The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-03
LABOR DISTURBANCES.

JANUARY.
Forty collieries on the Reading Railroad sys-
tenn are idle
FEBRUARY.
q Riot among miners at Shenandoah Pa
Il Eviction Of twenty two families of striking
cigar makers in New York
10. Riot at Billings, Montana Territory.
90. Work generally resumed in the Reading col
lieries.
2s Chief Arthur Of the Brotherhood of Locomc
tive Engineers, ordered the engineers and Are
men Of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad to strike
q c., B. and Q striking engineer fatally shot Of
Springfield, Mo-, by deputy marshal.
Z. The c., and Q engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad
16 Engineers and fremen ON the Santa Fe Sys-
TEN struck in a body Result OF the c., B, and
O. strike; Broken next day
20. Riots among c., B. and Q. switchmen at Clt;
cago ..-... a.,
90 Strike on the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul
railroad s.. -
81 Strike Ut the PittsS5ufg, Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad In progress ~
81 Traffic stopped on the ST. Paul railroad near
Chicago
q Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago
8 Strike of Boston paper hangers succeeded.
IL. Brewers men struck In Chicago
H. Strike Of bakers at Chicago
ID. Brewers lockout began in New York. Brook
lya. Newrrs:. Jersey City Paterson and Staten
Island Five thousand men out of employ
ment
%. Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
at Pttsburg with non union men.
90. More shooting reported at Galesburg Ills, on
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad
MAY.
Strike OF the Edgar Thompson steel works de-
clared of by the Knights Of Labor
IA One thousand Ave hundred cotton operatives
on strike at Haritz. Austria
ID AL window glass factories In PittSburg and the
west shut down.
Is Miners in the Connellsville, Pa. coke region
out on q strike
so Conference between the iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated association resulted in
the closing OF the mills, 5000 men beng
thrown out Of employment.
JULY
g. Division Chief Bauereiseu of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar
rested. charged with being implicated in q
plot to wreck property of the e., Il and @
10 Chairman Hoge and Murphy OF the 20" engi
netsr's and firemen's grievance committee and
Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested In
connection with the alleged dynamite con
spiracy
II George Clark. brotherhood engineer arrested
dynamite conspiracy on &c" road.
10 Unconditional surrender of the iron manufact
urers to the AmalEamatcd association.
AUGUST
B. Street car strike in Brooklyn. Ended mex
day
10 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 wen
out on strike.
OCTOBER.
Z Strike Of ship riggers In Philadelphia
Twenty nine window glass factories In tht
Western association resume work.
Street car strike on in Chicago
0 Rioting between the Chicago street car strik
ers and the police
IL Thomas WardeIl wealthy coal operator al
Bevier. Mo-, killed by striking miners
IL Strike among the street car men In Chicago
practically ended
q. Street car riots In Chicago.
EovEMBER
@ Strike Of switchmen on the New York Contra
and Boston and Albany railroads at Albany
Ny
% General strike of switchmen at Indianapolis
g. T. B, Barry organized a labor organization, b
dependent of the Knights of Labor
O The trial of the alleged 20" dynamiters begun
at Geneva, Ill
TO- Fresh trouble at Bevier. NO., necessitatod tn,
calling out Of the trours.
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