Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-02
LABOR STRIKES.
The Glass Workers, Cabinet Makers and
Freight Train Men Make Demands.

The Glass Workers, Cabinet Makers and
Freight Train Men Make Demands.
strike of window glass workers. which will
throw fully 10000 people out Of employment.
was officially declared in Pittsburg yesterday.
1t will continue at least seven weeks, and II
neither side makes concessions will continue
longer. A meeting of the subcommittee ap-
pointed to settle the wage differences was held
in the afternoon. The manufacturers with
drew their demand for a reduction. while the
workers declined to recede from their demand
for an advance.
About l 900 cabinet makers employed in fifty
shops went on strike in Chicago yesterday for
an eight-hour day, the abolition Of piece work
and a maximum rate Of wages. The employers
say it is impossible to grant the demands of the
men, as any change in hours or wages would
simply result in throwing the Chicago manu-
facturers Of furniture out of the market
Fourteen firms have granted the demands Of
the cabinet makers and 800 of the strikers will
return to work.
The strike of the freight conductors and
brakemen on the Lake Erie and Western rail-
road was resumed last evening at O'Clock.
The new schedule recently promulgated did
not satisfy the men, the committee from La
fayette. Ind, waited on General Manager Brad
bury at indianapolis yesterday. The confer
ence was unsatisfactory and a strike was or
at Lima, Peru and Indianapolis we're notified
OF this action. The men now demand an extra
brakeman on all local freight crews and object
to the through freights handling local freight
matter. They demand $50 and $50 per month
for conductors and brakemen on local freights.
Pistol shots were fired and stones thrown at
the houses of Lewis Townsend and Geo. Bowen
at Catasa9ua, Pa, yesterday. Both men work
for the Catasaqua Manufacturing Company,
whose employees are on strike. Strikers are
suspected John Edwards was arrested in the
act OF throwing stones. Five men assaulted
John Shaffer and Frank Bennicoff. who were
going to work in the Catasaqua rolling mill.
Shaffer was rolled down the railroad embank-
ment The company offers reward of $500.
The employees of the Sunbury pa Lumber
Company went on q strike yesterday. Last
evening each employee received letter notify
ing him that his wages had been reduced from
l to cents per hour. The men held meet
ing and passed resolutions that as their wages
were as low at present rs they could afford to
work for they would quit rather than stand the
reduction. Judge Whitmer and S. Z. Stay
maker, the senior members of the firm, are ut
Atlantic City, and the men claim that the reduc-
ton was made without their knowledge or con-
sent. The planning mill and the saw mill OF the
company are the largest in this section.
The state board of arbitration waited upon
Chick Brothers, shoe manufacturers at Haver-
hill, Mass, yesterday. but they refused to hold
conference with the board with reference
to the lockout of the lasters who demanded an
increase Of wages.
The messenger boys employed by the Western
Union Telegraph and the American District
companies in New Haven, Conn, resisted cut
in their wages yesterday and struck work. Boys
who sought to take their places were roughly
handled
A conference between President Whitney of
the West End road and the special subcom-
mittee of the Pioneer Federal Labor Union was
held in Boston yesterday relative to the settle
ment of the alleged grievances of the street car
conductors and drivers 1t is stated no definite
conclusion was reached.