River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-09
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.
Wage Farmers Are Uneasy - Strikes In
Many Parts of the Country.

Many Parts OF the Country.
The first day of May showed a gen.
eral state of unrest in the labor world
OF the $4,000 miners in Ohio at least
$1,000 obeyed the order of the Ohio
miners executive committee to cease
work April 90. the end of the scale year,
and to remain out until a scale was
agreed upon and accepted by the oper-
ators.
Fully 10000 miners are on strike in
the Pocahontas region and along the
Norfolk & Western in West Virginia
The strike in the Flat Top coal region
IVA. has enlisted 5000 miners
Other branches of labor do not es-
cape. Ore trammers in Michigan,
brieklayers 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 500 men.
Labor organizations recognizing Sep
tember 1 as labor's legal holiday did
not join in the demonstration.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, May What may
prove long and bitter struggle be-
tween iron manufacturers who are OPP
Grating their mills with non-union
men, and the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers was
inaugurated Thursday night, when
the 400 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 s. 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 mob of 500 threatening strik-
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 500 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-malSing plant in Chicago and its
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