Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-05-04
DEFIED BY GOMPERS.
President of American Federation
Takes Issue with Court.
URGES VIOLATION OF INJUNCTION.
Hundreds of Men Engaged in yari-
GUS Occupations Quit Work
ON Refusal of Their
Demands.

pers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, has taken specialpains
to violate the injunction issued by JUS
tice Freedman, of the supreme court,
prohibiting officers and members of
the Cigarmakers' International union
from paying benefits to the striking
employees of S. Levy & Co.
In letter to Morris Brown, secre
tary OF Cigarmakers' union No. 444, Mr..
Gompers advises that the injunction be
absolutely disregarded and incloses
check for SIS to be used in paying man
to picket Levy & Co.'S shop and to in
ducing Levy & Co.'s employees to re-
main on strike.
'Of course you understand" he con-
cludes, that although the headquarters
of the American Federation of Labor are
in Washington, my legal residence is at
No. 2l1 East One Hundred and Tenth
street New York city. / shall be in New
York on May ~
Fight for Eight Hour Day Begun.
Philadelphia, May 2. The struggle
for an eighthour work day which has
been under consideration by the labor
unions of this city began in earnest
Tuesday, when, according to Secretary
Joseph b. Allen, of the Allied Building
Trades council, workmen representing
every branch of the building trades
went on strike to enforce by con-
certed movement the demands of the
unions. Nearly 5000 men are reported
to have quit work, and this number is
but small representation of the total
membership of the Allied Building
Trades Council, which embraces about
95 per cent. Of the men employed in the
building trades. The fact that so few
workmen were compelled to strike is
considered by the union as favorable
to their cause.
The movement for working day of
eight hours and a general increase of
wages, averaging about 25 per cent,
began some months ago. AT recent
meeting May was decided upon as the
day for presenting the demands.
The New York Central Strike.
Buffalo, N. Y, May approximate
ly 700 more car repairers have Joined
the strike which was begun by the men
of that craft employed by the New
York Central railway, and this consti-
tutes Tuesdays active developments.
The much-deferred ultimat um stands |
over until to-day, when Superintendent
Watt, of the motive power department
of the New York Central, is expected
from New York to confer with the ex-
scutive committee of the strikers The
strike of $50 Lackawanna and $50
Nickel Plate shopmen is not technical
1t RI o1 81 1
OF the strike, according to labor ethics,
but illogical sequence to demand that |
they repair crippled cars OF the New
York Central. Of course these men
struck by an official order of their
organization Nearly one-half of the
Buffalo police force is now on patrol
duty in the strike district, but there
have been no disturbances.
! Riot In Cleveland.
Cleveland, o., May 2.-The police
were called upon to quell riot in the
Big Four yards Tuesday afternoon,
where 90 nonunion iron workers were
engaged in repairing a bridge. They
were attacked by about 60 members of
the Structural Iron Workers union.
The trouble came as the result of the
refusal of the nonunion men to stop
work. strike having been declared
by the union. Clubs. stones and pieces
of iron We're used by the combatants.
and several of the participants re-
ceived bad cuts and bruises The police
arrested the leaders in the fight.
Wages Advanced
Goii,m bus, O.. May "a special to
the Dispatch from Youngstown. O..
says; Commencing Tuesday the Jour.
neymen plumbers, timers, skaters and
carpenters employed here will receive
m advance in wages of from IS to so
cents per day The unions made
demand for the increase. which was
granted Tuesday, when the ultima
rum expired. About 1000 men are af-
fected
Get Better Pay.
Parkersburg, w. Va, May 2.-Notice
was served TO the employees of the
Standard Oil company here of an ad-
vance in wages beginning Tuesday.
The advance will be given on the basis
OF allowing ten hours pay for nine
hours work. Men working 12 hours
will receive an increase of ten per cent.
Strike. ut other Points.
A strike of 800 men EMPLOYED in the
building trades began Ia Passaic. N ].
Organized labor in the labor trades in
Duluth Mimi. went on strike Tuesday
Tor higher wages and shorter hours.
All the union carpenters in Omaha.
Neb.. are idle, and not single contractor
OF any Importance is doing anything.
Kansas City contractors and employers
generally tuesday refused demands for
increased wages. and as a result about
LOCO workingmen struck
special from Akron, O.. saws. six
hundred boiler men and moders struck at
the Stirling boiler works at Barberton for
an increase of Is per cent
special from Springfield. o., SAYS the
core makers at the o. S Kelley company
went out on strike Tuesday, demanding
q uniform schedule of s2.25 per day.
ABOUT 100 union workmen empIoyed in
IA carriage and wagon works in Milya,I-
kee. Wis. walked out Tuesday because
the firms as whole refused to sign the
scale.
Building operations in East st. Louis.
HI, are at a standstill and all the union
men engaged in the building trades are
out. a conservative estimate places the
number OF men out at 1000
Two hundred freight handlers empIoved
by the Pere Marquette railroad at Lud-
ington. Mich. have gone on a strike In
making n contract for the ensuing wear
the company refuses to pay the grain
handlers 80 cents an hour an increase of
ten cents over last year. The freight
truckers ask only the same pay they have
been receiving.
1t is claimed by the president of the
Building Trades council, representing all
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