Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-05-03
MAY.DAY STRIKES.

New York turned their ttt ntlou TO the
delivery service yesterday in the hope
OF ting the divers to gait.
Mansgers of large hotels that iuu
their own bakeries reported today that
they had plenty OF new men who were
giving full sa!isfat tiop.
The strike spresd to South Brooklyn
Yesterday though the larger Brooklyn
bakeries are still unaffected. In New.
ark, N. J., the Hebrew bakers also went
on strike yesterday when their demands
we're refused.
Mschin!sts of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, who struck yesterday morn
ipg for increase in wages, were ign ortd
Yesterday st the railroads hes6quar'
iers. About 1000 men at different
shops Of the Missouri Pacific and The
IRON Mouttlin systems quit work yes-
terdsy. They asked an increase OF
four cents an hour and improved work
ing conditions. The company bad Of.
feted the men three certi increase.
All the demands of the 35, 600 strik-
Ing miners of Missouri, Kansas, Okla
boma and Arkansas we're refused by the
executive commi tee OF the Southwest
eru O. al Operators Association 10 Kan
sas CITY yesterday. l, was anne u iced
that all negotiations were at an end and
that the strike would continue.
Three thousand ireighthandlers In q
msSs.meetlug 10 Chicago Su ldsy night
rejected q wage increase OF one cent sD
hour offered them by the railroads sDd
decided to serve an uitimstam on the
msnsgers.
st ikes we're 10 progress yesterday
Ia Waterbury,, Hartford, Meriden and
Middletown, Conn, In the bulldog
and allied trades for inoresse In wsges.
At Waterbury about $50 bodcsrrlers
and q number OF masous quit, and
when three nou- -nnion men continued at
work q near -rt entu,d, which the police
soon qu ,lled. Bailding operation ere tied
up.
To enforce demands for more wsges or
shoi ter working hours 8. 600 men, mos
tly in the building trades we're on a
strike In New Englsud last night. In
Ger ttAl and western Massschuse Is, 4, 200
men employed on the trolley lines are
only awaiting the sanction Of their union
to 90 out.
Hundreds of farmers within a radius
of 100 miles OF Boston are striking for
higher summer prices for milk and are
trying 10 emphssz, their demands By
holding back from the Boston market
their milk product
Practically ell of The union plumbers
10 Worcester, Macs struck yesterday
because OF the refusal Of the master
p'u nbers ID grant the men every
Saturday afternoon of during Ibe year
without loss of pay. A str ke OF the
union carpenter, to enforce demsnd for
sn increase in wtges from the present
scale Of s9 28 t. $3.50 day was also
declared.
SIX hundred carpsrtsrs, lsthers and
electricians, who struck st Fall River,
Mass, yesterday for higher wages and
shorter hours, tied up construction Wofk
In Fall River,
Three hundred and fifty union carpen.
ters went on strike 10 Cincinnati ye,tT-
day for an increase In wSges OF from 40
to 80 cents 40 hour.
Two MsydsY strikes we're iusugurated
10 Rochester, N. Y, yesterday morning
when interior woodworkers and fathers
went out. The woodworkers demand
an S-hour day and q minimum wsge
scale Of $3. so. The lsthsrs demand an
incease 10 wages.
In demsnd for daily wage Of s3. %
100 carpenters stopped work In Portland,
Me-, yesterday. The men have been re.
ceIvlng 1915.