The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-27
BIG UPRISING OF LABOR.
Carriage Makers In and Around BOS-
ton Quit Work
BUILDING TRADES ARE WORRIED
At the Prospect of Far Reaching strike
A Nine-Hour Work Day II wanted
War to the Knife in the New YORK
Clothing Trade.

BosroN, March 27-Between 500 ana
1000 carriage and wagon workers struck
this morning in Boston and the adjacent
towns 1t is the beginning of a long-pend-
ing warfare in the carriage manufacturing
Industry fxs & nine-hour workday with III
5suys' Pay.
Yesterday afternoon a mass meeting OF
Carriage and Wagons Workers union
was held in Arlington hall. Reports were
received from many shops, but the exact
strength of those who go on strike could
not be determined, as figures were incom-
plete.
The union scored great victory Satur-
day, when the Sargent a Howe Manu-
featuring company notified its employees
that the nine-hour and other demands OF
the union would be granted. The men
| gave their employers three-times-three
cheers when the decision was announcer.
| Saturday night the entire force In the
factory of F. +. French & Co. notified
their employers that they would not re-
turn to work until the nine-hour day had
been granted. There were no disorderiy
proceedings and no demonstrations. Ahe
men walked out as If nothing had hap
! pened.
In Medford and Maiden, as well as in
,ther towns adjacent under the supervision
Of the union,
The Trouble Has Spread.
Saturday As employees of 4. Teale a. co.
and IS in r. Symmes & Sons shop, Med
ford. went out with the determination to
make the same fight as their Boston fellow
craftsmen.
Strikes also occurred Saturday night in
the following factories: John p. Smith
g. Co, all out; c. X. Waugh all out Dan
ielson 81 Son, all out; John A. Scott &
Son, all out; Nash e. Co., all out; Hail
Carriage company, all out hut two; Pills
bury Bros, all out; ID. B. Nichols q Co.,
IL men out: Strangeman q Son, Milton,
81 men out: Russ & Co, three out; Teale
& Hill, all out; Stuart Bros, all out but
one: John F. Pray & Son, all out but one;
A. NJ Wood, nine out; Cameron q 20,
Jamaica Plain, all out; Vincent Mcdonald,
all out; Keene s. Co, Maiden, all out.
A. b. Palmer OF Maiden gave his men
nine hours a few days ago, but the Manu-
facturers' association persuaded him to
change his mind. and his men are now al
out Manufacturer McVicar has written
a letter i'm defense of the union, saying
that he believed the men
Deserved the Nine-Hour System
and he hoped they would win. Timoth,
O'Brien. Brookline, has conceded the de
mands of his men as have also the following
firms in addition TO those already men
toned: j. T.. s. Adams, Roxbury; Bos
ton Wagon company, Quinster &. Co.
| and James O'Connor.
. 1t was reported yesterday at the meeting
! of the union that agents Of varnish manu-
: facturers and dealers have been trying T.
! induce employees TO work 10 hours. Th
union officials are surprised at the larg
: number of non-union men who have cas-
: in their lot with the strikers. The manu-
facturers counted on retaining enoug
. non-men TO carry on their business, bu
they have been grievously surprised thu
4 far Yesterday 80 new members wer
placed on the roll of the union, swellin
the total membership to 80.
. strike In Building Trades.
Three hundred plasterers' tenders en-
Moved by the contracting plasterers struc
this morning. The men want nine hour
nav for eight hours work, or in othe
words. the same pay as last year. Th
iourneymen plasterers are largely unio
> men. belonging to the plasterers' union, an
!, their work will be badly hampered.
j. non-union tenders are offered them the
}: will 90 out on strike, and there is also
Z possibility of its spreading TO 9th,
branches of the building trades.
!, The plasterers have been working eigh
i hours for the past month. They, no,
4 ever. sacrifice an hours pay by adoptir
IS the new system. The contractors no
n insist that the tenders should do lik
y wise. but as the latter are not nearly
" we'll paid rs the former, they claim th
% they cannot afford to lose the hou
q According to the tenders they did not see
n an eight-hour day and II has been fore
t upon them by circumstances not und
o their control. II the contractors refu
their demands IL is possible the count
will order a strike of the other trades