Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-27
THE TROUBLES or LABOR.
Eight Thousand Minors striking IN
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. a6-Ths strike Of
coal-miners In the Hooking valley has ex
tended to mines ON Sunday creek and the
Buckingham region along the Ohio Central
railroad. All the 5000 miners of this re-
gion are now out. Those along the
Hooking railroad have been out for
over two months, and were largely sus
tanned by men who were working along
the Ohio Central The latest trouble was
caused by the use by the Ohio Central OF
Hooking Valley cars. The operators are pay
ing 70 cents per ton for mining, and the
miners want an agreement to increase the
price to 80 after Sept l. This the operators
will not make, and now have declared war or
the union and say they will reduce the price
to so cents per ton, and propose to introduce
foreign labor; they have gone into an agree
ment that they will not hereafter employ
any union man. AS resources for help are
now cut from those who have been on the
strike all the summer, it is expected that
violence will be resorted to, and there is
much anxiety over the situation. There are
about 500 new men, mostly Italians and
Swedes, at work by the day, or at so cents
per ton, who have recently gone into the
mines The objective point of the strikers
now Is to get them out, and attacks on the
mines in operation are expected. There has
also been some violence shown the trains.
The Colored Miner Must Go.
OsKALoosA, Iowa, Aug. pa short time
ago the Northwestern Coal company at What
Cheer concluded to employ colored laborers
in its mines, and to that end has discharged
quite number of white miners. On Wednes-
day last quite a number Of colored men,
with their families, started for What Cheer.
They were met by crowd Of
1.5OO or 1000 people in town, and
ordered back. Some resistance was made
and a few shots fired, and the negroes driven
back into Mahaska county. A large number
of colored people succeeded in
getting into the town of What
Cheer. Immediately ameeting Of 400 or 500
whites was held, at which it was resolved
that no colored laborer would be tolerated
there, and a committee was appointed to
serve notice on the newcomers that if they
did not leave before o'clock p. m. they
would be summarily dealt with. This notice
was posted, and most of the negroes returned
to this vicinity. 1t is reported that the coal
company proposes to discharge every
white miner, and the state militia will, if
needed, be called into requisition to enforce
order. If this is attempted there will be
bloody work, as the black man has become
to the white miner in Iowa what the China
man Is to the Anglo-Saxon on the Pacific
coast
Starving Wives.
PITTsBURG, Aug. 25.-The miners arrested
Friday at Woods Run camp, $50 in number,
were conveyed to the Washington, Pa, Jail,
where they were fed on tea and coffee The
wives of many of the men asked to be taken
to jail with their husbands, claiming that
they have nothing at home to eat President
Costello has thrown the entire camp on the
hands of the law, compelling Washington
county to support them. 1t will take two
weeks or more to arrest all the miners, as the
camp is rapidly filling up.
Other Strikes.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.-On account of
a threatened reduction of 12 per cent. in
their wages, the bench-moulders of Thomas
Devlin & Co. struck and were Joined by all
the employees in the shop, about 80 in num-
Der. The men have pledged themselves not
to resume work until committee Of their
own members should declare the strike
ended. The men assert that good
workman can make 50 to $3.50 day
and first-class molder earns about $14 per
week.
The beams men employed by DUNCAN,
Hood & Co., morocco dressers, about twenty
in number, have struck, alleging that they
were required to do more work for the same
wages than was exacted from their brethren
IN similar establishments. They assembled
1T o'clock a. m. at st. John and Button
wood streets, and issued call for a meeting
If all morocco dressers to consider the stu
alton.