Daily Republican., 1882-06-03
THIRD EDITION.
CHEw ACES CUES ION
PROGRESS GI ne strike AmonR the
WOrkerain In Iron and steel.

CHICAGO, H., June There IS no
material change in the situation at Iron,
dale, South Chicago, this mornlng. All
of the men are still out. President jar.
rett has not arrived, and Corresponding
Secretary F. Carmody, OF the Iron.
makers Association here, has received
the followin dispatch from him, dated
at Pittsburp;
"My instructions being ouly advisory,
you are at liberty to stop provided that
they all stop
Mr.. Carm3dy has also received the
following telegram from Vice President
j. Y. Bullock, OF Bay View.
MILwAI'NEE, June do rot work
unless they sign the scales. We are
out and will stay out until they all
sign. l will call them out
The indications now ara that the men
will stay out until the manufacturers
yield. The men claim that they nave
a million dollars in the treasury az
Pittsburg, also that the stee! ana fall
men will come to their aid with money
if they need it. The men IN the steei,
rail mills and the ir0n-raiI Mills In all
about /, 200, are cut here,
are striking against are aS toiioWs :
Nail feeders, 81 - per day; helpers, o.;
puddlers, 81 % to s.; mai ers,T6: rollers.
S. to So They demand an adv ance OF
10 to 10 per cent
The knights of Labor have taken a
friendly interest in the brickmakers'
strike, and propose a conference for
compromise ard conciliation, the
knights to represent the interests of
the strikers. The employers have Civ
On no answer, and are not much In
clined to treat with the men, who have
been troublesome and evasive.
The attack of the dock laborers at
Bridgeport last night upon non union
laborers on board the Chicago and AL.
ton train was well executed and
evi1ced careful planning. Though
roughly armed with sticks, clubs,
pieces of iron and stones, the number OF
broken and bruised heads attest their
effectiveness, many skulls being laid
bare by vicious blows, and halfa dozen
persons were hurt in various degrees.
None of the injured are likely to die,
even Judge Pillsbury, who was acci-
dentally shot in the groin, being in
a fair way TO recover at last accounts.
The rioters fled when their vengeance
had subsidized.
NEW YORK, June About 800 of the
striking boilermakers returned to work
to-day in the various shops in this city
and Brooklyn, where the employers
have yielded to the demands of the
men. 1t is thought the strike will be
virtually ended this week.
WASHINGTON, June, Am investi-
CATION of the rate of wages of farm la.
Dor made by the statistician of the De.
partment of Agriculture shows an in.
crease of "a per cent. since 1879 in the
Eastern States. From 1875 to 1879 the
decline was heaviest in manufacturing
sections where artisans thrown out of
employment competed to depress the
rate of farm wages. The advance since
1879 has been IA per cent. in the West
ern States and Is in the Southern.
Comparing with results of former In.
yestigations at different periods, it is
shown that wages declined gradually
from 1866 to 1875, very heavily from
that date to 1879, when rapid recuper.
alton commenced. An exception is no.
TED IN the SOutn as 10 Ine perlOu pe-
tween 1866 and 1869, when the high
prices Of cotton advanced the rate Of
wages. The districts of high wages
are also those of large production and
net profit in agriculture. The present
average rates of wages are: In the Eas
tern States, S26.6l; Middle, $22 "a
Southern, $3.50; Western, $3.50;
California, S39.25.