Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
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Jan. 16-At Pittsburgh, 600 women en-
| ployes OF Westinghouse Electric Co. struck
against wage reduction
| Feb. 1-Indehnite closing of coIIieries n
western anthracite coal fields of Pennsyl.
vania makes 1900 men and boys idle.
Feb. 17-Large clothing manufacturers in
| Chicago declared their Independence OF
| Mar. 16-CIothing cutters and trinmers'
strike in Chicago renders 5000 idle
! Apr. 3-No. mill Of Lawrence Manufac.
! operatives thrown out of work
Apr. 31-In Indiana, 1900 miners In BIZ
1 luminous field struck for raise in wages
May milwaukee street car lines tied
UP by strike of employees for increase in
| June 1T-MiddIesex wooden mill at Lowell.
| Mass. closed indefinitely: 1000 thrown out
June 1s-Printers' strike in Minneapolis
settled by agreement to arbitrate.
June N-Braddock (Pa.) wire works
closed; 900 men thrown out of work.
June Offending settlement of wage scale
every iron mill in Mahoning valley in Ohio
closes; $500 men affected.
July Zone killed and many wounded in
riot between strikers and police at Brown
Hosting & Conveying Co. in Cleveland;
July H-Brotherhood of Tailors in New
York strike. involving 12.OOO workmen.
Aug. 3-Rolling mills at Niles, Mich, re-
sumo, employing 1000 men
Aug. +Rioting at Brown hosting works
in Cleveland drew fire of militia.
Aug. 12-Strike ordered in Ohio where
all mines operated under contract lease
system.
Aug. Blocked out men of Brown Hoist
ing & Conveying Cos. works at Cleveland
voted to return to work.
Aug. 31--At Wheeling, w Va, 5000 en-
ployes of Riverside iron works strike
Sept. Sat Johnstown, Pa, 1000 men
many departments of Cambria iron works.
Sept. 21-LawIessness at Coronado mine
in Leadville, Col, causes deaths and $685.
Sept. 23-MartiaI law in LeadvfIle, Col
Sept. 26-Miners' strike al Leadville, Col,
Sept. 2sNCleveland Co.) rolling mill closed
down; 1900 thrown out of work.
Oct. 2-At Boston 5000 men and women
oct A-strilzing miners in many large
work at reduced Wages Of is cents a ton
Nov. |Pork butchers in Chicago strike
for wage advance.
Nov. 24-Difference between window
glass workers and manufacturers settled
at conference in Pittsburgh. putting 5000
men idle since May 3O to work Dec. Is.
burgh Plate Glass Co. resume operations
after long idieness.
among others the following concerns, ex-
tensiVe employers of labor, have resumed
and Jones & Laughlin continuous mill,
Pittsburgh; Illinois Steel Co. s steel and
billet departments, Joliet. ILL.,; Niagara
iron foundry, Ironton, N. Y; Arcade File,
Encaustic Tile, American Wire Nail and
Anderson Nut and Bolt Cos at Anderson,
Ind; Dowagiae Gdich) Co.'S drill works. eI.
and Iron Co, at Wheeling, Va; Ohio Falls
car works, JeffersonXille, Ind; Ensign car
niture Co, Widdcomb Furniture Co., Nell
son & Matter Co, Grand Rapids Brush Co,
yards, Chesterton, Ind; Ironton fire brick
yards, and Parker fire brick yards, Coal
So2en R ns A6FKs Ky pfRR oe ano
feller's Lake Superior mines; Corrugatfng
works, rolling MILL Snyder Brentwood
Moines Qa.l Packing Co. Chambers, Bear
Ing &; Quinlan. F. B.. TAFT & Co. DECATUR
m nhHRs JoSnstoWn, Pa Tae G mills. Na esl
hna, N. H; Falls Cotton Co., Norwich.
American sheet-iron mill. Carly & Souders'
knitting establishment, Phillipsburg, Pa:
Pa a BesllefOnte pa pa glass plant; Lima 1o5
paper mills; Consolidated Steel & Wire Co.,
GSs tt P Edgar H Th9@ss sk S ee
sawyer cotton mills. Coiebrook River.
naces and muck t rolls of western Tube Co.
Kewanee, Ill; Aetna rolling mill, Cleve-
land, O.: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
Dec. 10-FolIowing concerns among others
closed shop: Paul paper mill. Menasha.
Probst Construction Co, Chicago: East St.
Louis Packing Co.: Alexander Smith &
SonS SSHYIpeI 20. 3 tapsskry lnIn, on n1f:,
mills, GAINESVILLE; Crescent type foundry,
Chicago; Meyer Bros. cloak manufacturers,
New York: Decker Bros, piano manufac-
turers, New York; flour mills at Superior,
Wis: Rock City Falls On. " Paper Co.;
Willis A. Meyers department store, Mil
waukee, Wis; John NJ. Noyes Shoe Co.,
Barrie. Mass; Union Dry Goods Co,
Sioux City, Ia; Heather Co, dry goods.
York; Excelsior Machine and Boiler Works
Co, Chicago: White G. Howe Co.. shoe
dealers, Sioux City, Ia; Louis Grabower,
dry goods, Marquette, Mich; Herman
Waterman, grain dealer, San Francisco:
G. F. Grassel & Co, dry goods, Cincinnati;
Laconia Car CO., Laconia, N. H.