Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-03
LABOR TROUBLES.

Strikes and Rumors of Strikes In Every
Direction-The Sad Fate of the Milwau-
kee ShOemalzers.
ST. LOUIS, May 2.-The coal miners of
the Belleville, Illinois, district struck yes
terday for higher wages. They claim they
have only been getting one and half to
two cents bushel for digging and now
demand two and half cents. The opera
tors refuse to comply, but it is said they
will probably accede to the miners de-
mands. 1t is understood that similar &C
ton was taken in all the mining districts
of the state.
Diligent inquiries fail to reveal any
movement among the cigar makers here
looking to strike. A few manufacturers
are paying a slight advance, but the great
bulk of men are working at the old
schedule.
PITTsBUEG, May 2.-Complete reports
from the railroad coal district, in which the
strike was inaugurated yesterday, state that
all miners have Joined the strike against
| a reduction except those employed by W.P.
Rand & Co., and the Cherry Hill coal
| company. A delegation of strikers headed
| by martial bands will surround these pits
this afternoon, and remain until the men
at work join the strike. Operators are
preparing to have the strikers kept of
their property, but 40 violence is anti
cipated.
No change in the status of the
| cigarmakers' and plasterers' strikes.
The miners secretary, Flannery, states
that he has offered on behalf of the miners
to arbitrate the dispute under the provis.
ions of the Wallace arbitration act, signed
by the governor few days ago, The OPP
orators decline to say tonight whether
they will accept the proposition. Nearly
all the mills in the city are out of coal
and many will have to shut down for day
or two until arrangements are made tc
receive supply by river.
Conference committees of iron manu-
facturers and the Amalgamated association
meet tomorrow to settle the rate of wage!
for the next year. The general opinion i:
that they will not agree, and that strike
will ensue.
MILWAUKEE, May "A large number o
shoemakers are idle at present, claiming
that they cannot make living wages owing
, to the extensive introduction of machin
cry. In one establishment where owe
, twenty men were lately employed, ther,
, are but half dozen working to-day
There is no organized movement on the
, part of the shoemakers, and not likely tt
be. The change has come gradually, a
three or four of the prominent establish
: ments have, one after another, introduced
, new machinery. The men are looking TO
, other work and take the situation phiIe
sophically. One who left his place to-nigh
said he worked whole week en-
, case of boots, and made only $3.50.
, BUFFALO, May 2.-The cigar maker
, were granted an advance of $3.50 pc
thousand except by manufacturers Georg
Sonneman and J. Meyers. Their hands
240, left.
Chattanooga, May 2.-The Times con
, positors' strike is ended, enough non-unio
m an having been secured.
, ST. Louis, May 2.-The Union stone-c
ters and plasterers went out on a strike to
day. They presented a demand on th
, bosses yesterday for an increase fror
$3.50 to 81 per day, and the establishin
of uniform rate. The employers refus
ed to accede, and this morning about 80
stone cutters and 600 plasterers quit worl
The bricklayers will tomorrow demand a
increase of half a dollar a day, which tn
| bosses will not accede to, and they wi
probably strike. There are rumors of tn
l usual spring strikes in various trades.
f SHENANDOAH, Pa, May 2.-Work at No.
= colliery of the Lehigh valley coal compan
was stopped to day by a strike of leaders
They have been loading twenty-five cars
day, but now refuse to load more than six
| teen. II ence the strike.