The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-13

World TO investigate the matter, n the
result was the publication Of a list Of
strikes numbering several hundred.
These strikes and lockouts were
among the protected industries, the iron
industry. which is highly protected and
in which the largest fortunes are made
by employers, being prominent in the
list. The following names of firms ap-
pear in the list which have experienced
labor troubles since the first of the pres
ent year:
January II, 1S92.-The mills of the
Oxford furnace, Oxford, Nj, shut down.
The mills of the Oxford Nail & Iron
company have been shut down for two
months. No one knows when they will
start up. 1t is a mystery how the people
live. In many houses there has been no
coal fire for months. Children thinly
clad are seen daily going to the woods
for bundles of sticks. Pale, careworn
faces are seen on the streets. The Ok
ford mills are the richest in the state.
The owners, millionaires.
February IL, 1892 Chesapeake nail
works and pudding department shut
down, throwing out 300 men. Reason:
Men refuse to accept a reduction of
wages.
February IS. 1S92-Wages of puddlers
in the Chesapeake nail works, Harris.
burg. Pa, reduced from 81 per day to
$3.50.
February %. 1S~92-Puddlers refused
partment closed down; 300 men out of
employment.
February %. 1S92-Cofrode & Taylor,
per cent. The same day the Columbia
Iron and Steel company, Pittsburg. Pa,
gave notice of reduction Of wages % per
cent.
February %, 1S92.-Painter & Sons of
Pittsburg. discharged 200 men and in
sisted on lower wages.
March ), 1S92.-Pipe moulders, fitting
moulders and foundry men at Sing Sing,
n. y. out or account Of reduction in
wages.
March s, 1S92.-Rolling Mills at
Lebanon. Penn. reduce wages 1212 per
cent.
March 0, 1S92.-Mount Hope Iron COM
pany, Somerset. Mass, give notice of re-
in wages.
March 10, 1892. Reduction of ten per
cent made in iron works, Birmingham,
Ala.
March Il, 1892 ellert Foundry CON-
)any. P~ittsburg, reduce wages ten per
'ent. The same day twelve more furnaces
It birmingham. Ala, reduce ten per
.ent.
April /, 1S92.-Two hundred black
imlths at Carnegie's works, Pittsburg,
trike against ten per cent reduction.
April 10, 1S62.-Keystone iron mills at
oittsburg shut down; 400 men out of
The same day the blast
furnaces in Mahoning and Chenango
alleys reduce wages ten per cent. affect
ng thousands. The same day the wages
f the puddlers at Mcllvanie's e. Sons
Mills at Reading, Pa, were reduced from
3.15 to $3.50. Same day at Pittsburg,
.xle hammermen's wages were reduced
line per cent; blacksmiths' wages re-
luced from $3.50 to S2.15; helpers from
l.SO to SLIGO Same day at New Castle,
"a, turnmen's wages reduced to 81. 10;
aborers to S1.35.
April II, 1~S92.-Rolling mills at Read
ng shut down; 300 men thrown out of
April Il, lS92.-The Reading Iron COM
the Pennsylvania Bolt an Nut
FORKS and Lebanon rolling mills reduce
five and ten per cent.
April p, 1S92.-Out of eleven nail mills
Massachusetts nine are idle. No work
Or men.
April PC, 1892 Sligo Rolling mills.
'ittsburg. closed, 300 men idle.
May /. 1882. Park Bros. OF Black
Steel works, reduced wages
fly per cent. same day reduction in
ages of twenty per cent in Andrew
%arnegie's works, Pittsburg.
May II, 1892 Hoven's Rolling mills.
lorristown. Pa. reduced wages from
1 to $3.50 per day.
June 1G, 1S92-Pittsburg Forge and
on company, employing 1000 men.
ave notice of a general reduction in
ages.
June 21-Amalgamated association at
olumbia, Pa. and Susquehanna ask for
4 per day for pudding, same price as
lst year. Refused.
Since the 9th. the Homestead riot.
HIGH is now history.