Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-31
LABOR DISTURBANCES.

JANUARY.
8 Forty collieres on the Reading Railroad sys-
FEBRUARY.
8 Riot among miners at Shenandoah Pa.
IA Eviction of twenty two families of striking
cigar makers in New York.
49, Riot at Billings, Montana Territory.
90 Work generally resumed in the Reading col.
lieries.
Is Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomc.
tive Engineers. ordered the engineers and fire.
men of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy
railroad to strike.
g. c., B. and @ striking engineer fatally shot at
Springfield, Mo-, by deputy marshal.
z The c., B. and Q engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad
16. Engineers and fremen the Santa Fe sys-
TEN struck in body Result of the c., B. and
@. strike: Broken next day.
% Riots among c.. b. and Q. swtchmen at CHI
cago.
80 Strike on the Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad.
81. Strike on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad in progress.
81. Traffic stopped on the St. Paul railroad near
Chicago.
s. Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago.
o Strike of Boston paper hangers succeeded.
II Brewers men struck in Chicago
H. Strike of bakers at Chicago.
10. Brewers lockout began in New York, Brook
lyn Newars Jersey City Paterson and Staten
Island Five thousand men out OF employ
ment
20 Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
at Pitts5urg with non-union men.
%. More shooting reported at Galesburg Ills, on
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad
MAY.
3 Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works de-
clared off by the Knights of Labor.
JUNE
IL One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
on strike at Haritz, Austria.
IS All window glass factories in Pittsburg and the
west shut down
IS Miners in the Connellsville Pa. coke region
out on a strike
so Conference between the iron manufacturers
and the Amalganlated association resulted In
the closing of the mills, 5000 men being
thrown out of employment
July
G. Division Chief Bauereisen OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar
rested. charged with being implicated in q
plot to wreck property of the c.. B and O.
10 Chairman Hoge and Murphy OF the go engi-
nsers and iremen's grievance committee and
Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested In
connection with the alleged dynamite con-
spiracy.
H. George Clark, brotherhood engineer. arrested
at Galesburg. Ills, in connection with alleged
dynamite conspiracy on 90 road
IS Unconditional surrender of the iron mauufact-
urers to the Amalgamated association
AUGUST
8 Street car strike in Brooklyn Ended nexa
day
16 Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down.
Fifteen hundred men thrown out Of employ
ment
% Fifteen hundred hands thrown out Of work by
shutting down of mills in Delaware county Pa.
Railroad employees on four Indiana lines went
out on strike
oCToBEa
Strike OF ship riggers in Philadelphia.
Twenty nine window glass factories In the
Western association resume work
z Street car strike on in Chicago
@ Rioting between the Chicago street car strik
ers and the police
Il Thomas Wardel. wealthy coal operator at
Bevier No. killed by striking miners
Il Strike among the street car men In Chicago
practically ended :
q. Street car riots in Chicago.
NoyEMBER
g. Strike Of switchmen on the New York Central
and Boston and Albany railroads at Albany
NY
% General strike Of sEitchmen az indianapolis
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I. b Barry organlzed . labor organization IN