The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
LABOR TROUBLES.
LABOR TROUBLES.
Reports From Various Sections as to
the Probable Outcome of
May Day.
In Some of the Trades q Fight Will
be Made for the Eight
Hour Day.
The Iowa Miners Have Abandoned,
for the Present, their Inten-
tiOn to Strike.
The Ohio Miners.

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termination of the executive board of the
United mine workers and the presidents
of the state organizations at their meeting
in this city the first of the week to defer
strike IN the interest of the eight hour
labor day, does not seem to have def
nitely settled the question even among
the miners of Ohio. The executive
board also made proposition to the
Ohio operators they would continue at
the old rate for mining and accept nine
hours for the coming year, beginning
tomorrow. A meeting of the operators
was called for Columbus yesterday and
they are still in session and refusing to
accept the proposition of the miners un-
less they can have some assurance that
the agreement will not embarrass them to
such extent that competing
field like Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania will beat them in the
market. The Ohio miners also convened
this morning and committee was ap-
pointed for conference with the oper-
ators. They do not expect to conclude
the business before tomorrow. The
operators have made proposition that
they will pay the present prices, seventy
cents for Hooking valley, with other
districts on the usual graded scale for
the state, if the miners will concede the
point in regard to the nine.hour day
and leave that open 80 as to give the
operators an opportunity to meet
competitors. The miners of Ohio vary
in their days work from three to four
hours. according to the district. There
are no reports indicating strike and the
leaders confidently expect compromise
before the conventions adjourn in this
city. Some of the miner delegates to the
state convention, representing the strong
districts, are disappointed over the action
of the executive board of United Miners
in postponing the strike for an eight
hour day. There is much stronger SEN
timent in that direction than has been
reported, but the national officers expect
their course will be indorsed. There is
nothing, however, to indicate that the
miners in any fields OF the state will go
out tomorrow and no other line of trade
has made preparations in that direction,
having been led to believe the miners
would take the initiative.
TROUBLE EXPECTED AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, April 3O.-If the develop
ments in the labor situation can be said
to be the forerunner of of what is to hap
pen tomorrow, one Of the most serious
strikes in the history of st. Louis is inn
minent. The number of men who will go
out will be fully 5000. The carpenters
council has received a notice from the
headquarters of the brotherhood of car
penters and joiners, at Philadelphia,
warning the members to stay away from
East st. Louis on and after May LIST, as
the prospect of trouble is very imminent.
The men, it seems, have been preparing
for trouble on the east side of the river,
as we'll as in st. Louis proper. Their
strength in East st. Louis is estimated
at 700, which includes the workmen in
several of the surrounding towns and
villages. The matter has been kept very
quiet. but it it is understood in labor cir
cles in this city that the bosses will to-
morrow morning ke presented
with demand that eight
hours constitute days work
at the old pay for ten hours. The first
definite information given out in regard
to the affair was this morning, from
which time strenuous efforts have failed
to receive either corroboration or denial
that the May-day strike will occur. St.
Louis carpenters have received warning
not to CROSS the Mississippi in search Of
work, which makes it evident that trouble
is anticipated. At the Central Trades
and Laber Union headquarters this MORN
ing list of probable strikers was made
out by Secretary Mcmahon, as close es-
innate of the number of men who will
strike tomorrow. This list is as follows:
Carpenters, 2,10O; marble cutters, 300;
timers, $50; inside wire men, 1875; archi-
tectural iron workers, $50; malsters (un-
certain), 1000; union stripers, 500. To-
tai, 1925.
PEACEFUL AT PEORIA.
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