Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-01
To Strike for Eight Hour Day
5000 NEW YORK MAcHINisTs
 WILL QUIT WORK TODAY.
TWO OTHER STRIKES ON
Waistmakers and Bakers. Numbering 2ooo, Demand Better Sanitary Con ditions-Few Other Disturbances.

New York, April 30-Ten thousand
 or more men and women in three
 trades will strike when the factory
 whistles blow tomorrow. May day, say
 local labor leaders. By tomorrow night
 not a wheel will be turning in sim
 gle union machine shop here, they as
 sert, unless employers grant the de-
 mand for an eight-hour day. To these
 figures the leaders add 1000 machin-
 ists who walked out Saturday, antici-
 pating the strike programme by a day. 4Waistmakers and Bakers Also to Go
 Out.
 3 The machinists' strike overshadows in extent the! two others which have been called by the waistmakers and bakers, these effecting only isolated
 shops. in Brooklyn and on the East Side. While the machinists are de-
 manding, through their international
 association, the establishment of an
 eight-hour day in District No. 15, em-
 braeing New York. Brooklyn, Yonkers
 and Hudson county, New Jersey, the
 waistmakers say thatAworkers in cer-
 tain shops Will walk out in protest
 against the restora ton of conditions
 which existed before their recent
 strike.
 Want Better Sanitary Conditions.
 These, they say. include return to
 lnsanitary surroundings and a cut iii NoSt1S- iC pdhtlS IL lS S,dLcd W III
 strike in scattered shops for better
 sanitary conditions. Labor leaders ex- pect 1000 workers or more in these two trades to walk out
 Employer Sends Letter to Help. One of the largest employers of ma chinists, E. W. Bliss & Co, of Brook Iyn, has addressed a letter to each of it's 2,250 employees. which was dis tributed before the men walked out Tn lot notified them that there can be no compliance with their demands and that their places will be filled. 23 Firms Grant Eight Hour Day. Of the 25.000 or more union machin- ists employed in the strike district approximately half or better. the labor leadefs assert, are working an eight hour-day contract. These will not strike, according to J. P. Wilson, sec retary and treasurer of the association for district No. 15 MT Wilson said today that p firms. employing 99t men, agreed yesterday to the demand Quiet Among Other Trades. In the other trades, according to the ] executive committee of the CentraI Federated union, the situation is quiet i and no disturbances are anticipated 1 The committee will meet tomorrow night to discuss conditions.
 Hebrew Bakers Strike in Boston. Boston, April 30.-May day, tolnor. row. with the exception of Connecticut | is expected to, develop few evidences 1 of industrial dissatisfaction in this 1 city or in New England generally The only disturbance of any size I in local industrial circles is the strik, I fthe Hebrew bakers unions by whicf 1 f50 men are affected, for an eight -houI 1 work day and improved sanitary con 1 ditions.
 5000 to Strike at Chicago 1 Chicago. April 30.-With the karriva 1 of May day. Chica go's industrial hor l izon $ more clouded than it has beer 1 for several years. Wage disputes ant :: jurisdictional controversies. involving 1 more than 5,00a men, prove a disturb l ing factor and may result in 8 numbe, ] of strikes and lockoufs this week, ac l cording to labor leaders