Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-09
SUGGESTIVE STRIKE FIGURES.
Philadelphia Ledger.


Philadelphia Ledger
The strike Of the employees Of the Lc-
high Valley railroad company Is an APP
proprntc occasion 10 direct the public at.
tcntion to the official record Of strikes IN
Pennsylvania during the year 1892, those
that succeeded, those that failed, the
various purposes for which they werp
initiated aud TO recall the most suggestive
OF all the statistics on the subject, tho
losses. The figures are suliciently im-
presslyc without comment.
The reports OF tho bureau of Industrial
statistics, constituting part Q of the mn.
nual report Of the secretary Of Internal
affairs Of PENNSYLVANIA, exhibit the dc.
tails relating TO strikes and lock outs
which occurred Ia the STATE during last
year From this official compilation Il
appears that thCre were 20 strikes ia
Pennsylvania, OF these thrco werr sue
uesstul, four succeeded In part and 10
totally failed TO accomplish their objects
The number OF persons directly engaged
In these 20 strikes was ilSl; hut the
number involved Was 1ilt. The causes
Of the PENNSYLVANIA strikes wore II In
number. Tho most prolific were the re-
fusai of employers 60 rcrogaize the Amul-
gamatcd Iron aud Steel association aud
their retuSals TO agree to the terms OF
employees. Each Of these produced Ave
strikes. Other strikes were for increase
OF wages, against rules OF companies
against reduction of wages" against
non-union mon rlor shorter hours Of
labor against the introduction OF
machinery These with disngreements
as 10 scale " wages, the improper load
Ing Of ears by miners and the improper
repairing Of tools embrace the cRuses
for which employees have rosorted to
strikes
The total losses ontailed upon the pub.
lie by the voluntary SUSPENSION Of labor
by employees during 1892 cannot be esti.
mated, Tho loss 10 employees, as shown
by the pay rolls, was S3TB2I6. The en-
ployers' losses cannot be fixed They wern
reported IN Gully seven instances, In these
they reached S3O,92o, The heaviest re-
ported loss to employers was IN the Pitts.
burg street railway strike, coutinuing
from January H. 1872, 20 March q,
1872, 81 days. In which the Companies
lost $4,000 aud the striking employees
$4,000, In the other Instances whore
the employers losses are estimated the
striking employees were by far the creator
losers
In the strike at the plusbure Iron
works. August 30. 1882 to September 10,
1892, twelve days, the employees sac.
rihced $4,000. while their cmploying
company lost 5000 During the strike
Of rolling mill hands az Allentown. last
INK iorty-dye days, from July | to August
Is, iSla. the men sacrificed 5000
against loss of $1,000 sustalnea by
tho company.
Only portion Of the losses resulting
from the great Homestead strike are In
ciuded IN the iabnlAted statement 4
lasted nearly nine months. and MS ia,
monthly pay roll there WAS about S25O
600, the loas 10 the strikers fer the entire
period OF tie troubles was about Sl.2AOi
600 The secretary Of Internal adalri
says that no estimatc OF the loss aus
The expense 10 PENNSYLVANIA in mnin
flaming the national guard al Homesteat
was $tiO.2o0.S1, Here n total cous
blned loss and expenditures OF S1.69o.
I 2SO,al, with an undchned loss FROM II.
! suspension Of business, ana perhaps th'