Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-04
OUT ON A STRIKE
Toiiers Qslt Work to Enforce
Their Demands
LESS HOURS AND MORE PAY
Idle Workers on World's Fau Buildings.
The Labor Situation At Many
Other Point>

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at Jackson park Monday and struck for
higher wages The eight men engaged
On the art palace did tAs same thing.
Twsnty-nins men On machinery hall
also ssraek Altogether ss7 quit work
and arc still out They were
getting thirty eepts an hour bat they
demand shirty-6ve cents an hour and
time and hah pay fos overwork. The
demands Of the men upon Machinery
hall were coneedsd. but of the fifty
three employed only twsnty-foar con-
unued 81 work, while the remaiaing
twensy-nine iefs the grounds. Con
tractor Gottiieb, who has the iron
work for the Art palace, immediately
granted tae demands of his force
which subsequently, concluded TO quit
work. Supt Hall. representing the
Edgemore Bridge Company, which has
the iron work for the manufactures
building, declined 70 grant the demand
of the men, and the action Of the other
strikers after gettang what they asked
was due to sympathy with the unsuc-
cessful strikers
The Boilsrnakers.
Boilermskcrs all over tho country
went on strike Monday for eight
hours and sa.75 day. In Chicago every
boiler shop is shut down. and the men
employed in the railway shops have
walked out The 69ht promises to be
bitter one. for all the large concerns
talk of no settlement, and the men are
determined To secure what they de-
mand il it takes all summer. Nearly
l,eOe men are cut Ia Chicago and vi
entity.
Bosses Gene - Terms.
NEW YoRx, May a-The United Ger
man and English carpenters went on
strike Monday because of the failure of
the master trainers and carpenters 10
sign an agreement raising schedule of
prices for labor. This agreement has
been mAde every year, but this year
when il was presented only eighteen
out OF the forty-6ve bosses signed By
noon, however, the bosses came TO
terms and all signed the agreement but
six.
Eisht-Hour Battle In Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. Nd, May 3.--About 400
house carpenters are On a strike here to
enforce acceptance of their demand for
eight hours to constitute q days work,
the wages 10 he rs heretofore Eighteen
Of the employing carpenters have &C.
cepted the eight.hour decree.
object TO Ten Hours.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, May 3.-The gen
eral strike OF the granite cutters in the
Cape Ann quarries which has been an
ticipated for some time was inaugurated
Monday. When the hour for going
to work arrived the sound Of
the whistle II the quarries ut Bayvie~
did not meet any response from the
men. A general notice was sent out To
the workmen at Rock Point and Pigeon
Cove to join in the strike and some
1900 men are idle. The demand is fol
twenty-five cents an hour and nine
hours instead Of ten. The officers say
they fear no serious trouble.
Moro Fay and Less Work.
New HAVEN. Conn, May s.-Five
hundred quarrymen and stone cutters
employed in the quarries at Stony
creek and Lectcs island went ont on
strike Monday because their demand
for an increase of one cent az hour was
not acceded to by the quarry owners
The men were receiving twenty-five
cents an hour. They also wanted a re
duction Of one hour on Saturdays.
Ciothing rressmen's Demands.
BosToN, May Son May 10. ths
clothing pressmen Of New York, Phila
delphia. Chicago. Baltimore, Boston
and other large cities, will de
mand an advance in wages AND
a reduction OF tho hours of la
Dor from ten to nine hours
per day. Ia New York the men will
demand an advance of IS per cent; the
Boston pressmen will ask for a IS pei
cent. increase and In other cities tho
advance demanded will range from Il
TO IS per cent.