Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-20
STRIKES
OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN
VARIOUS PLACES.
Five Hundred Boiler Makers at Pittsburgh
on the list-Sevsral Southern Rail.
roads Bothered by Strikers-The
St. Louis Street Car Hands
After More Money.
THE RIGHTS OF STIKeRS DEFINED.
STRIKES.
Five Hundred Boiler Makers ct Pitts.
burRh Have Omit Work

Five Hundred Boiler Makers at Pitts
burgh Have Quit Work.
PITTSBURGH, April l9.-The boiler
makers, FIVE hundred in number, struck
to-day for an agreement for one year on
the present wages, which range from
$2.25 to s., 80 per day, and for time and
half time for repair jobs, double time
for night work, triple time for Sunday,
and quadruple time for Sunday night.
The contest is on the fixed rate OF wages.
Strikes on Southern Railroads
LOUISVILLE, KY, April l9.-The strike
among the railroad platform laborers is
on the increase and the day hands do
ing platform work for the o. & NJ. rail-
road Joined in the demands for an in
crease OF wages to-day. This was
brought about by the other strikers,wh
backed by the Amalgamated Union, are
determined to hold out for the demands
and are working for general strike
among the platform hands OF the roads
touching this point The o. & NJ. rail.
road refused to accept the demands and
they stopped work. There are about
fifteen bands at the J. M. & |. road who
were waited on by committee from the
strikers, which resulted in those
working on the Main street
side, twenty in number, making
application for an advance asked by the
strikers. Mr.. Habbell the local freight
agent OF the read. told them to continue
work till noon, and in the meantime he
would see what could be done. This
they agreed to do, and at noon they
were informed that j. NJ. 4 /. would
pay as much as any OF the other roads,
and under that assurance the men con-
cluded to work. Ii the strikers are sue
cessful in their efforts for raise the j.
NJ. & |. men will also get the benefit OF
the increase. They are a small body and
cam aid materially in the strike and their
continuing work will have little bearing
on the issues between the strikers and
the roads. At the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad nearly all OF the old plat
torn men having quit work, but the
road has managed to find fair supply
OF men to do the work, but, being green,
however, they can't 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 Louisville and
National road, including union forces, is
between seventy.five and one hundred.
There are at work now on the plat
forms sixty men, and yesterday fifty
negroes from different parts between
here and Nashville, and some lower
down he road arrived They wouldn't
90 to work, however, saying that il they
had known that the strikers had quit
they would not have come.
Trouble With Street Railway Men in st
Louis.
ST. LOUIS, April l9-The street rail-
way conductors and drivers OF all the
lines i'm the city have decided to make
demand fora reduction OF the hours OF
labor. They now work from II TO IA
hours on short runs and the conductors
receive two dollars and the drivers one
dollar and a-half a day. What they
want is a reduction to IL hours per day
all round at the present wages and they
assert that il the companies don't COM
ply with their demand they will strike.
A meeting will be held tomorrow at
which their demand will be formulated
and nraaantad IN tho companipa