The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-15
Current News.


Inc DeLfOlt SUfeeI-shf Bbflkt tuutu
In an agreement TO afbitrate.
The Michigan car works Mt Detroit
have closed down indefinitely on ac-
count of strike for higher wages.
The miners strikes have caused a
coal famine In Germany and the foun-
dries In the Seig valley and the steel
works along the Rhine have closed
down for want OF fuel.
The Pennsylvania coke-maRers are
fast filling the places of the strikers
with new men.
The Indianapolis saloon-keepers
formed union to raise the price OF
beer and the stoneeutters' union of
that city has placed "A boycott, with n
so fine attached. on all union saloons.
The printers in Rome struck April
30 and none of the papers came out
the next day.
The May day demonstrations at
Lyons, France, were so riotous and
the police so cowed by the mob that
troops had to be called out and several
eonfiicts occurred, IN which ten police
men and soldiers were injured. Sixty
rioters We're arrested.
At Rome there was rioting and two
soldiers were killed and one anarchist
was shot dead by the soldiers and sew
eral OF the rioters were injured.
Stones were hurled ON the soldiers
from houses and the soldiers stormed
the houses from which stones came.
At Paris and Berlin quiet was pre-
served by the police.
At Glichy, France, four policemen
were killed in a fight with anarchists,
who used revolvers freely.
Several persons were injured In a
conflict between policemen and IA
crowd of roughs at Marseilles.
The threatened general strike of
workipgmen throughout Europe did
not take place,
In the United States there was
nothing like a general eightyhour
strike on May day. The Pennsylvania
coke strike is petering out and the
ovens are starting up with non-union
men, The strikers there were mostly
foreign contract laborers who had
been uronght into the country in
violation OF tho federal law, At Ash
land, Pa, the miners are at work rs
usual. The railroad miners In the
Pittsburg district, about 8000, quit
work because their contract had ex+
pired and a new one had not been
signed, but they did not demand an
eight-hour day. The same thing oc-
CURED at Wheeling. w. Va. The ear
penters at Pittsburg struck for 35
cents an hour, and succeeded in get
ting it. The slate roofers Joined them.
The general strike of Pennsylvania
bituminous coal miners has been de-
clared of without being begun.
In Clay county. Ind, 1000 miners
quit.
The Ohio miners accepted a nine
hour day.
Throughout Iowa the miners struck
for an eight-hour day and burned one
or two shafthouses and tried to burn
more.
At Portland, New York, Cleveland,
Des Moines, st. Louis, Chattanooga
and Memphis there were strikes in
the building trades, nearly all of them
for eight hours. In New Orleans all
the building trades are paralyzed by
a strike against the employment of
non-union men.
In San Francisco the painters and
decorators struck for an eight-hour
day.
At Tourmies, France, stones were
thrown at the troops who had been
called to quell rioting by strikers May
3, and the troops fired ON the mob,
killing eight men, six women and
several children and wounding twenty
people. Great excitement was caused
throughout France by the incident and
the fall of the ministry is said to bt
I one OF the possible results.
Owing to the fact that the struggle
in the coke fields will enploy all it'
resources the executive board of th,
united mineworkers of Americ,
I abandoned the proposed May-da,
j eight-hour strike.