The Democratic advocate., 1877-08-18
Labor Strikes and Troubles.

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Labor Strikes and Troubles.
INCREASED TINE ron RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
An order was issued by the Baltimore aud
Ohio Railroad Company to Mr.. j. c. DAVIS
master Of machinery, instructing him TO pul
the employees in the machine shops at Mt
Glare on full time, namely, ten hours per day
instead Of nine hours as at present. This
arrangement will go into effect on tomorrow
Wednesday, In conversation with Mr..
Davis yesterday Gazette reporter learned
that this would affect about one thousand
men and boys, whose earnings will be increas.
ed about II per cent. daily by this increase
Of time. Previous to tho 10th of July last
these men were working but eight hours. On
that date reduction Of 10 per cent. was
made on their pay per hour, aud the number
of hours increased to nine. This latter in.
crease of time will enable the men to earn as
much or triile more in ten hours than they
dd in eight previous to the reduction. Mr.
Davis stated that the men were much gratilied
AT being able to make more time, and that
everything was running along smoothly.
A freight conductor on the PHILADELPHIA
Monday for refusing to add another train to
one which he said was already too heavy.
His discharge led to n strike Of about twenty
others, they declining TO take out trains
Four Of them were arrested Tuesday on the
charge of attempting to incite u strike, -
and committed in default ofSi0O0 bail. They
will have hearing to-day. The strikers
alleec that the real cause Of the freight con.
duCors discharge was his prominence in the
recent strike. There is no stoppage of trains,
the places of the strikers being filled.
At Carbondale, Pa, on Saturday, two hun
ired and ily striking miners compelled the
pump men at the different mines to quit their
work, and the mines are now flooding They
also detained train OF loaded coal cars in
The Delaware and Hudson Company's yard,
which was aheut 10 be sent TO Nineyeh. They
also compelled stoppsge Of the pumps at
the Err colliery. Ii is said the Pittston min.
crs have decided not to resume work.
A switchmau on the Pan Handle Railroad
named Schlutter was found lying senseless
near the round house in Columbus, Ohio,
Monday morning, with terrible bruise on
hs right cheek aud temple, which looked as
ifmade by club. His face and head were
30 swollen that it could not be ascertained il
BIZ scull was fractured, and his condition was
critical at last accounts. Schlutter was one
Of the men who remained ut his post during
the strike.
An attempt was made Sunday, to wreck an
y early train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
A switch WAS unlocked aud turned to Packer.
f ton, three miles from Mauch Chunk, but
Ae engineer saw the danger in time to
4 check the speed of the train, and although
al but one of the cars left the track no per.
on was injured. A similar attempt was
made to wreck the same train near Wilkes.
barre on Friday morning.
The blockade on the entire line Of the Ches.
apeake and Ohio Canal was removed on
* Saturday, and four or five boats left Cumber-
and for Georgetown. Little traffic is proba.
t.e for some time, as the boatmen are
determined not to resume navigation at the
Old rates, and the miners in the coal regions
remain on strike. United States troops
and Maryland Militia remain on guard a, Sir
John run.
Over fifty men, with blackened faces, at
lacked the house Of Charles Fisher, in Frost.
burg, Nd, on Monday night, and nearly
demolished it by hurling large stones against
i. Fisher fired into the mob, with what
fleet is unknown, but he aud his family
escaped uninjured. He had been working in
mine for so cents while the other miners
we're on u strike.
Two hundred aud fifty operatives in the
Newark silk Mill, in Newark, n. j., struck
on Tuesday against reduction Of fifteen per
cent They say they submitted to a reduction
oi twenty-five per cent. in November last
and could earn only from SO to 50 per week
Tie miners Of number of collieries in the
llAlleton, Pa, region have resolved to strike
L IL. a. - .ll
Of June |. The question is now whether the
strikers will stop the other collieries in the
leghborhood where the miners wish TO work
Charles Ashby, the last of the railroad
strikers awaiting trial in Cincinnati was sen.
fenced on Tuesday to thirty days coniine
neni IN the workhouse and the payment Of q
ine Of $500, and required to give bonds TO
teep the peace.
AT Philhpsburg, n. j., on Saturday, James
lhion, William Nightingale and Thomas
Ac61re, charged with rioting and interfering
With Central Railroad trains, were each com.
hi'led IN default Of $4,000 bail.
The last two of the nine canal strikers. who
sere arrested on the line of the Chesapeake
Ad Ohio Canal last Thursday, and committed
The Hagerstown jail, were discharged on
b WNedneSday,
The strike continues on the Chesapeake
= pa Ohio Canal. Boats arrive at Cumber
and but none depart. Should the companies
B uef % cents per ton mining will be re-
gned
u twenty members of the Ninth New Jersey
egnent who deserted during the strike are
be cOurt'martialed.
y The moulders in Bells foundry, at Wheel
Is lEW ", Va, struck on Saturday for an in.
B fease Of wages.
iaree hundred quarrymen at Weehawken,
o z D., struck Monday. There was no distur.
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