Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-20

age OF 81 II cents per day to one Of
81 per day.
] During the latter part Of the summer
t0f 1855 the still militant Jourueymen
| shoemaliers OF Philadelphia and the
saddlers OF the same city struck for re-
/ AUCTIONS OF hours and increase OF
/ wages. Both strikes We're successful
/ \ very peculiar strike was that of the
French-Canadian laborers on Q dam in
Maine in July, 1896. The men struck
| because they were not allowed to
smoke their pipes when at work.
| They carried their point and their
pipes
! From 1896 10 1912 fifteen noteworthy
/ strikes occurred. OF these, ten were
/ unsuccessful, two successful. and the
4 results of the remaining three are nm
/ known. Two Of the strikes were
among females, and in three cases the
militia had to be called out to suppress
riotins.
/ on February 5. 1872, the first strike
; in the long and costly war between the
{ ironmastcrs of the Pittsburg district
( and their employees commenced. There
I was no fixed wage scale at the time,
( and the strike was brought about by
The balleIS in several Pittsburg rolling
mills, in opposition to a proposed re-
duction of wages TO 50 per ton. The
strikers We're defeated owing TO their
/ Iack of organization, and resumed work
on July 8, after over five months idle
ness and a loss of many thousands of
dollars to both sides.
Philadelphia was once more the
scene Of Of a labor war in August,
1872 Moydmensing and KensinEtOn
weayers struck for higher wages.
Weakened laborers were inundated
striking; much rioting occurred, aud at
tacks We're made on the mills, in the
course Of which looms and Chains We're
destroyed The strike and riots lasted
until January, 1913, when a settlement
was effected.
The iron war in Pittsburg again
broke out in May, 1915 The boilers
struck for an advance of 81 per ton
from So to Sc The strike lasted until
August, when the men We're successful,
the bosses losing heavily. From 1874
To 1S4S eight important strikes occurred
in philadelphia alone, the men winning
in a majority of cases. Losses to the
strikers Of 81 900 and to the employers
OF nearly $1,000 were caused by the
strike and riot of weavels in Fan
River, Mass. in 1913 Mills were closed
five weeks, and considerable noting
and damage to property occurred
From 1850 to the outbreak of the war
strikes were very numerous and uni
foInly costly and successful. On Feb
IuaTy -, 1860, the great Massachusetts
sloemallers' strike broke out, 1t be
came general throughout the state;
mass-meetings and huge demonstrations
occurred daily, ending in considerable
rioting Finally the militia were
called out and the strikers quelled.
They returned to work in April, having
lost in wages alone 100000 During
the early part Of the war strikes We're
few, and, worlmen being scarce, the
employers conceded demands readily.
All over the country a feeling against
strikes was springins up, and it was to
provide against their recurrence that
on February g. 1865. the United Sons
of Vulcan predecessors Of the Anal
gamatpd Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, fixed the first sliding scale 1t
proved satisfactory, and starved Off
iron strikes until the close of 1874
Meanwhile, however, other branches
of organized labor did not possess their
souls in peuce by any manner OF means.
The Spinuers and weayers of Fan
River Mass, struck against the Janu-
airy reduction Of is Per cent in 1865.
The strike lasted two weeks, was par
TALLY successful, and cost the men $50,
600. Seventeen big strikes occurred in
1858 and 1869, one of them being that
Of the WorkinCmen's Benevolent assoc
cation of eastern Pennsylvania, which
failed after three months,
From 1871 to 1915 there were no less
than seventy-eight strikes of the Cigar
Makers uuion, sixty-four. of which We're
directed against the reduction of wages.
from 1873 TO 1876 many strikes occurr-
cd in the cotton and wooden factories
Of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut Strikes in the printing,
mining, and other industries occurred
in all parts of the country, especially
in the states Of Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, Maryland, Ohio and
New York.
The great railroad strike Of 1877 be
gan on the Baltimore and OHIO railroad
at Mardnsburg W. Va, its Immediate
cuuSc being a reduction Of 10 per cent
in wages This, however, was but one
of many grievances. Employment was
| irrpgllnr. wages were often retained for
weeks after payday, expense bills were
not paid. and assessments We're even
collected from trainmen on accidents.
/ There was riOting, destruction of prop
erty and even loss of life at Martins
burg. Baltimore and in various parts of
/ Pennsylvania. In Cincinnati, Newark.
Ohio, Toledo and ST. Louis armies of
strikers succeeded in closing most of
/ the factories, shops and rolling mills
/ In Chicago the communists made for
midable demonstration.
/ The strike spread to the Pennsylvania
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