Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10
Great Revolt OF Labor
Strikes Greatest City

rejection by the strikers of a tentative
agreement arrived at between the
representatives of the workers and
manufacturers association, are again
doing duty on the picket line. About
10000 are still affected by this strike,
which has lasted thirteen weeks al
ready and which was started when
the manufacturers broke the existing
peace protocol and locked out 10000
workers.
4. Three thousand carpenters, out
since May l, are still on the firing
line in order to Wrest a new wage
scale from the bosses. They are Vot-
ing at present on whether they should
go back under a proposal by the en-
ployerss association to have the dis
puted matters arbitrated by neutral
board after they resume their jobs.
5. Nearly 5000 cigar makers are on
strike for higher wages, about ~ per
cent of the strikers being women.
They are bucking what is commonly
known as the trust" in the tobacco
industry, and will not go back, they
say, until they have also been given
the right to organize. This strike is
spreading also to other cities.
6. The Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union has approximately
1000 members on strike for better
conditions throughout the city.
Z. Denied the right to organize,
about 200 clerks of the Central Rail
road of Newt Jersey struck at the Jer-
sey City headquarters; demanding re
instatement Of men alleged to have
1ic1,iccnd in inf q
Brotherhood Of Railway Clerks or
that 1000 fellow workers throughout
New Jersey will soon have Joined the
waIkout.
Besides there are a few minor
strikes on in several industries. Most
of the huge strikes that started May
l, when the country saw perhaps the
greatest uprising simultaneously OF
| workers in many cities, have been
settled-won by the unions.
In other cities labor activity is max
ing itself felt proportionately as much
as in New York.
In Pittsburgh the white wings are
out, demanding a cent increase.
Eleven hundred workers have stopped
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tered with Adirt. In the towns two
richest notes.-the Fort Pitt and the
William Penn-the walters are strik-
! ing to enforce better conditions.
/ In Cleveland 10000 lake seamen
oilers, firemen and cooks on the Great
Lakes have threatened to walk out
unless adjustment of their demands
flor higher wages and shorter hours
are made. Three unions are involved
In East St. Louis 1890 workers have
quit at the big packing houses-the
Armour and Swift plants included-to
compel the firms to recognize the
unions. The Walkout started when
some members were discharged be
cause of their union affiliations, it is
asserted by strike leaders.
On the Messabi iron range in Mime
/ sofa 10000 workers are on strike fol
better conditions and higher wages
bucking the Steel Trust, which has
hired gunner, kidnapped and jailed
the workers and their leaders, is de
porting strikers and using every trick
at the command of the big interests
to crush the uprising, even to having
hired plug-uglies to plant dynamite
under bridges and mine buildings and
discovering" the explosive just be
fore it blows up, laying the blame al
the door of the mine workers. Garlic
! Tresca has been indicted and jailed
with other labor leaders in this strike
| onrwhat are alleged to be trumped
nm charges of murder.