Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-05

juno c0-3ag View Rolling mills In Milwan.
kce employing about 2,UJJ men, smut
down inacilateiJ. an1 mills al Homestead, Pa,
clcscd t,rUs n 30yJ men out OF work. Re-
fusal OF rranagsrs 10 sign the scale the cause.
July I-About . iron and steel mills in the
Pliiao1rga pa district shut down owing 70
dlDcTolce in regard TO wages. and nearly lbO,-
OF -orlKmen were idle
suiy GIN riots between workrnen AID Pinker-
tor mel at tn homestead pa nils OF Carne-
gle Co, slz worg-aea Gnl i've Pinkertons
were killed
July ii-In pitched battle betieen union
and nonunion miners at the Gem and Frisco
mines in the Occur d'Alene region OF Idaho nine
men were killed AID i mill blown up.
July l2--Carnegie Iaills Ut IiCme stead taken
possession If h. Pennsylvania national guard
July If--ArfpiOges IN uppt and lover union
mills II the C~snGglc tsmpany in Pittsburgh
out work
July i6-vJcss Superior tITis) Iron S Steel
Company closed its works ana notified its en-
ployes that 10 members OF tho Amalgamated
Gssociaiien would be recognizca hereafter
AUG. l0-Aiiners attacked conyicts' stockade
at Oliver Springs, Tenn, and were repulsed by
the guards -. -Four hundred swi;chIaen Of the
New York Central and the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburgh roads struck ut Buffalo
Aug lI-Goy Buchanan. of Tennessee ordered
out entire national guard OF the state. and 1900
deputy shcrlfij to Coal Creek 10 aid in restoring
order at the mines
Aug l8-Elgrt thousand Of the national
guard concentrated In Buffalo. \. y. TO protect
railroad property
Aug. i6-Atar a two hours battle ~ Coal
Creek. Tenn. the miners surrendered 10 Gen
Carnes. couilaat,ing tie national guard.
Aug 23-hnners strike in Upper nOnongahela
(PA) coke region ended dislsirously 100 the
Miners union
Aug 2i-saitchmen's strike AZ Buffalo on
cially declared OF, after an unsuccessful effort
10 involve other railroad organizations.
Aug. 25-Oyer 20 men from the Pittsburgh
mills OF the Carnegie Company quit work in
sympathy with locked out men. -. Not satisfied
with stoppage OF strike by Grand Master
Sweeney, switchmen on Lackawanna and
Nickel Plate roads again quit work
Aug. a7-TrCops withdrawn from Buffalo, N.
Y, and railway business resumed
Aug 30-Switchmen Of Air Line road quit
work at East st Louis, because company re-
fused 10 add another man 10 each crew. Their
places nlled with non-unionsts.
Sep g-Ali Marnette (Wis-) lumber mills
closed down, and 1000 10 5000 men went out.
sep. Flight thousand coal miners, EN-
plOyes OF river operators in the Pittsburgh dis
triot, struck, wages haYing been reduced,
Sep el-Iclegraph operators on Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad struck for
higher wages,
Nov. TAT New Orleans II unions OF Ameri
can Federation Of Labor went on strike be-
cause employers would not agree TO employ
union men only.
Nov i0-Agnalgamated council surrendered
at New Orleans, having abandoned the demand
for recognition Of the union.
Nov l3-SeVcr2l persons seriously injured At
Homestead Pa, in Eight between non-union col
ored Workmen and strikers.
Nov. lS-Strike at Homestead. so far as af-
fecting mechanical and laDoring departments,
declared Of.
Nov. eo-Great strike at Homestead, Pa, de.
clared on
Dec s-Roch Island railway telegraphcrs
went on strike.
Dec ie-All The 5000 men in Spring Hill col.
lierics in Nova Scotia struck because Of short
weights and docking.