EMPLOYERS WHO AcoU1EscE.
Norcross Bros. and Darling Bros have an
nounced that they will adopt nine hours May
for carpenters. their mill hands and indoor
workmen. In nine other cities in this state the
workingmen demand a working day of nine
hours. In several cities the plumbers brick |
layers and masons will demand nine hours !
The quarrymen and granite cutters In Quincy |
Will probably strike, as the bosses while will |
ing to grant the nine hour system will not |
agree to the price per hour demanded by the |
workmen. Strikes are expected among the 1
granite cutters at Westerly. RI Concord NH. |
and Holloweil, Me- The mechanics at Ports |
mouth, NH. and the carpenters at Portland /
and Lewiston, Me-, demand nine hours.
SUSPENDED.
. MAHANoY PLANE, PA, April 2s.-Operations
will be Suspended tomorrow for an indefinite
period at the Buck mountain colliery at Buck
mountain and the middle Lehigh coliery at
New Boston. Four hundred men will be forced |
into ldleness.
STATED Up.
NASHUA, NH, April 2S-Jackson & Co. IS
mills were started up today. Nearly 500 men
returned to work at the same schedule of
prices that existed before the strike.
IN IRELAND.
DUBLIN, April 2s-It is the intention of the
directors of the Great Southern and Western
Railway Company to prosecute the signal men
in their employ for leaving their work without
giving any notice of their intention. Arch
bishop Walsh has written a letter to the direc-
tors suggesting that they postpone the taking
of legal stops against the signal men until the
strike is settled.
OBJECT TO Mr.. BLAIR's IDEA
INDIASAPoLIs April 28.-At a secret meeting
yesterday the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, Railway Conductors, Trainmen and the
Railroad Mutual Aid Society protested against
the passage OF Senator Blair's arbitration bill
The bill provides a method of setting contro- |
versies and differences between railway corpo-
rations and their employees. Committees were
appointed to draw up protest to be presented
to the Senate Immediately. |
TWO KINDS OF LABOR.
HAvERHrLL. Mass, April 2s.-The trouble