Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-05-07

while the men took day of, there
was no strike, and operations will be
resumed.
CHICAGO, May 2-Labor day was eel
ebrated in Chicago by grand parade
of fifty or more labor organisations and
O monster mass-meeting on the lake
front. The demonstration was fully
the equal of former years. At night
the different unions held entertain
ments at their halls.
DANv1LLE, Ill, May 2=%rhe large
coal mine operators at Grape Creek, in
Guiding the Grape Creek Coal Company,
the Spellman Coal Company and Mike
Kelley, suspended work indefinitely
Friday, throwing thousand men out
of employment. The operators claim
that on account of overprotluction it is
not profitable to work the mines. The
Danville miners are all at work They
receive sixty cents a ton, five cents less
than the Grape Creek rate.
IOWA MINERS ORDERED 0uf.
OsKALoosA, Ia, May 2.-The execu.
tive board of the state association OF
the miners held meeting here Friday
and issued the following order:
TO THE MINERS OF IOWA: Your executive
board has ordered you out for the establish
ment of the eight-hour work day, and you will
remain out until further orders from said
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This is an independent action by the
Iowa union and will be followed in
part only. Many of the miners will re.
turn to work. ~
b Miscreants set fire to shaft No. Z OF
the Consolidated Coal Company's works
Friday morning and. 100000 worth OF
property was destroyed. The miners
in the employ of this company had re.
fused to join in the general strike OF
May l. Attempts were also made to
burn other shafts. s.
OTTUMwA, a., May 2.-The coal
miners strike is general throughout
southeastern Iowa, and covers the Des
Moines valley coal fields. At Keb the
miners made no demand. At the great
Cleveland mines the men made a
formal demand for an eight-hour day,
and declared they would stay out
until it was granted. At Hiteman the
men are out, but as they have made nc
demands it is confidently expected that
they will resume work Monday. AT
Foster the men notified the
operators that eight hours would
be days work hereafter and quit.
The miners ut Il Mystic observed
labor day, but have posted notice
that work will be resumed to-day, as
they understood the general strike had
been declared off. At Diamond the
men are out, but intimate that they
may resume work carly in the week.
The men at. the Phillips mines are out,
but, like those at Flagler, have made
no demands and protest that this is not
strike
i Esd IN INDIANA.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 2. Two
thousand miners in Clay county went
out Thursday night.
There is no change in the situation
in Davis county. building is stopped
in Terre Haute by the carpenters
strike for nine hours at thirty cents.
Friday the bosses offered twenty five
cents, but the men would not;accept.
The brickmasons and hodcarriers also
went OF: Friday for higher wages.
These are the only labor troubles of i'm
portance in Indiana.
NO STRIKE IN OHIO.
COLUMBUS, O., May 2.The4 miners
and operators of Ohio have adjusted
their difficulties on basis Of seventy
cents for mining in the Hooking val
ley and a nine-hour day. The scale for
machine mining was left open for
future adjustments between the OPP
orators and miners interested. No
strike or trouble is.anticipated in Ohio
fields for the next year. IS.
RIOT AT CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, o., May ?. The attempt
to put a: gang of non-union men to work
unloading the twelve lumber barges
that have been waiting at the docks
here for several days resulted in an
ugly riot shortly after noon, iii which
both the Fisher Brothers, proprictors Of
one of the yards, and Perry, q junior
partner OF Wool, jerks & Co., besides
q mum Der of Workmen, were seriously
assaulted. The police charged the
strikers and Scrgt. Sherman aud several
patrolmen were seriously beaten il the
fight that followed. The exact number Of
strikers and non union men injured
cannot be ascertained, nor the extent
of their injuries.
ST. LOUIS CARPENTERS WIN.
ST. LOUIS. May 2.The carpenters
and joiners have once more scored q
victory against their employers. Two
years ago they fought for thirty five
cents an hour and an eight-hours day
and Won. Friday they asked forty cents
an hour and got it. The st. Louis team
owners, 500 strong, have won their
strike against their employers They