Griggs courier., 1895-05-10
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Many Parts of the Country.
The first day of May showed . gem
eral state OF unrest in the labor world.
OF the e5, 900 miners in Ohio at least
1900 obeyed the order of the Ohio
miners executive committee to cease
work April 20, the end of the scale year,
and to remain out until scale was
agreed upon and accepted by the oper-
ators.
Fully 10000 miners are ON strike in
the Pocahontas region AID along the
Norfolk Il Western in West Virginia.
The strike in the Flat Top coal region
VA has enlisted Is, 600 miners.
Other branches of labor do not es-,
cape. Ore trammers in Michigan,
briclklayers in Detroit, furniture work.
ers in Sheboygan, Wis, weavers in
Olneyville, r. l., hod carriers in st.
Louis and wage-earners in other places
have gone on strike to secure better
wages. Some employers-not many
have yielded, but the situation in gen.
eral is rather uncertain.
The May day parade in Chicago was
participated in by about 1850 men.
Labor organizations recognizing Sep
tember as Iabor's legal holiday did
not join in the demonstration.
PITTsBURGH, Pa, May 4.-What may
prove long and bitter struggle be-
tween iron manufacturers who are op.
Grating their mills with non-union
men, and the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers was
inaugurated Thursday night. when
the 300 employees of the Lockhart Iron
and Steel company struck for the res
toration of the Amalgamated wage
scale. For some time past the
Amalgamated has been secretly
organizing the men employed in nom
union mills. The association officials,
it is believed, have organized every
nonunion works in this vicinity
and are prepared for bitter war
fare unless the Amalgamated
scale is signed.
CHICAGO, May 4.-Warring factions
of laborers met on the docks of the
O'Neill elevators in South Chicago
Thursday morning, and Sc
we're fight with clubs, rocks.
brass knuckles and any other avail
able weapons ensued. The fight
was kept up for half an hour, and
when the police arrived the fighters
who had not been too much injured
had disappeared. Several of the
men, who are grain trimmers.
had heads, eyes, jaws, arms and
other parts of their bodies badly
hurt. The down town trimmers, who
were the party attacked, allege that
the South Chicago men came from
Canada and Michigan only for the sea-
son of navigation and are not members
of the union.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 4.-The coal
operators in the Mcdonald district
seem more than ever determined to
break the miners strike. Thursday more
than 200 colored miners from the south
passed through Pittsburgh en- route
to Mcdonald & Midway. The advent
of the non-union men caused no little
stir among the strikers, who had been
hoping for a settlement.
CHICAGO, May 4.-Fourteen brick
making firms in the Deering district
were forced to close their works Fri
day by a mob of 500 threatening strilk-
ers from the Bernice and Riverside
yards, whose ranks were constantly
swelled by the men from each brick
yard visited for the purpose of
calling the men out. Over 1900 men
are now thrown out of employment by
the original striking of forty belt boys,
who wanted three cents an hour more.
With the exception of three yards every
brick-making plant in Chicago and its
suburbs is closed