The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-06
TROUBLES OF TOILERs.
Hosiery Mill Women Strike-Puddlerf
Demand an Advance.


READING, PA, Aug. 5.-Over 100 young
women employed in Hunsicker & Co.'S
Reading Hosiery Mills went on a strike
this morning. They held a meeting and
resolved not to go back until their griev-
ances were righted. They struck because
the firm reduced wages from IA to II cents
per dozen pair stockings, and announced
that the girls would be charged extra for
the use Of the machines, needles, etc.
PUDDLERs DEMAND A SECOND ADVANCE.
LEBANON, PA, Aug. 5.-The puddlers Of
Lights rolling mill, the Lebanon Iron Com
pany, and the West End rolling mill, to-
day notified their employers that an in
crease of 35 cents per ton would be expected
after Aug. 10. Several months ago the
pu ddlers' wages were increased % cents.
The firms have taken no action on the new
demand. Over 500 hands are employed in
these mills
UNABLE TO RESUME.
READING, PA, Aug. 5.-A large blast
furnace at Topton in this county was to
have resumed this morning, but was unable
to do go, and will have to lia idle for the
present on account of the scarcity Of coke,
cau5edby the strike in tho COKE district.
FURNACES BANKED.
PIrTsBURa, Pa Aug. 5.-The Carnegie
furnaces located at Rankin station have
been banked peudingSa settlement Of the
mems demand for an advance in wages.
One furnace was banked Saturday night
and the other early this morning, when the
men employed at the latter joined those OF
the former. There are about 225 out.
CoNNELI.svILLE's BIG STRIKE.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug 5.-The strike in
the Connellsville coke region has assumed
itT1T0 Ia
in the region not less than 1900 are now
idle, and the managers assert that over
1000 of the remaining ovens will be tut
down tomorrow. The National Progressive
Miners Association and the Knights of
Labor are working together in perfect har-
| mony for the first time in years At a
| meeting at the Standard works yester-
| day the men, who are nearly all
national progressive miners, unanimously
passed a resolution ignoring the scale and
| agreement of last February. From the
latest reports received hsre, it is almost GER
| tain that not more than eight or ten works
| OUT of the seventy-six in the region will be
| working tomorrow. These, with the ex-
ception of the Mammoth, are all small
| works and will not represent over 200 or
2,400 men. The men in this part OF the re-
| gion are quiet and peaceable aud believe
that they will win the strike. The
| strikers at Donnelly and Stone
vile went to Moorewood this morning
! at daybreak and held a meeting in front of
the company's store at that place. They
| succeeded in inducing the men to omit work,
buS it is reported that as soon rs the visitors
left the place some of the men went back
to work. Arrangements ara being made
for an immense mass meeting to be held at
this place Wednesday, Delegations from
all parts of the region are expected to be
| present and the meeting viii be addressed
by National Master Workman Rae and
several other prominent labor leaders.
A CONCESSION AT sCoTTDALE.
A special from ScottdaIe, Pa, says: "The
latest feature in the coke situation here is
the report that the strike will end
| successfully as far as the Mcclure
| and j. NJ. Schoonmaker coke companies are
| concerned. Telephone messages have been
sent tonight to all the works operated by
these companies, offering the men an
advance of 6A per cent. They viii
a point that will justify them in paying
the advance. As far as can be learned,
meetings are being held at the above com
panies' works, and the probabilities are
| that a number of them will be running in
the morning. Just what action will be
| taken by the H. c. Frick Company cannot
be ascertained tonight, but it is entirely
| probable that they viii make a similar
offer to the men in their employ"
STOVE MoULDERs STRIKE.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 5.-Between three
and four hundred moulders employed by
| Rathbone, Hard & Co., quit work this
morning on account of the discharge of one
| Of their number last Saturday, the trouble
arising over the price received for certain
| casting. 1t is beloved that an amicable
| adjustment OF the difficulty will be reached