The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-01
NOTED STRIKES AND RIOTS.
Results of Some of the Uprisings Of Labor
 Against Capital In This Country.

tkceults ot some or tut iprtriHsH VI b"bot Against Capital In This Country. In lslT several ship-builders al Med ford, Mass, struck for continued sup
 plies of rum. Strikes began to be fre- quent after 1881. A strike at Fall Riv- CT kept 1900 persons idle for six months in 1850 and 1851. at a loss in wages of SAC, ,0o0. Salisbury was much injured in 1852 by the mill hands stopping work because of the abolition of fifteen min utes' recess for lunch. The Lynn shoe makers lost $200.0o0 in wages by a strike February 22. 1860.
 In lss8 there was great railroad strike which began May at St. Louis. with the mechanics and shopmen of the Missouri Pacific railroad. The nomi- nal cause was the discharge of one un- ion man; but the trouble had been growing for several months. Cover nors Marmaduke, of Missouri; Hughes. of Arkansas, and Ireland, of Texas, is- sued proclamations in regard to 1t. The strike was the largest which had ever occurred up to that time, affect ing the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mis- souri, Kansas and Arkansas. March 12, 1SS7,, conductors, brakemen and switchmen of the Pennsylvania and Ohio road struck for higher wages. Considerable rioting took place, but the demands of the men were granted June IT. December "A, 1887, general strike of employees of the Reading rail- road against reduction of wages; six ty thousand men idle. January 10, 1887. drivers and conductors of street cars in Boston strike for more pay; de- mands granted in few hours. Febru- ary z, employees of South Boston and Cambridge companies strike for addi- tional pay; February 13 much rioting; strikers mob horse car; strike settled by mutual concessions.
 A strike occurred in this state which interrupted the movement of coal so se- riously that a coal famine was threat ened. All the men connected with work on the wharves were called out. The Dominion Steamship line em- ployed a great number of Pinkerton detectives to protect their property about the wharves and tracks, and the strike was the object of wide anxiety, and 1t failed before the middle of Feb ruary, causing loss in wages of $2,- 650, ,O00. A strike about this time among the shoe factories in Worcester county, in this state, was turned into lockout by a combination of the employers, or to treat except with individuals. Af- ter five months the men, numbering eight thousand, were defeated with a loss in wages of $2,500,0 900.
 A strike of the engineers of the Chi cago, Burlington and Quincy railroad paralyzed trade in portions of the west for a considerable time. Great crimes were perpetrated at points far apart and lawless confusion seemed to pre- vail.
 The famous railroad strikes of 1877, during the months of July and August, were attended by gross violence, i'm mense destruction of property and loss of life. They began at Martinsburg, W. Va., on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road, July IA. In the height of the movement there were at least one hun dred thousand men out. Six or seven thousand miles of railroad were from the first to last in the hands of the strikers including the four great trunk lines, the New York Central and it's connections, the Erie system, the Penn sylvania road and it's connections. and the Baltimore and Ohio and it's con- nections. It was rumored that a con- erted strike was planned which would take place in October upon all the rail- roads in the country, and that it was forestalled by the premature outbreak on the Baltimore and Ohio road, in which the last reduction of wages had rendered the men desperate from pov- erty. Actual suffering was felt far more generally among classes of labor CTS who struck-ilotably among the workers in the coal industry, and among some who did not strike-than 1 among the railroaders. The street riots in Chicago and St. Louis were chiefly the work of tramps. The militia in sorne cases refused to act, and then the United States. troops were called into requisition. The governor of West Virginia, so inefficient was the slender militia force which he had to guard railroad property at Martinsburg asked for United States assistance, and