LABOR'S WAR.

Two Small Riots on the "Black Road" Show the Affect of Anarchistic Ideas.

Railroad Managers Confident that They Will Soon Have All Their Troubles Settled.

One Thousand Workingmen in the Town of Pullman Go on Strike.

Armour & co. Refuse to Take Back Their Socialistic Sausage-Making Bohemians.

Grain-Shovelers Go Out---Furniture Manufacturers Refuse All Offers Made.

Industrial News.

THE BLACK ROAD.

Contrary to the expectations of the police and the men employed at McCormick's reaper-works no organized effort was made by the rioters in Monday's affray to molest them when they entered the factory yesterday morning, and in consequence the officers on duty found no difficulty in keeping the streets in the vicinity clear. The workmen began to arrive as early as 6:30 A.M., and when the bell struck at 7 o'clock five hundred were in the shops. This was nearly two hundred less than were at work on Monday, which was doubtless owing to the scare that had been created by the pitched battle the day before. The force of police was in command of Lieut. Sheppard, aided by Lieuts. Johnson and Laughlin, the number of men being about 150 in all. While a company of blue-coats kept guard in the vicinity of the factory, the remainder scattered along Blue Island avenue and up the cross streets dispersing the crowd of idlers that hung about. Finding it useless to make any attempt to obstruct the operation of the factory, and having a wholesome dread of the policemen's clubs, the waiting crowd gradually drifted down to the socialist hall at Centre avenue and Eighteenth street, and by noon none but the watchful officers were to be seen. The steady downfall of rain that began shortly after noon and continued up to 3 o'clock also had a quieting effect on the strikers, and although frequent rumors came from the Centre Avenue hall that a large body of men was forming to attack the factory, nothing came into view more formidable than a few sullen-faced Poles and Bohemians, who cast savage glances at the police as the lounged along the streets.

The neighborhood of the reaper-works shows numerous signs of the

FUSILLADE OF BULLETS

that whizzed about the policemen yesterday. The fence surrounding the yard had many pistol-balls buried in its boards, and the walls of the office on the second story of the building had holes in the plastering where bullets had come in through the windows. About three bushels of cobble-stones and pieces of granite were collected in the building and piled in pyramid form in the yard. Men were employed all day in fitting sash to the windows that had been smashed by the mob, and restoring the establishment to a respectable appearance. So the time went slowly and damply by, until near the hour of closing, when it was noticed that small groups of men, numbering from six to ten each, were slowly gathering along the avenue and on the side streets. There were not a great many in any one spot, but lurking near the works in all directions there could not have been less than two thousand men. So tired had the policemen become of inactivity that a number of them had started to while away the time by pitching quoits, using old horseshoes for quoits and pieces of wood driven into the ground for goals. Lieuts. Sheppard and Laughlin saw the danger of permitting the crowd to collect, and gave orders to clear the streets for a space of four blocks in every direction. The officers took great delight in obeying the command, and entered upon the work with a sort of jocular vein that showed entire fearlessness of superior numbers, and absolute faith in the power of clubs to persuade reluctant movers. Quite a mirthful mood took possession of some of the squads composed of the younger men, for occasionally they would meet some surly young Polander who "sassed" them for interfering with him, and in several instances these obstreperous gentry were picked up by the slack part of their clothes and incontinently slung into the ditch, or combining duty with pleasure the dilatory individual would be whirled round by an officer at the end of a line of blue coats, and, being caught deftly by the next nearest "cop," would be given a succession of whirls, pushes, and spins until he reached the other end of the squad, where a parting shove generally sufficed to lend speed to his retreat. The streets were tolerably clear of strikers when

THE TOLLING BELL

announced the end of the second eight-hour day in the factory. They soon began to march out, and the most noteworthy fact about their appearance was the absence of the customary tin dinner-pail, a sure and infallible guide to the striker that he who carried it was worker, and therefore deserving of condign punishment. Not a dinner-pail was to be seen, nor was one needed to mark their presence. Each one of the little army of workingmen wore a look of dread on his face, and every person near him was scrutinized closely as he went along, not knowing when from some ambush a lurking anarchist would pelt him with stones, or maybe shoot at him. The men came slowly out, anxiously gazing over the prairie to see if all was clear. Some stopped at sight of the crowds back on the vacant lots, and on the sidewalks of Blue Island avenue, which, as far as the eye could reach, was black with humanity. The hesitating ones were told to hurry along by the officers, but a large number who had to go down the "black road" refused to do so without protection. Two companies of police were then formed, and with one in the street and the other on the sidewalk, the timorous workmen were escorted to Eighteenth street, where they dispersed to their homes. Some of the remarks of the men as they came out from the works showed various degrees of fear, hope, courage, and recklessness, but perhaps the most epigrammatic and original thing was the remark of a stout young fellow to his mate as they stood waiting for a car: "This is twelve hours' work, Joe, not eight."

"How's that?"

"Why, we gets eight hours work, and four hours fighting, two a-comin' and two a-goin."

One of the curious features of the clearing of the streets was the conduct of the women. They came out of doorways as the officers passed along and swore in good Bohemian and Polish at them. Often some gray-haired woman, with the vengeful spirit of her spouse, would raise her arm and with clenched fist strike a policeman in the face or on the shoulder. An occurrence of this kind, near Robey street, came near causing a serious outburst. A Polish woman raised a heavy pitcher that she had in her hand and attempted to strike an officer. He was a young Irshman and fiery-tempered. He raised his club and broke the pitcher into a thousand fragments, and the pushed the woman aside. She cried out in her native tongue: "I am struck; avenge me, my sons," and a rush was made by a crowd of strikers. A few cracks over the head with the club sent them back again, but the incident proved how eager and ready the crowd was to find an

EXCUSE FOR ATTACK

Had a shot been fired at that time an affray would doubtless have been precipitated that might have been more serious than Monday's.

Two small riots occurred in the district where the lumber-yards are situated, the first taking place about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when a mob of four hundred or five hundred collected on the corner of Twenty-second street and Ashland avenue, with the avowed intention of attacking Armour's glue factory on Ashland avenue, near the South branch of the river. A number of Central station detectives were in the crowd, and took pains to "spot" the leaders. When the rioters started south on Ashland avenue five detectives fell into line near the head of the procession and marched with them to the glue-works. The first stone thrown was the signal for the detectives to step to the front, and with drawn revolvers they arrested four of the leaders. The officers who made the arrests so promptly in the face of the mob were Bonfield, Starks, Jones, Slayton, and Boyd. They took their prisoners to Deering street station, where they gave the names of Herman Bitki, William Beckman, August Meyer, and Charles Benke. While making these arrests Supt. Holman, who was inside the factory, telephoned for the police, and a wagon-load from Hinman street station came down and dispersed the crowd.

Later in the day a

MORE SERIOUS AFFRAY

took place on Centre avenue near the headquarters hall. The mob gathered to the number of several thousand on the corner of Morgan and Eighteenth streets, and speech-making of the usual incendiary character began. Some Central station detectives were in the throng, among them, Mike Granger, and he made an arrest, thinking that the police force on the ground and within easy call were sufficient to render him support if necessary. The crowd attacked him viciously with stones and clubs, and rescued the prisoner. Granger was compelled to draw his revolver and fire into his assailants. Then all the police on the ground took a hand in, and the shooting became more and more frequent. The mob moved on to Centre avenue, and took a stand at the corner of Eighteenth street, where the hall is situated. Here several arrests were made, and as Officer John Small, of the Hinman street station, was endeavoring to get a prisoner into the wagon, a man stepped up and pointed a revolver point-blank at his head. Detective Granger was nearby at the time, and knocked him down, but was himself again assaulted, and was with difficulty rescued. He received a terrific blow near his right temple from a stone which laid the scalp open, and caused blood to flow freely. He was taken home, and the wound dressed.

Edgar Brittan, the man who threw the rock at Granger, was arrested and locked up at the Twelfth street station. William Walleka, Joseph Wallek, and Joseph Soekup are also locked up at the Hinman street station for taking part in the Centre avenue riot.

Peace settled down over the lumber region after these riots, and the locked-out workmen in the box factories, who would go to work if their employers would allow them, organized base-ball nines, and played a game, Mr. Maxwell and his foreman taking part in the game.

The rioters arrested during Monday and yesterday were a sorry-looking lot as they sidled into the Twelfth street police court yesterday before Justice Ingersoll. They presented anything but the bravado appearance they wore while yelling and spurring on the half-witted fellow-wrong-doers to acts of violence. Ignatz Urban, Joesph Shuky, Theodore Klafsky, John Patotski, Albert Jupiter, Anton Senicoki, Hugh McWhirted, Nick Woln, Anton Simcock, and Thomas O'Connell, who were arrested on Blue Island avenue Monday afternoon, had their cases continued to May 12 in

$300 BONDS.

Joseph Hess, the wild-eyed rioter who created so much excitement by attempting to hang Officer Casey, was put under bonds of $500 to May 12. Frank Korling, who was saved from murdering Officer Fugate by being struck on the head with a club by Lieut. Dick Sheppard, was also held to May 12 in $300 bonds.

Joseph Stake, John Gute, Paul Cook, and Clem Alberts, the Goose Island rioters, who spiked the rails on the Milwaukee and St. Paul road, were taken before Justice C. H. White, and bound over to the criminal court in $500 bonds each. The other three fellows concerned in the same offense had their cases continued to-day.

Frank Gallaski, John Quashnitzka, John Bass, and Michael Riley, rioters at Eighteenth street and Centre avenue, arrested yesterday afternoon, are locked up at the Twelfth street station. An hour later half a dozen foreign-looking fellows entered the station for the purpose of bailing out the prisoners, but were refused by Capt. O'Donnell.

Robert Ambrose, a badly-battered rioter, the blood running from his scalp and gathering under his chin, where it congealed, was marched into the Twelfth street station at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, having been arrested at the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy yards by Deputy Sheriff O'Malley.

Joseph Vojtek, of No. 422 West Seventeenth street, who was shot in the groin during the trouble at the McCormick Reaper works, died last evening.

A crowd of about five hundred men, women, and children gathered at the corner of Centre avenue and Eighteenth street at 7 o'clock last evening. There were several fights, and two or three men were injured more or less seriously. A squad of police from the Hinman street station watched them from a distance for a time, and then concluded to disperse them. This was easier said than done, and finally word was sent to Capt. O'Donnell, of the Twelfth street station, that a serious riot was in progress. The captain ordered out his reserves and telephoned to the Central station for

MORE MEN.

Then, at the head of twenty-five men, he started for the scene of the trouble. He was eager for a fight, and said he hoped the rioters would stand and fight like men. They did not, however, and as soon as they got within a block of the noisy corner, the crowd started on a dead run, down Eighteenth street and up Centre avenue. When Capt. O'Donnell reached there nobody was in sight. The police, however, picked up two men and took them to the station. The prisoners said they were only spectators and had nothing to do with the riot.

Capt. O'Donnell remained there for about fifteen minutes and then retired in disgust. When he reached Twelfth street he found about one hundred policemen from various stations waiting for him. He told them that the trouble was over, and they returned to their stations. They came from Central station, Desplaines street, Harrison street, and West Chicago avenue.

About half an hour later the crowd began to gather again at Centre avenue and Eighteenth street, and had things their own way for an hour. Not a policeman was to be seen. The lumber-shovers were holding a meeting upstairs, and most of the crowd said they were waiting for them to get through. A crowd of twenty young toughs gathered on the southeast corner behind a pile of bricks, and began throwing the bricks across the street. The crowd fled, and then the toughs began at the patrol-box on the corner. The crowd came back and cheered them on. The gas lamp on top was disposed of in short order, ten bricks being sufficient to demolish it. The box itself proved a harder task, and after bombarding it for ten or fifteen minutes, the toughs made a rush at it and pushed it over, at the same time breaking the wire with a loud snap. The cheers of the crowd were deafening, and hardly had they died away when the cry was raised that the police were coming. The toughs and the crowd without stopping to look, fled in all directions, save the one in which the fatal wagon was coming. When the latter arrived with ten men there was nothing left of the mob. The street presented a queer sight, being covered with bricks, in the midst of which was the dilapidated patrol-box.

Scarcely had the officers left when the rioters reappeared as if by magic. They shouted themselves hoarse until Capt. O'Donnell again arrived and dispersed them, this time effectually. They arrested one man who was found wandering around and acting suspiciously. He had a pistol up his sleeve. He gave the name of Mathew Smiths and he was locked up.

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POLICE AND MILITIA.

The civic and military authorities have made all arrangements necessary to quell any disturbances among the socialistic and striking elements, and when an alarm is sounded over police and private telephones to the several armories a sufficient force of drilled men will be in readiness to respond promptly. Squads of police officers are being held in reserve at the stations, and eight companies of the 1st regiment I. N. G. are awaiting marching orders, seemingly anxious to fire straighter than those who were dealing with the red-flag followers during the riot at McCormick's factory on Monday. About noon yesterday all sorts of wild rumors were afloat in the central portion of the city as to the movements and intentions of the rioters, and it was mainly due to this that the 1st regiment in obedience to its commanding officer, who acted with the consent of Brig. Gen. Fitz-Simons, of the First-brigade, was ordered to assemble at its armory. A superserviceable citizen had rushed to police headquarters and stated that a body of socialists numbering about seven thousand was moving east, intending to sack the premises of those who had excited their displeasure. Col. Knox was immediately communicated with by telephone, and, having rung up Gen. Fitz-Simons, he summoned his men, who responded quickly, evidently realizing that their services might be in urgent demand. In a short time all of company C and a majority of the other companies were in the armory, and the excitement within it and without on Jackson street was intense, as the impression prevailed that the rioting had been renewed and that the militia had been ordered out. A crowd gathered and awaited developments, and it soon became apparent that there was to be no fighting, and those who wanted blood spilled had to content themselves with standing in the rain and getting wet to the skin. The

SENTRIES WERE POSTED

on the sidewalk in front of and outside and inside the doors leading to the armory, and no one who did not have the countersign, which some of them declared to be "rats" was permitted to enter until the corporal of the guard had interviewed the colonel and the latter had given the necessary passport. The situation was warlike in its appearance, and within the embryo soldiers, most of whom had just taken a hasty departure from the desk and the counter, donned their…uniforms in double quick time. They rushed to their company head quarters, and for once declined to…before the looking glasses, of which there are a multiplicity, and without even taking time to inquire the service required of them, they prepared for the fray that did not materialize. Altogether, about four hundred men were on hand, and then Col. Knox summoned the company commanders and ordered them to have the men secure overcoats and arrange their haversacks, and be in readiness for marching orders. These instructions were carried out to the letter, and when the young fellows had completed their arrangements they were treated to ham sandwiches and coffee at the expense of the state, which were apparently very much relished. While all this was going on Brig. Gen. Fitz-Simons and Gen. Joseph R. Stockton visited the armory and expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the prompt attendance of the men. These aged veterans examined the new Gatling gun, which was mounted and operated for their information, and they were of the very decided opinion that they preferred to be with the militia when it was in active service, as it was a rather formidable instrument of warfare. Having appeased their appetites the men indulged in the nameless amusements of playing a piano and other instruments, whiat, another game with "a 5-cent limit," and while they were no doubt disappointed at not having been marched at once to the scene of the riots they soon contented themselves and remained so.

"I ordered the men to assemble at the armory," said Col. Knox to a reporter for THE TIMES, "because I thought it prudent to be prepared for an emergency. There was a rumor current this morning that a large body of strikers were going to make trouble, and when I was informed of it I issued the order to which my men

QUICKLY RESPONDED."

"How many men have you in the armory at the present time?"

"About four hundred; eight companies"

"Do you anticipate any trouble?"

"It is hard to tell what will occur, but I think it is best to be prepared."

Gen. Fitz-Simons said: "I called on Police Inspector Bonfield this morning and asked him if he was going to give us a chance to get at those red-flag fellows, and he told me that the police would be able to take care of them."

"Do you think the militia will be called out?"

"I don't know, though it is wise for the 1st regiment boys to remain here and quietly await further orders. If occasion should demand their interference the governor will be appealed to."

While the 1st regiment was eager for the fray, Col. Jacobs, of the 1st cavalry, and Maj….Tobey, of the artillery, were at police headquarters, where they were called to consider communication from Secretary Ambler, of the Citizens' association, stating that the Gatling gun at battery D was unprotected. This Maj. Tobey declared to be untrue, and Mr. Ambler was so informed. "The gun is all right," exclaimed Maj. Tobey, "as I have a number of men in the battery now, just as they were a few months ago, when I paid them out of my own pocket, which I will do again."

Col. Jacobs expressed himself as being highly displeased over the statements, that none of his men were on duty in the cavalry armory.

"Why," said he, "I have had a company there continually for several days, and I am paying them out of my own pocket, and I don't care whether the state ever repays me. We are prepared for any emergency."

Ald. Clarke, who is on Gen. Fitz-Simons' staff several other officers were displeased at Col. Knox's actions in calling out his men, and they censured Chief of Police Ebersold for putting any faith in idle rumors. Gen. Fitz-Simons, Ald. Clarke, Chief Ebersold, and the mayor had a conference late in the afternoon, and they outlined a plan of action which they deemed satisfactory. It was agreed that the police authorities would be allowed to deal with the rioters until other aid was desired. Then the mayor should be consulted, Gen. Fitz-Simons would be notified, and an appeal would be made to Gov. Oglesby, urging him to call out the militia. Chief Obersold was politely and firmly informed that when he wanted aid Col. Knox was not the gentleman to

COMMUNICATE WITH.

United States Marshal Marsh says the report that a number of deputy marshals have been sent here from St. Louis to protect the property of the Wabash Railroad company is not only false but absurd. "If the necessity arises for the appointing of deputy marshals to serve in this district, they will be appointed by me and by order of the federal court in Chicago. Here is a telegram I received this morning from Marshal Weber, of Springfield:

"I see by the papers that William Ballard claims to be a deputy United States marshal. He has a commission but the same was revoked. Please get the commission from him and return to me."

H. G. Weber

"I went to the Wabash freight-house on the receipt of the message," said Capt. Marsh, "and saw Ballard. He surrendered his commission and told me that he had not represented himself to be a deputy marshal. The fact seems to be that he is a special detective in the employ of the railroad company."

Sheriff Hanchett said last evening that no call had been made upon him to assist in quelling the local disturbances and he did not expect there would be. In his judgment the worst had been passed and he saw no occasion for making any special preparations. He thought the strikers would go back to work in a day or two, and it would then be easy to take care of the socialists.

Sergt. Fitzgerald, of the First precinct, acting under orders from Supt. Ebersold, headed a squad of police yesterday afternoon, and proceeding to the Lumber-Exchange block, corner of South Water and Franklin streets, removed forty stand of arms from the armory of the Grant zouaves, an independent military organization having headquarters in that building. The reason given for the raid was that in the same block a socialistic organization also has headquarters, and it was deemed prudent to get the muskets used by the zouaves away from the locality, lest the wild-eyed advocates of anarchy and ruin should break into the armory and appropriate them. As the officers loaded the guns into an express-wagon a crowd of about two hundred lumber-shovers and dock laborers stood around and gazed at the sanguinary looking weapons with wondering eyes, apparently surmising that they were about to be put into the hands of the militia to be used in protecting persons and property. In this connection it is suggested that the police call at the Bohemian Turner hall on Taylor street, and at No. 58 Clybourn avenue, where a much larger number of rifles are being constantly handled by marching companies of socialists.

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THE POLICE RECORD.

Several hod-carriers, working on a new building at No. 291 Division street, struck yesterday for [28] cents an hour. Their demand was refused, and they stationed themselves before Smith's paint store, at No. 289 Division street. They were noisy and profane, and young Smith, son of the proprietor of the store, ordered them out of the doorway. They refused to move and one of them applied an opprobrious epithet to the young lad. The boy promptly knocked the man down. The strikers then picked up a plank and entered the store, intending to use it as a battering ram with which they proposed to smash up the place. The Smiths, father and son, drove them out at the point of a revolver. Later, while Mr. Smith was on his way to dinner, he was met by four of the strikers. They refused to allow him to go home. He then turned in an opposite direction, and summoned aid from the North avenue station. The police arrested the four men, Fred Kaulerger, August Meister, Fred Pfuger, and Charles Bunge. As Smith's establishment is only two doors from the furniture establishment of Bruschke & Ricke, the row and subsequent arrest gave rise to a rumor that the former employes of the Bruschke factory, who have been out on a strike for several weeks, had attempted to gain possession of the building. The rumor spread rapidly throughout that section of the city, and gave rise to intense excitement for the time being.

Nearly one hundred men who work in the tailoring establishments in the vicinity of Milwaukee and Chicago avenues assembled on the latter thoroughfare yesterday morning. They went on a strike Monday for less hours of work, and say they will not return until their demand is granted. They have made several attempts to force those who refused to strike to join them, but without much success. Yesterday they paraded through Milwaukee avenue and the adjoining streets, frequently halting in front of the shops where the men and girls were still at work. They hissed and groaned, but offered no violence until they came to William Schack's shop, at No. 272 West Chicago avenue. Here they made an effort to get some of the hands to quit work, and went so far as to enter the building. Word was sent to the West Chicago avenue station, and Capt. Hathaway sent a squad of officers, who dispersed the rioters and arrested Charles Schevelski, Robert Scho[?]es, Andrew Seldon, Anthon Schopp, Joseph Lavanduski, John Sabeski, and William Miner, the supposed ringleaders. They are all Poles, and can not speak a work of English. They were taken to the Desplaines street police court, where their cases were continued until to-day. The other strikers attempted no disorder during the rest of the day.

The record of persons thus far injured during the strike is as follows: Officer West, left hand badly bruised by a stone; Officer Condon, bruises on head and back; Officer Kelly, wounded in the face; Officer Fugate, struck on the head by a club; Officer Kayser, wounded on the hand; Officer Granger, badly injured on head and face by a heavy stone; Officer Quinlan, pistol-wound in thigh. Among the strikers the result so far achieved is as follows: Herman Tyman, wounded in the back of the head and shoulder by clubs; August Nenkoff, shot in the thigh; Joseph Vogtick, probably fatally wounded in the groin; Joseph Schuba, shot in the arm; Fritz Piffsky, shot in leg.

Undoubtedly there are others among the rioters who are wounded, some of them probably fatally, but they were carried from the disturbance as soon as injured and hidden away. Inquiry among the strikers failed to elicit any information.

Last evening two hundred Bohemian sausage makers at Armour's left the establishment and marched down to Ashland avenue, carrying red flags, beating drums, and shouting "Down with the police." They paraded around all night and about 11 o'clock reached the corner of Forty-eighth and Laflin streets, where were Officers Doran, McManus, and J. W. Murphy, of Pb2

the town of Lake. The mob jumped on Officers Doran and McManus and commenced to beat them, when Officer McManus drew his revolver and shot Matthew Blauk. Blauk ran a few yards and then dropped dead. The rioters ran and dispersed. Blauk's body was taken to the morgue at the town of Lake.

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THE RAILROADS.

The managers and general superintendents of the Chicago roads were again in session yesterday afternoon, at the Burlington office. There was less anxiety, and apparently less to talk about than on the day previous, as but half an hour was consumed at the gathering. The fact that the roads had agreed to stand together lifted a portion of the burdens off of the shoulders of those who saw that nothing but a firm stand would serve in the emergency that had arisen. The meetings are to be held daily for the double purpose of comparing notes on the situation and putting backbone into those inclined to be a little weak. The situation is also slightly embarrassing from the fact that all of the freight-handlers are not out, a portion of them working and waiting for an answer that is to come at some future date. This acts to tie the hands of those who have met the petitions with a refusal, and are on the defensive. "If the men were all out," said one of the more prominent officials, "we could end the strike by to-morrow night. As it is, it is likely to drag along through the week, although there is no question of its ultimately dying out." The same gentleman asserted that there was no necessity of the roads bringing men from abroad to fill the places of the strikers. Assured of the proper protection, a sufficient number of men could be hired off of the street in an hour to man the transfer-houses. The members present at the meeting agreed that matters were assuming a better shape, and that the prospect yesterday was an improvement over that of the day before. The reports of the superintendents proved that the eruption had lost vigor and force. The men intimidated would be glad to come back, and there seemed to be a general disposition among the more excitable to avoid violence. Many of the strikers were convinced of the hopelessness of their cause, and it was apparent that if left to themselves the trouble would soon be over. The collapse of the Missouri Pacific strike will also have a decided effect upon the men, and was a decidedly cheering circumstance to the managers. The latter argue that if a movement of such magnitude, including in its elements men much more essential to the operating of a road than the body of unskilled labor that was revolted here, and favored by its location in a section where the lawless elements are much more formidable than here, can be met and overcome, than there ought to be

BUT LITTLE DIFFICULTY

in meeting and successfully resisting a much lesser outbreak at this point. On the other hand, the men have seen an unconditional surrender upon the part of an army of men backed by all the boasted power and resources of the Knights of Labor organization, and the results are anything but encouraging to them in their present situation. If there is any complaint at all from the railway officials it is that the merchants and manufacturers are essentially weak and timid in all directions. The roads ought to have the moral support of this class, but they are not getting it to any large extent, and the concessions made outside and the evident desire to keep out of fighting distance is another matter of embarrassment to the officials. The only action taken at yesterday's meeting was to informally renew the pledges of the day previous, and agree that uniform methods should be taken in dealing with all questions that might arise. Among the statements made was that the talk about the switchmen aiding the freight-haulers had been exaggerated. It was understood that the Switchmen's union had passed a resolution to the effect that it would be inexpedient to interfere, and the talk came from those unauthorized to speak for the union. Nothing had been heard from the freight brakemen, as rumored, and it was not believed that any outbreak in that direction was possible, as the various lines had carefully gone over that department weeks ago, and the men had known no grievances. Reports from the shops were very satisfactory. The employes had presented petitions and pressed them to a point where they found that a refusal was sure, and had then discretely withdrawn them. This was notably the case at the Rock Island, the Northwestern, and the Illinois Central. Altogether the managers were in a much pleasanter state of mind and much less worried than on Monday evening.

When Judge Gresham adjourned his court yesterday afternoon he had given no answer to the receivers of the Wabash railroad on their petition to him for protection. Just as he was leaving his court-room W. J Durham, of the law firm of Sleep & Whitton, the attorneys who filed the petition Monday, waited on him and stated that he had received a telegram from Mr. Tutt, one of the receivers, from St. Louis, urging strongly upon the court some action in the matter. The court said he thought it the duty of one of the receivers to

APPEAR IN PERSON

before him if they wished the court to interfere. Mr. Durham stated that one receiver was in New York and the other in St. Louis, and it would be difficult for either to come to Chicago, but Judge Gresham would not relieve his anxiety any further, and the attorney left, feeling satisfied that the court would do nothing unless one of the receivers made his appearance here. The court may issue an order to the marshal at any time, notwithstanding what he said to the lawyers, if he should be satisfied in his own mind that it is right.

The non-union freight-workers at the Milwaukee and St. Paul freight-houses worked bravely yesterday, endeavoring to take care of the freight that presented itself, but their elders were not equal to the task. Up till noon most of the teams were detained but a short time, but in the afternoon the yards were blocked, and a great majority of the teams arriving with freight were obliged to wait for a long time and many of them to turn away unloaded. The delivery of incoming freight progressed in about the same way. At noon the yard off Clinton street was blocked to such an extent that many of the teams that wished to retire unloaded could not find turning room, and were unable to extricate themselves from the jam. The blockade at freight sheds Nos. 1 and 2 was very bad, but at No. 3, where the delivery was going on, it was not so much crowded. The new men were very awkward in handling the boxes and bales at first, but improved rapidly, and soon learned to carry nothing that afforded an excuse for the use of a truck. They seemed to enjoy their lot very much. One of them told a reporter that he had not lived so well for years. "We dine in the banquet hall across the way," said the informant, "and have the very best fare that money can buy, and plenty of it. The work is pleasant, and we have any amount of police protection and

ARE ALL RIGHT."

Later the reporter inspected the "banquet-hall," and found there ample accommodation for over three hundred. The improvised kitchen was well ordered; the larder was supplied; and everything was clean as a new pin. The special and regular police force was on duty the same as the day before, but appeared to take matters cooler, as there were no indications of trouble. About three hundred strikers and half that number of sympathizers hung round the yards all day, improving every opportunity to speak words of reproof to the recruits, admonishing them that they were committing a great wrong, "acting unmanly," "taking the bread from their mouths," etc. One of the new men told a zealous striker that he was as much of a man as any other working man, that he too had a wife and children to feed, and felt it not dishonorable to push freight, even as a non-unionist, to that end. Hot words passed between them, and blows were about to be introduced as the recruit dropped his trunk and assumed a hostile attitude, when two policemen conducted the striker out of the yards and ordered him to move on, which he did with all reluctance possible.

The company sent out about 250 cars of freight during the day, which was probably the best day's work done by any road in the city under similar circumstances. There was no trouble with the swtichmen, although a strike was expected in that quarter, but the coal-heavers who load the freight tenders, went out early in the forenoon, which retarded the work of getting trains off considerably. The new men are lodged, for the preset, in the upper floor of the building on Clinton street just above their spacious dining hall, are well cared for in every respect, and seem to be perfectly satisfied. The striking freight-workers of the road took courage at the slow progress made in handling freight, and noted every team that was obliged to turn away unloaded with a keen relish. They expressed the belief that it was only a question of short time before their late employers would be compelled to yield as the switchmen, they said, were to meet tonight, and would unquestionably go out to-morrrow. If this did not have the desired effect, other means would be adopted.
At the freight-house of the company on Goose Island there was quite an event yesterday forenoon. Capt. Hathaway, of the West Chicago avenue station, with a force of thirty men, made

A SUDDEN DASH

on the strikers who were hanging about the sheds there in a hostile attitude to the number of two hundred. They scattered in all directions without offering the slightest resistance, but seventeen of their number were arrested on the charges of spiking the switches, malicious mischief, intimidation, etc.

The situation at the Fort Wayne freight-sheds yesterday was not improved. The company did not make an effort to move any freight, in accordance with their expressed determination of the day before, but suspended work altogether, except that they looked after a small quantity of perishable stuff. Their coal-heavers went out in the forenoon, but this was not a great embarrassment, as the engines for the passenger trains were coaled at Valparaiso; but at 12:30 P.M. the thirty five switch-tenders employed on the Fort Wayne neutral tracks took the first step of active sympathy with the striking freight-handlers and ceased work. This was regarded by the latter as a sure indication that the switchmen generally would strike not many hours later. The tracks in question are used by the Fort Wayne, Alton, and Burlington roads jointly, and the switch-tenders on them are paid jointly by those roads. They are nearly all located between Harrison and Polk streets. As soon as the strike occurred, a number of policemen, under Sergt. Kennedy, were ordered to the spot, but, contrary to expectations, there was no disturbance of any kind. But few trains passed out, and in such cases the switches were thrown by clerks or yardmen.

On Monday it was decided to take eleven "dead" engines to Sheffield, Ind., where it was expected they could be "coaled up." At 8 o'clock in the morning the engines were coupled together and hauled out of the city, after having stopped and been refused coal at Fifty-fifth street. Arrived at Sheffield, it was found that the coal-heavers there were on a strike. The engines with their crew of fifty-seven men returned to the city minus the coal, and were stowed away in the round-house.

The Alton road sent out two freight trains of nineteen cars each, and received a few car-lots of freight, but aside from this there was nothing accomplished. A few special police were sufficient to maintain perfect order throughout the day.

Matters at the Burlington and Quincy freight-houses were pretty much the same as at those of the Milwaukee line, except that there was not so much of a crowd in the vicinity. The new men were

HARD AT WORK

all day handling freight, but were unable to receive all that was offered. Several teams belonging to Marshall Field arrived in the yards, heavily loaded, at an early hour, and it was nearly 5 o'clock in the afternoon before the last one was unloaded. Meanwhile, the men and horses in charge of them had to be exchanged for others, in order that man and beast might be fed. The yards were blocked with teams throughout the whole of the day in the endeavor to deliver outgoing freight, and many of them were obliged, as at the Milwaukee depot, to turn away unloaded. The strike of the switch-tenders interfered with the dispatch of freight at the Burlington houses to a considerable extent.

At the freight-houses of the Galena division of the Northwestern road everything was quiet yesterday, and the situation was practically unchanged from that of the preceding day. The sympathy of the switch-tenders with the freight-handlers has evidently communicated more confidence to the movement of the latter men, and thus serves to protract and complicate the adjustment of matters. A rumor prevailed early yesterday that

THE BRAKEMEN

of this division sympathized with the strike, but inquiry last evening failed to substantiate it.

The freight-handlers of the Baltimore and Ohio railway employed at the depot at the foot of South Water street will quit work in a body this morning unless their demand for eight hours' work and ten hours' pay, or advance of 25 cents per day, with old hours, is conceded. They are sixty in number, and gave notice as above to S.C. Abbot, freight agent, on Monday, agreeing to wait for an answer until Tuesday. Mr. Abbott informed them on that occasion that they would be as well paid by the Baltimore and Ohio as the freight-handlers of the other roads, but would make no promises. Yesterday afternoon he told the men that he was unable to return them an answer, and requested if they struck that before doing so they would clean up the freight-house. This they consented to do. The men were very quiet, and, as they filed out of the freight-house yesterday at quitting time, wore anything but pleasant faces and looks of triumph. Mr. Abbot said: "Our men have been working right along, and, as they are among the last to strike, I think we would have had no trouble at all but for the force of example. The company will not give them the advance asked for, and I expect them to go out as threatened. We will get along without them somehow, but just how I can't yet say." Mr. Abbot would not state, but left the reporter to infer, that arrangements had been made to fill the men's places, and, excusing himself, hurried away to a consultation with the superintendent. Up to to-day freight has moved on the Baltimore and Ohio without interruption.

The in-freight depot of the Illinois Central is piled with masses of merchandise of every description. No freight has been received at the out-freight house since 4:30 Monday afternoon. Twenty cars were loaded yesterday by clerks from the general office on Michigan avenue and sent out, but a practical suspension of shipments is the result, thus far, of the strike. A Water street firm loaded a car during the afternoon of yesterday with butter for shipment to Cincinnati, and a switch engine was sent to haul it out, but the switch-tenders refused to shunt it, and the yardmaster and agent were obliged to

TAKE THEIR PLACES.

At the Michigan Central depot freights were moving as usual, the time given by the freight-handlers to the company to return an answer not expiring until to-day.

The coal-heavers and trackmen of the Fort Wayne road, at the town of Lake, who were getting $1.25 a day, struck for eight hours at the same pay of $1.50 for ten hours. They did not get it, and went out.

The freight-handlers on the Lake Shore road at Englewood had made up their minds to go out to-day if they did not receive an advance of 20 per cent for full time, or $1.50 for eight hours. When they heard that the freight-handlers on the Rock Island road had gone out, they followed suit. There were seventy-five of them.

Yesterday morning shortly after 7 o'clock in the Illinois Central freight-sheds might have been seen

A NEW GANG

of freight-handlers, small in numbers and not at all skilled in that branch of labor, and yet all working with a right good will. Foremost among them were Gen. Supt. Beck and Division Supt. Hudson. They arrived shortly after the sheds were opened. Each picked up a truck and commenced to wheel boxes and bales of merchandise. A short time after General Freight Agent Horace Tucker and his secretary, Joseph Rusk, put in an appearance, and, seeing the heads of the road at work, also picked up trucks and commenced to unload a car of perishable property. By this time various clerks, some with silk hats and gold-rimmed eye-glasses, reached the scene of action and timidly asked if there was anything for them to do. The huge piles of boxes and bales and two long lines of freight-cars were pointed out, and each clerk sadly pulled off his coat and vest and commenced to work. Assistant Freight Agent Cushing was appointed checking clerk while General Manager Jeffery, who arrived late, had to be contented with taking a hook and help load the trucks. The first move was made in loading several cars of perishable freight. This was taken in a day before yesterday before any of the men had struck, and it was necessary to get it out of the way as soon as possible. After working a couple of hours the head men got together and decided upon having a fifteen-minute recess, and during that time they left the building and failed to show up again, leaving the clerks to wheel the trucks. At first these gentleman considered it great sport to push trucks and roll barrels, but blisters commenced to appear on their hands, and they realized that it was not play, but work. However, about twenty kept at work all day, and by night five cars of perishable freight

HAD BEEN UNLOADED

and delivered, while as many more had been loaded and were ready for shipment. Once during the day a committee of three from the strikers came to the shed and were on the point of going in and warning the new freight-handlers to stop working when they caught sight of an eye-glass or two and some very high collars. When 5 o'clock came they were all ready to leave their trucks and hooks. The general opinion was that office-work was preferable.

The Michigan Central freight-handlers were all on deck yesterday morning, and not a man was missing. They had given the road till 6 o'clock to-night for a decision, and the men all declared that they would hold out till that time. A large quantity of freight was received and properly cared for, while all the freight called for was delivered. Several times during the day committees from the strikers came to the doors of the depots to try and get the men to stop, but in every case the police on guard were too sharp for them, and hence all trouble was averted. Although the men understand perfectly well what the answer will be-a flat refusal of their petition-yet they declare that they will work till the time stated by them shall have expired. The switchmen in the vicinity are commencing to become uneasy. None of them has as yet struck or been at all surly while at work, and yet they declare to a man that if the road allows the freight-handlers to go out, and then employ non-unionists, they will all strike and remain out until the old men are taken back. There was a rumor afloat that the switchmen of the Illinois Central road had refused to move a car of perishable freight, but it proved to be untrue, and they state that they will work as long as there are no non-unionists in the sheds, but as soon as new men are hired to fill the places of the old ones

THEY WILL REFUSE

to move the cars.

The condition of affairs in the freight-sheds belonging to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad remained very much the same yesterday as the day before. Fully three-quarters of the men were on hand bright and early, while the remainder of them failed to put in an appearance at all. The force, however, was large enough, and during the entire day, both in the in and out freight houses, the scene was one of activity. All the freight offered was received, although the amount was not large. In the out-freight the men were driven to keep up with the long lines of waiting teams, and it is estimated that during the day an immense amount of freight was handled. The men expect an answer to their petition to-day, but the hour is not stated, so that it is not as yet known when they will go out, for they will certainly strike when their demands are refused. Several times strikers came into the sheds and freely mingled with the men, but they were unsuccessful in getting them to stop. It is understood, however, that most of them agreed to attend a general meeting to be held in the evening, and that they would work in concert with the other freight-handlers. In case the men go out the road will have to do as the others are now doing, call upon the clerks and do what little work is necessary in taking care of the perishable property.

The Rock Island out-freight house was closed all day, and no effort whatever was made to resume operations. A large number of teams loaded with boxes and barrels arrived in the course of the afternoon to be unloaded, but there was nobody on hand to do the work, and after waiting awhile they turned around and went back again. Many drivers offered to do the work without help if the agent would

OPEN THE DOORS,

but it was considered best to refuse all freight offered. At the in-freight house a little was done in the way of delivering, but the work all had to be done by the drivers of the teams, unassisted by any of the regular men. Most of the teamsters who came for freight at first made a vigorous protest about doing the work which belonged to others, and in a number of cases turned away, rather than touch the property themselves. One firm sent a large truck with three men to get a load of pig lead. Knowing that the freight-handlers were all out and that it would be impossible to get help from the company, they provided themselves with men. No sooner, however, had the trio arrived at the depot than they demanded men from the freight agent to do the work, declaring that they were not freight-handlers and hence would not touch the stuff inside the shed; besides, if they did move it, they would be working against the regular men. A consultation was held and the situation was discussed. There seemed to be only one way out the trouble, and that was to do the work themselves no matter how disagreeable it was. This result being reached, each man braced himself up, called the other two "scabs" and then set to work. In less than fifteen minutes the truck was loaded and started for its destination. Very little perishable stuff is coming in on the road, and the managers think with the aid of the clerks and foremen that no serious trouble will occur. Now that some of the business men have instructed their drivers to load their own teams it is thought whatever freight comes in can be delivered without much trouble.

The desertion at the Chicago and Atlantic is so complete that even the strikers from other roads have forgotten the existence of such a road. Not a man was to be seen in the entire structure, and it has been many a day since the rats and their smaller brethren, the mice, have been

SO LITTLE DISTURBED.

The managers of the road say that they are waiting developments, and will probably resume business as soon as any of the other roads do; in the meantime all traffic is dead. The Louisville and New Albany is not much better of, there being a clerk or two on hand, while perhaps half-a-dozen teams were loaded during the day. The agent of this road is also waiting to see what the other roads are going to do. Work in the Grand Trunk depot is progressing more or less satisfactorily, both in the in and out freight. About a dozen clerks are at work, and a few teams were loaded; no freight whatever was received. Only one solitary striker ventured inside the shed during the day, and he, after taking a glance round to see how affairs were, disappeared. A force of thirty-five men were at work all day at the Wabash shed, and although they were rather awkward in handling the trucks and heavy boxes, yet by night considerable work had been accomplished. It is expected that to-day a number of new men will be obtained, so that more work can be done. The managers of the road do not expect any of the old men to go to work, but intend to fill their places as rapidly as possible with new men. It is thought that in a few days these men will become acquainted with their work and then be as proficient as the old ones. Several of the men who were brought in from along the road became dissatisfied and were promptly laid off. About noon United States Marshal Marsh arrived at the depot and immediately hunted up Ballard, the man in charge of the marshals, and asked to see his commission as marshal. It is understood that he had his commission while in St. Louis, but upon leaving that place had to surrender it. Although without proper authority, he still remains at the depot and will

GUARD THE PROPERTY.

It is said that he is employed by the road, and will be retained by the company till this trouble is settled.

The freight-workers were in session at the hall, No. 54 West Lake street, all day yesterday. They completed the work of organizing their union, and considered their present position in respect of the freight-houses where non-union men were now employed to some extent in their places. They also debated the attitude of the switchmen and perfected ways and means to secure their co-operation. When word was received at the hall at 1 o'clock of the strike of the switch-tenders of the Fort Wayne road, and the coal-heavers of the various lines, the strikers took courage and became more enthusiastic in their expressions of hopefulness. A committee was appointed to wait on the switchmen and induce them to quit work until their case was settled. The committee consisted of a representative from each freight-house. As their names were called each man came forward and accepted the appointment in a warm speech, calculated to stiffen the courage of the strikers and filled with assurances of ultimate success. The committee was instructed to visit the yards and use the persuasive powers of its members to induce the switchmen to strike; also, to meet with the Switchmen's union, which was called for last evening to consider how far they ought to go in the present case to assist their brethren the freight-workers.

The secretary of the Switchmen's union was questioned as to whether that organization was contemplating joining

THE GENERAL STRIKE,

and answered: "The switchmen are perfectly satisfied with their pay and hours. They have no grievances to make, and consequently have no grounds upon which to base a strike."

"Well, then, why are you not at work?"

"You newspaper men seem to get this thing considerably mixed. One paper has already stated that we were out on a strike. The statement is without foundation. There are two departments in the switching. One is composed of switchmen and the other of switch-tenders. The switch-tenders are out on a strike, but we, the switchmen, are ready and willing to go to work when they run out the engines, which can not possibly be done until the coal-heavers and switch-tenders get to work."

The only case wherein the switchmen have showed a tendency to quit work was in their refusal yesterday to handle the cars loaded by the substitutes imported for freight-handlers. They claim that it would be an injustice to the striking freight-handlers, and consequently would not touch the cars so loaded.

Business at the custom-house is not so dead as it might be, and hopes are entertained that the trouble will be over before the situation becomes serious in that quarter. The inspectors reported yesterday that bonded goods were being received without interruption over the Michigan Central, Lake Shore, and Baltimore and Ohio roads, and these comprise the principal carriers of imported merchandise from the east.

The laborers on the Chicago, Evanston and Lake Superior railroad at work laying the new track of the road between Calvary and Evanston have struck. The company has been pushing work as rapidly as possible having agreed to have its trains running into Evanston by May 15. It had been about 150 men at work grading and laying new track. The men had been receiving $1.25 for ten hours' work a day. They demanded $1.50 and eight hours' work. They were offered $1.25 and eight hours, but refused it and quit work. The company's officials say they are not going to do anything for the present, but will await the outcome of the labor troubles in the city, and will then be willing to pay what others do.

The chances are that to-day not a wheel will be turned of any freight train out of Chicago. Last evening the switch-tenders held a meeting, at which they resolved unanimously to demand from the companies ten hours' pay for eight hours' work. As is already known, this demand the companies will refuse, and consequently the switch-tenders on the entire railroad system of Chicago will be on strike.

The freight-handlers held a meeting last night at Uhlich block to perfect their organization. The time was chiefly taken up with reading the constitution and by laws and appointing committees. It was then resolved to approach the switchmen as an organized body, duly constituted as a union, and request their assistance in defeating the railroads in their attempt to import non-union help.

President Monaghan, of the Switchmen's union, stated last evening to a reporter for THE TIMES that the switchmen would not interfere in any way with the strike of the freight-handlers or switch-tenders. They had just gone through one strike, and did not propose to have anything more to do in that line now if they could help it.

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THE LUMBERMEN.

Owing to the fact that the public generally as well as the police authorities have anticipated trouble of a serious character in the lumber district, the consultation between the dealers and a joint committee of all the lumber-shovers unions of the city becomes of decided interest at this stage of the strike of shorter hours and more pay. During the last forty-eight hours the men who have made Chicago's reputation as the greatest lumber-distributing point in the world, have engaged in drafting a statement, the publication of which it was hoped would have the effect to stop the present agitation and result in a resumption of business. Yesterday afternoon about twenty representative dealers met a delegation of twenty-two union men, representing the South, West, and North side "lumber-shovers" at the lumber exchange, and a long and somewhat exciting discussion occurred regarding the cause, effect, and outcome of the present difficulty. Mr. A. G. Van Schaick presided, and the delegation of workingmen was headed by Mr. R. A. Brown, president of the West-side Lumber-Shovers' union. Mr. Van Schaick in opening the proceedings said that the questions at issue were of great importance to the lumber trade and the thousands of men engaged in its different branches, not only in this city, but at the saw-mills which supply this market and other lake ports. So widespread and far-reaching were the kindred branches of this vast industry that when thoughtfully considered its magnitude could hardly be comprehended. He referred to the threats and demands of the men and the effect of their action on business generally, incidentally spoke of their action of Friday last when the men quit work, and said they had placed themselves on record as the instigators of an unnecessary and uncalled-for stoppage of business, the results of which would be felt

FOR MONTHS TO COME.

Mr. Van Schaick closed his remarks by saying: "I will let time and results show your fellow-workmen and the public generally whether the committee now meeting with us as representatives of the lumber interests of Chicago has good ground for the position it assumes in the controversy, if such it may be called, and whether it acts for the best interests of the lumber trade.

When the chairman concluded his remarks it was evident that what he had said might as well have been addressed to a crowd of cigar-signs. The lumber-shovers either did not or would not understand the purport of the speech, and no effort was made to reply on the part of the men.

Mr. Van Schaick thereupon read the following statement, premising its presentation with the remark that its contents were thoroughly endorsed by every dealer in the city, and he took advantage of the opportunity to say that the ultimatum was final, and would not be receded from under any circumstances:

TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE LUMBERMEN'S UNION

-Gentlemen: The demand made in your printed communication as committee for Lumbermen's union, No. 1, has been carefully considered by the committee chosen by the lumber-dealers and planing-mill companies of Chicago, and by a unanimous vote your communication is respectfully returned for amendment, which time and a better knowledge of the existing conditions of the lumber trade of Chicago will convince you is clearly for the interest of the men you represent. With your demand for an increase of 25 per cent in wages compared to last year no reason has been assigned for the increase, but in answer to the request we hereby respectfully state why the lumber trade of Chicago can not meet your wishes as expressed in your communication under existing

BUSINESS CONDITIONS.

1. That with the current expenses of handling lumber in Chicago the trade has been unsatisfactory and during four years past many firms selling lumber, and some of long standing, have withdrawn their capital from the business, and for this reason alone: and several yards have been closed during twelve months past from this cause.

2. That the volume of the lumber business of Chicago has steadily declined since 1881 equal to the employment of 550 men annually, or an aggregate reduction of 2,750 men in five years.

3. That during the period the annual production of lumber at ports that supply this market has in the aggregate steadily increased, and yards are operated at producing points at a large reduction in expense compared to Chicago, and the result has been large shipments to consumers direct from saw-mills by railway.

4. That the decline in receipts of lumber in Chicago from this cause is likely to increase during the present year, and already

SHOW A FALLING OFF.

5. That labor, yard rent, and the general expenses of handling lumber are much greater in Chicago than at competing markets on Lake Michigan,-notably Racine and Milwaukee,-while rail freight from those points to the territory supplied by Chicago yards is the same.

6. That the local consumption of lumber is less than 800,000,000 annually of the 1,700,000,000 feet received at this port, and the remainder, 900,000,000 feet, can be shipped from the mills of Wisconsin and Michigan, where no yard rent is paid, and no high and costly piling required, and labor is 30 per cent cheaper than the scale demanded by your committee.

7. The wages paid by Chicago lumber dealers and planing-mill owners are larger for the same grade of men than is paid by any other Chicago industry. The majority of the men are wholly unskilled, and even a knowledge of the English language is not required, but $1 per day has been paid men newly arrived with a chance of early promotion and higher wages. Contrasted to this $1.10 to $1.15 is paid similar men at saw-mills' yards, and $1.25 for the same grade of men that command $1.75 per day in Chicago.

8. Consequent upon the advance in the cost of saw-logs and the advance in cost of production, together with the steady advance in pine timber, the Chicago yard dealers are asked to pay 10 per cent more for cargo lumber than in 1885. While, on the other hand, the agricultural interest, the largest patron of yards, is receiving 15 percent less for grain and hogs than formerly, which is to that extent a benefit to laborers, and are not free buyers of lumber in the west: and the uncertainty that prevails as to building at this time adds to the general stagnation

IN THE LUMBER TRADE.

In the face of all these reasons a demand is now made by the class of men who are as intimately connected with this branch of commerce as the lumber merchants themselves for an increase in wages that competing and rival markets do not pay. The lumber laborers of Chicago can not afford to allow experiments, and the change proposed in your demand to endanger the future of the lumber business of this port, which gives direct employment to more than ten thousand men, besides indirectly to 10,000 more, and it is the chief support of more than 8,000 families, and $4,000,000 are annually disbursed for labor. Looking backward twenty years the lumber dealers of Chicago find no cause for complaints, and so vast a business which involves the support of so many kindred industries can not long be conducted contrary to business methods.

The members of this committee have been chosen by their associates with the belief that they are unbiased and upright men-that they did not ignore the rights of the laborers, nor seek to gain a settlement not based on the actual condition of the lumber trade, both here and at competing points.

They all claim of you as representatives of the men you are associated with the same spirit of fairness and careful study of the situation, and the public, who are also interested, expect you as the party that has opened the controversy and abandoned your employment to do all that is fair and reasonable to place labor again within the reach of your fellow workmen, and restore to Chicago its share of the lumber trade of the west.

A. J. VAN SCHALCK

THE DOCUMENT WAS READ

deliberately and with an evident intention of impression the men with the serious consequences which will follow their refusal to return to work. As the figures showing the decline of the trade and the comparatively high rate of wages paid here were read a few of the more intelligent and fair minded workingmen seemed impressed with the idea that they had been hasty, but if there was any desire to admit it it was dissipated soon after the committee left the room. Mr. Van Schalck wound up his remarks by an appeal to the men not to act rashly, and the twenty-two yardmen took their departure, after promising to let the dealers know the result of a joint meeting of their unions to be held in the evening.

As the committee left the room, and while yet in the hall of the building, one John Schmidt, who until recently worked in Bigelow Brothers' yard, was accosted by a reporter for THE TIMES and requested to state what the committee had done during their three-hour session. He was evidently very much excited, and said: "It's no use. They want to starve us. They will not let us work. They can not cull and pile the lumber themselves, and if they will not let us do it, by G--, we burn it up." Secretary Hotchkiss, of the Lumbermen's exchange, was one of the astonished listeners who heard the incendiary threat, and following Schmidt downstairs, hunted up an officer, who arrested the man and took him to the Central station. He was booked as disorderly, and later in the evening was bailed out by his friends. The arrest caused great excitement about the docks. Many of the committees of which Schmidt was a member were still hanging about the corner of South Water and Franklin streets, but they were so utterly bewildered on account of his prompt arrest that no effort was made to rescue him.

Mr. Van Schalck states most emphatically that the great lumber business of Chicago is indefinitely suspended. The yard owners have already received proffers from more men than they could possibly work. They are anxious to take the place of the strikers, but he informed Mr. Brown, chairman of the workingmen's committee, that the former employes would be given the preference if they returned to work at once. Every day of idleness means an actual loss to the men of $18,000, and as the dealers propose to make no attempt to do business for sixty days at least, the loss in wages alone

WILL BE ENORMOUS.

It is the intention to stand by the decision of the dealers, if it closes every saw-mill in the northwest. Mr. Van Schalck read for the benefit of Mr. Brown several letters from Muskegon and the Saginaw valley lumber district, in which all the mill owners and manufacturers heartily indorse the action of the Chicago lumbermen, and promise to support them to the extent of shutting down their plants if it is deemed necessary.

Mr. Brown, who acted as spokesman for the workingmen, seemed to appreciate the gravity of the situation, and he left promising to do everything in his power to bring about a speedy and amicable settlement of the difficulty.

The situation among the lumber-shovers on the North branch was about the same yesterday as on Monday, except that the strikers were a trifle quieter yesterday. In the whole district there are not twenty men who are not among the strikers. Charnley & Lovdall worked a few men in the morning loading cars, but when they heard the strikers were coming down to see them they let them stop. A few of the yards sent out their teams, but in many cases they were met by the team and sent back. In the afternoon, during the rain, the lumbermen had a little better success with their teams and filled many pressing orders. It is thought that the lumber-handlers will make a determined effort to-day to make the teamsters quit work and even threaten violence.

Loomis, Martin & Co. began work in the morning with five men, and worked along until about 10 o'clock when over five hundred strikers came down North avenue, making a great deal of noise. Mr. Loomis at once sent for the police to protect his workmen. The strikers shouted at the men in the yard, and ordered them to quit work. The men kept on, and when the police arrived the strikers marched to a field in Halsted street just south of North avenue. A rude platform was erected and several speakers urged them to stand firm. After the meeting they quietly scattered in all directions.

Kaiseberg & Rinn's big planing-mill was quiet yesterday. The men demanded the "ten-for-eight" system, and the firm conceded them nine hours' pay for eight hours' labor. The men yesterday agreed to return to work this morning but the mill can not be started up for want of lumber. The lumber-shovers would not let them have it yesterday.

One hundred and fifty men employed in the planing-mills and lumber-yard of J. Badenoch Jr., at the corner of State and Sixty-fourth streets, made a request for shorter hours. They were given ten hours' pay for nine hours' work, and went right along. At this place there was a huge scare early yesterday morning. Someone notified the men employed at the planing-mill that an armed mob of anarchists was going down there to clean out the place and drive the men from their work. The story spread throughout the neighborhood, frightening everybody to such an extent that they sought police protection. Many of those who resided nearest the mill fasted doors and windows, and the place looked as if there was nobody at home in the whole settlement. It was reported that some of them nailed up their doors, but none could be found in this condition. Three o'clock was the hour set for the raid, but when the hour arrived there was not a turbulent spirit in sight. The inhabitants peeped out their windows, and seeing no warriors of the red-flag kind gradually came forth and resumed their usual duties.

The striking lumber-shovers held a meeting last evening and listed to the report of the committee appointed to confer with the lumbermen's committee. The report was to the effect that the lumbermen could not possible grant their demands. The shovers determined not to yield, and speeches were made urging them to stick together.

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THE PACKERS.

Employes of the packing-houses at the stockyards yesterday morning generally understood the arrangement which had been made to pay full time for eight hours' work, and were promptly on hand at the new beginning hour, ready to resume where they had left off the previous day. In nearly all of the houses all that reported for duty were given an opportunity to take their old places. But at Armour's there was a slight deviation, which had the effect to astonish a few of those who were the most earnest in their efforts to create trouble. These were the sausage-makers, who are anarchists of the most extreme sort, belonging to the red-flag, dynamite, and destruction gang who would rather see the whole country damned than have their "rights" trampled upon. Shortly before the whistle blew two rough Bohemians, who represented themselves as a delegation from the sausage-makers, called upon Mr. Cudahy and demanded of him to know what he was going to do. Their manner was so offensive that they got no satisfaction other than the fact that the men generally were going to work. They then retired and a new "committee" waited on Mr. Cudahy, demanding satisfaction. To these Mr. Cudahy said they were not going to make much sausage at present, and they could get along with a few men, and that they need not go to work. This did not seem to satisfy them. They left, however, and the sausage foreman went among the crowd with a view to selecting a few of

THE LEAST OBJECTIONABLE

of the men and putting them to work. The crowd objected to this, the leaders saying no one should be permitted to work unless all of them were taken back at once. The foreman was called in, and the men told there was no work for them. They still hung around and were getting boisterous when a policeman told them to disperse and go home. After hooting and yelling a few minutes they went out to the street, where the leaders held a brief consultation. Suddenly one of them picked up a piece of a hoop to which he tied a red flag, which he had conveniently secreted about his person. He raised it with a yell and waved it above the heads of his brother-anarchists. The crowd shouted, and moved away toward Ashland avenue hooting and yelling. A large number of Armour's employes witnessed the exhibition. Some of them hissed it, while others quietly remarked that it was not only disgraceful, but was an outrage upon a civilized people. They were glad when the anarchists were out of sight and hearing, and hoped they would never return, as they were nothing but a disturbing element.

In the crowd of sausage-making anarchists there were 110 men and thirty boys. They were the ones who were entirely responsible for the trouble at Armour's. They were the lot that broke their agreement with their fellow workmen that there should be no strike at Armour's pending a settlement of the eight-hour question, and in their departure they received no sympathy from the employes of the house. After they had gone, Mr. Cudahy said he was glad they were out of the way, as he

WANTED NO MORE

of that kind. Among all his employes there was perfect satisfaction with the manner in which they had been treated by the firm. There was that confidence existing between his men and him which would not be broken without a just cause. Every man in his employ felt perfectly free to come to him at any time, and he wanted it always to be that way. He seemed to have had enough of the Bohemian element, and was not only glad they were gone, but would never again employ any of that class of people. He was satisfied he could get plenty of men to take their places who belonged to the same class with his other employes, and he would employ them. A Bohemian who was an outsider called to see if he could not influence Mr. Cudahy to change his mind and take back the disturbers, but his peculiar eloquence only seemed to have the effect to make him more firm in his resolve.

The action of Mr. Cudahy was felt throughout the yards. The news traveled rapidly, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon had reached the ear of almost every packing-house employer and employe. It was well received everywhere. Employers generally were glad that much of the disturbing element had been gotten rid of, and it was very easy to discover a determination on the part of the heads of the other packing-houses to follow suit and eventually weed out every anarchist and red-flag flaunter or advocate in the entire district. They now seem to well understand that with this element out of the way they will have no trouble with their men. Among the employes generally there is a similar feeling. They are satisfied that they and their employers can get along without any trouble if these hoodlums are out of the way, and they will aid their bosses in rooting them out.

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FOUNDRY MEN.

The machinery manufacturers and foundry men met yesterday at the Grand Pacific hotel. Out of the eighty firms representing the hard-metal interests of the west, there were present sixty-five of the most prominent establishments. It was estimated that the firms represented at the meeting yesterday employed between eighteen thousand and twenty thousand men, all of whom would be affected by the action of the convention yesterday. R. T. Crane was called to the chair, and W. J. Chalmers acted as secretary. After an informal interchange of opinion among the manufacturers, it was demonstrated at the outset that the manufacturers were to a unit opposed to the eight-hour plan, and would insist upon ten hours being considered a day's work, without any corresponding increase in pay. As a matter of general defense it was decided to appoint a committee to draft a declaration of principles and a code of by-laws which would bind all the manufacturers in the city. The following resolution was then adopted:

Resolved. That it is the sense of this meeting that the eight-hour movement not extending throughout the country, it is not practicable to grant ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, or to limit a day's work to eight hours and compete with manufacturers in the east, and that we close on Saturday night, to reopen only when the employes shall have agreed to resume work on the old basis of ten hours' pay for ten hours' work.

A committee was appointed to perfect the articles of organization, of which R. T. Crane was chairman, the committee to meet on Thursday afternoon next. It was announced that several of the smaller manufacturers had employed their men at eight hours, but the result of that movement had been to demonstrate the fact that it was impossible to run at eight hours. A printed copy of the resolutions will be posted at all the shops this morning. As an indication of the feeling among the manufacturers, the following communication from J. McGregor Adams to the one thousand employes of the Adams & Westlake company is a pertinent and significant example

MR. JAMES REID, Chairman, Etc.: Your communication of this morning has had the respectful consideration of our board of directors and while we would be glad to concede to our employes what they ask if it were possible, I am directed by our board to say that in the present uncertain condition of business it is impracticable to run the shops except under ten hours' time, with no increase of pay, and with your ultimatum of eight hours' work before us I am directed to close the works indefinitely.

When brighter times come round I hope we may come together again with the same friendly spirit that exists at present, and remain, yours truly,

J. MCGREGOR ADAMS, PRESIDENT.

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BUILDING INTERESTS.

City Engineer Artingstall took a ride over the city yesterday to look at the public improvements going on and ascertain how the work had been affected by the strike. He found work suspended on the Sixteenth street, Blue Island, and Halsted street viaducts, and inquiry elicited the fact that the men had been driven off early in the day. At noon the men at work on the Twelfth street improvements were also driven away, and at Lake street the work was suspended for want of material which was tied up in the cars at Fifty-third street. The latter improvement being urgent he sent teams to the cars for the iron, but found that it was impossible to get at it owing to the jam. Another effort to get the iron will be made to-day if the embargo has not been removed, for every day's delay in the completion of the viaduct is a great public loss.

A crowd of strikers drove the track-layers off of Adams street early in the day, but as there was no dissatisfaction on their part they afterward returned to work. The strike at the gas-works contract on Arthur avenue still continues. The dredge is at work, being under the control of the men who own it and being worked by them, but the remainder of the work is at a standstill, and the former workmen are performing the agreeable task of looking at the place where they formerly worked. As they were excavating an old dump the prospect is no doubt pleasing.

Between five hundred and six hundred striking employes of the new Equitable Gay company, all street laborers, paraded along the principal South-side thoroughfares yesterday morning. At the corner of Adams street and Michigan avenue the strikers compelled a gang of men working on the tracks of the City Passenger Railway company to quit work, after which the procession moved toward the Exposition building to compel another gang of men to stop, but Lieut. Hubbard and a detail of police from the Central station came up and induced the strikers to go quietly about their business.

Extreme quietness reigned yesterday in the precincts of the Builders' and Traders' exchange. Mr. Prussing was at his desk in an adjoining room, but little disposed to talk. He said the early spring trade had opened with the brightest promise, but now the situation was reversed. Builders and material men, who a year ago this time had two and three hundred men employed, had now none at all.

Two hundred men in the employ of Joseph Downey, city contractor, are on a strike for eight hours and 22 cents an hour, or $1.75 a day. They have been receiving $1.50 for ten hours' work.

The Singer & Talcott Stone company, employing one hundred men, has shut down pending settlement of the trouble.

The Illinois Stone company, employing seventy-five men has suspended operations to await the outcome. The Corneau Stone company, Bodenschatz & Ernshaw, and the Excelsior Stone company, employing together more than three hundred men, have decided to await the result of the strikes before resuming operations.

The three sailors employed by Contractor Brainerd, at work on the court house, demanded an increase of their present pay--$5 a day--yesterday morning, and as it was refused they quit work. Mr. Brainerd said he had men at work upon another contract who would take the places of the strikers.

Thirty-five men employed by the gas company in the town of Lake waited on President Wilson and demanded ten hours' pay and eight hours' work. They received a negative answer at once, whereupon all of them struck and left the works. A delegate from the strikers waited upon Capt. Markey, chief of police, and sought to secure his influence to compel the company to put the men at work. The captain told him to take a walk and settle his own difficulties. The man then wanted to know how the town lamps would be lighted. "Oh, never mind that," said Capt. Markey. "If there is no other way the police will light them. We will keep the town light enough for you."

The employes of Thomas Kelly, street contractor of the town of Lake, numbering one hundred, made the usual demand for shorter hours and full pay, and got what they asked for.

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GRAIN-SHOVELERS.

The strike broke out in a fresh place yesterday, the spot being in the ranks of the grain-shovelers employed in the various elevators. About half-past 9 o'clock the men employed in Armour, Dole & Co.'s elevators, acting upon some signal, threw down their shovels and quit work. The men, to the number of about thirty, formed into a procession and marched over to George Seavern's elevator, which is in the same vicinity, just across the Rock Island tracks east of Clark street, and compelled the men at work there to join their number. The new recruits swelled the number of the procession to about forty-five, and, headed by Armour, Dole & Co.'s men, the strikers marched over to Douglas & Stuart's elevator and mills at the corner of Sixteenth and Dearborn streets, where eight men were at work. It so happens that the works of the Dearborn Foundry company are located just across the street from the elevator, and as the men lately employed there are out on a strike it was thought that some demonstration was about to be made, and a very large crowd soon assembled in the vicinity. Somebody turned in an alarm for the police, and presently a patrol-wagon filled with policemen and with gongs ringing loudly came dashing upon the scene. The strikers were orderly, however, and Mr. Stuart bade the policemen let them alone, for his men were perfectly welcome to quit work if they wished. The leaders of the procession then entered a car where Douglas & Stuart's men were at work and ordered them to drop their shovels.

"Who are you, and what do you represent?" asked one of the men at work."

"That's all right; we are grain-shovelers like yourselves, and we want you to come and join us for eight hours' work for ten hours' pay."

"I guess you'll have to come along, boys," piped a delicate-looking man who had been forced to stop work at Seavern's, "for they made us get out."

"Well," said the foreman of the working party, "we are satisfied, and we are not going to quit work until we get these cars unloaded."

"That's all right, if that is your only objection," said the spokesman of the party. "You are right, and we'll help you out." Then, turning to the crowd of strikers, he said: "Here, men, let's turn in and help these men out!"

The command was instantly obeyed, for the men all went to work with a will, and in less than ten minutes the cars were unloaded. Then the men formed a procession again and marched over to the Indiana elevator, at Nineteenth street and the river, where they likewise helped the men there unload their cars, and then induced them to quit work. The original delegation informed the firm of Douglas & Stuart that the strike was general, and that all the grain-shovelers employed in the elevators would be out before noon, unless their demands were complied with. Mr. Seavern offered to pay his men twelve hours' wages for ten hours' work, and they were willing to accept the offer, but were not allowed to do so by the men from the other elevators.

A large meeting of the Grain-Trimmers' union was held last evening at Uhlich's hall, and it was unanimously agreed to raise the price of trimming to $1.50 for all vessels and barges outside the line boats, as follows: Ogdenburgh, Western Transportation company, Union line, Anchor line. These were left heretofore present.

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PULLMAN SHOPS.

The existing labor troubles have finally reached Pullman in full force. Before yesterday a comparatively few of the Pullman employes had decided to quit work and join the idle army. These consisted principally of cabinet-makers, who had resolved to stay out until their demands had been acceded to. Yesterday, however, the contagion seemed to spread with lightening rapidity, and before darkness set in at least one thousand working men were out of the shops, and, according their own words, out of the service of the Pullman company until such a time as they may be permitted to work eight hours only in each twenty-four, and until the wages have been advanced 10 per cent. As is usual at Pullman, the statements of the employes and those of the employers differ quite materially in regard to the situation. Yesterday morning the employes in the several passenger-car construction departments held their respective meetings and appointed committees consisting of from one to five members each to constitute a general committee. This committee soon afterward met and appointed an executive committee of seven, one man from each of the various departments. The executive committee was instructed to wait upon George M. Pullman and state the demands of the entire force of employes.

Shortly after noon Mr. Pullman arrived in the town which bears his name. He proceeded at once to the company's local offices, where the executive committee was in waiting. The committeemen presented a resolution asking that hereafter eight hours constitute a day's work, and that wages be increased 10 per cent on the existing schedule. They also asked that the employes who were receiving $1.50 and and under per day be permitted to work eight hours without a decrease in wages. The resolution also stated that unless the requests were complied with the entire force of employes would remain out.

A short conference ensued, Mr. Pullman claimed that the profits in car-making were small. If the demands were granted contracts could not be taken as they would in the past. Other establishments would underbid the Pullman company. He was willing to pay as good wages and to allow his men the same number of hours as other car-constructing shops. He could not reasonably grant their demands. If they wished they could appoint a committee of three of the number who would be allowed to access the company's books. If any other than reasonable profits were found them men would be permitted to share them.

In the meantime large numbers of the employes had left the shops, anxious to learn the result of the conference. A mass-meeting was held on the ball-grounds, where a temporary stand was erected. From the stand the executive committee announced their unsuccessful labors. It was then decided, although not formally, to remain out on all sides, and a committee was appointed to notify the Pullman officials to this effect. The employes of the iron-working department, who have heretofore remained at work, last evening notified the executive committee that this morning they would go

OUT IN A BODY.

The company states that the present situation is not at all serious. Only six hundred or seven hundred men are out, while the pay-roll numbers twenty-four hundred employes. While work is embarrassed to a considerable extent it is by no means crippled. The men have been given an answer and the company awaits their return. Whether the shops will be shut down in case it is found they can not be fully run has not been determined.

The men, on the other hand, are eager to tell a long tale of their grievances. They state that the wages have been systematically cut down until they now are exceedingly small. Every winter when work is light the wages are cut down, while in the spring when there is plenty of business there is never a raise. They tell the old story of high rents, taxes, and fines of all kinds, etc., which are continually imposed on them.

"The turning point has come," said one of them last night. "To-morrow morning not a man will be found working in the entire iron department. The wood-machine men, cabinet-makers and carvers, painters, all the men in the erecting department, inside finishers, silver-plating men, and trimmers will all be absent. We consider our demands righteous, and will stand by them."

The town was a scene of peace and quiet last night. Through all the negotiations and during the mass-meeting the men were perfectly orderly. The small socialistic element in their midst finds no favor whatever with the great majority of the Pullman workmen. No trouble is feared, although the closing of the shops will probably be necessary.

A quiet day was passed throughout the South Chicago region. The one hundred or more laborers in the North Chicago mills who were advanced from $1.25 to $1.40 a day went to work, and no further trouble is expected in that quarter. This is the second increase in wages these men have received since the first of the year, an increase having been granted by the company in February without solicitation.

In the extensive lumber-yards along the Calumet river work was progressing smoothly. The employers have no fear if their men are left to themselves, and do not desire gratuitous interference from the outside.

The section hands on the Belt Line in and about South Chicago to the number of 150 have quit work. They demanded eight hours' work with ten hours' pay, and were refused.

In the works of the United States Rolling Stock company at Hegewisch, work was resumed in all departments yesterday morning. The men had asked eight hours with ten hours' pay. The men will work the rest of the week, it being understood that then some sort of settlement will be effected. About four hundred men returned to work.

There was no change in the situation at Cummings yesterday. The Calumet mills remain closed in all departments and the men about the streets. As the company has requested police aid in case it decides to resume operations trouble is expected in such an event. A notice is posted on the gates of the mill requesting all Knights of Labor and friends of that organization to keep away from the mills. Another notice signed by Supt. McCloud states clerks are at work upon the pay-roll and as soon as they finished notice will be given and all those who have quit work will be paid off.

Some fifty men and about twelve of fifteen girls in the employ of the Chicago Rubber company at its Grand Crossings works left yesterday. They made a demand for less hours and 10 per cent increase in pay. A number also complained that back salaries had not been paid. A settlement will probably be effected to-day and work resumed.

Work has been resumed at most of the Grand Crossings manufactories. In many cases those who left their work Saturday have returned. With a number of new men, who were easily obtained, it was not found difficult to resume operations.

The employes of Benjamin, Fischer & Mallory received their back pay and their earning up to the time of the shut-down, yesterday afternoon. The men expect to return to work in a few days.

LABOR NOTES.

THE GIRLS.

The girls in the Scandinavian districts who struck on last Monday imitated their male colleagues yesterday by closely guarding the shops in which they were working before the strike. In all the windows of the deserted shops were placards bearing the legend, “Band Girls Wanted.” Whenever a girl or a woman would attempt to enter one of the places at which such placards were displayed they would be stopped by their sisters and expostulated with and forced to listen to an argument in favor of the eight-hour system delivered with a volubility which would put to shame all the hired agitators of the several unions. There was no pulling of hair or scratching out of eyes, the arguments and appeals being all sufficient to keep the shops empty. Stranas’ stocking factory at No. 271 Division street was a continual source of disappointment to the strikers. Sixty girls continue to work there. They are all skilled laborers, and have worked but eight hours a day for the past five years. They work by the piece, and earn from $8 to $12 a week. They laughed at the appeals of the strikers and refused to join them. Not on of the shops which had been abandoned by the girls was doing any business yesterday.

The striking girls who paraded the streets Monday in the Milwaukee avenue neighborhood and made riotous demonstrations in front of the tailor shops where their sisters were at work nearly all returned to work yesterday. Here and there on Chapin street and that vicinity could be seen small knots of them talking excitedly, but they did not attempt to form a procession or make any disturbance. They were too thoroughly frightened by the police the day before.

BREWERS.

The journeymen brewers and the maltsters employed in Seipp’s, Bemis & McAvoy’s and Keely’s breweries were all at work on time yesterday morning and expressed themselves as satisfied with the compromise made with them by the employers through the committee of the Brewers’ union. The men at Keeley’s brewery felt particularly good and they asked Mr. Keeley for half a day’s holiday in order that they might go out and celebrate and drink the firm’s health. Mr. Keeley replied that he would be very glad to grant the request, but that he thought it would be better for the men not to join in any demonstration during the present excited state of affairs for their celebration might be misconstrued by some mischievous gangs of loafers’ and cause trouble. The men agreed with him and quietly went back to their work. All the men seem to be perfectly satisfied, and will make no further demands.

The men at the North-side breweries, in harmony with the agreement arrived at between the bosses and the workmen on the previous evening, went to work yesterday morning and worked all day, apparently satisfied. Inquiries at Brand’s and other North-side breweries were met with the reply that everything was going along all right and that no further disagreement of any sort was expected.

IRON TRADE

The Union Steel company’s works at Bridgeport are now lying idle, with the exception of the blast furnaces, and there is every possibility that these also will be closed to-day. As has already been reported in THE TIMES, the laborers on Monday demanded an increase of pay which was refused by the company, and the same evening the men employed in the machine and blacksmith shops also demanded an increase. This was also refused, and rather than risk the chance of running the place with non-unionists, the management decided to close the works until the present epidemic had spent itself. “Everything is perfectly quiet around the works, the strikers and “locked outs,” most of whom are Irish and Irish-Americans, having no sympathy with what they term “thim daygoes.”

The men who went on strike from the Dearborn Foundry company’s shops last Saturday will be paid off to-day, when it is thought some compromise can be effected between the men and their employers, as the majority of the men want to return to work. It is understood that the company will make some concession to the men, but not all that they asked, by any means.

At the Horn smelting-works, corner of Clark and Forty-first streets, about fifty employes demanded ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work. They were refused and went out.

FURNITURE MEN

The Furniture Workers’ unions was in session all day at No. 150West lake Street, and during the afternoon communications were exchanged between [Next 2 lines are blurred out]…was given to understand that no decrease of hours could be allowed, but that an increase of 10 percent on wages would be conceded. This suggestion was considered and unanimously declined. A resolution was carried agreeing to accept nine hours’ pay for eight hours’ work and rejecting ten hours’ pay for nine hours’ work as they were determined to hold to the eight-hour principle in [---] event. It was understood that the manufacturers were willing to make some concessions and the workers believed that in agreeing to take nine hours’ pay for eight hours’ work they were going half way, and that their employers would meet them on that issue in a liberal spirit. A committee was appointed to wait on the manufacturers and notify them of this their ultimatum and receive a reply.

The furniture workers at J. M. Smyth’s establishment , Nos. 158 to 164 West Madison street to the number of 165 to 170, -upholsterers and finishers- who demanded nine hours’ pay for eight hours’ work on Saturday last, are at work as usually, their request having been aceeded to “In fact,” said Mr. Smyth, “the men were well satisfied with their old hours and pay, but as they belonged to the union they were forced to make the demand. The women in the carpet department who work by the place have taken no action to the strike movement, being satisfied with the present positions.

A CONCESSION

Willoughby, Hill & Co. have adopted the eight-hour system. The store is opened at 7:30 A.M. and closed at 9 P.M. Two sets of help areemployed, one coming on duty at 7:30, with an hour and a half to two hours for dinner and leaving at 6 P.M.; the otherset coming on duty at 9 A.M. with an hour and a half to two hours each for dinner and supper, and staying until closing time. Each set is on duty less than nine hours, and change with each other weekly. Boston oysterhouse is open seventeen hours daily, but there are two sets of employees. Willoughby, Hill & Co. say they will agree to close their store at 6 P.M. if the North, West, and South side establishments in the same business will do so, and are willing to sign an agreement to this effect.

WAGONS.

At the Weber wagon works, South Englewood, the employees, numbering [126], made a demand for eight hours’ work and ten hours’ pay. The demand was refused, and a proposition made for nine hours’ work and full pay. This was accepted by about thirty of the men, who at once returned to work. The others refused to entertain the proposition, and made a new demand for eight hours’ work and [20] per cent. advance on the wages which had been paid for ten hours’ work. This was refused and the men staid out.

BOXMAKERS.

The Box Manufacturers’ association met last evening at the Sherman house. It was announced that the workmen would submit their [ultimatum], but the leader of the laborers failed to materialize. Every manufacturer present announced that he had shut down his works, and would continue to do nothing until the executive committee authorized them to resume work. The executive committee will hold daily sessions during the morning at the establishment of Henry [Stephens] at Twenty-second and Loomis streets where all propositions will be received from the workmen. The association will meet tomorrow [afternoon] at the Sherman house.