Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-01-08
INDUSTRIAL.

western anthracite coal helds of Pennsyl-
vania makes $4,000 men and boys idle
Feb. 17--Large clothing manufacturers In
Chicago declared their independence Of
labor union rule in their establishments.
Mar. &c Clothing cutte-s and trisnmsrs'
strike In Chicago renders Is, 600 idle.
Apr S-No. mill of Lawrence Manufac-
turing Co. at Lowell, Mass, closed; 2,OOo
operatives thrown out of work.
Apr 31-In Indiana, 1000 miners in HI
luminous field struck for raise in wages.
May 4-Milwaukee street car lines tied
up by strike of employees for increase in
june 17--Mlddlesex wooden mill at Lowell,
Mass, closed indefinitely; 200 thrown out
of work.
June is--Printers' strike in Minneapolis
settled by agreement to arhitrate
June N-Braddock (Pa) wire works
closed 1000 men thrown out of work.
June 30-Pending settlement of wage scale
closes; $500 men affected.
July 2-One killed and many wounded in
riot between strikers and police at Brown
Hosting & Conveying Co. in Cleveland;
troops called out.
July 2i-Brotherhood of Tailors in New
York strike. involving 1900 workmen.
Aug. 4-Rioting at Brown hoisting works
in Cleveland drew fire of militia.
Aug. 12--Strike ordered in Ohio where
men work for less than scale rates, and in
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. &-At Wheeling, w. Va, 1900 en-
ployes of Riverside iron works strike
against gains % per cent wage Re- Eeducti0 ON
thrown out of work by indefinitely closing
many departments of Cam bria iron works
Sept. N-Lawlessness at Coronado mine
In Leadville, Col, causes deaths and S25,-
Sept. 23-Martial law in Leadville, Col.
Sept. 26-Miners' strike at Leadville Col,
ended; work resumed at old wages.
Sept. A-Cleveland (O.) rolling mill closed
down; $500 thrown out Of work.
~ "A nVN6
employed in manufacture of clothing go
on strike.
mines in Hooking Valley o., return to
work at reduced wages of As cents ton.
Nov. 5-Pork butchers in Chicago strike
for wage advance.
glass workers and manufacturers settled
at conference in Pittsburgh, putting 1900
men Qdle since May 800 to work Dec. Is.
Dec. 10-During months of Nov. and Dec.
among others the following concerns, eX-
ltensive employers of labor, have resumed
operations: Painter & Sons hoopiron mill
and Jones & Laughlin continuous mill
Pittsburgh; Illinois Steel Co.'S steel and
billet. departments, Joliet. H.; Niagara
Encaustic Tile, American Wire Nail and
Anderson Nut and Bolt Cos. at Anderson.
Whitaker iron works and Wheeling Steel
and Iron Co, at Wheeling, Va; Ohio Falls
car works. Jeffersonyille, Ind. Ensign car
niture Co., Widdcomb Furniture Co, Mel
son & Matter Co, Grand Rapids Brush Co.,
at at C Grand RAPIDS. Mich Porter brick
yards and Parker fire brick yards, Coal
Grove. KY; Ashland Steel Co. g plant and
Norton nail works, Ashland, KY; Rookie
feller's Lake Superior mines; Corrugating
works, rolling MILL, Snyder Brentwood
works works and Orr IInseed mill, Piqpa. O.; Des
ing & Quinlan, F. B. TAFT & Co. Decatur
Furnlture co, and Wabash railway
shops. Decatur. III. Cambria steel
mills. JOhnBtOwn. Pa. VaIa mills Ma
hna, NJ H. Falls Cotton Co, Norwich,
Conn. Pemberton mills, Lawrence, Mass |
american sheet-iron mill, Carly & Souders |
knitting establishment, Phillipsburg, Pa.
Rhodes, Riddle and Angora mills, Media. |
Pa. Bellefonte (Pa) glass plant Lima (O) |
paper, mills; Consolidated Steel & Wire Co,
works, Pittsburgh, Pa; Aetna silk Co,
norfolk, Conn; ore mines, Ore Hill, Conn;
Sawyer cotton mills Coebrook River,
naces and muck rolls of Western Tube Co,
ikeWanee, II. Aetna rolling mill. Cleve-
land, O.; Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
Dec. l0-Following concerns among others
have during months of Nov. and Dec
closed shop: Paul paper mill, Menasha
Wis; Peninsular carWorks, Detroit, Mich.
Louis Packing Co.; Alexander Smith &
Sons Carpet Co.'S tapestry mill, Yonkers,
N r.; Ohio Iron Co; S furnaces and rolling
mills, Zanesville Crescent type foundry,
Chicago Meyer Bros, cloak manufacturers
New York; Decker Bros. piano manufac-
tMM1r.ers, New c York; -four mills at Superior.
Willis A. Meyers department store, Mil
waukee. Wis; John NJ. Noyes Shoe Co.
i Barrie IN Mass gnion Dry Goods Co,
New York; G. G. Adams. jewelry, New
ofk Excelsior Machine and Boiler Works
Co. &C Chicago White g. Howe Co, shoe
Dry goods, Marquette, Mich. Herman
Waterman, grain dealer, San Francisco;
g. { u. Gra ass; q Co, dry goods, Cincinnati;