Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-20

more conservative members, but they were
oyerborne by the more impetuous ones. a
resolution was finally adopted calling on
the strikers to stand firm and approving
the strike. All shops were instructed to
send delegates to meeting to be held To-
night at the same place. These delegates
will formulate the demands the men have
TO make of their employers. The demands
thus formulated will be submitted to q
meeting Of the union to be held Tuesday
night.
Company Claims Lock Out.
CHICAGO, April The men employed
10 school furniture factory of A. b. Andrews
l. Co., struck at noon to-day. The mum
Der employed at this branch is 100. The
men asked for an increase of fifteen per
cent, and the company claim that they
locked the men out.
One Strike Settled.
Sr. LOUIS, April l9-0nt the fret day OF
March the coal miners employed at Mc
Kenna's mine went out on strike De-
cause of the discrimination made against
the Knights of Laber and for an advance
of wages. Mr.. McKenra refused to aroi-
trate with the Knights until Saturday.
when he sent tor q committee 'ot th-
Knights of Labor, including Master
Workman -6uidby, of the Gillespie As
sembly, and agreed to make no discrlml,
nation against the, Knights of Labor ant
employ all the old hands at an increase ot
wages. The committee Immediately tom
municsted the facts to Master Workman
NJ. A. Sullivan, whs advised them TO 90 |
back to work, which sll the miners did this
morning.
An Attempt to Boycott Hoxie.
ST. LOUIS, April l9.-Messrs. Ritter Il
Horst, butchers at No. 305 North Twelfth
street, were called upon by q committee OF
the Knights of Labor, who requested
them to cease supplying Vice Prendent
Hox'e, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company, with meat, under the pain Of
being boycotted The senior member OF
he firm informed the committee that he
could not aocede to their demand; that
Mr.. Hoxie was q good customer, and he
would continue to fill his orders so long ss
Mr. Hoxie should continue his patronage.
twenty-five Dollars for Mrs. Gray.
Sr. Louis, April l9.-The Bakers Pro.
.ectivs Association yesterday voted to sub
scribe S25 toward the support of Mrs
Gray, of New York, as q reward for the
part she has taken in fighting the Bakers
Union boycott.
The Labor Party.
CHICAGO April l9.-Willism q. Taylor,
President of tie Peoples Indeuendent
labor party of the United States is in the
,ity and will soon be joined By other mem
ers of the party. They have united the
organization of Worlipgmen into bodies
,slled councils, and the object is to support
candidates for office irrespective Of party
Vlo haya the interest of the workers at
,esrt. The party advocates the eight
lour working day among other things
A Bad knight.
New YORK, April l9.-Messrs Henry
1lews & Co. to-day received the followu e
from +. NJ. Bisbyi their
at Brockton, Mass:
The man A. R. Moore, Of whom the
,spcrs speak this morning, as being in s..
Iouis promising the Strikers there the aid
}! 20 900 New England workipgmen, left
his city twentyone years ago leaving his
gorkmen as well as his other creditors un-
,sid He is now out Of Jail on bail with
complaint OF embezzlement hanging over
lrs head. He ia q member of the Execu.
i've Board Of the Knights of Labor.
BoyCottirV D-"~.
PlrrsnURG, April l9.-At the regular
meeting of the United Presbyterian minis
era to day. resolution was adopted con-
lemuing boycottinq. which vas character.
zad AZ q method Of coercion unmsnl Y and
,owardly subversive of the fundamental
rinciples Of justice and equality, and ut.
erly repugnan, to the spirit ol our civil
md religious in ti,utions. One minister
,nnosed the adoption of the resolution.