The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-08
RI ASHES OF LABOR AND CASH.
, RIG STRIKE IN a STEEL MILL AT
SOUTH CHICAGO.

rr,-e,ve Hundred Men Quit Work
TbeCompany May Close Its Plant
and Throw 5000 Men out of EN-
,to,ment-The Plant at Joliet Al
-e,5v CIOsed-The sligo Iron
works Company signs the Scale
Of The AmaIgamated Association.
other Fights.
chicago. May Twelve hundred men
employed in the blast furnace department
NJ the Illinois Steel Company's mills at
south Chicago quit work this morning.
Two furnaces are shut down as a result
and the strikers expect that they have
svupathizers enough to spread the disaf-
lection TO other departments. 1t is like
" that the four other furnaces may be
cornpalled TO suspend. The strikers claim
thar not enough men are employed in the
hast furnaces work to divide the labor
fairly and that they are not receiving
wages that will enable them to live. Two
wears ago, the men claim, that they were
being paid 81 a day for work that they
now do in twelve hours for SLIGO. Every
thing is quiet and orderly at the mills.
r. Forsythe, second vice president Of
the Illinois Steel Company. said this af-
necessary to shut down the plant at
South Chicago tonight because of lack
of pig iron, which is the product of the
furnaces on which the men have stopped
work If the mills are shut down 5000
men will be thrown out of employment.
Tonight 701 strikers attacked the gate
of the company's enclosure at Eighty
sixth and Greenbay streets, and in
struggle with the police several were in
iured The police, although greatly out
rlrrr frr -
pose, and Notwithstanding the onslaught
of the iufuriated men they more than held
their own. In a short time they had scat
tered the crowd. The police sent for re-
Inducements and in half an hour 100 OFF,
GERS We're on the scene. Twenty-eight
ringleaders, mostly Bohemians and Poles,
were placed under arrest. In both scrim-
images eight policemen and a number of
strikers We're hurt, but none seriously.
a heavy guard was placed about the
works Of the steel company tonight and
a detachment Of police was placed on
duty in every portion of the town. No fur
Their trouble occurred up to midnight
The strikers have been employed by the
company less than a month. Three weeks
ago the wage schedule was reduced from
$40 day to SLIGO and the old men left.
Their places were taken by an importa-
ton of Hungarians and Poles, who have
/ been operating the furnaces since the
4 middle of April They held a meeting
recently and decided that they were work
i ing too hard and too long for too little
money.
Pittsburg, Pa, May THE Amalga-
mated Association officials are greatly
elated to-day over the receipt of the sig
natures 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 re-
sumo at once. giving employment to about
49 men. This is the third victory of the
KIND within the past twenty-four hours
Tor the Amalgamated Association, and it
Is thought possible that the strike may
not extend much further.
Joliet Ill. May THE firemen, labor
ers and greasers, to the number of 300 en-
ployed at the Illinois Steel Company's
INNS mere, struck yesterday for an add
vance IN their wages of from 25 to so per
Senl. The strike of these men made it
Ilnposslble to continue running the mills,
ahQ they We're closed down at midnight,
moving Loo men out of employment.
sharon Pa, May THE furnace men of
tne Douglas and Mabel Iron furnaces
nave struck and refuse to return without
an dqQltional advance in wages. The de-
lHand is for an advance of 10 cents per day
-uI ldpor; 10 cents per day for turn work
a1I 10 cents per day for the keepers.
me employees of the Alice and Claim
aUI4aceS IN Sharpesville have also made
IKE demand, but have not yet stopped
moIk. IL IS the presumption that every
I.IInace IN sharon MiddleseX and Sharpes-
sliie VIII be banked this week. The manu-
do,lo'5s say they cannot possibly pay the
stplt mat the strike may again involve
ley.
Sheboygan, Wis May THE men en-
EFI roSstu py the Garden Toy Company, the
E. - - veneer Company and Geo. Spratt
- We're forced out yesterday, making
a Hf s4tal list of strikers about $500. No
T rGuudI violence is yet reported. At a
..IeeIlhg last night the strikers decided
~ ~ cIoSe every factory in the city except
'ie Dllhhgham Manufacturing Company
~ Rtlaeneld w: Va, May THE strikers
Sol taste Of martial law this evening.
4 crowd Of 200 Pocahontas miners were
neIu up at No. l tunnel on their way to
eIe,,d lIeetlhg at 2:SO p. m by detail Of
49,, 0I 81 the Lynehburg Home Guards,
NNIuer the command of Lieut.. Seabury.
~ resistance was made. They were told
ana rey Nc, Go9Id not go by without pass.
L1d"less and his followers, who were ex-
4 !Scuns the crowd, are enraged because
inc were not allowed to attend the meet
us quite an excitement prevailed for
~ -l 9I or Two. The principal meeting of
ne Jay was between the two tunnels close
w ~ lIe state line though safely on the
"esl Virginia side.
"A summary of the DAYS occurrences does
'1f reveal any special advantage that
,[iIeI SIDE has gained. The strikers held
4 tb9ig NEE meetings. and added more names to
TT n, Tolls Of United Mine Workers
soi1 am ,hlnorn mines were silent. with alb
i ~ nothing doing many of them be-
II ~ oo66rded up to prevent ingress.
1,j+hhe T9cahontas mines were in operation
s +be s" Substantially the same force as on
4 abo,iP} ~ tsvlous day. Mr.. Browning gained
IT. g. IN men, but only loaded five cars.
n sraa 5iT southwest Company actually had a
n rnaoLttI force than on Monday but all the
tsIbaehlnery was manned and an output of
TTp 55u-t tWenty-eight cars was reached
4 he ~ We're only thirty-one pickmen in
y On lulhe. Steps have been taken to put
MI new men, and if they can be introduced
bs lsno l an outbreak big point will have
are i 7Scored by the company The miners
III discussing the questions and do not
me ldea of having their places taken
yrbre Is general apprehension of trouble
The ma me non-union men are brought in.
!or men in various Cities ana offsrs ' fTea
,Ctihsportation. The company has posted
rs.i-,.s, stating that il will tn-mnrrow nav