Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-26
A Gloomy Prospect for the Iron
and Mining Industries.
The Closing Of the Iron Mills
Next Friday Considered
Inevitable,
The Striking Miners Of Illinois
Forcibly Clean Out
the Pits.
Tho Peace OF the Camps Seriously
"Disturbod.'

Special Dispatch 10 TEE BrR.
CHICAGO, May 20 From inter-
views with leading iron men In this
city 1t appears to be q settled fact
that the iron mills of Chicago will
shut down June LIST unless some IN
expected concession Is made by the
A~malgamatod association before that
time, which 1, deemed highly I'm
probable by the manufacturers. The
Union Iron and Steel company,
which was expected to resume work
June lat, has apparently abandoned
oil intention of doing 30.
CHICAGO, May 25.-All doubt Of
general strike among the Iron workers
on June 1st, has been removed by .
fiat which has gone forth from the
head of the Amalgamsted As
ISOLATION of the Iron and Steel Work
ers, demanding that tho present scale
Of prices be maintained. The mem
bers Of the association In this city and
vicinity received orders to stop work
May 31st at midnight if the compan-
les do not accsde, and notices to that
effect were generally served upon the
manufacturers yesterday. In every
case compliance with the demands was
refused, and preparations are being
made for q general shut down.
TIE workmen, as u rule, do not look
forward to an Ind, f oite period of
idleness with any degree of satisfac-
ton, but they are under the control
of tho association, and there Is no
alternative, The manufacturers are
equally reluctant to lie Idle, but,
while they express sympathy for the
men, they say that a~cceding to the
demand would reault In actual loss.
The strike will affect only what are
termed western Embellishments, which
include all mills west of the ALE
gheny mountains, those east of the
mountains having no amalga-
mated association to deal with.
Tho Allegheny range 10 nu-
marically the dividing line, about
the same number of mills being on
either side. In the western division
there are about $50 blast furnaces,
with an annual capacity In pig iron Of
about 400 900 net tons. With the
exception of steel rail- mills, and q very
small percentage of iron works which
employ noa.union men exclusively
these establishments will all be closed,
and at least 1OO,0 QO operatives will b,
thrown out of employment. OF thli
number Pennsylvania will have abouI
one.half, Ollie ths second largest mum
Der, aud Illinois third, with Indiana
little less than Illinois.
CoLINsvILLE, ILL.,, May 25 The
situation to-day Is more strained thar
yesterday. Not o mine on the Van
dale road between Ea1t St. Lou.r mt
Troy is In operation, and ell ere close
iy watched by the strikers. Tit
mayor, last nigh, ordered The saloonI
closed &C 8 o'clock and swore In
force of fifty deputies, IA drunkenness
Increased among the minors. Eigh
teen or twenty shots were fired abou
midnight In q spirit Of devi!try. A
2 o'clock this morning 800 strikin,
e minors assembled az the Abby mines
They ascertEined that the men driver
8 off yesterday had not returned. Thel
|, they detailed fifty men to &c
that no attempt was made to start up
d Then 200 started east on the railroat
track. A picket was left at No 3
: When the Colltnsville mine was relch
ed, they were told that no attempt o.
work would be made to, day. The,
then started for the Confidence an,
o Troy mines. No work was going OIL
a at the Confidence mine, but upward
= Of 100 stopped there.
y Tho Belleville and Caseyville miner
4 were Joined by a strong delegation O
= miners on the Ohio & Mississippi
: road. Those who did not remain q
! Confidence pushed on to Troy, EeveI
miles from here, and surrounded tn
Brookside mine, which was the laa
3 on the Vandalis track. It was l
operation yesterday, but upon the OF
pearance of the mob this mornin
the mon stopped work. The situatlo
Is critical, and the crisis win b
n reached tonight.
ST. LOUIS, May 25.-Dlspat,he
= from Collinlvllle aey tbs militia I
: company undor the command of Lieu
. tenant Freit arrived this evenin
!. from Edwsrdsvllle and are quartere
near pit No. 4. Another company
on route from Tsylorville. Presider
Crandall will operations !
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