Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-24
LABOR TROUBLES.
The Chicago Strikers.
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ular switchmen for the company, aud
that they were forced to come here or
lose their places. They also said that
twenty-five Of them would not
work any longer for the con-
paDy. After some discussion with
regard to the matter Of forwarding
freight consigned to the Lake Shore
road, which is now held in various
yards, a committee, consistingof Messrs.
Callsghan, Stuart and Keegan, was APP
pointed to wait on the general freight
agents and request them to divert such
shipments to the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago, the Baltimore and
Ohio, the Chicago and Albany, Chicago
and Grand Trunk, and " Nickel-Plate "
roads.
OvERTURES FOR SETTLEMENT.
CHICAGO, April 23.-It is reported
that the striking switchmen have made
overtures for settlement Of the exist
ing trouble. Several of their repre-
sentatives are in consultation with the
Lake Shore officials. Everything Is
quiet at the yards at this hour-ll
A. NJ.
sWITCHMEN' STIKE ENDED.
CHICAGO, April 23.--The switch
mems strike on the Lake Shore road
is at an end. An order was issued be-
tween and 8 o'clock by Chairman
Stahl directing the switchmen to report
to the yardmaster in charge OF the
Forty-third street yard.
President John Newell, of the Lake
Shore, has just said to a representative
of the Associated Press " We have al
lowed the old men to go back at their
own request without any stipulation
whatever on our part. Eight nom
union-men return TO work along with
the union.men formerly in our en-
ploy. The men brought here from
other cities will not be put to work in
our yards here"
The orter for the men to return to
work was telegraphed from the general
Offices Of the Lake Shore Company at
2:3S =. NJ, and within ten minutes the
witch-engines began to leave the round
house and the making-up of trains was
at orce begun. The blockade will be
completely ended this afternoon. One
of the striking switchmen at the yards
declared that the Lake Shore officials
had agreed on their part to dispose OF
the eight non-union switchmen in some
manner within the next six months by
placing them in some other department
or otherwise caring for them-in any
event to take them away from the yards
where they are at present working.
THE CAR.sTRIKE IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, April ga flag float
ed at the masthead of the Third-Aye'
nue. Car Company's building to-day,
and one Of the officers stated that it was
a token Of "no surrender" He de-
MED that there had been any settle
ment.
Eight hOrseshoers are at work, and
more could be had if necessary. The
cars stopped running at $50 P. NJ
During the day sixty-iive cars were
run. Tomorrow eighty will be run on
the Third-Ayenue Line and eight on '.at
! One Hundred -Twenty-fifth-Stree
Line. Possibly some cable-cars may br
started.
ZINC-WORKS CLOSED,
KANSAS CITY, Ms; April 18th,
T'~fs's Pitts3uFg KAN special says
Two hundred and fifty men employee
| by the Lyon Zinc Works quit work to
! day, demanding an increase of ten t
twenty-five cents per day. The com
pany has closed the works, though thu
fires have not yet been banked.
STRIKE ENDED.
EAsToN, PA, April 23.-The strike
which commenced at Colerain Iron
Works, at Redington last Saturday
ended late yesterday by Superintendent
Carter giving the men the advances
asked for, and regular payday.
sTONECUTTER'S DEMAND AN IN.
CREASE.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April o.
The Stonecutters' Union have made a
demand for an increase Of wages from
$3.50 to 50 per day, to go into effect
next Monday. The demand will
probably be granted.
TIE sUGAR-HOUSE EMPLOYEES
STRIKE.
NEW YORK, April 23.-The strike
among the sugar-house employees for
higher wages and fewer hours Of toll
still continues. Hayemeyer & Elders
place is guarded by police, as it was
thought it would be mObbed. There
were large crowds of strikers around
the reinerles until early this morning.
when they went home. They gathered
again later in the day and in groups
discussed the situation. All the refine
ries where strikes prevail are locked
and no attempt IS being made to employ
nOn-uniOn men.
COLLAPSE or \ THREATENED SERI-
Gus STRIKE.
BosTON, April 23.-The Commercial
Bulletin of Saturday morning will have
the following: The sudden and unex-
pected collapse Of what threatened to
be n serious strike at Whittenton Mills
Taunton, was caused by the discovery
that that mill belonged to a huge or
ganization Of textile industries of New
England, which has been formed
so quietly that it has escaped
all notice. This organization extends
over Rhode Island and Connecticut,
and already includes forty-nine large
woollen-mills, with such cotton-mills
as Lonsdale and Hope Mills. This So
ciety was organized for mutual protec-
ton. 1t does not recognize the au-
thority or dictatiOn Of the Knights
Of Labor in any way, but is prepared
TO use arbitration in the settlement Of
strikes. The organization is growing
in numbers, and it proposes to give
each strike careful consideration and
assist only those manufacturers who
are unfairly treated by their help.
WATCHMAKERs' STRIKE.
[ BY Anglo-American cable TO the Dispatch.
BRUSSELS, April 23.-The strike