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

The 6 900 bakers already on strike IL
New YORK ;urned their ttt ntiou to The
delivery eervice yesterday In the hope
OF 9 ttlug the divers to gait.
Mansgers of large hotels that lur
their own bakeries reported today thai
they had plenty OF new men who were
giving foil satisfat tioD.
The strike rpresd to South Brooklyn
Yesterday tbough b the larger Brooklyn
bzr' .es are still unsffett.d. In New.
~. J the Hebrew bakers also wer
ID strike yesterday when their demands
we're refused.
Mscbin:sts of the Missouri Pacific
Ra lroad, who struck yesterday morn.
ing for increase in wages, were ign ored
Yesterday at the railroads heacqaar-
iers. About 1000 men at different
shops of the Missouri Pacific and the
Iron Moutt,in systems qui! work yes-
tsrdsy. They asked an increase OF
four cents sn nour and improved work
ing conditions. The company bad Of.
fered the men three cert, increase.
All the demands of the IS. 900 strik-
log miners of Missouri, Ksusas, Okla
homs and Arkansas were refused by the
executive commi tee of the Southwest
ern O. al Operators Association IN Kan.
sas CITY yesterday. l; was anntueced
that all negotiations we're at an end and
that the strike would continue.
Three thousand tre!ghthandlers In q
mass-meetlug in Chicago gu 1dsy night
rejected wsge increase OF one cent an
hour offered them by tie railroads and
decided to serve an uitimatam on the
managers.
st ikes we're iu progress yesterday
10 Waterbury, Hartford, Meriden and
Middletown, Conn, In the bulldog
and allied trades for inoresse In wages.
AT Waterbury about $50 hodcarrIers
and 8 number of mssous quit, and
when three nor -nnion men continued at
work near-r!t en-. I'd, which the police
soon eu allied. Bailding operation ere tied
up.
To enforce demands for more wsges or
sho; ter working hours 5000 men, mos
tly in the building trades were on
strike in New Eoglsud last Dight. ID
cer tfal and western Massschuse ts, 4, 200
men employed on the trolley lines are
only awaiting the sanction of their union
to 20 out.
Hundreds of farmers within radius
of 100 miles OF Boston are striking for
higher summer prices for milk and are
trying to emphas'z, their demands by
holding back from the Boston market
their milk product.
Practically all of the union plumbers
iu Worcester, Macs struck yesterday
because OF the refusal of the master
plumber to grant the men every
Saturday afternoon off during the year
without loss of pay. A str ke OF the
union carpenter, to enforce demand for
an Increase in wtges from the presen,
scale OF SO % t, $3.50 day WAS slso
declared.
SIX hundred caIpsntars, lsthers and
electricians, who struck OF Fall River,
Mass, yesterday for higher wages and
shorter hours, tied up construction work
In Fall River.
Three hundred and fifty union carpen
ters went on strike 10 Cincinnati ye,t'r.
day for an increase In wages OF from 4C
to so cents an hour.
Two MaydaY strikes we're iasugurated
10 Rochester, N. Y, yesterday morning
when interior wood dworkers and lathers
went out. The woodworkers demand
an S.hour day End minimum wage
scale of $3.50. The lsthers demand an
iucease In wages.
In demand for a daily wage of s3. 2s
200 carpenters stopped work in Portland,
Me-, yesterday. The men have been re-
ceiving $2.75.