Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-03
LABOR TROUBLES.
holders. Sash and Blind Makers in
Chicago Go out in Great Numbers.
Carpenters at Louisville strike-The Outlook
at Milwaukee Fayorable-ghs
Eight Hour Move.
A wAIKour Ar cn1oAGn .

out on strike at CLOCK, or rather
they declined to go to work at the oil,
rates.
The fires under the furnace of the NAL
liable iron works were banked thi
morning. The seventy-fve mol6er
there declined to resume work. They
asked for an eight-hour day and a uni.
form rate of wages. This was refused
There are 1000 men employed at the NAL
liable iron works, and If the molders
strike continues long the entire plant
! will be compelled to shut down. Mer
| simply decline TO return to their place:
this morning, and piokets were posted
about the works to see that no uon-nnion
men went to work.
| At the Mccormick harvesting ma
chinery mandatory $50 molders de-
clined TO go to work. All the molders
helpers are also out, and the strike
threatens to spread to the balance of the
employees of the works, which employ
$500 men. The molders also posted
pickets at this place, and any attempt to
put non-union men at work will be met
by determined resistance. 80
The strike spread to Bowen s. Rfoh-
ardson s establishment, and $50 molders
refused to 60 to work.
All the molders at Griffin IS iron foun-
dry struck. There were eighty men en-
ployed there.
The Illinois steel company granted 200
of their molders the eight hour day, and
the strike was averted.
Molders employed at the Deering
reaper works and number of machinists
struck this morning.
The Fairbanks canning company has
refused the demands of 500 employees for
the eight hour day, and a strike will be
inaugurated Monday.
Eighty coopers struck this morning.
Ten thousand employees in the sash,
door and blind factories, planning mills
and other such lines of business went on
a strike this morning for an eight hour
day. There are about 900
of them all told in the city, and
it is understood the remaining 10 900
will strike before tonight unless their
demands are complied with.
All hands at C. j. L. Meyer & Sons
company, manufacturers of sash, doors
and blinds, went on a strike this morn
ing. The employees number 400. The
yards OF the firm are at the north pier.
The men demanded nine hours work
with nine hours pay as substitute for
the ten hours system. The firm declined
to accede and offered eight hours, and
informed the men they would take the
matter of pay under advisement. The |
men refused this offer. The 400 strikers |
are composed of mechanics, machinists,
cabinet makers and carpenters.
The strike of this morning covers the |
division of the CITY, and the |
mills on the north pier demanded eight |
hours work and eight hours pay. The
move was decided upon last night, and
all around the planning mills this morning
we're collected idle knots of men. In most
instances the men quit work without
notifying their employers. Among all
he planning mills there was but one where
he men were at work this morning, aud
hat was at A. Bennet's. At W. Bea-
He's some non-union men are at work.
Three hundred strikers started for the
place to ''clean out the establishment, "a
Is the strikers said. Mr.. Beadle, be-
coming frightened, sent for the police,
md patrol wagon was sent to the scene
# the prospective trouble. Trouble is
cared at many of the establishments be-
ore night. The strikers claim that every
flaming mill employe in the city will
trike.
LATER ADYICEs.
The strike of the plsining-mill en-
loyes is reported to be spreading. In
numerous smaller establishments the
len are still at work, but on hearing of
ne action Of their fellow workmen in
ne larger mills many of them have fol-
'wed suit by abruptly stopping work.
CARPENTERS STRIKE AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May 2.-Of the 1862
carpenters in this city, be-
Eeen nine hundred and one thousand
ruck to-day for eight hours and TWEEN
five cents an hour as the minimum of
ages. Non-unionists are fast joining |
10 strikers, and by tomorrow but a
lndtul will be at work. One big con-
actor only has signed the arbitrat on
agreement, and the Build
8 and Trsder's exchange has so far
nored the movement. l
ILwAUKEE OUTLOOK FAVORABLE To CAR
PENTERs.
MILWAUKEE, WIS, May 2.-If to- :
ly's developments indicate the final /
ltcome, the eight hour movement in I
ilwaukee will result in victory for the
rpenters. The strike which it was
ought mi ght occur to-day, did not
aterialize. The change from a ten to 7
eight hour system was effected with
t any excitement and without any pub ,
} demonstration whatever. There will =
III be some uncertainty, however, until :
ter the mass meeting of unions to be !,
Id Sunday evening at West Side Turner =
IL. At that meeting the carpenters are =
report all contractors who have failed -
comply with the demands of their \
IN, and the employees of such nom 9
implying bosses will be directed to strike !
Monday. Officers of the different y
ions and Secretary Stein of the car y
nters' council, said at noon that 60 far =
they could learn not a man had struck
n fact, Mr.. Stein said they were not
pected to strike until after the meet
! Sunday night, whatever the attitude
the contractors might be. di
SYMPATHETIC BR1cKLAYERs. ~
Pa, May 2.-There 81
5 rejoicing among the carpenters at OF
strike headquarters this morning p.
en- it was announced that the brick
ers had como to the aid of the strik- d
carpenters by ordering that no brick So
ers should work upon "scab'' frames; -
other words, that they should not sat
dow or door frames for bosses VITO
use to grant an increase OF carpentet
yes to thirty-fiTe cents an hour. In a
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