The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-08-10
HARRISON AND HAPPINESS.
How Every body t. Prosperous UadeI
Harrison aud Protection.

sssisF the elder Hzry.spa Ihc ery was Tive Dol
1 las Iay and Eoa,s HesG lpder the present
+ Hzrstsa tlse geopls weEe PROMISED pieaiy of work
a. good waEss. prosperity 60 manufacturers and AL,
whiir sofac 81 tc t4raarrs shooting Harrison
Z au,l Wheat s. a Hashel une terra % the elder
Har7s,aa was .uisescui aud the geoe viii ft3t care
! E5s Hase than COS % tbs present Harrison Wheat
. less lhsn ecats binder iwiur sugar salt and
nearly every Necessity Is high and anything but
prosperity prevails Here arr SOME Items froa the
sscuruJ aeas 81 DE sisy In regard 10 Industrial
1 prosperity
a despatch from scaliyaie Pa. says that p3 coke
ovens IN the CouuelsY Tie r,on are idle and over
I 49," men are ga. on strike.
[ The wurkracu Al thu Troticr Tarrs and Frick 4
/ COS coke works joined the ConneIsyiiie strikers
las seek This makes als1ilt ors third OF the ovens
lu tbs Couuellsyilic region idle The strikers are
confident and claim that the strike wifi bc general
Two children Of one Of tire locked out miners have
died az Spring Valley M, Of starvation.
A dispatch from Doycr pel. announces the failure
ofGcorSe Wand 5. Taylor 81 smyrna founders and
machiuisis, with liabilities estimated at sl0Ua
The miners who stopped work several days ago
az the Pratt mines aear birmingham. Ala. returned
To work GA Saturday pending settlement Of their
differences 18th the company.
The miners along the Monongahela river have
determined resist the reduction 2i cents per
bush a. and demanded the Scent rate. The digger
at Joseph Walton & Cos works, who went in al the
reduced rate. struck again. The strike, it Is said,
VIII Affect 500 miners.
Thirty weayers in the rug department. OF Wilde *
Cos carpet factory al Astoria, Long island struck
last week against reduction of2n per cent in their
wages. The firm say they will close If the strikers
do not accept the reduction.
The Orrel Coal Company have closed their works
at Newburg, Tyrconnel aud FairnoHt, W, Va, in
definitely, throwing out 60 hands
over 100 young women employed i'm Hunsieker x
Co.'S Hosiery Mills at Reading Pa went on a strike
on Monday morning. They held a meeting and re-
solved not 10 go back until their grievances were
righted They struck because the firm reduced
wages from a to Z cents per dozen stockings, and
announced that the girls would be charged extra
for use Of machines, needles. Ike
The puidlers Of Lights Rolling MIL the Lebanon
Iron Co and the West End Rolling Mil, al Lebanon
Pa on Monday. notified their employers that an in
crease Of IS cents per ton would be expected amer
August 10. The present rate is $3.50 per tom Sew
eral mouths agC the pudders' wages were increased
p cents The firms have taken no action on the
new demand over 500 hands are employed in
these mills
Dispatches from the Connellsville coke region on
Monday indicate that the strike is spreading.
party ofi5o strikers marched TO the Jimtown works
of SchoOnmaker Co. auu ufoNe ule men from
work. but no one was injured. Afer the strikers
left Jimtowu the men went back to work and
finished the day, but the company fear they cannot
hold Them riot at the Alice Mines is also re
ported. Itwas reported on Monday night that of
The 1900 ovens in the region not less than 1900
were idle.
The Carnegie furnaces, at Rankin Station, near
Pittsburg, have been banked pending the settle
ment Of the mems demand for an advance in
wages. About 225 men are out
Between 800 and 400 moulders employed by Rath-
bone. sard & Co, Albany New York, quit work on
Monday on account 1.-THE discharge of one of their
number last Saturday, the trouble arising over the
price received for certain casting.