Year: 1872

attached to their printed form Of contract guaran
teeing the adoption OF the eight-hour system. The
firms in question stontly deny the statement, and,
OF course, the authenticity or their signatures.


Some OF the pianof0rte makers are again at work,
and certain bitterness is felt by those who remain
in the attitude OF striking. a canard was circu-
lated about the street early yesterday that at
tack In force would be made on the factory of the
Messrs. Steinway, but so far as could be learned
there was little or no foundation for the report.


Trouble was apprehended in the Nineteenth pre-
cnct yesterday from the employees Of the Hudson
River and Harlem and New Haven Railroad machine
shops. superintendent Keso instructed Captain
Gunner to protect the peace at all hazards, and II
reinlorcements were needed to telegraph to Police
Headquarters and they would be sent. No demon
sration was made, and at late hour last night all
was quiet and orderly In the city.


Undue Importance was sought to be attached to
street row, from the fact that two Of the parties
engaged In il were members OF the Cabinet Makers
Union. II, however, failed to excite much atten-
tiOn, save from Justice Shandley, who committed
the assailants, at Jefferson Market Police Court,
An important secret meeting of the American
Carpenters and Jolners' Union was held during the
evening Mt Masonic Han. The subject under dis
cussion was the devisng OF means for the preven-
tion OF what is technically called dumping" by
which many OF the non unionists seek to cvade the
eigllthOur system established by the carpenters
strike


The Coach Painters.


About one hundred and thirty coach painters
met at Military Han, in the Bowery, yesterday
afternoon. and adopted constitution and bylaws
william Long, OF the Executive Committee, acted
as Chairman during the reading and discussion.
This s the second week Of the strike for this union,
and twenty-five OF the firms employing them have
acceded to their demands Some two hundred
and thirty OF these men are now at work under the
cighthour rule, leaving about one hundred and
seventy still out Of employment.





Singer Compnny's Employees.


The Singer Sewing Machine Company's employees
met last night The Wilcox and Gibbs Company
were reported as having acceded to the demands Of
their men early in the evening. 1t having been
announced that Howes establishments would be
reopened on Monday, committee reported
notice posted up on the door of the factory,
stating that 1t would not be reopened.


1t was announced that the needeworkers of the
city were all on strike.


committee was sent to the rooms Of the pack
ers at work in Delaney street to endeavor to get
the men to strike.


A despatch was received from the employees of
the company in Glasgow, Scotland, stating that
they were working only eight and half hours per
day. It was at the same time stated that Mr.. Mac
managers In Glasgow to run the factory there
Considerable excitement was created by the re.
ported conversation OF one Of the men with a con-
tractor, wherein the latter it s alleged stated that





to vote for the reelection Of Abraham Lincoln in
1854 under penalty OF dismissal, and that they
the reelection Of President Grant, should they re-
main In their employ the coming autumn.


The Howe Machine Company.


The men OF this company resolved yesterday
that they would support no newspaper hereafter
that they had reason to believe was working in the
interests OF capitalists" and that a copy OF the
resolution be printed in every daily paper In the
city. delegation from the Manhattan Sewing
Machine Company announced that they are to
A committee was appointed to 90 to Boston to
confer with the sewing machine men there.
Mass Meeting OF Machinists and Black


smiths.


mass meeting OF the machinists and black
Smiths now on a strike was held at the Germanla
Assembly Rooms last evening. The meeting was
called to order by Mr.. NJ. r. Kane, and Mr.. c. B.
Muligan presided After few remarks from Mr..
Kane the meet ng was addressed by Mr. John Feh
renbatch, President OF the International Union OF
Machinists and Blacksmiths OF North America.


Mr.. Fehrenbatch entered into lengthy discussion
OF the labor question, and aDalyzed the many
causes which contributed to keep down the wages
Of his own trade. He did not believe that the
usual rule laid down for the government OF labor ana
capital was entirely correct The boss and the en-
plOye were not on equal terms, Tor the employe was
compelled to work for what he could get, whereas
the call for labor might be made when there was no
need OF labor. More than any other cause the want
Of an apprentice system operated TO keep down the
wages Of their trade, and result Of this was the
extraordinary amount of botchwork that was
turned out in shops all over the country. Ap-
prentices, without learning half of
the trade, left their first employer and
moving to some other town got engaged
as journeymen, with journeymcn's wages, aud the
rate OF wages for the trade was fixed in accord
ance with the competency OF this class of men, An
other cause for the low rate OF wages was the in
PRODUCTION OF convict labor. He believed that the
all the asylnms In the State, and should not
be used to interfere with the livelihood
| OF honest mechanics. suppose the convicts were
| to he taught medicine and law, would not every
| was disgrace thrown upon them The speakercon
tinued to discuss the eight hour question very for
cibly, and evidently made deep impression on the
meeting.


He was followed by Mr.. Theodore Haas, President
OF Union No 20, who spoke in the German language
and advocated organization to secure the benefits
OF the eight hour system, for which the trade had
struck.


Resolutions adopted at Albany last evening were
read, and these to the effect that the machin-
River Railroad were to strike to-day for the eight
hour system.


The HOusesm tths.


This association, represented by It's executive
committee, is still in session every day and evening
to receive reports from the several shops in the
city. report read last night TO the
effect that Jackson Brothers had posted
a notice on their gate, stating that all men
in their employ must resume work on the
system Of ten hours day. The men, on reading
this notice, refused to man to go to work on FRI
day morning aud proceeded Immediately to the