Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-09
THOUSANDS OUT.
Several Big su likes Inaugurated in
Chioaeo-wood Workers, MoIders and
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OF business, went on strike this morning
for the eight-hour work day.
There are about %, 900 of them all told
in the city, and it is understood that the
remaining $4,000 will strike before night
unless their demands are complied with.
ALI the hands at G. J. 81 L. Meyers 81
Co.'s manufacturers of sashes, doors and
blinds, went out on strike this morning.
The employees number 400. The yards of
the firm are at the North pier. The men
demanded eight hours work with nine
hours pay as a substitute for the ten
hour system, The firm declined to accede
and offered eight hours, and informed
the men that they would take the matter
of pay under advisement. The men re-
fused this offer. The 400 strikers are
| composed of machinists, cabinet makers
and carpenters. There will be meeting
between the employers and committee
of the strikers this afternoon.
1t was reported this morning that all
the employees at the sash, door and blind
factory of Palmer & Fuller had struck.
Palmer & Fuller employ 500 men. Their
| demands are similar to those of the en-
ployes of the Meyers Company. 1t was
also said that 300 men at Hinsey Sc Weiss
factory, at Twenty-seconu and Brown
streets, had gone on strike.
The Strike ol this morning covers the
1ixyician Of ha oify and tla
mills on the north pier. The demand is
for eight hours work and nine hours pay,
The move was decided upon last night,
and around all the plainng mills this
morning were idle knots of men. In most
instances the men quit work without noti-
flying heir employers. Among all the
planning mills there was but one where
the men were at work this morning and
that was at A. Benefits.
At W. S. Beahel's some non-union men
were at work this morning. Five hun
dred strikers started for the place to
{" clean out the establishment" as they
said. MIR. Beahel, becoming frightened,
sent for the police, and the patrol wagon
was sent to the scene of the prospective
| trouble.
Trouble is feared at many of the estab-
lishments. Before night, the strikers claim
every planning null employe in the city
will strike. The planning mill men num-
ber all the way from $4,000 to 10000 men.
HUNDREDS OF MoLDERs STRIKE.
The signal was given this morning and
the iron molders in most of the large
manufacturing establishments of Chicago
went out on a strike at o'clock, or rather
they declined to go to work at the old
rates.
The fire under the furnaces of the NAL
leable Iron Works were banked this morn
ing, the seventy-five n olders there hav-
| ing declined to resume work. They
asked for thu eight-hour day and uoi-
form rate of wages. This was refused.
There are are 600 men employed at the
Malleable Iron Works, and if the moldels
strike continues long The entire phnt will
be compelled to shut down. The men
simply declined to return to their places
this morning, and pickets were posted
| about the works to see that no non-union
men went to work.
| At the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Works 150 molders declined to 90 to
work, All the molders' helpess are also
out, and the strike threatens to impicate
the balance of the employees, to the num-
Der of 1900 men. These molders also
posted pickets at this place and any at
tempt to put non-union men ut work will
be met by desperate resistance.
The strike spread to Bomen & Ricba'd-
sons establishment and 150 molders re-
fused to go to work. All the molders at
Grifin's iron foundry also struck. Eighty
men were employed there. The Illinois
Steel Comp any granted 200 of their mold
ers the eight-hour day and strike was
averted. The molders employed at the
Deering Reaper Works and a number of
machinists struck this morning.
INV ioii btthh ShhhiIiS SolilpuuJ uao
refused the demands of the 800 employees
for the eight.hour day, and strike will
be inaugurated Monday, Eighty coopers
struck this morning.
PHILADELPHIA CARPENTERS.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2.-The second day
of the carpenters strike opened this
morning with nearly 5000 men refusing
to work unless their demand for an adj
vance of five cents an hour was acceded
to.
There are almost 1000 carpenters in the
city, and nearly all uf them are identified
with the three organizations. These are
the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers of America, the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Carpenters and the Carpenters
Protective Association,
One of the biggest victories which the
strikers have so far gained was won this
morning, when the journeYmen brick
layers came into line and issued orders
that none of its members should set the
door or window frames on any Job of