Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-05-09
May DAY STAKES.
Restaurant Cooks and Waters
Strike in San Francisco.
SHELTER At HELENA SHUT DOWN.
Machinists In Buffalo Strike for . Nine
Hour Dsy-Strikes Reported Of Plumb
err, Plssterer., Hricklayers and Car
ponters ut Different Places.

San Francisco, May 2.-rwenty-two
hundred union cooks and walters
struck yesterday because the Restau-
rant Keepers association would not
sign the union agreement for shorter
hours and increased wages. The res
taurants mostly affected were in the
down town district and on the water
front. Several proprietors closed
their places in order to help Others
remain open. The strikers congre-
gated in large crowds around the en-
frances to the big down town restau-
rants yesterday morning. Among
them were many women. They all
wore badges, showing they were
union workers. In pairs and tylar-
tettes the men and girls walked back
and forth all day shouting to every
passer-by that the restaurants in
front of which they were passing
were unfair. People who did not heed
these statements were not interfered
with. The hotels are not involved in
the controversy.
Smelling Plant Shut Down.
Helena, Mont, May 2.-Late yestcr-
day orders were received to close
down the works of the American
Smelling and Refining company a.
East Helena, employing 900 men. The
eight-hour day law, which went into
effect yesterday, is responsible for the
shutdown in measure, as the com
pany undertook TO reduce the wages
Of blast furnace men 20 per cent. IN
consequence Of shorter days. The
men agreed to work at ten per cent.
reduction and the company offered
to compromise at 10. An agreement
could not be reached and an order TO
shut down was received from the
New York Office.
Struck for u Nine Hour DAY.
Buffalo, n. Y, May 2.-Twelve hun
dred machinists in this city and prob
ably 800 more in Erie county outside
of Buffalo, struck yesterday to Sc
cure a nine-hour day without de-
crease of pay. It is understood that
the local movement is the forerunner
of a strike that may extend all over
the United States, Canada and Mexico
on May 20, when general demand
for nine-hour day will be made.
Plumbers and PlastererS Strike.
Youngstown, o., May All jour-
neymen plumbers of the city went on
strike yesterday. They insist that
threading of pipe and similar work
done by apprentices shall be done
by the journeymen. The journey
men plasterers struck yesterday for
an eight-hour day with nine hours
wages.
Now Jersey Masons Demand an Advance.
New York, May 2.-All the brick
layers and masons of Elizabeth, N.
j., to the number of 400, went on
strike yesterday. AT Yonkers $50
bricklayers. plasterers, stonemasons
and hod-carrers went out. In both
instances the men demanded higher
wages.
Columbus Carpenters Refuse to Work.
Columbus, O., May 2.-Nearly 600
carpenters refused to 60 to work yes
terday pending the signing of the
wage scale of the coming year. The
carpenters demand an increase of 80
cents day or $500 for eight hours.
Plumbers strike In Grara Rs",ds
Grand Rapids, Mich, May 1.-The
union plumbers in all but nine of the
% shops in Grand Rapids went or
strike yesterday to enforce a new
wage scale. The employers refuse to
treat with the union.
Waterbury Carpenters and JoIners Out.
Waterbury, Conn, May 1.-TWO
hundred carpenters and joiners, about
one-half of the total number EN-
ployed in Waterbury, went on strike
yesterday to enforce demands re-
Gently presented.