River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-16
LABOR Is UNEASY.
Continued Unrest in Industrial Circles
Making Itself Felt.

CHICAGO, May e.-About 1000 men
employed at the plant of the Illinois
Steel company at South Chicago struck
| Tuesday against reduction of wages.
Tuesday night 200 of them attacked
| the gate to the company's enclosure
at Eighty-sixth and Green Bay streets,
and in struggle with the police after
wards several were injured, but no one
was killed. The strikers have been
employed by the company less than
month.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, May 9.-The Amalga-
mated association officials were greatly
elated Tuesday over the receipt of the
| signatures of the management of
| the Sligo iron works to the wage scale.
| The firm comedies the demand of the
workers in all departments of the
mill, and work will resume at once,
| giving employment TO about 400 men.
This is the third victory of the kind
within the past twenty-four hours for
the Amalgamated association, and il is
thought possible that the strike may
not extend much further.
| JOLIET, ILL.,, May 9-Firemen, labor
ers and greasers to the number of
300 employed at the Illinois Steel
company's mills here. struck Mon
day for an advance in their wages
of from e5 to so per cent. The
strike of these men made it impossible
to continue running the mills and they
were closed down at midnight, throw
ing 1900 men out of employment.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 10.-The Anal
gamated Association of Tin, Iron and
| Steel Workers and the Merchant Bar
Iron manufacturers National associa-
ton have entered into combination to
secure for the iron workers of the coun-
| try better rates of wages and for the
manufacturers fair competitive condi-
tons against the mill operators of
the Pittsburgh district, who have
been working their employees at
| low wages. An association of
manufacturers has been formed,
principally outside the Pittsburgh
| district, to secure remunerative
prices for iron products and inciden-
| tally to give the workmen better wages
than are now paid, which are admit
tedly too low.
| MAssILLoN, o., May 10.-The miners
employed in the Krause mines held
meeting and decided to resume work
at the sixty-cent rate until the state
price per ton has been established.
| Many OF the miners feel that dis
tricts in the state will establish their
own prices, and have asked the local
operators to pay sixty cents for the en-
suing year.
CHICAGO, May 13-The backbone of
the strike at the South Chicago steel
works was broken Friday morning by
the company's formally discharging
the seventy men who originally struck.
Mr.. Walker says the works will open
Monday for business, and the fires in
furnaces will then be started. Four of
the big blast furnaces will then be
lighted up and the works will COM
mence business with nearly a
full force OF men. When the
employees first learned of the
company's action they focked about
| the main gate of the mill and seemed
anxious to go back to work. Before
they were allowed to resume their jobs,
they were all asked if they were in
sympathy with the men who struck.
Very few affirmative answers were re-
ceived.
SPRING VALLEY, Ill, May 13.-The
president of the United Mine-W orlxers
of this state, James 0'Connor. of this
city, has appointed George Watkins, of
Spring Valley, William Lacost, of
Streater, and William Smith, of Coal
City, board of arbitrators to settle
mining disputes in the northern coal
field. The operators are to select three
arbitrator and the six in the event of
disagreement are TO choose a seventh.