The Wahpeton times., 1890-05-15
THE STRIKE ENDED.
Chicago Carpenters and New
Bosses Settle the Last Detail
of Arbitration.
Eight Hours to Constitute q
Days Work With a Com.
promise on Wages.

pers were signed to-day and ratified by
both sides concerned in the arbitration. A
last report will be made tomorrow to
the judicial umpires and Thursday morn
ing scores of buildings that for four
weeks have been practically deserted. will
echo with the sounds of hammer and saw
in the hands of fully 1000 journcymen car
penters. The two arbitration committees
ton and the strikers met tonight at
the Grand Pacific hotel, with Judges
briggs Mcconnell and Tuley, and after q
session of three hours length settled the
last detail. The iourneymen achieved an
almost sweeping victory. They made con-
ccssions on but two points, and every
iohrncyman carpenter throughout the
city was jubilant tonight over the
result. The only disappointment was that
the stubbornness of the old association has
left its members wholly out of the final deal.
The official statement of the terms Of settle
mcnt will not be issued by the two par
ties to the arbitration till tomorrow, but it
is reliably stated that the document signed
in the presence of the three judges provides
eight hours shall constitute days work,
to begin at 8 A. NJ. and end at S PM. The
noon hour may be curtailcd
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
between the foreman and the majority OF
the workmen, but not in such way as to
permit more than eight hours work be-
tween the hours named. Over time shall
only be allowed between certain stipulated
hours at night. The minimum rate oi
wages has been fixed at IS cents an hour up
to Aug. and thereafter at 373 cents an
hour. Over time is to be rated at time and
half and Sunday time as double time.
In the matter of apprentices conccs.
sions were made by both parties. The
employers agree to employ only union
men, even for torcmcn required to work
with n"n-union men. Nearly all the work
ers who went out OH strike along the "black
road" Friday returned to work to-day, the
most Of them under the conditions against
which they rcbcllcd. At the Mccormick,
works the full lorccrcportcd for duty. AT the
car shops of Wells, French e. Co., two
thirds of the LOO employees returned to
work at the former rate Of wages and hours
OF labor, but it is understood that an ar
rangcmcnt will be entered into upon the re-
turn of one of the officers Of the company
who is i'll Europe. The employees of the
malleablc iron works are still out, but
they expect to effect settlement with the
company in day or two. The condition
of the strike amp the strikers in relation to
the eight-hour movement in the planning
mill district seems to be somewhat con-
fused, and, taken as q whole, the strike
may be put down os a failure. AT some OF
the mills the men
HAVE RETURNED TO WORK
on the old tcll-hour basis, at others the
eight-hour day with ten hours wages has
been conceded pending gfnrthernegotiation
while at still other shops the eight hour has
been adopted by the proprictors ard eight
hours pay has been accepted by the men.
At the stock yards there was not slgges-
ton OF strike to-day, one large packing
house starting up after an idlencss Of some
days, and 500 more men seeking employ
ment than could be cared for The recent
success the whitcwashers in securing rec
milton fol- their union, better pay and
shorter hours, has caused the Inauguration
OF similar movement by the colored wait
crs. AS preliminary the forty men at
Brockway's restaurant struch tonight on
being refused their demands. The strikers
went in body to Milan's rcstaur-
ant close by and were persuading
The walters there to go out when the
proprietors promised to grant whatever the
strikers obtained. The milan walters con-
cluded to let the Brockway men
do the fighting. Trouble in 9TH
er establishments is looked for. Sew
eral meetings of sash, door and
blind factory employees were held to-day
for the purpose of cffccting an organization
1t is understood that the movement is
backed by the carpenters, who, it is said,
have agreed to set no work turned out by
mills which refuse to conccde the eight.
hour day. At one or two mills, the men
who went to work this morning, knocked
off when notified of the new movement.
EIGHT HOURS GRANTED.
NEW IoRK, Special.-The carpenters o
this city, as body. did not have to strike
to-day to enforce their demands Tor eight
hours as days work. At the carpenters
meeting hall to-day it was stated thai
200 bosses had granted the demand and that
only thirty-tlye had refused. In the latter
places the men had struck, but it is ex.
Pected that all the difficulties will be set.
not go OH strike, their demands having
been complied with. The latest returns
from the strikers headquarters show tina,
only ~ men are out OF Work. Only forty
shops are holding out.
PlTTsBuEG. Special.-The Jeanette, Pa,
carpenters, about two hundred in number,
who have been striking for eight hours,
haue been granted their demands. ~