Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-05
STRIKES CRIPPLE
BIG INDUSTRIES
Ten Thousand Men Walk 7.'t at
Chicago.
MAY INVOLVE 10000 OTHERS
Thousands of Railroad Men Go Out in
Pennsylvania and 5000 Maehin-
lists in New York-CIashes
in Paris.


strike which threatens to become ma
tion-wide was inaugurated here when
ten thousand men employed in five
industries quit their Jobs, and it is
most probable that a like number will
be added to their ranks within the
next few days.
The strikes inaugurated involve the
railroad, building, metal trades and
brickmaking industries. The underly-
ing causes were demands ranging from
higher wages, shorter hours, recogni-
ton of union. and jurisdictional dis
putes to internal discussions over vari-
Gus union claims to various classes of
labor.
Maintenance of way employees on the
Chicago terminals of six railroads
struck, following the refusal of the rail-
road general managers association to
grant demands for higher wages and
Standardization of the wage scales.
Strikes were called of brickmakers
in yards from Evanston to Blue Island
and Chicago Heights, machinists en-
ployed by the Otis Elevator company,
and a force of electricians and ma
chinery movers in sympathy with the
machinists. The building trades work
ers are on strike as a result of the
jurisdictiOnal fight carried on by the
United Association of Plumbers against
the International Association of Steam
filters
In addition, the strike of machinists
against the Otis company threatens to
involve fully 10000 machinists, pat
ternmakers, iron molders and other
members of the metal trades depart
ment of the American Federation OF
Labor in all parts of the country. A
force of 10000 freight handlers, who
are demanding higher wages and rec
ognition of the union, also threatens to
strike unless their demands are grant
ed Officials of the union appealed to
Charles P. Neill, United States COM
missioner of labor for mediation and
arbitration under the Erdman law.
Cleveland, o. - Thirty five mar
bic settlers helpers, at work on
new building, quit work as a demon
stration of sympathy for Chicago help
ers who are on strike
Pittsburg, Pa. - Without further
warning than might be gathered
from conferences of a committee with
the railroad officials last week, the
shop men of the Pennsylvania railroad
on the Pittsburg division, extending
from this city to Altoona, Pa, went out
on strike The officers of the unions
assert that about 10000 men are out.
The unions affected are the Brother
hood of Carmen, boiler makers and
helpers. sheet metal workers, the In
ternational Association of Machinists
and Laborers, and the Federal Labor
union, an organization of foreign labor
ers about railroads, all of which are af-
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor.
The cause of the strike is the allega-
ton by the toilers that, in it's re-
trenchment policy, the railroad dis
missed men that were active in their
unions.
New York.-SiX parades of work
men, to the number of several
thousand each, q strike of 5000 ma
chinists, and a walkout of few hun
dred East side bakers and shirtwaist
makers were the chief events of the
May day celebration here.
The machinists are striking for an
eight-hour day.