LABOUR TROUBLES IN AMERICA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1266, 4 June 1886, Page 3

LABOUR TROUBLES IN AMERICA.

Strikes and lock-outs are still toe rn'e in Chicago, leading to violence and hloolshed. On May 3rd a crowd of Socialists and others besieged a reaper factory about half a mile distant from the city and riddled the windows with stones and pistol bulla's. The police attacked the rioters, some six of whom were wounded. Inflammatory circulars printe I in German with an English translation appended, were being freely distributed calling on workmen to revenge themselves.

Socialists are getting troublesome in Milwaukee, and threatened to attack the mills and factories, and the employees of the railway carshops in Detroit are out and will not return to work without the manager’s agree to give 10 hours' pay for 9 hours’ work and 13 per cent, advance in addition. Iho agitation for eight hours as a day’s labour continues in Illinois, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, Philadelphia, New York, and other prominent cen'. res. The demands in most instances have been met an affirmative point of whether ten hours or eight hours’ wages should be paid. The strikers in New York are firm iu their attitude and resolvn to suffer ranch, if need be, rather than recede from tln-ir position. Grand Vicar Marsh, of Bishops’ Palace, Montreal, is given as authority for the statement that at the Consistory in June next, to be held in Rome, the Pope will issue a bull absolutely condemning and excommunicating Knights of Labor. The Kniglus on Jay Gould’s Western railway system declared the strike off on the 14th, andre'nrned to work. The ironworker* resumed work on the 4th, giving employment to about GOOO men.