Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-01
STRIKES GENERAL
THROUGHOUT EAST
Violence Resorted to by Angry
Workers in Many
8 Cities.

BUFFALO, N. Y. May lover
2,500 department store employees, in
volying every store of the kind in the
city, went on strike this morning for
| Increased wages and shorter hours.
Employees of hardware and five and
ten-eent stores participated in the
strike.
The demand Is for minimum wage
of SS for women clerks and $15 for
men clerks. with a minimum for boys
of IS and for drivers and chauffeurs
of SIS per week.
The employees also demand an
eight-hour workday. Saturday half
holiday. with fun pay in June. July.
August and September, and the clos
ing of the stores at 5 o'clock each
evening. The present average weekly
pay for girls is said to be only $5.
Pickets were placed ~at the en-
frances of all the stores this morn
ing The strike vote taken last night
was practically unanimous and was
closely obeyed. The delivery system
was completely tied up.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, May 1.-Build-
ing operations are tied up here today
by strike of 1000 hodcarriers and
building laborers and 500 carpenters.
This has put bricklayers. masons and
others out of work It is estimated
that more than 1000 are idle.
All Italian laborers employed by
the city struck The hodcarriers and
building laborers ask an increase from
26 to 321s cents an hour. The car
penters ask an advance from IS to 50
cents an hour.
! MILFORD. Mass. May Sym
pathizers with the strike of foundry
men of the Draper machine shops
have today bombarded a boarding
house where ten employees of the
company make their home. Stones
and bricks were hurled through prac-
tically every window in the house.
No one was seriously hurt Before
squad of State police and deputy
sheriffs arrived the attacking party
escaped.
AUBURN. N. Y, May 1.-Sheriff
Bancroft has decided not to relieve
Company M, of the State militia, from
strike duty here.
The Carpenters Union has voted to
strike as result of refusal of de-
mands for -44-hour week and a
minimum hour-wage of forty-five
cents. Many teamsters also are ex-
pected to strike for better wages.
| JAMESTOWN. N. Y, May 1.-The
employees of the Chautauqua Trac-
ton Company and the jamestown
Street Railway Company voted to
| strike early today They will not
take out their cars today, The two
companies employ about 175 men.
| AsHEvILLE, N. c., May la
| crowd of 400 men and boys early to-
day attacked the barns of the Ashe
Vile Power and Light Company,
whose motormen and conductors
went on strike last Saturday for an
advance in wages of three cents an
hour. Several windows were broken
by volleys of bricks and stones. The
police charged the crowd several
times and arrested twelve men alleged
to have been the ringleaders.
NEW YORK, May Mounted po-
llice. goaded by volleys of stones
thrown by 700 striking laborers on
the Long Island Railroad in the bor-
ough of Queens today. drew their re-
volvers and fired. wounding two men,
one of them seriously. Two of the
police were badly hurt. The strikers
who went out this morning for more
pay refused to disperse and engaged
in stoning number of their fellow
laborers who stuck to their Jobs.