St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-10
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The boycott which has been running for
some eighteen months on the stoves and
ranges manufactured by the Fuller & Warren
company of Troy, y. Y, was lifted yester-
day. Articles Of agreement were signed in
which the firm pledged itself not 10 dlscrimi-
nate against the Knights OF Labor in the fu-
ture TO reinstate discharged employees as
fast as situations could be found for them,
and 10 suspend pending investigations.
The company OF soldiers guarding the con-
victs ia camp at the Greenwood miues in
Pulaski county, Kentucky. had a lively time
Of IL Monday night. The free miners occu-
pied the adjoining bills and kept up a con-
tinued shooting all night No shots were
tired into the camp, but the convicts were
badly frightened, and the soldiers with
drawn guns kept guard till morning, when
the miners disappeared.
The strike Of the New York carpenters and
joiners has been very successful. Nearly all
Of the employers have granted the demands
OF the men, and the latter have begun work
again under the average wages OF $3.50 per
day of nine hours and eight hours on Satur-
day. Only about 100 men are now out.
about fifty resumed work yesterday under
the new agreement.
On the Iron Mountain railroad no freight Is
being handled here or at Birds Point. Only
one switchman remained at work in the
yards at Birds Point. The passenger trains
carrying mail will be run from here as usual.
About eighty men including bridge carpen-
ters, struck Monday night. Twenty-Five
truckers and freight clerks have been dis
charged al Little Rock.
The difficulty aI the Knickerbocker colliery,
near Shenandoah. Pa. by which 500 men and
boys were throws out OF employment, was
adjusted yesterday, the company conceding
the demands for an advance of 81 per yard
proposed ts put two sets OF men TO work in
each breast, one by day and the other by
night.
Three thousand Socialists and unemployed
workmen, yesterday, held a public meeting
at Amsterdam, Holland, 10 discuss their
grievances. The meeting deputed a COM
mtttee to call upon the mayor and present
through him a demand upon the city for the
inauguration of public works for the en-
ployment OF labor.
On the street car lines between Troy. Ian
sing ourgh. Cohoes and Waterford, n. Y, no
cars were started yesterday morning. The
conductors aud drivers 10 the number of 500
were ordered on a strike by the Knights of
Labor, because the company refused TO make
new schedule of wages for extra men or
''trippers."
There is every indication that serious
trout ble between street car employees and
their employers I'm Pittsburg is imminent,
and that q strike may be inaugurated any
day. A secret meeting was held Monday
night, represented by employees OF all the
companies but two.
The difference between the members OF the
Flint Glass Blowers union and members OF
the knights of Labor employed in Macbeth
& Co. s glass works. Pittsburg, was sausfac-
torily adjusted yesterday, and the threat
ened strike averted.
At meeting OF unemployed seamen at
Sunderland. Eng, yesterday, the announce
ment was made that all the Sunderland ship
owners, with one exception, had promised to
employ British in preference 10 foreign
sailers.
The managers OF the Missouri Pacific rail-
way Offices of St Louis have notified their
clerks that they had decided 10 relieve them
from duty indefinitely. The order affects
sixty telegraph operators and 200 Office
clerks.
Six hundred miners in the Huntingdon.
Pa, districts struck Tuesday for the 10 cents
per ton advance in wages, and at a meeting
held last evening resolved TO abide by the de
cision of the Cearfield Miners convention.
a strike OF about forty men aud boys out
of 500 employees Is in progress at the Chicago
mRIleable iron works. a few blocks west OF
the Mccormick factory. The boys struck fol-
81 so, which was refused.
The miners at the Loyal Hanna Coal com
pAny's works at Latrobe, Pa, who struck fol-
an increase OF Is per cent, resumed work
yesterday, the company conceding the ad-
vance.
At the mass convention OF the striking Goa
miners of the Dearfield, Pa, district yester
day afternoon IL was decided 10 submit the
question of wages TO q board of arbitration
The plasterers at Montreal have struck fol
an advance of 25 cents per day. Some OF the
emnloyers have yielded to their damsnds-