Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-19
WORK AND WORKERS.

TIE members of the Lathers' Protective
Union in Boston have decided to strike for 81
and $3.50 per day. They are now getting
$3.50 and 81.
THE demand of the yardmen of the Penn
sylvania and Louisville and Nashville roads,
at Cincinnati, for the Chicago scale, has been
refused, and the strike is complete.
THE freight handlers on all the leading
railroads at Toledo, Ohio, struck for 10 cents
an hour. They had been working for II and
12s cents. About $50 men went out.
THE journeymen stair builders of New
York have prevailed upon their employers to
grant them the eight hours work day with
no increase of pay. The concession is unani-
nous, and will affect 800 workmen.
THE puddlers' helpers in the Susquehanna
Rolling Mill at Columbia, Pa, went on strike
to enforce the demand for scale gatherers.
The strike caused the shutting down of the
pudding mill, and 60 men were thrown out
of work.
TIE Knights Of Labor in P. w. Varney's
shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts, are on
strike. The fight is against a reduction,
claimed by the Cutters Union to amount to
So cents per case, in the cutting roonI
A large number of Negroes taken from Vir
ginia 10 work in brickyards alongth Hudson
river have returned to their homes The
experiment proved failure and caused con-
siderable trouble and loss to the brick manu-
facturers.
IL an address in Susquehanna, Pa. Grand
! Master Workman Powderly said that the
Knights Of Labor were at war with no other
labor organization, and that if they wanted 10
| fight, they could well find an enemy outside
of the ranks Of working men.
THE employees of Leisenring No. 2 cole
plSnt at Scottdale, Pa. to the number Of $50,
are ont on strike because Of the discharge
of eight baulers and two or three cookers.
/ General Superintendent Lynch and the X. Of
| J.. officials will hold a conference.
ABOUT 800 Louisville and Nashville brake.
men and switchmen in Louisville. are on
/ strike. The number of strikers is 10 brake
men and 40 switchmen on the Cincinnati
p, division. The traffic is blocked at both wards
| and on all Louisville and Nashville Lines out
| of the city. About 100 cars of fruit and other
| perishable articles are in the yards.
| THE National Union of American Flint
| Glass Workers met in convention in Balti-
more. The sessions, which are secret, will
I last about two weeks. All the skilled laboreis
| in the flint glass houses, including cutters.
| grinders, mouders and engrayers, are en-
braced in this organization.
THE Clothing Manufacturers Association
of New York, have locked out their l ,0O0 cut
| tiers. The manufacturers state that this step
| is taken in retaliation for a boycott placed on
one of their number, Alfred Benjamin & Co.
| Over 10000 persons will be thrown out of
| work.
! The grievance committee OF the Santa Fe
system has submitted its demands to the man
ayers of the road. The new schedule is sub
stantially as follows: For freight conductors
cents per :aiie, aud for over time 20 cents
per hour. The passenger conductors demand
| that the grading system be abolished, and Sl25
per month be paid for running $500 miles.
Over that number of miles they want 81 cents
per Mic. Passenger brakemen demand So
per month for the same number Of miles, and
| II cents for the excess.