The Indianapolis journal., 1890-04-29
CHICAGO CARPENTERS.

They Are willing to Allow 1000 Of Their
Number to Go to Work Next Monday.
CHICAGO, April 2S.-The committees of the
new bosses association and the striking
carpenters held conference this after
noon. with view to arranging for the re-
sumption of work by as many of the strik-
ers as can be employed by the new associa-
tiOn. At its conclusion both sides declined
to make public the result Antil action
thereon had been taken by the general
bodies which they represent. 1t is most
certain, however, that by Monday at
least 1900 of the 5000 carpenters
now idle will 90 to work for
the members of the new Employers Asso-
citation. The Journeymen's Council had
stormy session debating this proposition.
A strong minority were against any re-
sumption of work until all the men could
go back at once. The moro conservative
majority, however believed that with four
thousand men at work for those employers
who were disposed to meet them half way,
the strike could be carried to q successful
conclusion against the members of the old
Master Carpenters' Association.
The Journeyman's Council tonight issued
long reply to the statements published by
the Masters Association regarding the
cular asserts that misleading reports of
former conferences were made by the Mas
ters' Association. and that the journeymen
desired to have disinterested citizens pres
to meet the journeymen in company with
the citizens, the latter declined to
have anything further to do with the mat
ter. In conclusion the circular offers to
waive the question of employing none but
union men if the association will submit
the other points of difference to arbitra-
ton.
Non-union men in numbers larger than
even the strikers care to admit are pouring
into Chicago, and it is believed tho master
carpenters, anticipating the fruitless con-
ferences OF Saturday, had agents In other
cities securing all the non-union carpenters
they could find. The strikers are vigilant.
however, and this morning captured q
large number of non-union men and in
duced them to refuse to go to work. A
boss carpenter named Smythe attempted
to put some non-uniOn men at work on q
building on North avenue. but the strikers
drove the men away. Chief Marsh says
their work if it takes the entire police force.
Considerable excitement among the jour-
neymen has been caused by indications
that q member of their atrike committee
Goldie, of the Master Carpenters
Association with strikers secrets. The re-
suit was the summary dismissal of the
entire committee tonight and the appoint
ment of q new one. DissensiOns among the
jouI neymen is feared as the result of this
action.
Number OF Discontented Wage Farmers.
CHICAGO, April 2S-The Times prints ad-
vance sheets from the city's official compi-
lation of the number of wage-earners, male
and female, in the old wards of the city at
the present time. The statistics were se-
cured for the light they cast on the antici-
pated labor troubles predicted for May /.
The Times says: "A mere glance at the
tables will suffice to show the extravagance
of the scare-head announcements made by
some of the local newspapers. The tables
include all who would be likely to inaug-
urate an eight-hour movement. The gross
number is shown to be 304,704 OF
these 46, ,2H are women. who, by common
and not meditating strike. According to
the reports that have been circulated, fully
one-half of the remaining 25S423 will go
out May l. When it Is remembered that
the cigar-makers, the paper-hangers, the
stone-masons, the brick-layers, the plumb
ers, the plasterers, now have an eigh ht-hour
day; when it is further remembered that
all employees of the carrying trade, all
clerks, wholesale and retail, all bakers.
brewers. tanners. all professional men, all
bank, broker and real-estate employes-in
short. all except the few crafts th at have
pushed themselves to public notice in the
projected nomenclature no intention of
striking, the extravaganza of the reports
alluded to becomes apparent. 1t is thought
that actual figures will furnish but few of
the 100000 or 150.OOO strikers expected by
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