The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-20
LABOR TROUBLES.
VARIOUS STRIKES FOR INCREASEn
WAGES AND DECREAsID TINE,
An Epidemic OF Street Car BtFIkes-Il
Reaches ~, LOuIs- boiler Makers II
Pittsburgh Guarding Against y
Reduction Railroad Platform
Hands Join the Gang,

ST, LOUIS, April l9.-The street railway
conductors and drivers on all the lines in
the city have decided to make demand
for q reduction Of the hours Of labor. They
now work from twelve to fourteen hours
on the short runs. The conductors receive
So and the drivers 81 so per day. What
they want Ia reduction 10 twelve hours
per day, all round, at the present wages,
and they assert that II the companies do
not comply with their demands they will
strike. A meeting ia TO b9 held tomorrow,
at which their demand will be formulated
and presented to the companies.
PITTSBURGH BOILER MAKERS WANT A
CONTRACT,
PITTSBURGH, April l9.-Boiler makers,
numbering 800, struck to-day for an agree.
ment for one year on the present wages,
which range from 81 25 to 81 80 per day,
and for time and halt time for repair jobs,
double time for night work, triple time
for Sunday, and quadruple time for Sum
day night, The contest 10 on the fixed
rate of wages.
PLATFORM LABoRERs' STRIKE AT LoUIsvILLR.
LOUISVILLE. KY, April l9.-The strike
among the railroad platform laborers Is on
tho increase, and to-day the hRnds doing the
platform work for the Ohio 4 Mississippi
railroad joined in the demand for In.
creased wages. This was brought about
by the other strikers, who backed by the
AmAlRamsted Union, are determined to
hRl nttN INH ha nt1I aud IL
for q general strike among the platform
hands Of the roads touching this point. The
Ohio & Mississippi railroad refused 10 &C.
cept their demands and they stopped
work. They are about fifteen In number,
The hands at the j., NJ, & |. road were
waited on by committee from the strikers
which resulted In those working on the
Main street side, twenty In number,
making application for the advance asked
by the strikers. Mr.. Hubbell, local freight
agent Of the road, told them 10 continue
work until noon, and In the meantime he
would see what could be done. This they
agreed to do, and at noon they were In.
formed that the j., NJ. 4 |. road would pay
as much Rs any oi the other roads, and
under that assurance the men concluded
10 work. II the strikers are successful In
their efforts for q raise the ]. M, 4 /. men
will also get tho benefit oil the increase.
They are small body and cannot aid ma.
terially In the strike, and their continuing
to work will have little bearing on the Is.
sue between the strikers and the roads.
At the L. & N. road nearly all OF the old
platform hands have quit work, but the
road has managed 10 find fair supply OF
men to do the work. Being green, how.
ever, they cannot do the work near as fast
nor do the work as well as the old hands.
The usual number Of hands employed
about the platform OF the L. 4 N, not In.
Cluding the Union forces, is between 75
and l00 There are at work now on the
platform 90 men. Yesterday 30 negroes
from different points between here and
Nashville,aud some points lower down the
road, arrived. They would not 20 to work,
however, saying II they had known that
the strikers had quit they would not have
tome.