Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
NO. 2.
WORK AND WORKERS

THE employees of the ST. Charles Iron
Furnace At Columbia, Pa, have been notified
that the furnace viii be blown out for an
indefinite period. Nearly hundred men
will be thrown out Of work.
TIE cotton pickers' strike, which was to
have begun in Arkansas, did not take place.
the piekers continuing to work for 70 cents
per 100 pounds. Similar reports come from
Texas, Georgia and other States.
TnE Gap furnace and rolling mills at
1ollidayshurg, Penna., which have been idle
for some time, were sold TO New York cor.
por ton, which will begin work at once. The
works when in operation employ COO men.
Two thousand men, mostly French Cana
dians, employed in the ssw.mills in Ottawa,
Ontario, are on strike for q reduction Of one
and half hours work per day and an in
crease Of 80 cents in wages per week. The
men have beea reov.Ying from So TO IS per
week and working III hours day, with three
quarters Of an hour for elmer.
THE Italian Consul at Boston is invcstirat.
ing the condition of Italians working ON tho
sewers In Boston, Newton and WATERFOWL. IL
is said they are miScrably housed and crowded
in one-Story shanties live in sQual0r and are
forced to buy all their provisions at an en-
HANGED price from an alleged syndicate Of
Italians, whose business is the furnishing Of
laborers for contractors.
Ara meeting Of the Cigar Makers Union in
Boston, il was announced that new price list
Tor packers, which advances wages about 10
per cent, has been accepted by the manu-.
iacturers in all union shops in the city. The
delegates 20 the International Union were in.
structed TO advocate u law making the election
OF International President by popular vote of
the whole membership of the Union.
THE convicts at work In the juto mill Of the
ST. Quintou Prison, San Francisco, are on
strike. They demand better food, more
tobacco, and less iayoriism. Aiter a time a
conference was held between the prison direc.
tors and committee representing the strikers.
1he convicts were told that a refusal to 10 to
work would be punished by solitary conhnc.l
ment and that none OF their demands would
be acceded 10. The strikers then resumed
work.
Two hundred railway employees, mostly Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee aud ST. Paul road
met in Dubuque Iowa, and organized local
branch Of the Railway Employees Union
Their object is to oppose candidates iayorng
hostile legislation towards railroads. The
railroad officials say If hostile 5 ate legisla.
ton is continued wages must be decreased and
the forces cut down. Il is alleged that this
has already been done in some Instances.
ABOUT 1900 Of the striking mill hands in
Ottawa, Canada, held meeting, and after
listening 10 inhammatory speeches, crossed
the bridgeto HuH. There they compelled tho
operators Of Eddy's pail factory and Wright's
lime and cement works to quit work. Tho
proprietors Of both places and some Of their
assistants were roughly handled. Upon a
requisition from the Magistrates three COM
panies OF militia were called out TO preserve
the peace.
THERE is a lockout NJ the Detroit City
Glass Works, In Detroit, Michigan, involving
about 100 men. The employers had pre-
pared a reduction OF 10 per cent. on tho exist
ing scale OF wages, to SO into effect when tho
works resumed after the summer vacation.
But meanwhile the gatnercrs had planned 10
demand raise Of pet cent The employers
refused TO acoede to this. and the works have
not reopened." The men have referred tho
matter 10 the National Glass Workers Union.