The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-02
STRIKE FEVER INCREASES.
THOUSANDS OF MEN LEFT WORK
 YESTERDAY.

Many Trades Affected in Numerous
 Ctties-PIumbers, Painters, carpon-
 ters, BrickInyors, Wagon Makers and
 Brewery Workers Among the DIscOn-
 trnred-lO, ,OOO Miners Qnit in Indiana.
 New York, April 1-The electricians, iron and copper workers and laborers employed in the Stock exchange build ing went on strike o-day, claiming that non-union electricians were working in the building.
 In Orange, N J., 500 plumbers and 400 painters went on strike to-day, de- manding an increase of pay and the control of helpers. The employers have formed a defensive association and propose to assist each other in finishing contract jobs, the bosses themselves working in the places of the striking journeymen
 In Montclair, N. J.. about 150 plumb CTS and as many painters and paper hangers quit work, demanding a wage increase of 25 cents a day.
 Denver, April 1.-The members of the local union of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers struck to-day for $4 per day. Three hundred cigarmakers are idle because of the tobacco shippers strike Two hundred and fifty timers are also out for increased wages. Terre Haute, Ind, April 1.--Ten thou sand coal miners in Indiana did not go to work to-day pending an agreement on disputed points. John Mitchell and committee of the miners will meet with representatives of the operatives in Chicago tonight. and 1t is expected they will reach settlement. Pittsburg, April Lone hundred and fifty non-u union structural iron workers, imported from Baltimore by the Amer ican Bridge company, arrived in this city to-day. They were met by com- mittee of strikers, who prevailed on them not to go to work.
 Sharon, Pa, April 1.-The bricklayers of the Bricklayers and Masons' Inter- national union went on strike here to- day, and building operations are par l tially tied up. Ali but a few of the bricklayers employed by the United States Steel corporation at South Shar- on also struck, because the company wanted them to work ten hours day. Bellaire, Ohio, April Lone thousand miners in the four Panhandle counties of West Virginia and Belmont county, Ohio, refused to go to work to-day be- cause the operators decline to sign the scale adopted at the joint conference at Wheeling held some time ago. The operators say they were not invited to the Wheeling conference and therefore they will not sign the scale. l Cleveland, April Five hundred union painters went on strike here to- day to enforce their demands for an in- crease of two and one-half cents, to thirty-seven and one-half cents, an hour.
 Wheeling, w. Va, April 1.-The build ing trade strike was inaugurated to-day for an increase in wages.
 Pittsburg, April 1.--The furnace bricklayers at the Homestead, Du- uuesne and Rankin plants of the Unit ed States Steel corporation struck to- day for an advance of seventy-five cents, to $4.50.
 Pittsburg, April In obedience to an order decided upon last night. about four hundred wagon makers, members of the local union, struck to-day for an increase in wages of 15 per cent, rec ognition of the union and nine-hour day.
 Columbus. Ohio, April 1.-Loca brewery workers to the number of six hundred struck to-day because the mer refuse to accept the decision of the American Federation of Labor conven' tion to the effect that engineers anc firemen in brewery plants must affiliate
 with their respective crafts. The en-
 gineers and firemen will remain a'
 work.
 | Philadelphia, AprN l--Nearly t"'
 hundred journeymen plumbers struci
 here to-day to enforce their demand O
 50 for day of eight hours for first
 class men and $3 a day for apprentices
 who have served three years.
 Schenectady, N. Y, April 1.-Th'
 members of the Electrical Workers
 union went out on strike to-day to en force their demand for $3 day, an in
 crease of fifty cents as at present. STpTEEc IN THIS STATE