Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-21
WORK AND WORKERS

IT is stated that the stove moulders In st.
Louis will strike for higher wages aud a
general adjustment of grievances on May LIST.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the different brother.
foods of which the employees of the Illinois
Central Railroad are members, have. it is
stated, arranged for federation.
EIGHT hundred weavers of the Atlantic
Mills in Providence Rhode Island, struck
against alleged excessive fines imposed for
alleged imperiections in the cloth.
A TELEGRAM from Providence says the
Wanskuk strikers have decided 10 go to work
at the old scale Of prices pending conference
concerning the differences between them and
their employers
THE Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Brad.
dock Pa, which shut down for repairs some
weeks ago, will not resume operations for
some time. When in operation 1000 men are
employed at the works.
MORE than 800 carpenters and planning
mill employees in indianapolis are idle be-
cause OF the strike ordered by the Building
Trades Council. The street car drivers and
ell the trade organizations will aid the
strikers.
attorney G GENERAL MILLER has informed
the Secretary of the Treasury that the alleged
i'll treatment of Hungarian lsborers employed
in the construction OF railroad near Poca.
hontas. Va, isa matter for State supervision
only, there being no United States law
covering such a ease.
THE bricklayers' union in Chicago has
decided TO reject the offer made by delegates
from the International Union about four
weeks ago for the inauguration Of the two
associations. Another proposition for re-
duction Of the initiation fee TO members Of
the International Union during the next two
years has also been rejected.
A GENERAL strike and lockout of the
plasterers in Milwaukee, nearly 200 in mum
Der, is expected. The union some time ago
demanded an increase of FIVE cents an hour
in their wages. This the bosses refused and
bound themselves in bond by which each
hrm that may yield to the men shalt forfeit
$500. few OF the men are already locked
out.
THR STANDARD Steel Company's works at
Thurlow, Penna, are again in operation the
department in which the strike occurred
having been filled with members Of the Iron
Mouders' Union and nou.union moulders.
The trouble originated through the demands
Of the members Of the International Brother.
hood OF Machinery Moulders that no union
other than their own should be recognized BY
the company.
THE employees Of Dickey, SmalIwood &
Co., meter manufacturers 10 Baltimore, are
on strike. The men say that the cause Of the
trouble was the discharge of three members
OF trade union, which was formed last week
Tor no other reason than that they had been
active spirits in the formation Of the union.
Mr.. Dickey says the men were disorganizers
and one Of them in particular was violent
Anarchist. Their retention in tie shops was
against all wisdom.
THERE is trouble between the managers
and employees OF the Joliet works Of the
Illinois Steel Company on the wage question
and the mills were shut down more than 4
IN Iii l.
having been agreed upon, the managers
want the men to take the managers books ioI
prices, and the men insist upon taking the
quotations in the iron Age which the manage
Inent claim to be spurious. 1t is thought
however, that settlement is at hand.