The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-05-16
THE STRIKE ENDED.
Chicago Carpenters and New
Bosses Settle the Last Detail
of Arbitration.
Eight Hours to Constitute q
Days Work With a Com.
promise on Wages.

CHICAGO. Special.-The great carpenters'
strike is finally settled. The necessary pa.
pers were signed to-day and ratified by
both sides concerned in the arbitration. A
last report will be made tomorrow to
the judicial umpircs and Thursday morn
ing scores of buildings that for four
weeks have been practically deserted, Will
echo with the sounds Of hammer and saw
in the hands of iully 1900 journeymen car.
pcntcrs. The two arbitration committees
of the new boss carpenters associa-
ton and the strikers met tonight at
the Grand Pacific hotel. with Judges
Drigss, Mcconnell and Tulcy. and after
session Of three hours length settled the
last detail. The iourncymen achieved an
almost sweeping victory. They made con-
cessions on but two pointsA aid every
iourneyman carpenter thro9 ut the
city was jubilant tAknighh Sacr the
result. The only DISAPPOINTING as that
the stubbornncss of the old association has
left itsmcmbers wholly out of the final deal.
The official statement of the terms OF settle
mcnt will not be issued by the two par
ties to the arbitration till tomorrow, but it
is reliably stated that the document signed
in the presence ofthc three Judges provides
eight hours shall constitute a DAYS work,
to begin ut 8 A. NJ. and end at S F. NJ. The
noon hour may be curtailcd
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
between the foreman and the majority of
the worAmcn, but not in sucl, way as to
permit moro than eight hours work he
tween the hours named. Over time shall
only be allowed between certain stipulated
hours ut night. The minimum rate OF
wages has been fixed at IS cents an hour up
to Aug. and thereafter ut 81 cents an
hour. Over time is to be rated at time and
half, and Sunday time US double time.
In the matter of apprentices conccs-
sions were made by both parties. Tho
employers agree to employ only union
men, even for forcmen required to work
with n"n-union men. Nearly all the work.
ers who went out OH strike along the "black
road" Friday returned to work to day, the
most of them under the conditions against
which they rcbclled. At the Mccormick
works the full lforcereportcd for duty. Atthe
car shops of Wells, French e. Co., two.
thirds of the 100 employees returned to
work at the former rate of wages and hours
OF labor, but it is understood that an ar
rangemcnt will be cnterad into upon the re-
turn OF one ofthc officers of the company
who is in Europe. The employees of the
mallcablc iron works are still out, but
they expect to effect settlement with the
company i'll day or two. The condition
oftlc strike amp the strikers In relation to
the eight-hour movement in the planning
mill district seems to be somewhat con-
fused, and, taken as whole, the stri ke
may be put down os a failure. At some Of
the mills the men
HAVE RETURNED TO WORK
on the old tell-hour basis, at others the
eight-hour day with ten hours wages has
been conceded pending further negotiations,
while at still other shops the eight hour las
been adopted by the proprictors ard eight
hours pay has been accepted by the men.
At the stock yards there was not sugges-
ton of strike to,lay, ono large packing
house starting up after an idlencss Of some
days. and 500 more men seeking employ
ment than could be cared for The rcccn!
success ofthc whitcwasllers in securing rec
nition fol their union, better pay and
shorter hours, has caused the inauguration
OF similar movement by the colorcd wait
crs. As n preliminary the forty men at
Brockway's restaurant struch tonight on
being refused their demands. The strikers
went in body to Milan's rcstaur-
ant close by and were pcrsuading
The walters there to go out when the
proprictors promised to grant whatever the
strikers obtained. The milan walters con-
clndcd to let tho Brockway men
do the fighting. Trouble in 9th
or establishments is looked for. Sew
cral meetings of sash, door and
blind factory employees were held to-day
for the purpose OF cfIccting an organization.
1t is understood that tho movement is
backed by the carpenters who. it is said
have agreed to set no work turned out by
mills which refuse TO conccde the eight
hour day. At one or two mills, the men
who went to work this morning, knocked
oil when notified of the new movement.
EIGHT HOURS GRANTED.
NEw York, Spccial.-The carpenters of
this city, as body. did not have to strike
to-day to enforce their demands for eight
hours us days work. At the carpenters
meeting hall to-day it was stated that
800 bosses had granted the demand and that
only thirty-iiye had refused. In the latter
places the men had struck, but il is cx-
pccted that all the difficulties will be set
tied within week. The house smiths did
been complied with. Tn, latest returns
from the strikers headquarters show that
only 122 men are out OF work. Only forty
shops are holding out.
PITTsBuEi. Spccial.-Thc Jeanette, Pa,
carpenters. about two hundred in number,
who have been striking for eight hours,
llauc been granted their demands.