Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-30
STRIKES AND WAGE CUTS.
MOST OF NEW ORLEANS TRAM
CARS STILL AT A STANDSTIIIL.

Business Men and People in General
Greatly Inconvenienced-A Retrospect
of the Labor Situation at st. Louis
The Keystone Bridge COmpany's Sus-
pension Accounted For.
| NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.-The street car
| drivers strike continues to the great ineon-
| venience of the public, and more especially of
the business men, many of whom live two
and three miles out of town. Up to this hour
| about dozen cars on the Magazine street
! line are the only ones that have reached
| Canal street from uptown. They are accom-
panied by squads of police. Early this MORN
| ing the cars left the uptown stations OF the
| City Railway Company, but were met by
large bodies of strikers. The cars were turned
round and sent back to the stations The po-
lice seem to be in sympathy with the strikers,
and are only inclined to interfere il cases of
violence.
The Times Democrat saws: "Order must be
restored, the law must be enforced, and the
| bands OF strikers VINO yesterday absolutely
| stopped the street cars of the city must be
| suppressed"
The rainy weather continues.
DRIVERS ARRESTED.
number of car drivers have been arrested
| charged with disturbing the peace, interfer-
| ing with the free passage of street cars, and
melting to riot. They were arraIgned before
| Recorder Tambola, and placed under $3.50
bonds each President Walker. of the City
Railroad. said to-day: The situation u
y v.
entire police force has proved entirely
inefficient, We have been unable to get the
protection which under the laws is .guaran-
teed us. Our property has been mutilated,
our cars Obstructed, and our drivers in
undated, beaten and maltreated in the most
outrageous manner"
A COMPROMISE ARRANGED.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20, II 80 P. MA COM
mlttee, representing the various commercial
bodies, this afternoon undertook the task of
arranging a compromise between the striking
car drivers a4SzfRe street railway companies,
and their 9tYts were entirely successful.
The railroad Presidents have signed an agree
ment to pay their employees as follows per
month: Drivers $50, starters $55, watchmen
$40, hostlers and other inside employees SAL.
10 hours TO constitute days work, allowing
ample time for meals, say 30 minutes or
hour per day, all extra hours to be computed
into days of 10 hours and paid for at the rate OF
" per day. This agreement was signed by
Messrs. Walker, Van BeRthuysen and McLel-
Ian, and Will be signed by the other comDa-
MES: An agreement was also signed that the
employees shall be re-employed, and shall not
be removed without hearing. Cars are now
running.
AN INTERESTING SHOWING OF THE STATE
OF AFFAIRS AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.-The Post Dispatch this
afternoon publishes the f suit of canvass of
the manufacturing portion OF the City with
reference TO the employed labor. In the ter
rltory mentioned there are 542 firms or facto-
ries. In December, 1885, they employed q
total of 30,500 men, 2,l90 women and 2,5l3
boys, grand total of 81, ,203 persons. In De-
cember of the present year they
and 1880 boys. This shows decrease Of
l7 men, 500 women and ABB boys, total
decrease of ,l69 persons, who are at present
out of work. In the last two months of 1855
from 1000 to 5000 people were thrown out of
work in st. Louis, 1900 being reegated TO
ldleness ;by the closing Of one concern, the
Vulcan Iron Works.
A REDUCTION ORDERED.
PITTsBURG, PA, Dec. 29.-The Fort Pitt
Iron and Steel Works Company have posted
notice ordering 10 per cent. reduction in the
wages of all employees, except those governed
by year contracts, to take effect on Jan. l.
A SUSPENSION EXPLAINED.
The sudden suspension of the Key
stone Iron Works Saturday was fully
explained this morning, by a state
ment which has been verified, that serious
dlherences OF opinion existed between the
stockholders of the corporation. 1t is known
that President GOttlelb and Secretary and
Treasurer Strobe were both opposed to the
proposed reduction and resigned, and
Chicago, was elected President,
and j. IL. Springer, of this city, General Su-
perlntendent. The works now organized
will resume in a week, If the workmen accept
the reduction ordered. The works have con-
tracts for nearly year, including the Balti-
more and Ohio Railway bridge over the Sus-
quehanna river, bridge for the Louisville
and Nashville Railway, and pivot bridge for
the Wabash Railway-contracts for which
were made before the serious depression in
business occurred.
THE BIG CUT AT PROVIDENCE.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 80. AT Manvile
to-day there were 2Sl looms running manned
bY 65 hands. The operatives who preferred
TO W0fk have not been mOlested. A meeting
OF the operatives to-day chose a new COM
mittee of fifteen and voted to continue the
strike. reduction of p per cent. on JAG
guards and about IL per cent. on Limos went
into effect in these mills to-day. These two
were not in the original list of the cut-dOwn,
but were intended to be.
THE HOOKING VALLEY TROUBLES.
COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 29.-President Mcbride,
of the State Miners Association, has issued
call for convention in this city Jan. z, to
consider the situation in the Hooking Valley.
The operators claim that the strike is prac-
tically over, and that they now have nearly
all the miners they can accommodate. Be-
tween 30 and 40 old miners went back to-day
at reduced rates.
A COTTON MILL TO RESUME.
READING, PA, Dec. 29.-Work will be re-
sumed IN the Reading cotton factory on Mon
day next with a reduced force and a reduc-
tlon of 10 per cent. in wages. About $50 per-
sons Will be taken on. The mill has been idle
for several months.
1000 LEFT WITHOUT SUPPORT.
Mt. CARMEL, PA, Dec. 29.-The Locust Gap
and Locust Spring collienes, operated by the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
have suspended indefinitely. They supported
1000 men.