The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-09
LABOR TROUBLES.
Many Strikes Are Occurring All
Over the North and West.
MORE PAY Is THE CRY NOW.
Thousand Of Union Men insist on
Shorter Working Hours.
There Seems to be Con-
cert Of Action.

About 5000 stone masons and brick.
layers in Westchester county, n. Y,
and part Of the Borough of the
Bronx went on strike Wednesday. The
stone masons demand $3.50 a day, in
stead of s3, The masons' helpers want
$2 day instead of 81 so. The brick.
layers, who have been working nine
hours day, demand an eight hour day.
Building operations all over West
chester county are at a standstill on &C.
count of the strike. Twenty or thirty
of the bosses have granted the men's
terms. At Albany, N. Y, five hun
dred carpenters and sixty plumbers
went on strike Wednesday.
The struggle for an eight hour work
day, which has been under considera-
ton by the labor unions Of Philadel-
phia began in earnest Wednesday 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 concerted movement the
demands Of the union. The movement
for working day Of eight hours aud a
general increase of wages, averaging
about 25 per cent, began some months
ago by the amalgamation Of all the
trades connected with building. Re-
ports received by Secretary Allen at
the councils headquarters in Odd Eel
lows Temple up to 10 o'clock show the
following have stopped work: Plum
bers and helpers, $50; hod carriers, 500;
mill hands. 800; steam filters and
helpers, 300; sheet metal workers, 250;
hardw fnishers, 200; mosaic tile
layers and helpers; 1O2; floor layers,
1913; mosaic o,kers, 81.
A strike of 800 men employed in the
building trades began in Passaic, y. j.
Wednesday. The men asked for
h"r,er hours and more pay.
All the union plumbers in St. Paul,
Iich., went OF strike Wednesday in
support of demand for shorter hours
aud an increase in wages. Over eleven
hundred union wood workers, practical
y all the employees Of the sash and door,
box fixture and show case factories Of
st. Paul and Minneapolis decided to
strike Wednesday.
\ dispatch from Omaha says all the
union carpenters in the city are idle to-
lay and not single contractor Of any
Importance is doing anything. The
demand for an eight hour day and an
increase from 35 to 40 cents an hour
and the exclusive use Of union label
planning mill material.
The contractors and employees Of
Kansas City, Mo-, refused demands for
increased wages, and as result about
1000 workingmen struck. They in.
clude timers, sheet metal workers, bod
carriers, plssterers and quarry workers:
It is probable that the plumbers and
steam 6tters will also go out.
Six hundred boilermakers and mold
ers struck at the Stirling Boiler Works,
at Barberton, Ohio, Wednesday morn
ing for an increase of Is per cent, in
accordance with an ultimatum sent the
company several weeks ago. An at
tempt will be made to resume work
with non union men and trouble is ex-
pected. The company has several
large orders for the Russian Navy.
4 special to the Bee from Tiflo says
that the section men on the Tihin divi-
sion of tie Big -Four Railroad struck to-
day for an increase in wages Of from
sl.l5 to sl.25 per day. The company
has refused to accede to the demand:
The coremakers at the 0. S. Kelley
Company Of Springfield, Ohio, went
out on strike Wednesday, demanding
q uniform schedule Of s225 per day.
Then men at the Architectural Iron
Works, Grey Iron Foundry, E. W.
Ross Company, Botiendorf Wheel Com
pany and the Armstrong Fouudry Com
pany, about 250 in all, went out.