Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-19
WORK AND WORKERS.

THE members of the Lathcrs' Protective
Union in Boston have decided to strike for s.
and $3.50 per day. They are now getting
$50 and s..
TIE demand of the yardmcn 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 - cents
an hour. They had been working for ] 2 and
III cents. About $50 men went out.
THE journeymcn 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 workmcn.
THE puddlcrs' helpers in the Susquehanna
Rolling MILL al Columbia, Pa, went onstrikc
to enforce the demand for scale gatherers.
Tie strike caused the shutting down of the
pudding mill, aud 80 men were thrown out
of work.
The Knights of Labor in P. W Yarncy's
shoe factory in Lynn Massachusetts, are on
strike. The fight is against a reduction,
So cents per case, in the cutting room.
a large number of Negroes taken from Viz
gnia to work in brickyards along the Hudson
experiment proved Il failure, and caused COLI
siderable trouble and loss 10 the brick manu-
facturers.
IL an address in Susquehanna, Pa, Grand
Master Workman Powdcrly said that the
Knights of Labor were ut 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 Lciscnring No. Q coke
plant Mt Sc0ttdalc, Pu. to the number of $40,
are out on strike because Of the discharge
of eight haulers and two or three cokers.
General Superintendent Lynch and the X. Of
l.. officials will hold conference.
ABOUT 300 Louisville and Nashville brake
men and switchmcn in Louisville, are on
strike. The number of strikers is ITO brake
men and 40 swtchmen on the Cincinnati
division. The traffic is blocked at both yards
and 90 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 III Bulti-
more. The sessions, which are secret, will
last about two weeks. All the skilled laborels
in the flint glass houses, including cutters,
grinders, mOulders and engruvers, are en-
braced in this organization.
TIE Clothing Manufacturers Association
of New York, have locked out their 1000 cut
tiers. The manufacturers state that this step
is taken in retaliation for 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 MS follows: For freight conductors
cents per mile, aud for over time 20 cents
| per hour. The passenger conductors demand
that the grading system be abolished, and S12j
per month be paid for running $500 miles.
Over that number of miles they want 81 cents
per mile. Passenger brakemen demand SO
per month for the same number Of miles, and
q cents for the excess.