The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-07
THE STRIKE ON.
Ten Thousand Men in Mahoning Valley and
5000 Men at Wheeling Ask an Increase
In Wages.

in Wages.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, May 3l.-A scale was
presented to all mills of -Mahoning Valley
to-day, and all refused to sign, and no work
will be done in any of them tomorrow.
Brown, Bcnnell 81 CO.. have ordered all their
furnaces and coal mines to be closed down.
This strike will throw ten thousand out OF
employment in this valley alone.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 31.-A Herald
special from Erie reports: Two hundred
and fifty puddlers of the Mount of Hickory
Rolling Mill strike tomorrow for an ad-
vance of 80 cents per ton.
WHEELING, May 3l.-The Iron and Nail
Mills of this city and vicinity shut down
this evening for an indefinite time, the pro-
prietors having refused TO sign the new scale
of wages for employees which would take
effect tomorrow. The Whitaker Sheet Iron
Mill signed the scale this evening, and will
be the only mill in operation tomorrow
| By this stoppage 5000 men will be thrown
out of employment here. Both parties are
firm and the outlook is gloomy in the ex-
| treme.
CUMBERLAND, Md, May 31.-One hundred
miners, mostly Austriens, for the CONSOLE
dated Coal Company, have arrived, and
were Immediately placed under police pro-
lection.
ST. LOUIS, May 31.-The Laclede Rolling
Mill the Helmbacker Forge and the Harri-
son Wire Works, in this city, will shut
down tomorrow. The Nut and Bolt Com
pany. whose works are in East st. Louis
have been closed, or partially closed, and
will not start up again unless there is entire
harmony among their men. They claim
that as the product they turn out is
speciality, they should not be included in
the programme of the strikers, but the
into it. The Mcdonald Mill and
Forge have very few union men employed
and expect to continue work. The st. Louis
Ore and Steel Company, who have works
here and at Pilot Knob, Mo-, and Grand
Tower, ILL.,, and employ some 5000 men,
are not effected by this movement as their
men do not belong TO the Amalgamated
Association, but they may be forced into it
at later day. 1t is asserted Knight that an
order has been issued by the chief officer of
this, the Fifth Division of the Amalgamated
Association, to inaugurate the strike here
at 8 o'clock tonight, but whether this has
been carried out is not known at this
writing, but from the fact that the first
three mills mentioned above will shut down
tomorrow it is quite likely that the men
have not gone to work tonight
CINCINNATI, May 31.-So far as ascertained
three of the five iron mills in Newport KY,
will shut down in the morning. 1t is not
certain what course the other two will take
The manufacturers have refused to sign the
proposition of the boilers for a change in
wages. The mills here have such a heavy
stock on hand that most of them can, with
out inconvenience, stop business for con-
siderable length of Time.
PITTsBURG, May 31.-The date set by the
Amalgamated Association of the Iron and
Steel Workers for the great strike has ar
rived, and the advent of tomorrow will see
fires out in thirty six mills in this vicinity,
and Is, 500 men thrown out of employment.
Five mills as follows, HusSey, Howe &
Company, Singer, Nimick d Company, Union
Iron Mills of this city. Whitaker Iron Com
pany, of Wheeling, and the Iron Company, of
Newburg, o., are reported by
Secretary Martin of the Amelgamated Asso-
citation tonight as having signed the scale.
Manufacturers here assert that the signing
of the scales by the parties named will not
affect or weaken them in the stand they
have taken, as the mills deal in specialties
or steel exclusively. Both sides express a
in holding out forsix months if
necessary but it is not believed the lockout
will be of long duration. A meeting of the
Nail Association was held to-day, but moth
ing of importance was transacted.