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STRIKES. 



Jan. 14, 1886. Four hundred employes in Levy 

 Brothers' factory and 500 in factory of Brown & 

 Earle strike for increased wages. 



Jan. 15. Manufacturers' Association resolve to 

 close all factories if strikers do not return to work. 



Jan. 16. Cigar-packers strike to aid strikers. 



Jan. 18. Kerbs & Spies retire from Manufacturers' 

 Association, and settle with their employe's. 



Jan. 19. Hirsch & Co. resign from Manufacturers' 

 Association, and settle with their employes. 



Jan. 20. Manufacturers close their factories, and 

 lock out 1,200 persons. 



Jan. 21. Manufacturers propose arbitration. Pro- 

 posal refused. 



Jan. 29. Conference between manufacturers and 

 committee of Cigar-makers' Union. Compromise 

 agreed upon but rejected by strikers. Some disorder, 

 and police called upon to guard factories. 



Feb. 7. New compromise agreed upon. 



Feb. 13. All but 400 strikers return to work. 



Feb. 15. New strike at Stahl & Fletcher's factory 

 because compromise is not kept. 



Feb. 20. Strike at Stahl & Fletcher's factory 

 ended. 



July 30, 1886. Numerous strikes in the cigar-trade, 

 owing to contest between Knights of Labor and 

 Cigar-makers' Progressive Union. 



July 31. Knights of Labor make contract with 

 cigar manufacturers to furnish 5,000 cigar-makers on 

 condition that no members of International and Pro- 

 gressive Cigar-makers' Union are employed. 



Aug. 13. Trouble between Knights" and Cigar- 

 makers' Union practically settled. Employers yield 

 to demands of cigar-makers. 



Jan. 11, 1887. Three thousand five hundred 

 workers in Lorillard's factory strike for more pay. 



May 6, 1887. Employe's of Lozano, Pendas & Co. 

 strike for more pay. Strike settled by mutual con- 

 cessions. 



Philadelphia. Sept. 13, 1886. General strike of 

 cigar-makers to procure discharge of all men who are 

 not Knights of Labor. 



Heading, Pa. Aug. 29, 1886. Collapse of the 

 cigar-maUers' strike for recognition of Knights of La- 

 bor. It had lasted about sixteen weeks. 



Syracuse, JV. . Jan. 5, 1886. General strike of 

 employe's in cigar-factories for higher wages. About 

 1,000 men and many girls affected. 



Boston. Mass. Sept. 12. 1887. One thousand 

 cigar-makers locked out to anticipate strike to reduce 

 number of apprentices. 



Cloak-Makers. New York City. March 17, 1886. 

 About 3,000 cloak-makers strike for higher pay and 

 to abolish the system of middlemen, who give out 

 work and contract with dealers. 



March 22. Dealers suggest a compromise. 



March 23. Compromise declined by strikers. Four 

 firms yield. 



Mai eh 25. Buttonhole-makers stop work to aid 

 strikers. 



March 26. Two more firms yield. 



March 30. Buttonhole - makers return to work. 

 Strikers suggest compromise. 



March 31. Cloak-Makers' Association (dealers) de- 

 cline to compromise. 



April 1. About 2,000 strikers return to work. 



April 5. Remainder of strikers return to work. 

 Strike officially declared off. 



Coal-Handlers. New Jersey. Jan. 4, 1887. One 

 thousand coal-handlers on docks between Hoboken 

 and Perth Amboy strike against reduction of wages. 



Jan. 5. Men at Port Richmond and Weehawken 

 join strikers. 



Jan. 21. Pinkerton's detectives fire into a crowd 

 of boys skating and kill one. 



Jan. 27. Thirty thousand coal-handlers, longshore- 

 men, boatmen, and kindred workers strike to help 

 the New Jersey strikers. Prominent Labor leaders 

 are arrested. 



Feb. 12. Strike ended by mutual concessions and 



arbitration. This strike closed the Lehigh and Wilkes- 

 barre mines, and it is estimated threw, at one time, 

 60,000' men out of work. 



Coal- Workers. Pennsylvania and Ohio. Jan., 1886. 

 Coke-burners and miners in the Pennsylvania and 

 Ohio coal-regions were on strike when the year began. 

 In the Connellsville district there were 766 ovens idle ; 

 in Mt. Pleasant districtj 1,094 ; in Stonerville district, 

 397 ; in Scottdale district, 758 ; in Bradford district, 

 148. Mines and buildings generally protected by 

 armed guards. Strikers numbered over 6,000. 



Jan. 20. Rioting, accompanied by some loss of 

 life, broke out in various localities. 



Jan. 21. Convention of coke-workers held in Pitts- 

 burg, and decide to continue strike. Citizens of Con- 

 fluence, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, stop and 

 send back car-loads of Hungarians procured in New 

 York, and intended to replace strikers. 



Jan. 25. The Austro-Hungarian consul visits Mt. 

 Pleasant and tries to effect a settlement. 



Feb. 2. Mine-owners prevent strikers from secur- 

 ing fuel for their homes. 



t'eb. 3. Beginning of a general system of eviction 

 of strikers from houses owned by coke-companies. 



Feb. 5. Sheriffs in many regions refuse to evict. 

 Several iron- mills close down for lack of fuel. 



Feb. 8. Serious riot at Henry Clay Coke- Works 

 near Bradford ; several men shot and $4,000 worth of 

 property burned. 



Feb. 18. Another convention of coke-workers held 

 at Scottdale, and decide to continue strike. 



Hocking ['alley. Jan. 18, 1886. Judge Thunnan, 

 who had been arbitrator between miners and mine- 

 owners, decides in favor of increased wages as de- 

 manded. 



Pennsylvania. Oct. 2, 1886. Order for general 

 strike issued unless employers restore the 10 per cent. 

 reduction made in 1885. 



Coalton, Ohio. Dec. 1, 1886. About 3,000 miners 

 strike for advance of 5 cents per ton. 



Dubois, Pa. July 30, 18S6. tour hundred miners 

 at Hampton and Duquesnc mines strike for 11 cents 

 per ton. 



July 30. Five hundred miners, who for nearly 

 twenty weeks had been on strike for higher wages, 

 return to work at employers' terms. 



Hazleton, Pa. Aug. 5, 1886. One thousand miners 

 employed by Pardce & Co. strike for increased wages 

 and decrease in price of mining supplies. 



Mt. Carmel, Pa. Nov. 4, 1886. Five hundred 

 miners in Excelsior Colliery strike for advance of 10 

 per cent. 



Pennsville, Pa.3o\y 30, 1886. Strike of employe's 

 at the coke-works for increased pay. 



Pittsburq, Pa. July 30, 1886. Employe's at Hecla 

 Works strike to secure discharge of obnoxious yard- 

 boss. 



Pottsville, Pa. July 21, 1886. Miners employed 

 by Elmwood Colliery were discharged for inspecting 

 cards of employes. Reinstated when Knights threat- 

 ened to strike. 



Scott ffaven, Pa. July 24, 1886. Miners employed 

 in five mines strike for reinstatement of discharged 

 union men. 



ShamoMn. Pa. "Dec. 11, 1886. Six hundred min- 

 ers of Philadelphia & Reading Coal Co. strike against 

 reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. 



March . Colliers strike for more pay. 



May 3. Strikers return to work on the eight-hour 

 system. 



May 26. Colliers return to work in the Clcarfield 

 region on terms of a compromise. 



Oct. 7. Miners at Peerless Colliery strike for in- 

 creased facilities in removing coal. 



Dec. 6. Strike of miners at Excelsior Colliery 

 ended by employers granting demands of the strikers. 



St. Louis. Sept. 1, 1886. General strike of miners 

 in the St. Louis region for advance of 27^ cents per 

 ton. 



Gogebic, Wis. Sept. 5, 1887. Five hundred miners 



