The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-15

ment, and refused to surrender. O'Don-
nell has resigned from the board A
mob OF clerks, belonging to the Grocery
Clerks Early Closing Association,
ralded number OF groceries whose
| proprletors had refused to close at S
| c ck, smashing windows, DESTROYING
COOS and beating the proprietors.
| The mob which numbered about 200,
was dispersed by the police
! TIE strike at the Deering Harvester
Works, Chicago, is over, the men &C
cepting the firms offer to compromise
/ on a l 3 per cent. advance in wages.
An organization of manufacturing
metal workers was effected at Chicago
on the 9th inst, nearly 100 proprie-
tors Joining the combination.
The series of religious revivals at
Chicago were ordered suspended by
the police, on account of the labor
troubles, on the 9th. Mr.. Moody was
holding largely attended services at
the skating rink.
The freight handlers OF Cincinnati
have returned to work.
The Muskegon Shingle and Lumber
Company's mill, at Muskegon, Mich,
was closed on the 9th, owing to the
blockade caused by the strike of
freight handlers at Chicago.
In Detroit, on the 9th, between 400
and 500 painters struck for nine
hour day and ten hours pay.
One thousand miners along the Pan
handle Railroad struck on the 6th for
the Columbus scale OF prices.
The differences between the st. Louis
I, l.
settled by the latter accepting the
propositions presented. This includes
ten hours for a days labor, free beer
and satisfactory wages.
The master plumbers OF Chicago
have acceded TO the demand for nine
hours pay for eight hours work
A number OF Pittsburg employers
have conceded the eight-hour day,
and indications point to a peaceful
victory by the strikers. There have
been no acts of violence.
At st. Louis 200 girls employed in q
tobacco factory are on a strike for
eight hours.
The employees OF the Diamond Match
Mandatory, in st. Louis, are on a
strike for eight hours. The plumbers
made similar demand.
The strike of the Union Pacific Rail-
way brakemen is blocking traffic on
the main line between North Platte
and Rawlins. No disturbances have
occurred.
At Sedaia, Mo-, on the 5th, Fred.
Page, chairman of the executive board
OF the Knights of Labor, and George
Fisher, we're sentenced to ten days
Imprisonment in jail for contempt OF
court.
1t is expected that the strike OF the
Union Pacific railroad will spread TO
all the divisions of that system.
The 1000 employees of the Pullman
Car Company have struck for eight
hours and an advance OF 10 per cent.
in wages.
All the Detroit brewers have signed
the scale of the workmen.
The striking silk-weavers at Union
Hill, n. J., now number about 1000.
Only about 600 men are locked out
in Washington on account OF eight
hour demands.
All the manufacturing furniture
houses OF Baltimore shut down on the
4th, the employers refusing to grant
the demand for eight hours.
The employees on the custom-house
at Lynchburg, Va, struck on the Sd
for eight hours.
Eight shoe firms OF Stoneham, Mass.
have agreed to the price-list presented
by the Knights of Labor, and work was
resumed on the 4th.
The Buckeye Engine Company at
Salem, O., shut down on the 4th,
owing to the men refusing to work ten
hours per day at the present rate OF
| wages.
Some OF the bricklayers in Mobile,
Ala, are striking for the nine hours
work without reduction in pay.
The worRmen at Davis furniture
mandatory in Louisville, KY, struck
for the eight-hour day on the Sd. The
manufacturers will shut down.
The brakemen on the Union Pacific
Railroads Nebraska division, between
| Sydney and Larrabee, struck on the
| Sd against the new schedule of mileage
and pay. The freight trains are being
| tied up at Cheyenne as fast as they
arrive. Passenger trains are sent out
without brakeman.
Seven hundred Philadelphia cabinet
makers in forty-six shops went to
| work on the Sd inst. on the new time
schedule OF eight hours per day, and
in some cases an increase in wages,
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. Three
hundred men from sixteen shops re-
main out.
The employees in the breweries at
Milwaukee, being refused an advance
of so month all around, walked
out on the 1st inst, to the number of
nearly 1000.
Twelve thousand people, with ban
ners, flags and transparencies, as
sembled in Union square, New York,
on the evening OF the 1st, in behalf OF
| the eight-hour movement. John Swim
ton was one of the speakers.