Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-05-04
NAY DAY STRIKES GENERAL
SMALL. RIOTS REPORTED IN SEW.
ERAL CITIES.
Twelve Thousand Out in Chicago
Ten Thousand On Pennsylvania
Railroad.

Railroad.
New York, May 2. - The scheduled
strike of machinists for an eight hour
day, walkout of 1000 bakers. two
big parades and half dozen smaller
ones marked the passing of May day
IN labor circles here. The machinists'
strike was conducted quietly and with
out violence. Approximately 10000
men walked out, local labor leaders
say A free for all fight in which
three persons were stabbed, broke up
one of the parades.
Several thousand paraders in Brook
Ign, marching behind red flag which
preceded an inverted United States
dag were halted by the driver of a.
milk wagon who blocked the right of
way with his vehicle The police up.
held him and caused the righting of
the flags.
$4,000 Out in Chicago.
Chicago, May 2.-The total number
Of men involved in strikes and lock-
outs as result of the May day labor
troubles, is estimated at 10000. The
men out include $500 railroad men,
$500 brick makers, 5000 in the build
Ing trades, 300 marble workers and
700 in miscellaneous small unions.
Maintenance Of way employees of
six railroads, numbering $500 men,
struck when their demands for recog-
nition Of the union and q wage in
crease were refused.
The maintenance of way strike was
ordered when the roads refused to
make general contract with the en-
ployes of the six roads. The roads
are: Illinois Central terminal, Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul termin-
ri, Baltimore and Ohio terminal. Chi
seago Junction railroad, Western In
diana Belt railroad, Indiana Harbor
Belt railroad.
twenty-five hundred brick makers
belonging to 10 locals of the Interna-
tional Brick Workers alliance struck
for wage increase
Rioting In Cleveland.
Cleveland, May "A riot between
strikers and non-union men in which
one man was shot, and several minor
walkouts marked May day in Cleve-
land. About 5000 Socialists, including
1000 women held mass meeting
meeting with addresses in the public
square, followed by a parade.
A crowd of men, sympathizers of
the union iron workers, who are on a
strike, attacked nonunion iron work
ers employed by the Van Dorm Iron
Works company in building a bridge
over WalwOrth run. A number Of
shots were exchanged and stones and
other missiles were thrown. G. L..
Bum, private detective who was
guarding the iron. workers, was shot
In the head. Several of the bridge
builders were injured by stones.
Thirty-five marble settlers helpers at
work on a few building quit work as
demonstration of sympathy for Chi
cago helpers who are on strike.
Pennsy Railroad shopmen Quit.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 2.-The shop
men of the Pennsylvania railroad, on
the Pittsburg division, extending from
this city to Altoona, Pa, went out on
strike. Officers of the unions assert
that about 10000 men are out.
The unions affected are the Broth
erhood 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 Ia
borers about railroads, all of which are
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
The cause of the strike is the allie
cation by the men that in it's retrench-
ment policy the railroad dismissed men
that were active in organizing and car
rying on their unions.
Carpenters Out In Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, May 2. With the
union carpenters protesting important
gains. in the first day of their strike
for bigger wages and the members of
the Master Builders association deny
ing the assertions of the toilers that
four big contracting firms have de-
serted the employers agreement not
to recognize the advanced scale, hon
ors in the controversy are in doubt.
Leaders of both workers and en-
ployers declare they are prepared to
carry the fight to the last ditch.
$50 to 700 Men Strike.
Seven hundred carpenters refused
to go to work according to the union
count, the remaining 1000 members
Of Union No. having gone to work
for contractors who agreed to pay the
advanced scale of so cents an hour.
The master builders estimate the
strikers at $50 men. Labor leaders
in charge of the strike declare the
strike will terminate in two or three
days, as the result of their claim that
four firms have broken the agreement
of the masters.
Master builders assert that if any