New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-07
BASEBALL AND THE IRON STRIKE.
THREATS TO BOYCOTT THE PITTsBURG
CLUB.

PRESIDENT NIMIcK DENYING BUSINESS RELA-
TIoNs WITH YOS-USIoN IRON FIRM-sIGNING
THE AMALGAMATED SCALE.
rBY TELEGRArH TO THE TRrBUsEl
Pttsburg July 6.-Because Singer, NimIck q Co.
have started up thcir iron mill with non-unlon men
labor organizations talking of boycottlng all base
ball games in which tho Pittsburg League CLUB par
tIcipates President ". A. Nmlck, OF the CLUB, was
supposed TO be member OF the iron firm, but nc To-
day denied that no connected with tho company
for which he once worked on salary no Is
nephew of the Nmlcks who are in tho iron business
Tho proposed boycott actually discussed al meet
lngs Of two lodges Of the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron and Steel Workers. At one meeting resolution
10 naugurate the boycott was tabled aftcr hca'ed
argument in which the opposing forces we're almost
equally divided.
Tho attempt OF the firm to ignore labor organiza-
tlons Is not meeting with much success Only TWO
Knights Of Labor and fourteen Amagamated mon went
10 work to-day. Some of the rollers AMI hca'ers' VINO
receive high wages. anxious to return TO WORK al
this MILL but they cannot get their assistants 10 Ioh
them.
President A. F. Kcatlng of the Manufacturers AS
socatlon to-day denied that meeting had been caiicd
for Monday but he admitted that the situation might
change any day and make meeting necessary Iherc
was considerable activity to-day about the Great
American Iron Works Of Jones & Laughlin, and IL was
reported that tho firm had received some large ordes
and would soon sign the scale. President Rearing
said that he had not heard that Jones & LaughNn
would sign tho scale. -,
"But, he continued " when they do sign we VIII
all sgn.D 3. +. Jones is the senior member OF this
firm.
Two more iron firms signed the Amagamatcd scale
OF wages to-day. They were Summers Brothers q
Co., of struthers, Ohio who employ $50 men, and the
Lawrence Iron Company, Of Ironon, Ohio, who employ
300. Tho scale has also been signed co1drlonahy pS
the condition being that tho company SHAH nave ih'
benefit Of any reduction maie to other hrms'
THE POOL BEER BOYCOTT TO BE RENEWED.
The Central Labor Union Of Brooklyn. which last
May lifted the boycott on "poo' beer much 10 tho
disgust Of the ourncymen brewers. because IL was
found that this action would antagonize District AS
semblies Nos rs. 900 and 40. decided at fs last
meeting to meet delegates from those assemblies, and
combine in pool" brewcreS In Brooklyn
The delegates of District Assemblies Nos - and .2c
pledged their respective organizations TO boycott bar
rooms selling pool, beer; the journeymen brewers
and Central Union agreeing to recognize the carus
OF the Knights of Labor and no longer TO refuse tc
work with them in the same shops and brewerles
All beer brewerles in which knights are employed
either solely partially are to be recognized as unof
breweries An agreement to this effect has beer
signed These concessions, which the knights con
slider OF great importance will open up hitherto closed
| avenues to work for them and are what they nave
been contending for for long time past 1t Is expected
that District Assembly No. 40 will concur In th'
agreement and that the other scnbly districts II
| tho vicinity will follow the example. Whether DIS
tr,ct Assembly No 40 not the reboycottnI
| is TO be proceeded with The number OF bIewene'
at which the boycott is to be launched at first L
fifteen The rest Of the breweries are TO be Doycoet
| in succession.
COSTLY STRIKE TO BREWERY WORkMEN.
Cincinnati, July 6The strike OF the Brewers Union
| because a member discharged By his employer
for dsobedence OF rules formally declared oil 70
day after a continuance Of three months 1t haf
caused no inconvenience TO the boss brewers after TIL
| first few DAYS and now all the breweres are non
union while tho wOrkmen have lost SloO,OOO IN wages
| MINERS TO TEST THE LAW IN THE COURTS.
| shamokin, Penn, July 6.-The miners employed bN
| the Mineral Mining Company and the Excelsior Goa
| Company have brought suit against their employers
to secure semi monthly paydays, as provided by law
They appealed to Governor Beaver for advice, ant
| they were recommended by him to take the matte
into the courts 1t Is TO be made test case, and th'
miners throughout Pennsylvania arc closely watching
II. The IS being pushed by the knights OF Labor