The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-07
THE TOiLER'S VOICE.

II II Raised In Behalf OF Fewer Hours III
Labor and More Pay In America and
Europe-May Day Brings Forth Many
Strikes -Hloodshed in Italy and France.
DUouoIs, H., May 2.-Every mine
on the prairie was closed down Friday
morning and 1,400 miners and mine la
borers came out on q strike for eight
hours day and weekly pay.
Several operators, anticipating the
strike. last week posted notices
for the men to clean up their
places and take out their tools before
May !. But one mine is now running
tthe Egyptian) and it is paying the
wages demanded and working under
contract. Fully 1000 people are direct
ly interested in the strike here. All
the miners south of here are out. The
outlook is for an idle summer in "Egyp-
tian" mining circles.
SPRrNGFIELp, Ill, May 2.-State
President Goings, of the Illinois Fed
Grated Miners union, returned from
Chicago and reports that the confer
cnce with the coal operators in Chicago
was satisfactory to the miners. lie said
an agreement was reached to hold
a joint session of the miners and OPP
orators of the state some time next
week, the time and place of the confer
ence to be fixed to-day. 1t was agreed
to suspend all operations at the mines
until after this conference, but the
miners want it understood that no
strike has been ordered and that none
is on.
Other points in the Illinois coal fields
report quiet condition of affairs. In
Saline county not mine has stopped
operations. Rock Island advices say
that every mine in that county, as
well as in Henry and Mercer counties.
is working, and the men are satisfied
with their condition. In Vermillion
county there is no trouble or indication
of a strike, and in st. Clair county,
while the men took day off. there
was no strike, and operations will be
resumed.
CHICAGO, May 2.-Labor day was Gel
ebrated in Chicago by grand parade
Of fifty or more labor organizations and
q 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.
DANvII.LE, ILL.,, May 2.-Thc large
coal mine operators at Grape Creek, in
cluding the Grape Creek Coal Company,
the Spellman Coal Company and Mike
Kelley, suspended work indefinitely
Friday, throwing a thousand men out
of employment. The operators claim
that on account Of overproduction it is
not profitable to work the mines.
IOWA MINERS ORDERED OUT.
OsKALoosA, Ia, May a.-The execu-
tive board of the state association of
the miners held meeting here Friday
and issued the following order:
ITO THE MINERS OF Iowa: Your executive
board has ordered you out for the establish,
ment of the eight-honr work day, and you will
remain out until further orders from said
hoard.
This is an independent action by the
Iowa union and will be followed in
part only. Many of the miners win re-
turn to work.
Miscreants set fire to shaft No. I of
the Consolidated Coal Companys 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.
OTTuMwA, Ia, Ma, 1.-The coal
miners strike is gen: r:l throughout
southeastern Iowa, and covers the Des
Moines valley coal fields. At Kcb the
miners made no demand. At the great
Cleveland mines the men made Il
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 no
demands it is confidently expected that
they will resume wol:, Monday. At
Foster the men notified the
operators that cigh, hours would
bc days work hereafter and quit
IN INDIANA.
INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, May ?. 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 IIaute by the carpenters
strike for nine hours ut thirty cents.
Friday the bosses offered twenty-five
cents, but the men would not accept.
The brickmasons and hodcarricrs also
went out Friday for higher wages.
These are the only labor troubles of i'm
portance in Indiana
NO STRIKE IN OHIO.
COLUMBUS. O., May 2.-The 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 adjustment between the OPP
orators and miners interested. No
strike or trouble is anticipated in Ohio
fields for the next year.
RIOT AT CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, o., May a-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, in which
both the Fisher Brothers, proprietors OF
one of the yards, and Perry, a junior
partner of Wool, jerks & Co., besides
number of workmen, were seriously
assaulted. The police charged the
strikers and Sergt. Sherman and several
patrolmen were seriously beaten in 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 ?.-The carpenters
and joiners have once more scored i;
victory against their employers. Two
years ago they fought for thirty five
cents an hour and an cight-honr day
and won. Friday they asked forty cents
an hour and got it.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May a.-Thc strike
In the building trades for eight hours
was innuguratcd Friday morning. The
number of men known to be
out are: Carpenters, 1,s00; stone
masons, 700: bricklayers, COO or
200; slateroofers, 400. Some TWEEN.
tv small firms alraadv aoneaI,.l