The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-05-05
mAcHINIsTs' TROUBLES OVER
SHADOW THOSE OF WAIST.
MAKERS OR BAKERS.
$4,000 OUT IN new YORK
Difficulties in Connecticut-Prospe
OF . Building Tie-Up in Mime
apolis, BY Carpenters
WaIk-Out.

Chicago, ~. - The following
is the situation here:
Two thousand, five hundred
brick makers, employed from Man.
teno to Waukegan, are out.
Two thousand, four hundred
railroad maintenance of way en-
ployes vote TO go out unless their
organization is recognized.
Ten thousand freight handlers
here and in other cities vote to
strike unless a conference is grant
ed and general wage scale.
Machinists, electrical workers
and machinery movers Of the Otis
Elevator company will strike.
Other machinery movers obtain
wage increase and accept a two
year agreement.
Building trades war between the
plumbers and steam filters shows
no sign Of terminating. General
shut down Imminent.
New York, " Y. Ten thousand
or more men and women in three
trades celebrated May Day by going
on strike. Not wheel is turning in
single union machine shop herei
the labor men say, and will not until
employers grant the demand for an
eight hour day. To those figures the
leaders add 1900 machinists who
walked out Saturday.
The machinists' strike overshadows
in extent the two others which have
been called by the waistmakers and
bakers, these affecting only isolated
shops in Brooklyn and on the east
side.
The maehinists are demanding an
eight-hour day in New York, Brook
Ign. Yonkers and Hudson county, New
Jersey, and the wastmakers in Ger.
tain shops threaten TO walk out in
protest against the restoration of con-
ditions which existed before their re-
cent strike. These. they say, include
a return to unsanitary surroundings
and cut in wages. The bakers, il
is claimed. will strike in scattered
shops for better sanitary conditions.
Labor leaders expect 1000 workers
or more in these two trades to walk
out.
One of the largest employers of ma
chinists, +. W. Bliss a Company of
Brooklyn. sas addressed letter to
each of its 2,250 employees notifying
them that there can be no compliance
with their demands and that their
places will be filled. OF the $4,000
or more union machinists employed in
the strike district, approximately half
or even more, labor leaders claim,
are already working under eight hour
day contracts. These will not strike.
/ In other trades. according to the
executive committee of the central fed.
Grated union, the situation is quiet,
with no disturbance anticipated.
/ Minneapolis. - II both sides make
good on their announced plans,
May Day will see the beginning of "A
strike whihc promises TO be big and
bitter. The carpenters have made n
demand that their wage scale be ad-
yanced from - cents to 50 cents an
hour. The contractors-the greater
number of the most important ones
have refused to accede to the demand,
and assert that they will never sur
render the point. II was agreed among
"a contractors to stand together in
this matter. but about 10 of the small.
er contractors have agreed TO the ad-
vance and their work will not be inter-
rupted. The contractors claim that
the better men are already getting so
cents an hour. but refuse to see the
Justice Of giving a straight scale of so
cents an hour regardless of the indi.
yidual value of the men.
A similar demand in st. Paul has
been settled, or practically so. by the
contractors agreeing to the advance.
Only few contractors held out
New Haven. Connecticut. - May day
finds more unrest in labor circles in
this state than has been the case in
the past four or five years. In Norwich
200 operatives of the Falls Wooden
mills are out on a strike; in Collins
vile. 800 men employed in the Collins
company's mill have struck for an in
crease in wages; the carpenters in
New London have been out for the
/ past month and in New Haven the
/ brewery employees and Hebrew bak.
ers threaten TO strike.