Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-02
LOOKING BACKWARD.
The May Day Demonstrations Were
Quiet and Peaceful.
THOUSANDS QUITTING WORK
The Story Of John M, CIayton's
Murder and its Cause.
A SMALL BATCH OF NEWS ITEMS.
STRIKING BY THOUSANDS.
The Great Army of Workers Insist on
the Eight.Hour System.

The Great Army of Workers Insist on
the Eight-Hiour System.
CHICAGO Nav 2-The iron molders and their
helpers in most of the large manufacturing es-
adjustments of the city, including the Nc
Cormick harvesting machine works on the
''Black road" tine scene of so much turbulence
and rioting four years ago. went
out on strike this morning for the
eight-hour day and a uniform rate OF
wages. The strikers have posted pIckets about
the different works and say that any attempt to
put non-union men at work will be met by
determined resistance. The Illinois Steel Com
pany granted its 200 molders the eight-hour dav
and averted strike. The Fairbank Canning
Company has refused the demands of its 500
employees for the eight-hour day and
strike will be inaugurated Monday. Eighty
coopers in thus establishment struck
this morning. All the employees in the
planning 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
employe III the city. numbering all the way
from twenty to thirty thousand men. will strike.
Three hundred strikers started for ". =
Barhfs planning mill this morning, where some
non-unlon men were at work, with the inten-
ton OF cleaning out" the establishment. as
they termed It. but a patrol wagon full OF
policemen prevented the prospective trouble.
-Four hundred employees in {. J. l.. Meyer &
Sons sash, door and blind factory struck this
morning for a nine-hour day, and il is reported
that the employees of number of other sash
factories have also struck. making the same
demand as the employees of the Meyer factory.
! There will be meeting between the employers
| and the sash workers this afternoon. and there
Is a prospect OF their agreeing upon a compro-
mise.
A strike of the miners throughout the north
| ern and middle Illinois coal fields was decided
upon after midnight. The joint conference OF
workmen and mine owners split irreconcilably
upon the question of including the day Ia
borers in a scheme of profit sharing
the owners declaring there no mar
gin for the laborers. An executive session of
four hours by the workmens representatives
| followed the final adjournment of the joint
conference. A decision to strike was the result.
The Indiana miners and operators also failed
to reach an understanding, and a strike al that
| state is also not Improbable.
The arbitrators selected to settle the carpen-
ters strike met at the Grand Pacific Hotel this
morning. The meeting il a secret one. The
old master carpenters association refused to hc
represented at the meeting. The men predict
| that a settlement will be reached not later than
tomorrow SO they can return 10 work next week.
The strike of planning mill employees is re-
ported to be spreading. In numerous smaller
establishments the men are still at work. but
on hearing of the action of their fellow-work-
men in the larger mills many of them ha fol-
| lowed suit by abruptly stopping work.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2-The second day of
the carpenters strike opened this morning
with nearly 5000 men refusing TO work unless
their demand for an advance OF cents an hour
| was acceded TO. There are nearly 1000 car
penters In the city, and nearly all of them
are identified with the three organizations
These are the Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America; the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Carpenters, and the Carpenters Pro-
| tective Association One of the biggest victories
which the strikers have so far gained was won
| this morning, when the jourreymen bricklay-
ers came into line and issued orders that none
of Its members should set the door or window
| frames on any job of which the boss had re-
fused to pay the advanced rate.
DETROIT, Mich, May THE carpenters
| strike situation here today is unchanged, save
| that few small contractors have conceded the
eight-hour day and the scale of wages de-
manded by the strikers. 1t is reported that
planning mill owners employing carpenters will
compromise by conceding the demands of the
| men if they will agree to boycott machine mill
products made outside the city.
BUFFALO, y. Y. May 2.-The district council
of the Brotherhood of Carpenters met last
night and decided to give the mill bosses a
week TO decide upon their answer TO the de-
| mand of the mill hands 70: an eight-hour day
| If il is not granted the men will strike.
NEW YORK, May AT the Federation of
Labor Bureau this morning Secretary Evans
stated that there were no new developments in
the eight-hour labor question beyond the fact
that few more bosses in the city have ca
pressed willingness to accede to the demands
of the strikers.
SALEM, Mass, May 2.-The carpenters who
have been working ten hours day quit al 5 y.
m. yesterday instead of o'clock. Tonight
the bosses will hold a meeting TO decide what
action to take. Ii they decide 10 reduce the
rate of pay a strike will result.
PEORIA, ILL, May 2.--The coal miners OF
Peoria are calmly awaiting the decision of the
Chicago conference. All mines here are
closed, and at mass meeting yesterday the
men indorsed the Columbus scale and decided
TO abide by the decision of the Chicago con-
ference.
ANMosA, Iowa, May 2.-Fifty employees of
the Gold Hill Stone Quarry at Stone City, four
miles west of here, have struck for 81 40 a day
1t is feared that unless their demands are con-
ceded several hundred men in other quarries
will go out.
MURPEYsBoRo, ILL.,. May 2.-The men laying
the pipes for the water works here struck for
$1.25 for eight hours or Sl.50 for ten hours
work. They have been getting Sl.25 for ten
hours.
LOUISVILLE, Kv., May 2.-One thousand
carpenters went out on strike here this
morning demanding ei, ,ht hours as a days
work with no reduction of wages. Twenty
boss carpenters have conceded the strikers
demands and the trouble will probably be
amicaby settled in day or two. The carpen-
tiers are now holding meeting at Beck's Hall
discussing the situation.