MR. BENSINGER MAD.

HE DECLARES HE WILL HAVE NO MORE TO DO WITH COMMITTEES.

Many of the Brunswick Company's Employes Said to Be Ready to Return if Their Leaders Would Let Them--Attempts at Violence at Rothschild's--The Adams & Westlake Employes--Notes.

No change has occurred in the situation at the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company's factory. Nearly all of the men are at home awaiting developments. Mr. Bensinger was seen at the office yesterday afternoon, and was very mad. "I consider every one of those men discharged," he said. "I was hasty in acceding to their demands three weeks ago when they promised I would have no further trouble. They have broken their promise, and now if they want a job they'll have to come around as individuals and ask for it. I have communicated with the directors, and they told me to be guided by the advice of the Furniture Manufacturers' Association. I haven't yet given the matter into the hands of the Executive Committee of that association, but will next week if something doesn't turn up before then. I do this simply to give my former employés a chance to consider what they have done. Most of them are against the action which they have so hastily taken, and they are being led around by about two men who have no reason for their actions but pure deviltry. About 90 per cent of them would go to work, but they are afraid that the ringleaders would bring around men from other shops to intimidate them. I'm having documents drawn up by my attorneys releasing me from all inability to fulfill contracts on account of the existing troubles, and I will advertise tomorrow for 400 men. If I can get enough of them I will start up, and if any of the strikers attempt to in any way interfere with them I will get them immediately arrested, and I will also procure injunctions. I am tired of dealing with committees of the strikers, as every time they palm off a different committee on me. I won't treat with any more committees. I will show these fellows that we and not they are running this business."

Mr. Bensinger also said that a number of employés had expressed a willingness to him personally to return to work, saying the reason for their going out was the action taken by their leaders.

Rothschild's Trouble.

At R. Rothschild Sons' furniture factory at No. 232 Kinzie street the situation is the same as at the other North Side strike. Several bomb-manipulators stood around the corners near the factory, and occasionally dropped into the neighboring saloons to brace up their courage. Mr. David Rothschild said that about 6 o'clock Wednesday night several of the strikers got into the engine-room of the factory and attempted to cut the belting, but they did not succeed. He said they also made several attempts to assault Mr. Kaufman, the manager, while on his way home. "Yesterday," he said, "a committee of our men came to me and said that if I would close up the shops in Cincinnati and throw the 500 men on strike there out of work, never to resume, they would come back. But they will rot in their graves before I will do that. I have four warehouses full of goods, and can afford to starve them out. Next Monday I will decide on what to do with my existing contracts. My business is now in the hands of the Furniture Manufacturers' Executive Committee, and I can't start up if I want to. We can't pay the men by the day, either, because we never could tell what the goods cost us, and would therefore lose money."

In the shop everything was confusion. Unfinished work was strewn in every direction. In some cases it wouldn't have taken an hour to have finished a large job.

The Adams & Westlake Company.

The fifty men employed by the Chicago Nickel Works, which furnishes the power to the Adams & Westlake Works, becoming afraid that the firm would adopt the eight-hour system, a large number of them expressed a preference to the continuation of ten hours' work with ten hours' pay.

The employés in Adams & Westlake's factory held a meeting last night at No. 167 Washington street. The men seemed to be hair-splittingly divided on the eight-hour question, but, in view of the fact that they were not thoroughly organized, they decided to return to work on the old standard. The men throughout showed the best feeling towards the firm, and the initial step was taken to perfect an organization. It was decided not to work Saturday and a committee was appointed to notify the firm of that fact. It was stated by one of Adams & Westlake's men last night that fifty men had gone out of the architectural department of the Union Brass Works Wednesday morning, they having demanded ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, and given the firm till Friday night to decide.

Not Sympathized With by the Knights of Labor.

Among the Knights of Labor the strike of the Furniture-Workers' Union creates considerable indignation, which is not at all mollified by the fact that the order receives a good deal of the blame for the union's troubles. "They not only have nothing to do with us," said a leading Knight last night, speaking of the furniture-workers, "but are directly opposed to all our objects. They are nearly all Socialists, who did not believe in anything except a row of some kind, and have not the slightest connection with us, but, instead, do everything possible to injure the order. Yet in some way the Knights get all the blame. In fact, we haven't a single strike on hand at present, and don't intend to have one if we can avoid it."

Notes.

The employés of the sash, door, and blind firm of W. E. Frost, at the corner of Canal and Twelfth street, numbering about 200, sent in a petition last week to Mr. Frost asking that he reduce the hours to eight without reducing the pay. They requested an answer by noon yesterday. At that time Mr. Frost met a committee of the men and told them that he was willing to reduce the hours to eight, but he couldn't nor wouldn't pay ten hours' wages. About one-half of the men returned to work under these conditions, while the others have struck.

The employés of Hoyt & Alsip, brickmakers on Forty-third and Wood streets, are out, and whether the firm will accede to the demands of the union or the union withdraw the resolutions adopted is a matter of conjecture. Both sides are apparently as confident as ever, and when the end will be reached is unknown.

The Trade and Labor Assembly Boycott Committee has issued a circular against Matthew Breen, a contractor, charging him with having refused to reasonably settle the differences between him and the stonecutters, bricklayers, carpenters, and ironworkers of the city, and asking that he be boycotted. The circular is quite lurid in character.