Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-10
WORK AND WORKERS.

TIE threatened strike at the Pullman car
shops at Chicago has been settled, lhc men de-.
Gliding to remain at work at the new scale OF
wages
THE shops Of the Illinois Steel Wor,-s in
Chicago, except the blast furnace, have siut
down Fifteen hundred men were thrown
out Of employment.
\ COMMITTEE representing Wabash train.
men Will call upon the officials and present
grievances. They will also ask that new
wage schedule be adopted.
A COMMITTEE appointed by Trade Couu.
Gil in Birmingham, Alabama, is eudeav0ring
TO bring about conference between the strik
ing coal miners and the coal operators,
THE Friek Coke Company, in Scottlale,
Pa, has given notice that they viii shut down
eleven hundred more coke ovens indefinitely.
which will throw about twelve hundred men
out of employment. No cause is given for
the shut down. There are now four thousand
idle coke ovens in that region.
Ir is reported from Wabash. Indiana. that
the engineers Of the Cincinnati Wabash aud
Michigan line are about to request an increase
Of wages TO the sche'u on other parts Of the
Big -Four system. The passenger engineers,
who now receive 26 cents per mile with an
advance to 80 cents. with a corresponding in
crease in the wages of freight and yard en-
gineers.
A TELEGRAM from Buffalo says that Gen
erai Superintendent Bell, Of the Western
New York and Pennsylvania Railroad, has
granted its firemen an advance OF little over
10 per cent. in wages, equalized the rights of
the fremen, made provision for impartial
trials on all charges and guaranteed full pay
for the time they remain suspended or dis
charged when an investigation shows that the
men are blameless.
AT A meeting Of the furnace owners Of the
Shenango and Mahoning Valleys, at Youngs.
town, Ohio, it was unanimously decided 20
shut down the % blast furnaces in that dis
trict on January 10 and not resume operations
again until the railroads and coke operators
concede their demands for lower freight rates
and reduction In the price Of coke. Nearly
| 10000 men will be thrown ont Of employment
by the shutdown.
ONg thousand girls have returned % work
at Ciark's Thread Mills, in Newark, New
Jersey, including twisters, spoilers aud fin.
ishers. There IS about three weeks work on
hand, and, ifthe trouble with the spinner, Is
settled by that time. the girls viii be kept Oh.
The company expects a big supply Of cotton
from Scotland shortly, mad wiz then offer
work to 1000 more girls Tie striking spin
nerS and locked opt men find no fault with
the girls for returning 10 work, as they were
not organized
I The situation Of the discharged laborers
! from the tDl0u racine GuEet eOrMl eAten-
sion is growing serious. There are about 1910
| in Portland, Oregon, and the number il III
creasiBg. Most Of them are destitute, and are
unable to get money Oh their time checks. a
large number Of them are being fed and lo1g
| ed by the city. Owing 10 the inability Of J
| II. Smith & Co., who had the contract, b Sc
cure money from the Union Pacific, the men
are being put off from day to day.
The miners Of the IVES; End Coal Mines,
at Springfield Illinois, have struck because
4 of an assessment Of 10 cents per capita by the
management, who say that, 10 paying the
scale rate Of wage they have been obliged r
lose certain contracts which were bid upoF
before the raise The men also demand tn,
reinstatement Of John Atkinson. President
Of the Springfield sub, District Union, who
was discharged for opposing the operators 10
their demands. The proprielors base eiycf
! notice that, unless the men return to work a
once, the mines will be shut down.