The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-11
The Labor Troubles.

The strike of the 700 matters near Orange,
N. j., has been settled, all the shops granting
the advance.
Three hundred hands in the wire mill at
New Haven, Conn.,, struck yesterday against
fortnightly payments.
Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, N. w. has dis.
approved OF tho resolutions OF tho aldermen
recommending higher wages for tho laborers
Of that city.
The ship owners, master shipwrights and
managers OF docks In Boston resolved yester-
day to pay only $3.50 per day to journeymen
caulkers for six months.
The treasurer of tho International Cigar
makers Union at Milwaukee, Wis, refuses to
furnish the strikers further funds. Charges OF
incorporation are made.
The National Convention of the Iron
Moulders' international Union OF the United
States and Canada met In New York yester-
day. Every State in the Union was repre-
sented
The strike of the coal-heavers of the Le
high and Scranton Coal Company at Jersey
City still continues. Yesterday morning n
number OF the strikers went to the docks and
drove the new men away.
How the strike in the Clearfeld, Meyers
dale and other coal fields is to affect tho Stu.
alton In the Cumberland coal basin is a ques.
tion much debated. Whatever complications
may arise, II Is certain that the Cumberland
coal region miners are as yet not only hopeful
but buoyant, and determined to hold out to
the bitter end. The disastrous effect OF the
only by the canal, but by the business portion
OF the whole town. At present tho outlook is
for continuation OF the stoppage for an In
definite period.
At Cumberland yesterday morning Mar
tin Donohue, the young man arrested Satur-
day evening while trying to break through
the lines OF Camp Mayer, at Eckhart, had n
hearing before Justice Brooke. The original
warrant, charging Donohue with melting to
riot, etc., was quashed, and two others,
charging him with resisting an oflicer In tho
discharge of his duty and with disorderly con-
duct, were sworn out. The evidence was to
show that Donohue, while intoxicated, Satur-
lines at Camp Mayer to sec his mother, who
was employed In cleaning n car, and that he
raised q stick TO strike an officer. The Magls-
trate adjudged Donohue guilty, and was about
to impose fne, when the representatives Of
the Consolidation Company suggested that
they were willing TO dismiss the case. The
case was accordingly dismissed and tho pris-
oner discharged.
The freight.handlers strike in New
York remains unchanged. Freight Is being
received and handled slowly. Tho strikers
are collecting subscriptions from the mer.
chants. Two Italians were attacked while
going to work and roughly handled. Michael
Hart, or Jersey City, and Jesse Wild, of Pitts
burg, Pa, striking freight.handlers, were ar.
rested In Jersey City yesterday, charged with
attempting TO prevent persons from dealing
with Cook Bros, grocers. The mon were act.
strikers to boycott the Arm, which had refused
them credit. Yesterday afternoon raid was
made on the freight station OF the Erie Rail-
road In Jersey City by Ave men employed at n
brickyard, and two OF the Russian Hebrew
laborers employed there badly beaten. The
police were called out and the Erie works
guarded by strong force. Dennis Crimlns,
the leader OF the rioters, was arrested.