Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-02
WORK AND WORKERS.

THE strike on the Indiana Midland Rail
road has been satisfactorily arranged.
THE journeymen tailors in Ottawa Ontario,
went on strike for an advance of 10 per cent.
in their wages.
SEVERAL hundred carpenters in Pittsburg
Pa, quilted work on buildings where the
stone masons are locked out.
SEVEN thousand coal minersare expected to
strike at Jellica, Kentucky unless some agree
ment in regard to the spring scale of wages is
reached.
THE conductors and drivers of the Detroit
Consolidated Street Railway, in Detroit Michi-
gan, went on strike. They hOoted ant: jeered
the men who took their places.
IT was announced at Chicago, that 800 more
men were dropped from the pay rolls of the
Burlington Company last week, effecting in
additional saving of $4,000 a month.
ABOUT 70 ribbon weayers in Frank & Dug
an . silk mill at Paterson, New Jersey, struck
against reduction Of IS cents per cut. They
say it is the third cut announced in two
weeks
THREE hundred coal beavers employed on
the docks at Clevelsnl, Ohio, have struck for
an increase of wages, They have received 10
cents per ton this season, and want l3, which
they we're paid last year.
SAMUEL. GoMPBEs, President Of the Nation
III EtGfftliDu OF l1dbDfs HIS written 10 Ile
Trades Assembly of Chicago, asking financial
assistance from industrial organizations of that
city in case Of miners strike.
THE Edgar Thomson Steel Works of Car
negie & Co., at Pittsburg, which have been
closed for ten weeks, has resumed, giving enI-
ployment to about 2000 men. The resumption,
it is said, will be only for a short time.
THE laborers engaged id grading jackson
Park, Chicago, in preparation for the Worlds
Fair, went on strike for an advance in wages.
They had been receiving 81 80, and demanded
81, per day. About 800 men, out of the $50
employed, went out.
SOME months ago the employees ofthe various
express companies were subjected to a reduc-
ton of ten per cent. in their pay. An order
has been issued 10y the American Express
Company notifying many Of its employees That
their salaries viii be raised ten per cent.
WALLACE ELLIOTT & Co.. one OF the
largest shoe manufacturing firms in Haver-
hill, Massachusetts, has discharged all en-
ploycs and closed the factory. This action is
said to be due partly to labor troubles and
partly to the general condition Of business.
THE Reliance Colliery, at Mt. Carmel, Pa,
after a long suspension, has resumed work,
giving employment to 900 hands. Mid Valley
largely increased its force Of workmen, and it
is announced that general resumption of
work will take place this week at the eollieries
which have been awaiting the action of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company in the In
ter-State commerce decision.
A DESPATCH from Cincinnati says the dis
content of the Kentucky Union employees,
who have, il is said, been unable to get their
pay for some time, has eliminated in serious
act of destruction. 1t is learned that unpaid
employees of the road and mountaineers in
Breathitt county, who have never been paid
for their timber, wrecked the entire road in
Breathitt county for distance of % miles.
The road will be erippledifor weeks, and the
cost of repairing the damage will amount to
fully $4,000.