Evening journal., 1894-08-09
WOULDN'T STAND IT.
McCullough's Men Didn't
Strike But Quit Work
BECAUSE WAGES ARE TOO Low HERE

To Seek Employment Elsewhere Many
of Them Have Been successful-superin-
tendeut Harvey Says To-day That Their
Men Had No Reason to Complain,
They've Lost No Time.
One department OF the Mccullough
Iron Works at the foot OF Seventh
street usually busy from early morning
-is not running to day This is not
because there Is not enough work TO b.
done there nor machinery with which TO
do it, but because nearly all the work
men there have left their posts Of duty
AMI are slowly getting out OF town 20
work elsewhere.
IL seems that theidepartment now man.
less and idle Is that known as the "loose
mill' which prepares smooth sheet iron
which admits Of a smooth polish. This,
as we'll as all the other departments Of
this plant, has been running on full time
for NO years, but for some time the work
men have been dissatisfied and on Tuesday
evening sppealed for an increase Of 10
per cent in their earnings This was
refused and the men asked Tor the money
due them, aud drawing their time, quit
work.
Superintendent Harvey, in an inter.
view this afternoon with an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter, stated that the mill
would have to remain closed until their
workmen reconsidered and came back,
or until others can be secured TO fll
their places Meanwhile, saii he, 1.-THE
tight mill and the finishing departments
will run along as usual The best men
10 the mill, he saws. were earning from
| 81 80 TO $275 day. Some Of the men
had left town and were working at New
port for the same wages as the company
paid In this city. The trouble
was that there was some spite
work at the bottom Of the
whole thing and the men who had been
sgitating the matter were the best paid
men In the mill The men have worked
here every day all through the panic moi
losing even a half day Had they re
mained ut work they wouli have beer
kept busy until January"
"How DO They Livog"
The EVENING JOURNAL reporle
interviewed several heaters an,
helpers of the loose mill thi
afternoon In the neighborhood Of Oh
mills where thsy live They were al
getting ready to leave town, some o
them having already been assured o
work at better wages at Conshohocken
McKsesport aud Harrisburg Pa
Newport and Marshsllton. Del , an
| Priucipio, Nd.
The company has cruelty misrepr
sented US, j" said tall man with a re
mustache who SAID he was a helper on
heating furnace "We did not strike, al
not organized in any way nor do any {
us believe in strikes since the receI
| great farce ia the West We simpl
were tired Of working oil the year roun
for 81 25 for a day Of twelve hour
That's what fifty Of us have made Il
/ over 3 year and that Is all. Onl
last week, when the dissatisfaotlo
began 10 be known, one memb.
d OF the company asked another Ed, ho'
J can they live ON 81 30 week, conf ing [
work so early and working so herd2
I'VE all went about this like gentle
men and, as the company has refused
q give what we demand, we hav
. simply decided to leave their emplo
aud go shift for ourselves elsewhere
Fully eighty OF our men have left tow
Every rolling mill ia the country
paying better wages than the Mccullough
Now you can look Cor shutdown there