Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-25
HURSDAY. JULY IS, 1889.

yard, Buffalo, n. Y, strike against tht
2 refusal of company to reinstate three
= of their number.
might messenger boys of Western
Union Telegraph Company at Chicago
strike for $3.50 a week
: S-General strike of carpenters al
Salem, Mass, for reduction of hours ol
labor.
10-Strike of apnners at Clark's o.
: n. t. thread mills, Kearny, n. j.,
: against reduction of IL per cent. in
wages.
| Strike of saWmakers at Middleton,
n. y, against reduction in wages.
+ 11-General strike of surface road
employees (horse and cable) at St.
Paul and Minneapolis, Mimi, against
a reduction in wages.
13-Wages of employees of Crane
Iron Company at Catasauqua, Pa, re-
duced 10 per cent.
Reduction o: 10 per cent. in wages of
employees at Allentown pa Rolling
Mills.
| Employees of Rath bone. Sard &
Co.'s stove foundry, Albany, n. Y,
notified of a reduction of 10 per cent in
| wages.
| Cigarmakers of New York city pro-
test against a large reduction in wages.
16-Strike freight brak emen on the
one hundred and thirty mile division
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
between Winslow and Mojaqe, Col, on
account of refusal Of company to allow
| three men to each train.
1S--F'ittv bricklayers employed by
Bentley & Strochsta, Chicago, H.,
strike against the ten-hour system.
One hundred and twenty-five en-
ployees at Omaha, Neb., Water Works
strike for an advance of wages from ST.
80 to Sl.75 per day.
Spring bed and mattress makers EN-
ployed by B. Fitch & Co, New York
city, y,strike against a reduction of wages.
19--Ihe coal trimmers of the Dele |
ware, Lackawanna and Western coal
docks at Jersey City, strike TO secure |
more work. Men claim that the com
pany is holding back the product of |
the mines, and that they cannot aver
age over s. 80 per week.
23--Geueral strike of timers at
Plainfield, y. j., for the nine-hour
work day.
24-Strike of workmen al tube works,
Syracuse, \. V. against a reduction of
10 per cent. in wages.
One hundred ard twenty tailOrs en-
ployed by J. w. Parker & Co., Boston,
Mass, strike for an Increase of wages.
L tIS stiihSiS OSSSit tt'aL wages nave |
been cut three times within the last
eighteen months. The last cut was
about 20 per cent.
Failure of the Minneapolis (Minn.)
surface road strike. Men forced to
leave their organization.
26s-fhe two mills Of the White Man
Company at Rockville,
Conn, close down on account of a strike
of weavers for an advance of wages.
Seventy finshers in S. Berg & Co.'s
hat ia etory, Orange Valley, n. j.,
strike for an increase of wages.
MAY.
1-CarDenters, jointers, stone masonG
and hoo carries to the number of 5000
strike at Pittsburg, Pa, for increase of
pay and against non-union labor
Eight hundred railroad miners in the
PIttshura (Pa.) district strike against
h new scale Of wages.
-Four hundred workmen employed
by the White Manufacturing Compa-
ny of Rockville, Conn. are locked out
because they assisted 80 weavers who
went on strike.
2-One hundred and twenty-five
mouldeTs at Perry's Stove Works at
Albany, n. y, laid off indefinitely.
Two thousand block coal miners at r
Brazil, Ind, strike against an extraor
binary reduction of from ninety to
seventy cents for mining.
Th" strike of the street car men at
St. Paul, Minn.. declared Off and the ,
men return to WORK at reduced wages.
Seven hundred querrymen strike at
Joliet, ILL.,. for an advance of twenty
five cents per day.
4-Shut down at Evansville, Ind.
u fNfi
wages to sixty-flve cents a ton for M u .
ing. Three hundred miners out.
Miners al 5 ,ranton, Pa, reduced to |
Verge Of starvation. Men with famI- ..
lies do not average SO month.
9-Si8tv men employed on the water Z
works at Marblehead. Mass, strike for
an advance of wages from $l.35 to ST.
50 day.
10-Strike of men at Allegheny Bess- :
emer Works, Duquesne. Pa, ends in a
!.
I3-Lockout of silk RIBBON weavers |
n several New York shops for de- !
an advance in wages.
16-Six thousand men employed by !,
Tube Works Company at =.
Pa, strike for 10 per |
cent. advance i'll wages.
17-Three hundred longshoremen
in Brooklyn N. " ware !
house strike for an advance in wages
rom twenty cents to twenty-five cents
and hour.
20-Freight handlers of Boston & !
Albany Railroad, at East Boston, ..
Mass, strike against reduction in !
wages.
21-A dispatch from Brazil, Ind. :
states that the miners who struck
against Il 20 per cent. reduction are on I
he verge of starvation.
23-Fifty employees of the Lochiel a
Rolling Mills at Harrisburg, Pa, who !.
vent on strike against reduction in = =
wages were paid off and discharged.
Report from Sharon, Pa, that d gen
,ral reduction of 10 per cent. in wages
If furnace employees has been made
throughout the Shenango valley. d
27-Strike OF all the ore handlers at
Mich. for an increase of >,
wages A bout 800 men out. =
A company of militia ordered from .
Toilet to Braid wood ILL.,, to put down
triking miners. .,
29-Strike OF Puddlers' helpers of u
,ottstown PA. Iron Company against . .
la Dor.
JUNE. o
June 1-Three companies of militia :
rderei to Braidwood, H., 10 keep >
rider among strikers.
Carpenters Urion of Lowell. Mass. "
otified masters that they would strike u
nless hours of work be reduced from o
en- hours per day TO nine. t.
Fred 4 lnly e Co. Naw York failed fl