The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-07-20
A HIGH-TARIFF DIARY.
Business Troubles and Strikes Under
the Republican Administration.

those of the Insurer and the SheFlU. We
denounce the Mills bill as destructive to
the general business, the labor, and the
farming interests of the country.
September IL. fSSS-Harrison letter of ac-
ceptance: .We believe it to be one of the
worthy objects of tariff legislation to pre-
serve the American market for the Amerl-
can producers and TO maintain the Ameri-
can scale of wages by adequate discrimina-
ting duties upon foreign competing products.
Less work and lower wages must be accept
ed as the inevitable result of the increased
offering of foreign goods in our markets"
Noren,ber 6, LSSS.-Defeat Of Gloeer Clere-
land, Tariff Reform, candidate for Presi-
dent.
November l5-Strike of street-car employees
in Brooklyn.
January 4, IsS9-Strike of dock laborers at
Duluth and of miners in Missouri.
January Failure ofthe Keefer Mining Com
pany of Covington, Ky.
January 9-Strike Of Higgins's carpet work
ers.
January 29-Great strike of street car en-
ployees in New York city and Brooklyn,
resulting in their defeat.
| February Failure of Jacob Dessert, build
I er, Brooklyn; liabilities Sl39, 900.
/ February 6-Failure of the J. J. Burns Com
pany Limited, Battle Creek, Mich; liza
! bilites 1921 ,o3l.
1 February S-Failure of the Pacific Guano
Company and Gilden & Curtis, Boston.
/ Liabilities about 1000, 600.
! February 9-Failure of the Ohio and West
( ern Coal aud Iron Company. {.
( March Assignment of Il. A. Gould, Boston,
I dye stutfs rubber, ETC.. liabilities about
81 1000. 900.
Assignment of G. Morley, Detroit, lumber,
( liabilities 500, 600
I March :. 1852 Inauguration Of Benjamin
Harrison, High Protsctionist, as President.
March >, Iss9-Failure of the Reading Iron
I Works; liabilities of about 100000; ,,
600 men thrown out of employment
I March 6, 1ss9-Failure of the Excelsior
Pottery at Trenton, n. j., employing 300
hands.
The Warwick Manufacturing Company,
Cleveland, o., closed its doors IN conse-
quence of depressed business.
Cotton 4 Mulvey, shoe dealers, Provi.
dence, Il. l., assigned.
The McIewee & Knapp Manufacturing
Company, lamps, % Barclay Street, New
York, sold out by the Sheriff.
Joshua Henderson, carpenter and build
CT, South Boston, Mass, failed.
March 7-The Keystone Rolling Mill of
Reading. and the rolling mills at Naomi
aud Gibraltar, Penn, shut down, throwing
over COO men out Of employment
March assignment Of the Findlay (0hiol
Iron and Steel Company, with the princi-
pal rolling mill IN that manufacturing cen
irc; liabilities Of over 100000
Buford Sons photographic Company.
Boston, suspended payment. Liabilities
estimated at SI00.000.
l.. .. Desforges 4 Co. New Orleans
and piitshurg, Penn, assigned, liabilities
SifJ, go.
5 Hood i Co, cigar manufacturers at
lsa Fast Seventy sixth Street, New York,
failed.
The Blackburn Iron Works, y Court
Street, Brooklyn, called meeting Of eredi
tors
Thomas c. Cooper, wholesale dealer in
flour and provisions, Albany, n. l., as
signed; liabilities 100000
March ll.-GFeat strike Of Fall River wea-
vers, resulting IN their return to work on
the old terms.
March y. The dry goods store Of Schedler
McWat,ers, Cleveland o., closed by the
Sheriff on Judgments aggregatiug sG0,0OO.
Frank ". Adams, proprietor Of the Glen
dale Wooden Mills, Glendale, Mass, made
an assignment.
Reese i Whiting, the oldest dry goods
firm ia Berlin, Wis, assigned.
March so.-S,rike Of street ear men in
Rochester.
April I.--Syrike oC 10 men in the Dithridge
Company glass works, New Brighton, Pa.
April strike Of Erie switch men At Baf-
talo.
Strike Of carpenters aud painters al Buf,
ialo.
NJ Block & Co, general merchants,
Pocohouias, Va, assigned
April 5.-Downs 4 Finch, shirt manufactnr.
ers, a. Nos. tS and 45 Leonard Street, New
York, assigned; liabilities Si50,0o0,
April a-Redac,iou Of wages in the Clark
Thread Works, Newark, \. j.
A. ". keeney, psPcr mill, Rockford,
H., assigned.
Strike Of the St. Louis carpenters.
Strike over reduced wages in Clark's
Thread Works, Newark, y. J,
April lI.-Shasdowa Of the Susquehanna
Iron Works.
April iS.-Failure Of the Plymouth Rolling
Nil Company Of Conshohocken, Pa.
April l5.-Assignmeut OF the Coushohocken
Pa. WoFsted Mills Company.
+ April i7.-Assigument Of T. F. Seaman,
piano manufacturer; liabilities 100000.
Return Of St. Paul car drivers to work at
T reduced wages
i May announcement that the Warren Fur
I mace, at Hacketis,own, \. j., Is TO De
blown out on account Of the dull state Of
the iron market. The company has $4,000
tons of iron on hand, aud no market for
( il. The furnace at StanhOpe, \. j., is also
( to go out for a similar reason.
/ Failure Of c. L. & L. T. Frye, shoe
/ manufacturers, Marlboro, Mass The fac
+ tory, which furnished employment to 200
people, closed. Liabilities abou, $50, 600.
+ May IA reduction of % per cent in the
wages Of the boot cutters at the Meyer
Rubber Works, Milltown, y. J.
Notification to the Glass Blowers Assem-
b.y, knights of Labor. Pittsburgh Of
material reduction in wages for the next
blast, which will begin on September l.
/ May l0.-Scranton, Pa. Notices posted of a
reduction OF 10 per cent in the wages Of
ali the employees Of the Dickson Nanutac-
turing Company The reduction affects
ahout 900 men.
{ Nav S-Reductiou Of from 20 to 80 per
per cent lti AZ stttitiSif tAttiltsttdu
steel plant.
The delegates from fifteen Of the princi,
pal block coal mines OF Indiana, represent.
ing over 1000 men, met ia Brazil, lud.,
rejected the operators demand for twenty
cents reduction, and declared a strike by
"A two-thirds vote. The reduction is from
ninety cents to seventy, the largest demand
ed in the history Of the coal trade West
Failure of the Amy Manufacturing Com
pany. manufacturers of ladies' fine cloths.
The company mills are among the largest
in the kensington (Phlladelphial district,
and employ about 100 hands.
So many iron workers in Pennsylvania
are out Of employment that the Allegheny
Bessemer Mills at Duquesne have had no
trouble in filling the places OF strikers with
non union men, and the strike is practi
cally failure.
Receiver appointed for the West End
Mining Company, owning iron mines in
Hunterdon County, n. J., and Pennsylva-
MIA.
Assignment of Cupples Il Hurd, book
sellers and the Algonquin Press, publish
ers, Boston,
June 2I-Stories of terrible suffering among
the striking miners at Braidwood, Ill.
Big strike of boot and shoe workers at
North Adams Mass.
June 2i-Assignment of the firm of S. Rob
bins Il Son carving on business as the