Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-07
The Strikers Riots.

was worked on Saturday. It's said there was
az understanding with the miners who went
to work that if SIS ceots should become
the ruling rate O; the region they should have
that price, but if pot, they should be paid the
old rate, viz: SO cents. Work, es usual, was
offered by the companies at so csEts, but not
accepted, and the suspension OF work ID the
region was general, with the exception noted
The companies declare thor uuWinguess to
Give the advance Some state that they will
close up for the season before they will pay It,.
Altogethcr the outlcok,for the region is anything
but cheerful. sza. 3..
The Cumberland papers state that on Satur.
day last the Georges Creek Coal and Iron
Company went to work ut fifty five cents The
management say this is to load some yes,
sells which are laying 90 demurragc at heavy
expense and that when they are loaded and
| DESPATCHED work will be stopped unless fifty
CENTS is accepted. % the same day the Hamp-
shire and Baltimore Company went to work st
| fifty cents.
Mr.. Sinclair, General Manager Of the New
Central Company, gave orders on Friday to
take out the tools and close The miGes it the
mca would not 70 to work at fifty cents. BY
request the execution of the order was delayed
until to day, and il is thought likely the men
will 60 to work.
The miners Of the Delaware, Lackawana and
Western Company show no sign OF returning to
work, and threatening letters continue to be
addressed to tho mechanics who are said to be
in favor Of going 10 work IN the car shops.
Everything was quiet last night. s,..t
Trains on the Lehigh and Susquehanna were
started yesterday. The first one from Scranton
was stopped below Pleasant Valley by
Stones wedged between the track.
The strike among tho wolEnen at the
| National Tube Works. Mckeesport, has ended
by the men agreeing to resume work without
IN advance 10 wages.
Yesterday morning fifty Italian laborers were
taken to the coal docks al Port Johnson, New
Jersey, in coal barge OF the Lehigh and
Wilkeabarrc Company to take the place Of the
men who are striking for 90 advance 10 the old
rate of wages paid last Spring. After the
Italians arrived The demonstrations by the riot
ers became violent, and help WIS tclegraphcd
for to Jersey City. The receiver Of The Com.
pany called upon the court for protection, and
judge Mckenna issued notice that the prop
crty is under the control ofthe court, aud that
any interference ssilh it is violation OF law
which will be speedily punished. A special
car waH despatched from Jersey City for Port
johnson yesterday afternoon, with Mr.. Tllllng'
hast, the receiver, Sheriff LoVerty, Of Hudson
county, and twenty policemen. One hundred
spccial officers are on duty at Port johnson.
The Mayor OF Bayonnc closed all the drinking
placcs. aud The Fourth Regiment was put under
| arms.
There woro two strikers (workiDgman' 81
meetings in Baltimore, last night. The enc
held at Maryland Institute was numerously at
attended. The tone of many of the addresses,
was of decidedly radical character. The
theory that government ought to operate all
public industries aud furnish employment for
its poor Was dwell npon. while the recent de-
stIucLon Of property in Pttsburg and other
large cities met With approval, as being the
natural result Of povcrty, reduced wages and
waul Of employment. No organization OF the
proposed new party having yet been effected.
The meeting pavIook mora of the nature OF
one Ct sympathy than az coming TO any deter
miualinn co the future course to be pursued.
1t WAS inimatcl that as soon as plans could be
maturcG, ticket would be placed in the field,
and candidates for the various offices IN the
gift of tic people would be put 10 Domiuation.
A smaller meeting was held OF Rechabite
Hall, The resolutions unanimously adopted
|
| from city improvements, arbitration, an eight
| hours law, convict aDd contract labor up 10 the
contraction Of the currency, the suppression of
bank issues aud the payment Of all Government
| bonds at their maturity. The various wards
we're instructed to organize and to send
delegates TO q city couventioD, to be held for
| the purpose Of nominating candidates for NUM-
cipal Offices. Tie speeches which we're made
! partOOk OF the same character as those which
were delivered at the Institute meeting.
ELoaGING AS AN ELEMENT OF DISCIPLINE.
The sweat box as an element Of the discipline
OF tic Wcstboro (Mass.) Reform School has
been eliminated, as the result OF the legislative
Investigations, but Aogging, duly guarded, is
officially approved. The trustees, 10 accordance
with the law providing that corporeal punish
meat shall only be permitted under regulations
prescribed by them, have just submitted their
rules Of government, which are approved by
the Governor and conncil. The boys in the
trust" department, those promoted for good
behavior are not to be logged, but otherwise
these punshments apply TO all:-First, mark
ing down in the department books; second, de-
priva,ion OF play; third, half rations iu the din
ing hall; fourth, confinement 10 the dormitory;
9Th, confinement in the lodge. As the sixth
aud foa resort, hogging is to be administered
in the presence Of the superintendent or assist
ant superintendent, not on the same day the
offanso is committed. and with leather strap
Of single thickness, one and one fourth inches
wide aud twenty inches long, On the hand or
back part Of The thighs" All puuishments are
| to be recorded.
AERIAL TORpEDOEs -Humsnitarians, who
| lock for the suppression Of war to the develop
| mcut of the deadliest engines of warfare, will
read with satisfaction suggestion recently
thrown out for further employment Of the
torpedo. A torpedo balloon, the device is to
be styled, and thc,name is sufficient indiea.
ton Of its nature. A balloonis to be construct
cd capable Of rising with torpedo beneath it,
and starting to windward of camp or fortified
city, or whatever it is desired 10 destroy, is to
be burst or detached by means which it would
be easy to contrive, and thus to allow its cargo
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