Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-08
THE STRIKE FEVER.

All Classes of workmen in Chicago APP.
pear to Have Caught the Infection from
the Carpenters-1ron Molders, SASH anu
Door Men, Lumber Showers ana Many
Other Classes of Labor Either Out on
Strike Preparing to Go Out IN "n
Effort to Get the Eight-Hour Day.
CHICAGO, May 2-The carpenters
strike is still on, and the situation re-
mains exactly the same as when the
arbitration committees were appointed.
At the meeting this afternoon the
bosses conceded eight hours, but when
it came to granting forty cents an nour
there was a hitch, as there was also on
the apprentice questions. While dls-
cussing the latter question, the sub1ec1
of the ability of the New Bosses Assoc
citation to employ enough men to JUSTIFY
the carpenters in completing the nego-
tiations was brought up. The carpen-
tiers insisted that the bosses furnish
guarantee to employ 5000 men within
thirty days. To this the bosses OBJ
iected. The umpires decided in favor
of the strikers, limiting the number, IL
is understood, is 1000 men. The car
penters protested, and finally demanded
a statement from the bosses showing
exactly what each could do. They
were not prepared tor this, and finally,
after a heated discussion, the confer
ence adjourned, to meet Saturday at
ten o'clock.
Five thousand men employed by the
Fairbanks Canning Company have an
nounced their determination to strike
Monday for eight hours. The coopers
employed there have already quit.
The report that the Union bakers are
about to go on strike is declared to-
night to be untrue, as also is the report
that there is great dissatisfaction among
the lumber showers.
The Garden City Springs Works COM
promised with their men to-day by
granting them an eight-hour day with
nine hours pay, and the Morgan Sash,
Door and Blind Company, settled with
their employees on similar basis.
The strike at Maxwell Brothers box
factory was settled by the employees
agreeing to consider the grievances of
their employees at an early date. They
are now working eight hours. Up to
midnight no reports of trouble ON the
"Black Road" district has been re-
ceived.
Everybody striking,
CHICAGO, May EVERY thing has
been quiet this afternoon and evening
on the "Black Road" The striking
holders have made no effort to procure
a meeting with their employers, and
the latter are in absolute ignorance of
what is demanded. The bulk of the
men, also, do not seem to know their
own mind, and say that they struck be-
cause ordered by their leaders to do so.
The whole affair has the appearance Of
being simple case of strike fever.
The authorities apprehend no further
disturbance, but the neighborhood is
we'll patroled by officers. and any in
cipient outbreak will be speedily re-
pressed. So far the strike has not
caused a cessation of work in the other
departments of McCormicl's Reaper
Works.
The number of molders out is esti-
mated at 8 000 Eighteen hundred were
employed at the Chicago Malleable
Iron Works, the largest concern os the
kind in Chicago The manager of this
establishment said he expected the
strike of his men would be settled this
afternoon and work resumed tomorrow
morning.
SnOrCly aIUoF one o CLOCK UnlS aIUSr-
noon a number of non-union molders,
who were being conveyed in bus to
McCormick's Harvester Works, were at
tackled by strikers at Blue Island ave-
nue. and Thirty-second street. The
windows of the bus were broken and
several of the occupants were more or
less injured. The driver lodged the
rocks which were aimed at his head
and, flashing his horses, succeeded in
escaping. "A report of the assault was
telephoncd to the nearest police sta
tion and q squad of officers sent to the
works.
Every thing was quiet at the stock
yards up to two o'clock this afternoon.
The butchers, coopers and laborers did
net go out, and hence tho go special
policemen stationed there had nothing
to do. There were some mutterings Of
discomfort, however, and it is still
thought that if the strike ever spreads
it will reach the stock yards. possibly
before the day is out.
The men employed at the Goodwillie
box factory struck for eight hours this
morning. At noon their demands were
accedcd to and they returned to work
The men at the Cooper Lumber Com
pany's yards were also victorious. The
firm agreed to grant the eight-hour day,
and the men went to work at noon.
-Four hundred men employed at Dem
man e Durka's furniture factory struck
to-day for eight hours.
Seven hundred men employed at the
Chicago Cottage Organ Company are
also affected by the strike fever and re-
fuse to work unless granted the eight
hour day.
Trouble is brewing in the lumber
yards, and the prospect is that unless
granted the eight hours and more pay
the lumber shovers--several thousand
men-will quit work. If these men
strike it will shst down work in most
of the yards and tic up all the SOUTH
eastern lumber trade. The union watt
ers are also threatening strike unless
certain demands are complied with.
All the employees in the planing-mill
establishments of the Southwest Side
also struck this morning for the eight
hour day and eight hours pay. Before
night the strikers claim, every planning
mill employee in the city, numbering all
the way from 10000 to 80, 900 men, will
strike.
a General Strike Feared.