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Show ififHELWpS. jj of Men on Strike in the United States and Other Countries. 3 MOTS IN BARCELONA. News of the Struggle for irfflacy Between Employer and Employee. ro May 8. The threatened u'thiscity, which may be said , technically begun lhnrsday nuhe& ltibor took its holiday, uWc apparent until yesterday , when the men faLcd to ro-rk ro-rk at many shops. Tho Black the vicinity of McCormick's vorks had much tho sanio ap-c ap-c today as it had four years one of the strikers could bo man, boy and girl employed in, raWe Iron works, Twenty-sixth kwell streets, is out. Tho total of employees is 1200. No pardon par-don was assigued by the men mirk. A committee was td last night to wait upon the but they seemed disinclined to e their employers: President ailed the strikers about him and ed thom for going out without ad told them that when they ut what they wanted to let him cir demands. The men seemed 110w what to say in reply. The ,ii of the molders' committee y want ten hours as a day's iteea cents advance in wages icr cent extra for overtime . ie great McCormick Reaper about fifty moulders went out, rk is progressing as usual. A irtionofthe employees at the 'S of Barntim & Richards, the urge company and the Chicago heel company went out and uiieeriis were closed. As else-no else-no formal demand was made on lovers, Wells-French Car company's ,-ery one of the thousand cm-veut cm-veut out and the shops were The blacksmiths were the only 0 made known their demand,, :asfor eight hours as a day's E. Roberts' foundry it is said seemed anxious for cither a r avaeation, so the works have n till next Monday to accorn-them accorn-them and to make repairs. -atire number of employes of N. muksand Co,, soaps and lards, out Monday. Coopers to the of eighty struck this morning. L s surprise as the men who lyfairbank are receiving betes bet-es (han those paid elsewhere, mt eight hours' work and nine pay. About six hundred men tnke. oopers are earnest in their de-ir de-ir eight hours' work and in all 1 of the city men are quitting a the refusal of employees to er. In the northwestern dis-the dis-the city there is not one cooper : three to four thousand sash, d blind men walked out of vari-lorles vari-lorles in the southwest lumber this morning. Tho action was itly without warning Tho men their places as usual yesterday e and, with a few exceptions, id to work when the whistles An hour or so later they threw heir tools and quietly walked ing no explanation. it was current last night that ill the planing mills men in the uld quit today. It was also said the woodworkers in whatever of business were restless and linthe strike at any moment, una remained quiet, notwith-? notwith-? the large number of men idle, police say they do not antici-) antici-) disturbance. hundred men in Denmari's e factory, and 700 iu the 1 Cottage Organ 1 factory, yesterday afternoon for "its. Several thousand lumber iu the lumber district along the ud are dissatisfied, and a strike pated among them, laid of arbitration to settle the es between the striking car-and car-and the new bosses' association session all dav and last night. (' hour last night Judge D. Riggs it they were making favorable n The old master carpenters' ion refused to join the confer- jarble cutters union last night 1 to demand eicrht hours work hours pay in the retail marble this morning some bosses re-lc re-lc demands. thousand men are involved. 1;dfof the planiug mill employ-ejed employ-ejed the men tlieir demands m'y. The continuance will de-1 de-1 others doing likewise. |