The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-01
The Labor Troubles.
INDIGNANT CHICAGO BRIcKLAYERs.

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CHICAGO, MAY 31.-The striking brick
layers here held an indignation meeting
last night, and refused TO be bound by the
agreement made on Tuesday by the COM
mIttee Of brickayerS and maSter-masOns.
They claim that after the agreement was
signed by botn parties it was given into
the hands OF George G. Prussing, presi-
dent Of the Master-Builders' Association,
and that before giving it out to the report
ers for the daily papers he removed one OF
the leaves OF the document and substituted
another containing a clause not IN the
original. under which masters may declare
any man not competent mason, and may
compel the Bricklayers' Union to issue an
apprentice card TO him. The men are very
bitter, and Will not resume work to-day.
Prlssing's side Of the story has not been
learned.
Ldter.-President Prussing, OF the Mas
ter Masons' Association, stOutly denies the
imputation made by members OF the Brick
LAYERS Union, that he had tempered with
the agreement signed by the Committees OF
Arbitration. and which it was supposed
would end the strike. lie asserts that the
bricklayers are i'm a rage simply because
they have been defeated in everything they
set out to accomplish. The end OF the
strike cannot now be foreseen.
SHUTDOWN OF IRON-MLLs.
CHICAGO. MAY 31.-From interviews with
the managers Of leading irOn-mills in and
about this city it appears inevitable that all
will shut down tomorrow, owing 10 the
failure OF the mill-Owners TO accede 10 the
Pittsburgh scale. The controversy will
not in any way affect the steel-rail mills,
which will continue their operations. The
managers OF the mills join IN asserting that
the advantage rests with them, as the mar
ket is inactive and prices only moderate,
while their employees were only recently
engaged in a long strike, from the effects
Of which they have not yet recovered.
STRIKE AVOIDED AMONG THE IRON-wORKERs.
PITTSBURGH, May 31.-The conference OF
the iron manufacturers and Amalgamated
Association Committees this afternoon re-
suited in the manufacturers signing last
wears scale. which is $500 per ton for
pudding. This action happily avoids a
strike and nsures the running Of all mills
i'm the West for at least one year longer.
The manufacturers, who have all along
persisted that they would not pay more
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solid front, give as a reason
for the unexpected action they had posi-
tive information thai a number OF western
mills had arranged to continue at the old
scale, with the condition that if the manu-
iacturers there were successful the work
men would accept the same wages, and
rather than submit to seeing their trade
going TO other places they decided TO pay
the wages demanded.
President Jarrett. OF the Amalgamated
Association, says the scale is signed uncon-
ditionally, and charactcriZes il a victory
without a battle. Intense satisfaction Is
expressed on all sides over the settlement,
as a strike was regarded as inevitable /; and
to Pittsburgh an indefinite shutting-down
of the iron mills means not only a serious
loss to those engaged in that particular in
dustry, but to every industry and bushes;
aS well.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW Up A NON-sTSIKER's HOUSE
DIES MONIES, Iowa. May 31.-During las
night some striking miners threw quaint
ity OF powder and fuse into the house Of
Scott Davis "a colored miner, who would
not quit work. The house was badly dam
aged and several OF the inmates hurt, but
none fatally. No arrests have yet beer
made.