The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-01-04
LABOR DISTURBANCES.

JANUARY
q Forty collieries on the Reading Railroad sys-
FEBRUARY.
8. Riot among miners at Shenandoah, Pa
n Eviction OF twenty-five families Of STRIKING
cigar makers in New York.
10. Riot at Billings, Montana Territory.
20 Work generally resumed In the Reading col-
lieries.
%. Chief Arthur. OF the Brotherhood OF Locomc-
tive Engineers ordered the engineers and fire.
men of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad to strike.
MARCH.
8. O., B. and @ striking engineer fatally shot at
Springfield Mo-, by deputy marshal
T. The O., II and Q engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad
16 Engineers and flremen the Santa Fe sys-
tenn struck in a body Result of the c., b. and
Q. strike Broken next day
60 Riots among c.. B. and O. switchmen at Chi
cago
30 Strike on the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul
railroad
81 Strike on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi.
cago railroad in progress.
81 Traffic stopped on the ST. Paul railroad near
Chicago,
8 Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago.
D Strike OF Boston paper hangers succeeded
H. Brewers men struck in Chicago.
~ Strike Of bakers at Chicago.
ID. Brewers lockout began in New York, Brook
lyn New1rs, Jersey City, Paterson and Staten
Island Five thousand men out of employ
ment
20. Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
at Pittsburg with non union men.
20. More shooting reported at Galesburg. Ills on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad.
Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works de-
clared Off by the Knights of Labor
JUNE
10. One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
on strike at Hartz, Austria.
IS All window glass factories in Pittsburg and the
west shut down.
ia Miners In the Connellsvllle Pa, coke region
out a strike.
30 Conference between the iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated association resulted in
the closing of the mills 5000 men being
| thrown out OF employment
| Division Chief Bauereiseu of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar
| rested, charged with being implicated in a
plot 10 wreck property of the c., b. and O.
| 10 Chairman Hoge and Murphy OF the 20" engi.
neer's and iremen's grievance committees and
Secretary Kelley and McGivery arrested in
connection with the alleged dynamite con
spiracy,
H. George Clark, brotherhood elss inees. arrested
at Galesburg, Ills, in connection wsszeIssfed
dynamite conspiracy on 20" road
ID Unconditional surrender OF the iron mannfact-
urers to the Amalgamated association
AUGUST
3. Street car strike in Brooklyn EndeI next
day.
16 Large rolling mills at 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 Indiana lines went
out on strike.
| OCTOBER
l Strike of ship rlggers in Philadelphia
Twenty'nine window glass factories In the
Western association resume work
T. Street car strike on in Chicago
O. Roting between the Chicago street car strik
ers and the police
H. Thomas Wardell, wealthy coal operator at
Bevier, Mo, killed by striking miners
IL Strike among the street car men In Chicago
practically ended.
a. Street car riots in Chicago
| NOVEMBER
8. Strike of switchmen on the New York Central
and Boston and Albany railroads at Albany,
NY
q. General strike of switchmen at Indianapolis
| DECEMBER
D. I. b. Barry organized a labor organization, in.
dependent Of the Knights of Labor
.. The trial of the alleged %" dynamiters begun
at Geneva, Ill
10. Fresh trouble at Bevier NO., necessitated the
| calling out OF the troops