The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-01-04
LABOR DISTURBANCES.


8, Forty colieres on tho Reading Railroad sys
tenn are idle
FEBRUARY
8 Eipt anon; miners at Shenandoah. Pa
II. Eviction of twenty-five fatalities OF striking
cigar makers i'll New York
- Riot NJ Billings, Montana Territory
- WORK generally resumed IN tho Readin, col
!iefipS.
a5 CHEF Arthur, ofthe Brotherhood Of Locomc
tive Engineers, ordered the engineers un5 dres
men Of the Chicago, Burlington ard Quincy
railroad to strike.
sARCn.
q, 3 and g striking engineer fatally shot ut
Springfield, Mo. By deputy marshal
/ The G.. is and Q engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad.
" Engineers and iir.1ncn on the Santa r., sys,-
TEN struck in body. Result ot the C., u. and
@. strike: Eroken next day.
% Riots among c., B unI Q. switchmc1 at Cl..
caSo-
80, Strike Oh the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul
railroad
81, Strike on the rittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad in progress.
81. Traffic stopped on tho ST. Paul railroad near
Chicago,
8. Strike on tho Michigan Central at Chicago
Q. Strike of Boston paper hangers succeeded
IL. Brewers men struck In Chicago
II. Strike OF bakers at Chicago.
IL, Brewers lockout began in New York, Drook-
lyn, Ntwnr!-, Jersey City, Paterson and Staten
Island Five thousand uen out Of employ
inent.
20. Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
at rttsburg with nou-union men,
%. Moro shooting reported at Galesburg Ills, on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad.
MAY.
8, Strike ut the Edgar Thompson steel works do
clarcd off by the Knights Of Labor
JUNE.
10 One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
strike ut Haritz, Austria.
IS All window glass factories Ill PittSOurg and the
west shut down.
49, Miners la tho Counellsvle, Pa, coke region
out n strike.
30 Conference between tho Iron manufacturers
and the Au,algamnted association resulted In
the closing Of tho mills, $1,000 men being
thrown out Of employment
July
& Division Chief Dauorcsen Of the brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers and threo Others ar
rested, charged with being implicated In a
plot 10 wreck property Of tho c., Il. and @.
10 Chairman lIoge and Murphy Of tho @" engl-
'neers and f1remen's grievance committee and
Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested In
connection with tho alleged dynamite con
spracy.
II. George Clark. brotherhood engineer, arrested
at Gaicsburg, Ills. In connection with alleged
dynamite conspiracy on %" road
l8 Unconditional surrender of tho iron nanufactr
urers to tho Amalgnmated association
AUGUST
8. Street cur strike In Brooklyn Ended next
day.
l6 Largo rolling mills ut 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 Indiaoa lines went
out on strike
OCTOBER.
l Strike OF ship nggers tn Philadelphia.
Twenty nine window glass factories In the
Western association resume work.
Street car strike on In Chicago
0. Rioting between the Chicago street car strtk.
era and the police,
IL. Thomas Wurdell, wealthy coal operator O,
Beyier. Mo-. killed by striking miners,
IL Strike among the street cur men In Chicago
practically ended
H. Street car riots in Chicago.