The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-04-09
HOW MANY HOURS.

HOW MAIN E1OOtGo.
Aid. Rand's Eight-Hour Resolution Re-
| ceives Setback.
! Aid. Rand's resolution, or eight hour
! working day proposition, was not received
very kindly by the iolnt committee on
labor resolutions ca Tuesday at the city
hall. The resolutions were to the effect
! that eight hours should constitute a
working day; that laborers' wages should
be $l.65 day, and that they should be
paid twice a month. A second resolu-
zion was also on the table offered by Aid.
Ingenhutt, providing for daily wages OF
$1.75, or III cents an hour, and allow
ing the men 10 knock off at 5 o'clock on
Saturday.
Aid. Rand said ne offered his resolu-
tion in conformity with this platform
and was astonished that Aid. Ingenhutt
should offer any substitute.
AID Ingenhutt wss emphatic in his re-
ply. He said everybody in his ward
knew him. and knew him to be their
friend, but that no one of them had over
approached him On the question OF an
eight hoar day. He Renew there was no
dissatisfaction. "They all know me- reit-
Grated the alderman.
's,That's the reason they didn't ap-
proach you, came Il sarcastic voice.
| Aid. Barrows moved that Ingenhu tt' IS
resolution be submitted for Bands and
another scrap ensued. Aid. Gray
| moved as an amendment that ST.. rs a
day be paid for ten hours work and that
msn quit work at o'olock instead Of at
| o'clock. Aid. Rand then made himself
| very much heard, by saying shat it was
traitorous and unseenly FOE Ingenhutt
| and himself 10 vote against eight hours,
as they we're elected on an eight hour
| platform. Aid, Iugenhutt denied this
! an2 declared himself to vote just RS indie
pendent!y as he choose.
He thought that on account of tbs
long winters and the short summers that
! ten hours was necessary, to complete the
| work on hand. .-.-
Rand would not be squeezed and
shouted ont another motion for eight
hours. but 1t was silently received. Aid.
Perry came in with another amendment,
making three already on hand, providing
for ten hours work, $l.75 day, and the
men to quit work at noon on Saturdays,
including masons, brick layers and
mechani s employed by the city.
Aid. Flanders jumped into the mud
die and moved an amendment which was
finally adopted by vote of 6 to 5. The
amendment provides for ten hours work,
51.75 and no work ON Saturday after 4
p. IN. The eight hour men obstinately
declared that they will do all they can
to obstruct the Endorsement by the coun-
Gil of the committees action.
A petition was presented to the eoun-
Gil railroad committee Tuesday by the
Omaha road, asking that they be allowed
to lower their tracks in the Fourth ave-
nue. north yards to conform to the tracks
of other roads, The petition was re-
ferred to the committee on street grades
and additions. The propositions of the
Great Northern road relative to the cree
ton of viaducts was acted upon Fri
day at o'clock.
A petition was received from the park
board asking that the Minneapolis Street
Railway company be ordered to extend
it's Bryant avenue line to the lakes, for
the accommodation of picnic parties.
Manager Goodrich was present, and
stated that the extension would b con-
tinual expense to the company, as there
we're no people living along the proposed
route. Action was postponed