Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-11
ALL OF. THEM CLOSED.
Four Hundred Bottle House Boys
Unite in Demanding More Pay.
THREE STRIKERS ARE ARRESTED.
What Master Workman Ross Knows About
the Musical Union.
DISASTROUS CORK FACTORY STRIKE

Yesterday morning the strike of the boys
at Hamilton s. Co. IS Twentieth street bottle
house extended to the flint bottle works of
J. 7. & A. Hamilton, at Sixteenth street.
10 VIM. McCully & Co.'s bottle houses at
Sixteenth and Twentieth streets and to their
flint house at Twenty-eighth street. By
noon the boys in all of the bottle houses in
the city were out. About 1000 men and
boys are idle in consequence of the strike,
and as the boys insist on remaining out
until they get the advance asked for, the
matter assumes very serious aspect.
The cause of the strike is demand on the
part of Hamilton g. Co.'s boys for an ad-
vance of so cents per week, although they
have not made formal demand. Hamil-
ton & Co.'s boys went out on Wednesday.
In the afternoon they made an unsuccessful
attempt to get the boys out at Twentieth and
Twenty-eighth streets. Wednesday night
large crowd of the boys, probably 300 or 400
of them, congregated on Twentieth street,
and discussed the situation.
SOME OF THEM WEAKENED.
The crowd included large number of the
boys employed at all of the houses, and the
Hamilton boys succeeded in persuading the
boys employed at the other houses to promise
to go out yesterday morning. The McCully
boys. however. weakened yesterday morning
and formed in line on Twentieth street and
marched up to Twenty-eighth street, where
they induced the boys there to join their
the men employed in all of the esta ablishments
had no alternative but to quit. not because
they were in sympathy with the strikers, but
because they could not continue the work with
assistance bows.
Hamilton & Co.'s works seem to have made ar
rangements for the strike in quiet manner,
as the blowers say they had no iltimation of
the affair until the boys quit work.
When the boys went out at McCully's works,
some of the boys refused to quit work, and the
strikers turned in to stone them. j. NJ. Living
stone, one of the managers, made an informa-
tion against the lads and they were arrested
last night and locked up in the Central station.
Their names are John Quinn, John Tesle and
Joseph Knofsky.
Police officers are stationed at all of them to
prevent any possible disturbance that might
arise. A member of the firm of Hamilton &
received any formal demand from the boys,
and the firm is waiting patiently expecting the
boys to return to work.
ANOTHER VIEW Of IT.
A representative of ]. T. & A. Hamilton
said he thought the boys only wanted a rest.
and they adopted the strike as means of Sc
curing it. This statement recalls similar
strike about two years ago. when all the boys
in that end of the town went out to attend 10
cent circus, which was then located In Law
rencevile. Mr.. McCuIly could not be seen. but
gentleman in his Wood-street Office said they
did not anticipate any serious trouble. The
firm. as are all the Others. is at great loss, as
the furnaces had to be closed down.
The statement that the men refused to go to
work without the boys is misleading and re-
fleets the men who are members of the
Flint Workers Association. As stated before
when the strike occurred. the men were COM
PEELED to quit. All of the firms had large
orders hand and the strike affects them
seriously in this respect. 1t was reported last
evening, that an effort would be made to fill
firms deny that they they have have any my such intensions ms