The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-26
STORY OF 7HH STRIKES.
Even the Walters Have Caught
the Fever Of Advance"
A CONFERENCE PROPOSED
Between the Carpenters, losses and
Citizens Committcc-1t Mny Not
Amount to Much-Thc Pitts.
bursh Railroad Strike.

,CnlcAoo, April 25.-The Culinar,
Alliance, comprising thesix waiterunions
OF Chicago, have an aggregate OF owe,
l,400 members. The union will demand
the recognition OF Uniform working
card providing for ten hours labor in
place Of from eleven to thirteen, and n
scale OF wages OF $40 week in oyster
houses, and 50 u week in restaurantp,
six days and one.half 10 constitute a
weeks labor. Each hour or fraction OF
an hour Of overtime to be paid for at %
cents an hour. no discount for fractions.
Tho union Is willing to submit the
question OF hours Of labor to arbitration,
but will not the point Of wages or the
demand for recognition OF uniform
working card. The union will strike on
May 8 at noon, unless It's demands are
complied with.
The harness-makers have gained
partial victory by their strike. ]. Fen.
ton, S:udebaker Bros, and Bossler &
70. are the three harness.making firms
that have acceded to the men. The
strike is still on at Ortmayer & Son,
Tubbs 4 Palmer aud A. T. Risser 4 Co.
CARPENTERS AND DossEs ro CONFER.
This afternoon the joint committee OF
the striking carpenters, the new boss
carpenters association and the citizens
arbitration committee sent a note 10
President Goldic. of the Builders and
Traders Exchange, asking him to appoint
time Tor q meeting with view to
settlement OF the pending strike. Mr..
Goldie replied that he. with some of the
directors and some OF the members Of
the Exchange would meet and confer
with tho citizens committee at noon to.
morrow, with the new boss carpenters
at Up. m., and with the car.
penters' committee at 8 p. m., in the
Builders Exchange. It remains to be
seen whether the joint committee will
consent to be thus split up into its con.
stituent elements. Not much is
hoped for from this conference
should it take place. inasmuch as
President Goldie says that the Carpeu.
ters Union will under no circumstances
be recognized, while the strikers declare
they will never return to work until
such recognition is granted. The best
that they expect from the conference ia
to put the old bosses on record, and |
when that is done they will probably |
make terms with the new bosses ussc-
citation, which claims to have m en-
ploying capacity OF 1900 men. Tic
strikers say that in addition to these the |
owners OF buildings in course Of erection
are ready when notified to do SO to take
the contracts from the old bosses and |
turn them over to the carpen.
ters for completion, and that in
this way work will be furnished for
l 300 additional men. They say that
allowing that the new bosses can perm.
anently employ 5000 men; this would
leave them with only 1900 nlen idle.
whom they could easily support indetin.
itely.
WHAT TIE BROTHERHOOD WILL DO.
President Rowland, of the Brother.
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, estimates that unless their de.
mand for eight hours is conceded at
least 1901 900 carpenters will be found on
strike in this country on May l., The
chaotic condition of the eight hour
at present may lead to q |
resusitaton of the eight hour asso.
citation which controlled the similar
agitation in 1856. A meeting will be
held some time next week at which an |
effort will be made to unite all trades |
in one central organization for tho pur.
pose Of pushing on the eight hour move.
ment