Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-07
SILENT HAMMERS.
Six Thousand Chicago Carpen-
ters on Strike.
THE EIGHT HOUR MOVE Is BOOMING

A Mass Ratification Meeting Addressed
by Robert Lindblom, the Board of Trade
Ean-Labor Trusts Advocated and En-
couraged-A New Line of Thought Sug-
gested on the Labor Question-The Way
TO Regulate supply.
CHICAGO, April THE Carpenters Coun-
Gil declared Saturday night at ~ o'clock
that the strike was on, or would be Monday
morning. About seventy five delegates
We're present, representing over 1000 men.
Until II o'clock the council was prepared to
receive any committee from the Master
Carpenters Association with view to
arbitration, tut no committee appeared,
wages of 40 cents an hour, an eight hour
day and recognition by the bosses, was
carried
The Strike Action Ratified.
More than {, 600 men attended the mass
| meeting of the union carpenters at the Sec
ond Regiment armory yesterday afternoon,
and, by unanimous vote, ratified the action
in ordering a strike. Four speakers al.
dressed them on the present situation, the
| cause and use of the strike. and advised them
as to their conduct in it, Before the meeting
was called 10 order about dozen secretaries
were kept busy taking the names and money
of the men who wanted 10 join the union
| and go out with the majority. Resolutions
| were read from the Knights of Labor and
| other trade assemblies pledging support to the
carpenters in their fight.
LindbIom Talks Labor Trust"
Robert Lindolom was the first speader in
troduced. From the teachings that have
been furnished in most every kind of bust
ness" said Mr. Lindb ON, "you have come
| to adopt the theory of supply and demand in
| relation 10 wages as the correct one. Here,
| tofore these matters have been regulated by
| other than yourselves, but now you have re-
| solved TO administer little supply and de.
| mand medicine yourselves. And is there
| anything wrong about it, Is it not in con
| formity with the recognized rules of bust
| nessl
The Strikers in Good Company.
"The sugar trust, the coal barons and the
railroad pools all do what they can toward
| the regulation of supply and demand, and
you are indebted TO these gentlemen fol
| teaching you to regulate the supply of Ia Dor
But you should do it for the benefit of your
fellow men, for the sake of education and to
| secure better homes for your wives and
| children. There is nothing revolutionary
| in this. You have the right to regulate the
supply of your own efforts.
The Philosophy of the Move.
We all know how it is possible for a few
men TO regulate the price of certain com.
modify, and why should the same thing fail
with labor which must be its own protec-
tiona II the labor problem were properly
a 4 .
ton. knowledge alone is the champion of
| Improvement and progress. IL the carpen-
| tiers work eight hours a day instead of ten is
not the supply of that particular commodity
reduced one-fifth2 And should not the price
for that labor be increased in the same ratio
| if the demand remains the same?
The Bosses Can Stand IL.
"The employers could well afford to pay
yOu 81 cents an hour, for the man who
! works eight hours day is worth in the end
more than the man who works ten. The
only thing TO be considered should be the
question whether or not they can grant
Your demand aud still make for themselves
fair return. | think they can, and the
time viii come when they will not be more
entitled t. compensation that Is lie labor
Plea Against Violence.
You are on the right track now Try To
decrease the supply of labor and labor will
become more valuable But, above all
things, DO not resort TO violence in your
struggle for equity except in defense of Your
manhood. The battle of emancipated labor
must be won not on the fi.ld of revolution
but on the field Of evolution You are the
advance guard of an industrial army. Be-
ware o. false leaders. for America will not
tolerate the substitution of violence for rea-
son. The intelligent world is in sympathy
with You and will help you in your struggle
for eauityn