Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-09
INDUSTRIAL.
SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL STRIKES, ETC, DURING


THE YEAR.
Jan. 4-Great strike of engineers and fremen
on Chicago. Burlington & Quincy railroad set
tied in conference at Chicago, and strike &C.
clared off.
Jan. 2s-General strike of limestone quarry
men in Shenandoah and Mahoning valleys for
advance in wages.
Jan. .9-All the Street-car lines in New York
tied up by strikers.
Feb AFTER an idleness of three months
| mining strikers in Western Pennsylvania re-
sumed work at old rates.
Feb 5.-Strike of street-car employees in New
York declared off.
Feb S-Pittsburgh PaD coke strike col
lapsed and operations were resumed.
Mar. 1.-Two thousand railroad employees at
South Pittsburg, Tenn, struck against reduc-
Mar 11-Sixty thousand Fall River (MassD
wcaverS struck for higher wages.
Mar. 2O.-Eleven collieres near Willlesbarre
Pa employing 5000 men resumed work after
an idleness of over three weeks.
Mar. 27-Ten thousand striking weavers at
Fall River Mass return to work at old wages
Apr lover 1000 carpenters in st. Louis
struck for eight hours and 40 cents an hour.
Nearly 1000 carpenters and Jolners IN Buffalo
\. y, struck for nine-hOur day.
Apr. 11-Street-car employees at Minneapolis,
Mimi struck because of reduction Of wages.
Apr. 12-Minneapolis street-car strike eX-
tended to ST. Paul.
Apr. 1s-Steubenville (O) iron and steel works.
just started up, stopped by strike of employees
Apr. 23-Street-car strike in Minneapolis,
Mimi. virtually ended, a number of old EN-
ployes returning to work on company's terms.
Apr. 25-Striking carpenters in ST. Louis re-
sumo work employers terms
Apr. pa strike of weaverS caused the shut
ting down of the mills of the White Manufact
uring Co.. Rockville. Conn.
May IA builders 1ike, affecting 5000 men,
for advance of % cents a day, inaugurated at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
May 2-The Street-car drivers strike at St.
Paul Mimi, declared off by the strikers, the
men going to work at the reduced wages.
May 6-FOur thousand striking miners at
Brazil. Ind, returned to work. after adjustment
of difficulties with employers. -. The building
trades strike at Pittsburgh, Pa. settled il
favor of employees.
May 14-Strike of railroad coal miners in the
Pittsburgh Pa district settled.
May 20-Wor1 resumed in the cOlierieS of
Scranton, Pa. after an idlcncss of seven months.
May ga ten per cent. reduction in wages by
the ShenangO Valley pa furnace operators.
June 2j-Great want and suffering prevailed
among the unemployed miners of the Braidwood
tlll.) district.
Aug. 2S-After a shutdown of 16 years the
Ironton pig-iron works near Buffalo, n. Y, re
sumed operations.
Oct 21-Railroad switchmen inaugurated q
strike at Evansville, Ind.
Oct 24-TailorS to the number of 800 quit wOrl1
in Chicago because a member of the Diapers
and TailOrS Exchange refused to discharge a
foreman whom his workmen didn't like.
Oct. 26-Switchmen'S strike at Evansville.
Ind. ended in victory for the railroad.
Oct 30-Journeymen tailorS' strike in Chicago
ended in favor of employers
Oct. 81 - Switchmen's strike at Memphis,
Tenn. declared off.
Dec. 12-Two thousand miners in Alabama
struck for higher wages.