People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — MAY SELECT CARPENTERS. [ARTICLE]

MAY SELECT CARPENTERS.

rhat Trad# Want* to Make the Fight for the Eight-Hoar Day. Indianapolis, Ind., March 25.—The ixecutive council of the American Federation of Labor put in most of Tuesday discussing the eight-hour day. At the meeting in New York last December the convention decided to renew the agitation for a shorter work day and the exeoutlve council was empowered to select a trade to enter upon the fight. Three organizations have asked for the privilege, the carpenters being among the number. They have lost some during the last two or three years and they desire that they be allowed to regain this ground. The iron-ore miners and the horseshoers would likewise like to be chosen. The whole subject was referred to a sub-committee composed of Messrs. O’Codnell, McGuire and L«um. It seems certain that the carpenters will be authorized to make the demand, and if this is done there will be a general strike of the carpenters throughout the country.