Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-31
GLOOMY BEGINNING.
Remarkable List Of Labor Troubles
Since the New Year Began-Thous-
ands of Men out of Employment
and ia want.


and ia want.
1t is estimated that since Jan. /, at
least 10000 men have been thrown
out Of employment, the majority
Of whom have not yet resumed
work
On Jan. ], 10 per cent. reduction
in the wages of miners IN the Clear
field-coal region of Pennsylvania was
ordered
On Jan II, the men at work for
the Arrow, the Knickerbocker and
the Wolfe Ice companies, of New
/ York refused to work at a reduction
from $175 to S150 per day Five
hundred men in all quit work.
/ A strike occurred in the depart
ments of the 6tenhattan hardware
works, Me-. York, three weeks ago,
and lasted long enough to entail loss
of $l5, 000. shared by both the compa-
ny and the laborers.
On Jan II, the nailers and pud-
dlers of the Robinson iron works
struck because of a reduction of Is per
cent, and have not yet resumed work;
/ 450 men are out.
Five hundred hands were out of
employment at Woonsocket, Il. l.,
for two weeks when the strike occur
red in the Melville mill
On Jan. Is a strike occurred in the
rail mills at Troy. The 300 men are
still out
One hundred men and as many girls
lost their situations on the same day
when the hat firm of w. b. Huely q
Co. suspended operations.
The glass lockout at Plttsburg still
continues, 1000 men being affected
by it.
Fifteen thousand silk weavers at
Paterson, N. j., are threatening to re-
sist a proposed reduction of wages.
AT Buffalo, two days ago, 1000 men
quit work on account of reduction
of wages in the sugar factories. These
men represent a loss of $1,000 a day
to families in that city, and more than
$50. 600 TO the employers.
One thousand mill operatives in
Somerset, Weymouth and Bridge
water Mass, are preparing to strike,
in case the reduction Of 10 per cent,
which has been suggested, should 60
into effect.
A notice was posted up in the Bates
mill, at Lewiston, Me, on Jan. 9, or
dering a reduction of jper cent, which
took effect a few days afterwards.
One hundred and thirty-five looms
were left vacant just a week before
this reduction was ordered by the ging-
ham workers, who had been reduced
Is per cent, and many more left their
occupations when the second notice
appeared. Mr.. Barker, the agent of
the mills, said at the time that the price
of ginghams were so low that the mills
had to cut down wages or stop work.
The Pennsylvania Iron Works sns-
pended operations a week before
Christmas, throwing 1 600 men out of
work The factories opened a few
days ago and all returned. The cause
of the cessation Of labor was falling
off in the demand.
Eighteen hundred workers in Il. S.
Higgins < Cos carpet factories were
out for nine weeks, but are now at
work
About 1000 hands struck on ac-
count of a reduction of 25 per cent, a
day, in the tobacco factories at Peters
bHrg, Va
A strike occurred in the work shops
of the Pacific Iron and Nail company,
Jan. ~ There are 800 men and 200
boys out and the average daily loss
to the company and its employees is
estimated at s., 000
Shortly after New Years, the John
r. Noyes factory, at Buffalo, dis
charged sixty rlen, none of whom
have as get gone back to work.
The Hubbell stove works in the
same city, and on the same day dis
charged 400 men, and the Hayes
stove works dismissed thirty men.
Within week it is expected all the
men will be at their places again, as
the cause of the discharge was lack
of work
4 reduction Of 10 per cent has
been ordered in the iron shops at
Andover, Mass, to take effect Jan.
.21. A reduction of wages has also
been ordered in the factories of the
Old Colony iron works, in the same
state ana also in the Somerset mills.
Twenty one SpluuCIo III tll5 OIill-
nell mills struck on Jan. is against
reduction of 10 per cent. They are
still out
Three hundred engineers in the
shops OF Porter Il Bills struck on Jan.
If against a reduction. The men
were only out two days.
On Jan. 3, six shearmen connected
with the rail factories Of James +,
Bailey, at Pittsburg, struck ON ac-
count of a notice that a reduction of
10 per cent would take effect in three
days. Two hundred other employees
followed the shearmen, and business
is yet at a standstill
A strike is in progress at a mile
End thread works, at Passaic n. j.
The wages of forty English operatives
were cut about three weeks ago, and
the management sent to Rhode Is
land. where other English were OBJ
tanned Upon the arrival of these
at Passaic, all hands at the mills
struck and more than 500 persons are
now out Of employment.