Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-09-01
LABOR AND FINANCIAL NEW,
Events Transpiring in the Western In
duStrial World.

Thirty miners at Virginia, Ill. struck
for more pay.
The striking boilermakers of Loye.
mann Bros. are still cut
Freight handlers in st. Louis hay,
accepted a reduction in wages.
The Minonk, ILL.,, coal mines, enl-
ploying 500 people, have shut down
Unemployed Jews in New York are
holding meetings and pre;iching unar-
chy.
One hundred sewer laborers struck
in Denver on account of a reduction
in wages.
Inc labor committee in Chicago has
quit haranguing and gone to raising
money for the relief of the hungry.
The Chinese in the San JOAQUIN val
ley, Cal, are still being threatened
by unemployed men. Violence is feared,
A riot is feared among Kansas coal
miners. The strikers will not allow
the colored men to take their places if
they can prevent it.
About 250 employees employed by
Armour 4 Co. and Swift 4 Co, at
Kansas City struck against 10 per
cent. reduction in wages.
McCoy's glass chimney works at
Elmwood, Ind. will reopen Monday,
and McBelfs chimney factory has re-
Sumed.
strike is imminent on the Louis
vile Il Nashville railroad lines. The
tralnmen will not accept a reduction
in wages.
Clark'S thread mills, shut down for
the past three weeks, have resumed
operation on three-quarter time at New
ark, n. j.
The Indiana Manufacturing company
at Peru, Ind, the largest woodworking
factory in the west, has reduced wages
10 per cent.
An effort will be made by the Brown
Bonnell Iron company, of Youngstown
o., to have their large plant resume"
operations next week.
The Otis companys mills in Ware,
Mass, employing 1880 hands, will not
start up as expected on the 2Sth, owing
to continued dullness of trade
Heavenrich Bros, Wholesale clothing
merchants, at Detroit, have filed Il
mortgage on their stock for $121 ,995
to secure twenty six different credit
OrS.
The sheriff has taken possession of
the property Of the Standard Burial
Case and Manufacturing Company, Il;
Pittsburg, on an execution for $40
205.5S.
The G. b. Woodward Printing com
pany, of st. Louis, has made an assign
ment. The concern is one of the old
est and largest printing establishments
in the city.
The financial stringency has reached
the state of Minnesota. With more
money on deposit than at any previous
date in its history, the state is unable
to pay promptly salaries due to SUI
preme court judges and other officers
of the commonwealth. The trouble
arises from the fact that something
like 100000 is tied up in eleven banks
which have suspended in St Paul and
Minneapolis.
Unemployed men in San Francisco
have organized under title OF the
united brotherhood of labor and eS-
tablished a free employment agency.
The unemployed of Newark, n. j.,
organized Il hungry parade" carry
ing black flags. The mayor ordered
the piratical banners taken away, and
the procession diSbanded.
At meeting of the agitation com
mittee of the unemployed at Chicago
G.. n. Reed arose and said that he had
nothing to eat for two days and his
wife was starving. A collection was
taken up and given to the hungry man.
The police mad to order off the idle
men at the packing houses at Chicago.
The contractors had hired men. but the
demand for work far exceeded the
amount Of it. Fred GOepker refused
to leave the yards when ordered out
by the police and was beaten. At one
time a riot seemed inevitable