Year: 1873

+ MOTE PROSPECT OF THE SUCCESS OF THEIR


STRIKE.


To-day has been fixed 10y the jOurneymen
carpenters for the cessation Of aOor by society
tbe employ Of masters who require more than eight
hours work Though the meeting at which this strike
was decided upon was certainly representative by its
size aud rampant with enthusiasm, vet the blow to the
building business viii be lightened by the fact that
large proportion Of the OHneymen working nine and ten
hours nonsOciey men, and the number Of employers
who exact only eight hours from their men is nearly
equal to that OF those who exceed that limit Moreover
there are not wanting members Of the several
orders OF carpentry who will disobey the commands Of
their Chiefs and in fear and trembling work beyond the
limited time. That efforts will be made to intimdate


the recreants is not improbable and violence may ensue
for the ouneymen exceedingly exasperated against
such of their fellows they consider berayers Of the
common cause, and their leaders do not inclined
TO restrain the dspoed In the recent strike of the
gasmen and the cOopers the the head OF the
revOers strove check outbreaks and assaults. In
the latter strike they entirely successful in the
former few turbulent spirits broke bounds In the
carpenters meeting Of Friday evening the director Of
the infaming appeal TO his hearers
against those who would not work With them against
the employers. Said he to the 1eyeIed iourneymen
You have met these men; you know them, and You


Ihe chances of success for the strike which begins to-
day must depend largely upon the resources OF the
that account OF the dullness Of the season antci
patons OF possible strike, The large number Of Jour
out OF work and the great supply Of nOn-sO-
ciety men, they are confident that the strikers cannot
cOnquer. The main body OF the organized jOuTneymen
10 found IN the United Order OF American Carpenters
and Joiners. Ihar me 5000 men IN this order do not
unit for the strike j. evident from the fact admitted
by its officers that the weekly meetings whereat the
matter OF sinking not striking has long been talked
Of have been th1ny attended. Besides, the
appeals made by TIE chefs for that harmony OF action
in the future, which had been wanting In the
past, Wgue that this great body is somewhat die
lOuted. and the fame Of Friday night may be only
puff, fierce and high but shOrtyed. The leaders
Slain that this United Order has $4,000 fund hand
and can sustain a strike for nine months. They
dslrOus however OF thinning out the number Of
sibe dependents their fund, ana tell who object
10 strike for eight hours, because they fear thatthey
cannot get work 10 support their families under the
eigbhOur requirement to out OF the city and nn in
terere with the movement here by abOriBg for nine
ten kOus. They promised that when the eghthour
system Is una!terably liked NewYOrk then IL shall
be extended % their new working place. The two
branches OF the Anna gamated Order Carpenters in
tins city, which In this strike work with the larger
United Order. claim that they abundant suFpOt
from England. where the AmalRatcd Society numbers
over $1,000 MEMBERS and has fund OF over 100000