Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-01

BUFFALO May l.-T6ere IL no strike here
thus far. but the district council Of the United
brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiner meet
tonight TO consider the matter. The union
slder whether or not 10 strike for ten hours
day.
OMAHA.
OMAHA Nav NO strike has taken place In
this city today ana no strike has been cOntem-
plated The carpenters have decided 10 avail,
the issue OF the strike in Chicago. The other
lines OF labor seem 10 be satisfied with their
present status.
MIIwAuKEE-
MILWAUKEE, May 1.-The mason and brick-
layers union have decided TO assist the car
penters hy stopping work on all buildings
where men refuse 20 accede 90 the demands.
Ihe pay Tor the carpenters ls % cents an hour,
ana under the eight-hour system the men Will
get SL.76 day. instead of 81 20, IS heretofore.
The union men claim that under the new order
OF things 800 OF their fellow craftsmen who are
now unemployed will be given work. There
are from 1900 60 ?. 500 carpenters m the citv
and LOO belong TO the unions. There is no
likelihood of a strike in any of the other build
ing trades as the cight-honr system has been
IN vogue with the masons and bricklayers FOR
three years, while the plumbers are not in .
position 70 strike. Officers Of the federated
trades council are organizing unions OF hard
wood hnlshers, cabinet makers and tanners.
There have been threats of a strike for higher
wages by some classes OF tannery employees.
but as Yet the men have made no demands on
their employers. IL any trouble occurs il will
be confined to the carpenters. and there will
be no general strike. even in that trade.
At the mass meeting last night resolutions
were adopted requesting contractors to grant
eight hours Friday. MAY ? sunday night
another meeting will be held. IL the men then
should not have carried their point they will
go out Ii was resolved not TO celebrate to-
day, but TO keep on working. Last nights
parade of the union carpenters vas partici-
pated in by about 200 men.
RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE. RI. May This morning %
Westerly, RI, the several quarry whistles
blew as usual, but only the quarrymen aud
driilers responded. Not a granite cutter vss
TO be seen on the streets until after am. The
manufacturers have asked for conference. A
settlement is hardly expected.
BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, May This city keeps on in the
even tenor of it's way. Nothing up TO this hour
u2:SO) has happened among the workers that
makes May differ from the first day OF any
other month.
BOSTON
BosToN, Nav 1.-The strike of the carpen-
ters of this city for an eight-hour work day Was
formally inaugurated this morning. About
l.s00 men are out and OF this number $50 are
recruits who joined the ranks of the disafecsed
within the past day. Ii is estimated that there
are 1000 men in the city who have been
granted eight hours by about one hundred
firms who are not members OF the Master
Builders Association. These men have the
approval OF the carpenters union in continuing
at work.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LANCASTER. Pa. May L-only one firm Of
hOSs car rafp ha a.
day and their men went on strike The hod
carriers received an advance of wages and did
not strike. Thirty molders who had been on
strike for several weeks, resumed work at in
creased wages.
GRAND RAPIDS MICK. May THE carvers
at Oriel Berckey sleigh and chair companies
wen out last evening, after working nine hours.
HAyERHILI.. Mass. May The master csI-
penters have all signed the agreement grant
ing nine hours a days work at the old pay
of SIS per week.
kSoHvILLE. Tenn, Nav All the car
penters of tins city. both union and non-union.
are on strike for eight hours work and ten
hours pay.
ROCHESTER,. NY, May 1-Oyer $50 sash,
door and blind makers struck tins morning.
The men ask for nine hours a day, with ten
hours pay.
ABROAD.
LoSDoS. May All sdvices from labor CEN
ters in Europe show that the men are using
the day quietly although thousands are going z
on a strike. In Berlin one man WAS arrested
for hoisting red flag upon a telegraph pole.
Work Is proceeding IN the usual manner in
Munster, Wiesbaden, Strasburg, Nuremberg.
Strettin, Dortmund. Neukirchen. Spandau and
Zurekau. A few of the workingmen in Leipsig
and Halle went out on strike today. but =
majority OF them were not in favor of making
any demonstration. and they went 90 work
this morning as on ordinary DAYS. In Paris all
rs aof Talo g..
Nancy. Roubaix and Lille to the effect that
up 10 the present moment no disturbances OF
any kind have taken place.
Dispatches from Vienna say the city is quiet,
but strikes are occurring with almost phenome-
nal rapldlty IN the provinces OF the empire. and
1t is estimated that one million men have al
ready struck or threaten TO do so. Three Ger
man socialists in Vienna. charged with being
IN the city for the purpose of melting the work.
men to violence. have been arrested. A Madrid
dispatch says reports from the provinces indi-
cate that good order exists everywhere
As the labor procession was passing along the
Thames embankment here in London a crowd
of live hundred rOughs attempted to create q
tumult. Twenty-Five hundred policemen. who
lined the embankment however. promptly
suppressed the attempt and thoroughly cowed
the rough element The police authorities
have announced that the carrying OF torch
lights will be rigidy suppressed. The indi-
cations now are that the demonstration, at
least so FAR as the parade Is concerned, will
prove a fiasco.
1t is calculated that 100 900 miners will be On
strike throughout Belgium today
Countess Won hesser, who stole the famous
plan OF mobilization Of the French army from
Boulanger in 1887, is suing several Paris papers
for libel
procession numbering 5000 miners Was
formed IN Liege, Brussels. and marched TO the
town hail. where a petition was presented 10 the
authorities asking for the establishment of an
eight-hour work day.
4 Paris dispatch late this afternoon saws:
Several attempts made by the workingmen to
hold meetings have been frustrated by the in
tervention of the troops. During the day
two thousand people have been arrested by the
police. An attempt made by the striking gas
workers TO loot a gunshop caused a slight dis
turbance, which was promptly suppressed.
In Paris this afternoon deputstion of work.
ingmen went 10 the chamber of deputies and
presented petition asking that the chamber
make eight hours legal days work.
Large crowds gathered in the thorough
fares in the vicinity Of the chamber, COM
pletely blocking them. The cavalry which 10
doing special duty about the city today quietly
cleared the way for the deputation TO proceed.
There is a partial cessation of work in Rome
and in the principal cities and towns of Italy
today. Dispatches from all parts of the coun-
try show that order is being maintained
At Dantsic the authorities issued an order
forbiddIng the holding OF meetings today aud
M attamnt WAS made IN vialafa the fa.-