The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-28

ment Critters Go Out-Uneasiness in
f Ranks of the Telegraphers-The Big
M ioing Strike at an End.
4 Boston, March 27.-The long threat
ened strike of carriage and wagon work
ers of this city for nine hours day and
eight Saturday, with 10 hours pay, was
formally inaugurated today. The men
have established headquarters at 45 Eliot
street, and abont 500 of the workmen re-
ported there this morning. The strik-
ers are well organized and made very
hopeful by the announcement that eight
of the manufacturers had given in al
ready and adopted the nine hour sys-
tenn.
During the forenoon various PROPOSE
tions of compromise were received from
the manufacturers. but in each case the
rule adopted of no discrimination in
favor of any manufacturer was strictly
adhered to and nothing short of COM
splete concession will be accepted.
Three hundred plasterers' tenders,
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struck work this morning. The men
want nine hours pay for eight hours
work. The journeymen plasterers say
they will strike also if non-union tenders
be put to work.
FALL RIVER. March 27-About all the
employees of the new Hargraves mill are
on strike today. This morning COM
:mittee of weavers waited upon the man
agement regarding the matter OF wages:
Three of the committee were discharged
and when the news spread through the
mill about 250 employees in all the de-
partments quit work.
MAIDEN, Mass, March 27.-The strike
of carriage workmen extended to Maiden
this morning. WE. Keene & Son lost
13 men but engaged new ones. The ten
men at A. B. Palmer's also struck.
New YORK, March 27.-The fight be-
tween the United garment cutters and
the clothing associations grows; neither
side shows the slightest signs of yielding
and the Knights of Labor have entered
the contest on the side of the clothing
association.
There will be meeting of the execu-
tive board of the United garment work
ers of America tomorrow, together
with the local boards of cutters and
tailors' unions, involved in the present
fight, for the purpose of making the
present fight national one. M. l..
Mendelssohn, who represents the Cloth
ing Manufacturers association, stated
that all the Knights of Labor and non
union men were at wo k in all of the as
sociation shops this morning, and did
not go out with the cutters Saturday.
PITTsBURG, Pa, March 27.-The great
strike of the Monongahela Valley coal
miners will be practically ended before
the end of the week. 1t is probable all
10000 of the old men will be at work.
Fully $4,000 strikers returned to the
mines today in the second and fourth
pools. The third pool men also weak
ened. The strikers were so anxious to
get their old places they did not wait for
the convention called for tomorrow at
Monongahela City, at which it is said the
strike will be officially declared off. The
strike was broken by the men at Lucy
vile and Roscoe returning to work Sat
.nrday. The strike. has lasted seven
months and it is estimated it cost the
operators and miners 1000. 900. Of this
amount the strikers lost So, 100000 in
wages.
Sioux CITY, March 27.-Chicago and
Northwestern Sioux City and Pacific,
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
railroads, have begun war against the or
der of railway telegraphers. Several
months ago divisions Of order estab-
lished here, and several places along the
Elkhorn lines. Since then men who
belonged to the order have been quietly
dropped out of the service of the road.
Various reasons were assigned. The
men are now convinced their member
ship in the order is the reason. The
officials admit it. It is also said the
Western Union Company is pursuing the
same tactics in this city.
TOLEDO, O., March 27.-This after
noon, in the United States Circuit Court.
the cases of Chief Arthur of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and
Grand Master Sargent Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, sued for
$500, 900 damages for conspiring against
the Ann Arbor Railroad, came up for
hearing. Counsel for the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen moved to dis
miss the case as to Sargent on the ground
the court had no jurisdiction over him,
ahe being resident of Indiana. and the
interstate commerce law providing that
person cannot be sued unless he is a
resident of the district where the suit is
brought. The court thereupon dis
charged Mr.. Sargent. The case of Chief
/. Arthur proceeded. ~
Workman Triumph ir Boston.
n. Boston, March 27.-Fully 300 men
will start work tomorrow morning in 15
carriage and wagon factories in this city
and Immediate vicinity, under the sys-
tenn of nine hours work with ten hours
pay, and advance of ten per cent, in
wages Of piece workers. Workmen are
greatly pleased with the success of their
movement having reached far beyond
their most sanguine hopes. It is ex-
pected at least six more firms will fall in
limo tomorrow.