Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
PLANNING THE FIGHT.
Executive Council, A. +. of L., to Lay
Out the Miners Programme.
A QUESTION OF HOURS, NOT WAGES
Glass Workers Sending Money to Corning
to Aid the Strikers.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

W. A. Carney, Second Vice President of
the American Federation of Labor. left yes
terday for New York, where meeting of
the Executive Council of that organization
will be held to-day to formulate plans for
the struggle to be inaugurated by the miners
on May l, for the adoption of an eight-hour
work day.
Mr.. Carney is the representative of the
Amalgamated Association in the Executive
Council, being Vice President of the First
division of the First district of thatorganiza-
tion. He was seen at the headquarters OF
the association yesterday, but was unable to
give forecast of what would be transacted
at the meeting to-day.
The miners have been selected as the peo-
pie for whom the Federation has pledged
the support of its membership of over half
million, and the fight has all the appear
ances of being a fierce one.
Miners Demands May Be Forced.
Just in what way the various organiza-
tions affiliated with the Federation will
support the miners has not yet been deter
mined. While it is not expected that they
will resort to general tie-up of everything
connected with the Federation, vet this is
among the possibilities as means OF forcing
the demands OF the miners in case more con-
servative plans fail.
This is one of the matters to be settled to-
day. An assessment will probably be levied
on each organization to provide fund to
defray the expenses of the fight, for fight it
will be. The severity Of the struggles now
in progress in Alabama, Central Pennsyl-
vania and other local places indicates the
character of the struggle in store for the
miners in May. But the question of wages
will not be involved. Mr.. Carney said it
will be simply question of eight hours for
days work. The various districts will be
still at liberty to make and enforce scales to
correspond with the character OF the work
in their respective localities.
There is no change in the situation along
the Monongahela. Operators laugh at the
report that they were employing Hungarians
to take the places of the strikers. The only
Huns that were put to work were few
laborers that were employed along the river,
and it is not expected that any others will
be taken there. Neither side has exhibited
any intention of making CONCESSIONS, and
nothing is likely to be done now until after
the meeting of the miners next Thursday.
Prices of Coal Bound to Increase.
In the meantime the coal now in the
market will continue to decrease in quantity
and the prices will increase.
Upon the result of the miners efforts for
shorter hours will hinge the movements of
many of the other organizations. Locally
there is not expected to be any great activ-
ity in that line outside OF the miners. TIE
carpenters have voted upon the question,
and while the proposition to make the de-
mands was carried by simple majority, ac-
cording to previous decision that two-
thirds majority was required, the matter
will be dropped, unless an appeal, which is
talked OF, be taken from the decision, rela-
tive to the majority required.
The carpenters of Kittanning, Armstrong
county. have yoted to demand nine hours
with ten houra' pay after May 1, and will
make the fight independently. There has
been plenty of work in that prosperous
county seat for the past year, while work
men have been scarce, and the men feel con-
fdent oil winning.