Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-01-05
INnIST STRIAL.

Jan. 1-1ndiana glass factories start up
after mos, idleness. Carnegie iron
works in Pittsburgh resume operations,
advancing wages OF 10000 men, increasing
pay roll over 100000 yearly. Pennsyl-
vania railroad pensions $50 old employees.
l5-United Mine Workers IN natonal gath
erng at Indianapolis; John Mitchell re-
elected president on 18th.
l7-Chicago drainage canal Costing S5,OOO,-
000) opened. Large bridge building con-
Germs consolidate; capital S2, 2,0OO,OVO.
Feb. 5-ln Chicago l,5O men DEFY contrac-
tors new rules and walk out; during sub
sequent week number OF strikers in
creases to 1000.
14-Sheet steel mills of country combine at
Pittsburgh capital, S52,OOO,OO0
Mar. G-Over 95, 900 men Idle in Chicago.
26-Actual work on $50, 100000 underground
rapid transit tunnel in New York begun.
3O-Strike of6,0OO Chicago machinists settled.
Apr PIN Chicago, 200 union pickets at
tackled 80 nonunion workers; II men in
iured during riot.
23-Spring Valley Qn) Co.'S 5000 coal min
ers ordered to strike.
26-Estimated $50 900 men and $40, 600 cap
ital made idle in Chicago by strikes.
May 3-Standard Oil Co. raises wages of
5000 men 10 per cent. and reduces working
hours.
I'm Chicago Judge Tuthill declares con-
tract for county work invalid because of
clause requiring exclusively union labor.
In st. Louis 5000 street car men strike.
Louis in fight with men who attempted to
run street cars.
T-During q days of St. Louis street car
strike persons killed and 75 wounded.
2S-St. Louis street car wrecked with dyna
mite.
Jun 3-Boy killed and woman stripped and
beaten for riding on st, Louis street car.
2i-TrattiC successfully resumed on all s..
Louis street railway lines.
Jul. 2-St, Louis street car strike settled,
both sides ella Inning victory Wall N ppr
trust dissolved.
7-lnterstate commerce commission reports
railroad mileage of 252, 1854 and number Of
employees at 925,924. Provision exports
for fiscal year reach $3.50 1000, breaking
record
26-Schooner Pretoria. largest wooden boat
ever bull, 1850 1T. long, launched at Bay
City Mich.
in session at Milwaukee, declares against
indiscrminate boycotts.
| 17-Kentucky's manufacture of whisky
reaches q, ,7S9,722 gal. for fiscal year.
Sep, l6-Strike of Pennsylvania anthracite
miners ordered
| 21-'Two killed and 10 wounded in strike riots
| at Shenandoah, Pa; governor orders out
| troops. Glass chimney manufacturers
| concede wage advance of per cent end
| ing strike of li,700 employees,
| Oct l0-One man killed and several injured
| during attempt of strikers to close col
| lery at oneida, Pa
1S-Anthracite miners in convention at
| Scranton decide to accept 10 per cent.
wage increase offered by operators pro-
vding same rate hold till April, 1901 slid
ing scale abolished; other questions to be
arbitrated,
25-Coal strike declared off, operators hav-
| ing agreed to 10 per cent, advance. Strike
| lasted SO das. with 40. 900 men out, entail
ing total loss of $4,000, 900; 80 per cent of
anthracite mines had been tied up
Nov. 7-Nine months strike of $500 New
York cigar makers ended by men resum-
| Ing at old rates.
13-Indana coal field idle on account OF
hoisting engineers strike.
Dec. S-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe r. r.
telegraphers strike.