The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-05-03
IT WAS STRIKE DAY.
Outcome Of the Labor Demon
st'ation in Chicago,
STRIKING ALL ALONG THE LINE
W0rkmcn In the Various lnuustr rics
In tho Windy City Quit Work on
n Refusal OF Their Demands.
Situation In Other Cities.

CliicAuo, May o.-The signal was
given this morning and the iron mold
ers IN most Of tho large manufacturing
establishments OF Chicago'went cut on a
strike this morning at I o'clock, or rath.
er they declined to 60 to work at the old
rates. The fire under tho furnaces Of
tho maleable iron works were banked
this morning, the seventy-ilvo molders
there having declined to resume work.
They asked for an eight.hour day and a
uniform ,!ate OF wages. This was re-
fused. There are about ,G60 men en-
ployed at the maleable iron works, and
II the moldsrs' strike long continues the
entire plant will be compelled TO shut
down. The men simply declined to re.
turn to their places this morning, and
pickets were posted about the works to
sec that no non.union men went to work.
Atthe Mccormick harvesting machine
works 100 tnolders declined to 20 to
work. Allthe moldefs' helpers are also
out, and the strike threatens 10 implica.e
tho balance OF the employees to the num-
ber OF 800 IL II. The molders also post
ed pickets at this place and any attempt
TO put non.union men to work will be
met by n determined resistance. The
strike spread to Bomen & Richardson's
establishment, and 150 molders refused
to go to work. All the molders at the
Gritlin iron foundry struck. STheto WEBB
eighty men employed there. i,
The Illinois Steel Company granted
200 OF their molders the S.hour day aud
a strike was averted. The molders cm-
ploycd at the Daering Reaper Works,
and number OF machinists struck this
morning. The Fairbanks Canning Com.
pany has refused the demands of the 500
employees for the S.hour day. Eighty
coopers struck this morning.
Ten thousand employees in the sash,
door and blind factory, planning mills
and other such lines OF business went on
strike this morning for the eight hour
work day. There are about $4,000 all
told in the city.
All tho hands at the G. j. and L.
Meyers 4 Co., manufacturers OF sashcs,
doors and blinds went ont on astrike this
morning. The employees numbered 400. |
The yards OF the firm arc Mt the north
pier. The men demanded eight hours
work with nine hours pay, rs substi.
tute for the ten hour system. The firm
declined to accecd and offered eight |
hours. and informed the men that they |
would take the matter under advisement. |
The men refused this offer. The 400
strikers are composed Of machinists, ]
cabinet makers and carpenters.
1t was reported this morning that all |
the employees at the sash, door and blind |
factory Of. Palmer & Fuller had struck
this morning. Palmer & Fuller employ
500 men. Their demands are similar to
tAose OF the Meyer Il Sons 70. II was
also said that 800 men ut the Hensey &
Wiess factory ut Tweuty.second ami
Brown streets had gone on strike. The
strike OF this morning covers the sonth-
west division OF the city, and the mills
on the north pier. The demand is for
eight hours work and ten hours pay. The
move was decided upon last night and
around all the planning mills this morn
ing were collected knots Of idle men. In
most instances the men quit work with
out notifying their employers. .r
Among all the planning mills there YVES
but one where the men were ut work
this morning, and that was at A. Re-
nett's. At W. S. Baileys some nom
union men were at. work this morning.
Three hundred strikers started for the
place to clean out the establishment, as
the strikers said. Mr.. Bailey, becoming
frightened, sent for the police, and the
patrol wagon was sent to the scene of
the prospective trouble. Trouble is feared
ut many Of the establishments.