The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-01
DAY OF STRIKES.
Thousands of Men Out in Various
Places.
Action is Not Confined to Any
Particular Trade.
CHIEF GRIEVANCES.
GRIEVANCES.
Demands Generally For More
Wages and Shorter Hours.
In Some Places Contractors Are
Already Yielding.

Kansas City, May 1-Cont-actors
and employees generally today refused
demands for increased wages, and as
a result about 1000 worlxingmen struck.
They include timers and sheet metal
workers to the number of $50, nearly
500 hod carriers and about $50 plasterers
and quarry workers Nearly 300 brick
layers have been laid off in consequence
of the hod carriers action It is prob
able that the plumbers and steam filters
will go out, but they will probably not
take action till May Is. The contract
ors are determined and declare they
viii fight the mems demands to the
end till they have finally broken up the
trades council.
AT ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis, Mo, May building op-
erations in East St Louis, Ill, are at
standstill, and all the union men en-
gagged in the building trades are out.
A conservative estimate places the
number of men out at 1000. Sometime
ago the carpenters struck for an advance
in pay, which was not granted by their
employers. Out of sympathy the other
trades have Joined the strike until all
are now involved.
AT DULUTH
Duluth, Mimi, May 1.-OrganiZed Ia
Dor in the trades struck today for
higher wages and shorter hours. Car
penterS want 35 cents per hour, pllJmb-
ers 90 cents and a Saturday half holi-
day paid for; painters, 40 cents. and
other trades in proportion, with a gen.
eral eight hour day. At a meeting last
night the contractors decided to take
no work if necessary all summer, but
union leaders say they expect to win in
a. few days.
AT LUDINGTON.
Ludington, Mich, May 1.-Two hun
dred freight handlers employed by the
sPere Marquette railway here have
Tn liz g.. ~
| ensuing year the company refused to
pay the grain handlers 80 cents an hour,
an increase of 10 cents over last Year
The freight truckers ask only the same
pay they have been receiving. The men
all belong to. the American Federation
AT P1TrsBuRG.
| Pittsburg, May About I 900 brick
layers and 500 hod carriers struck to-
| day for an increase in wages and
shorter hours. The scale of the Broth
| erhod of Carpenters and Joiners was
| signed by the master builders associa-
| ton and all are at work.
| AT TIFFIN.
/ Toledo, O., May IA special to the Bee
| from Tiffin, says the section men on the
| Tifin division OF the Big Four struck for
| an increase in wages today. The COM
pany. has refused to acceded to their de-
AT CINCINNATI
Cincinnati, O., May 1.-The architectural
| iron workers have decided to strike be
| cause their demands had been acceded
| to by but one firm whose employees are
not in the union. About 500 men are in
volved. The demand is for a 9-hour day
| with ten hour wages Fifty per cent ad-
| ditional for overtime and double pay fol
| Sunday work is also asked.
! AT BUFFALO.
| Buffalo, N. Y, May IA meeting of the
| brotherhood of railway trainmen has
| been called for 2 o'clock this afternoon.
| It's object was evidently regarded as i'm
portant at strike Headquarters The
| brotherhood is composed of passenger
| trainmen and freight brakemen employed
| on the roads diverging from Buffalo. They
| have threatened to strike on the roads
| where the car repairers' strike is on
| claiming that a. lack of proper inspection
was a menace to life.
| Word has been received at headquar-
ters of the working men that the shop
men of the Delaware, LackaWanna &
Western had gone out in sympathy with
the New York Central men. Mr.. Fish
estimates that this adds $50 men to the
striking force.
A meeting of the strikers was held
this afternoon. with over 1000 men in
attendance. The Brotherhood of Rail
way men met in East Buffalo. The in
dicatiOns are that the trainmen viii
take no action today.
AT AKRON.
Akron o. May 1.-Six hundred boiler
| men and moulders struck at the Sterling
d,