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STRIKES. 



Dec. 9, 1887. Flint glass workers strike against re- 

 duction of wages. 



Sandwich, Mass. Aug. 4, 1886. Strike at Boston 

 and Sandwich Glass Works. 



Aug. 10. Strike settled. 



St. Louis. Nov. 27, 1886. Great Western Glass 

 Company shutdown to anticipate strike of glass-blow- 

 ers to reduce number of apprentices. 



Harness-Makers! Newark, N. J. April 13, 1886. 

 Harness - makers strike for revision of schedule of 

 wages. 



Hatters, Norwalk, Conn. Aug. 30, 1886. Em- 

 ployes of hat-factories strike for higher pay. 



Sept. 2. Employers yield to demands of the work- 

 men, and strike ends. 



Hod-Carriers. Chicago. May 2, 1887. Five thou- 

 sand hod-carriers strike for more pay. One hundred 

 and two out of 135 employers yield within forty-eight 

 hours. 



Horse-Shoersi Hartford, Conn. May 3, 1886. Jour- 

 neymen horse-shocrs strike for higher wages. Strike 

 immediately settled by joint concessions. 



Boston. July 11, 1887. Horse-shoers on street- 

 railroads strike for more pay and shorter hours. Strik- 

 ers' demands granted. 



Hosiery-Makers. Philadelphia. Oct. 19, 1886. Gen- 

 eral strike of employe's of nosiery and woolen mills, 

 affecting about 2,000 men. 



Nov. 9. Four hosiery iirms grant the demands of 

 the strikers, who return to work. (Sec also Knitters.) 



Ice-Men. New York.3&n. 15, 1837. General strike 

 of ice-cutters along the Hudson river. 



Jan. 22. Both sides submit to arbitration, and 

 strike ended. 



July 11, 1887. Employe's of ice-companies in New 

 York city strike for more pay. Demands granted 

 same day. 



Iron-Workers. Bath, Me. Sept. 13, 1886. Employe's 

 of iron-works strike to aid striking ship-builders. 



Bridgewater, Mass. July 16. 1886. Employes of 

 Bridgewater Iron Company strike for higher wages. 



July 21. Company tails from losses occasioned by 

 strike. 



Brookli/n. May 3, 1886. General strike of iron- 

 molders for ten per cent, increase of wages. 



Sept. 10. Seventy mechanics at Hecla Iron Works 

 strike for discharge of scabs. 



Harrisburg, Pa. Aug. 30, 1886. Puddlers at 

 Barley's mills strike for increase of 50 cents per ton ; 

 about 500 men and boys made idle. 



Lancaster, Pa. Aug. 4, 1886. Strike for higher 

 wages by puddlers in the iron-works extends to the 

 other employe's. 



Aug. 13. Strike settled by mutual concessions. 



Sept. 5. Strikers at Columbia Boiling Mill propose 

 to return to work for $3.85 per ton. Employers 

 offbr 3.75, which strikers refuse to accept. 



Nov. 4. Mills have about half force. 



Lebanon, A. Aug. 30, 1886. Puddlers at Lights', 

 East End, and Kapp's rolling-mills, strike for in- 

 creased wages. 



Sept. 18. General strike of employes in rolling- 

 mills for advance in wages. 



New York City. May 4, 1886. Employe's of Malle- 

 able Iron Works, who had struck for eight-hour sys- 

 tem, return to work with their demand granted. 



June 24. Four hundred employe's of Mott Iron 

 Works strike for advance in wages of ten per cent. 



July 24. Strike for advance of ten per cent, wages, 

 by employes of Jordan L. Mott Iron Works, after 

 lasting for live weeks, settled by arbitration. 



Northeast, Del. Sept. 5. 1886. Strike at McCul- 

 lough Iron Works ended by mutual concessions. 



Sept. 9. Strike renewed because employers break 

 their agreement. 



Nov. 27. McCullough's rolling mill. Strike ended ; 

 employers granting all the demands of the strikers. 



Paterson, N. J. Aug. 13, 1886. Molders in J. C. 

 Todd's machine-shop strike for higher wages. Mold- 

 ers at Kogers Locomotive Works strike to aid them. 



Sept. 6. General strike of molders at mills and 

 locomotive works ; strike for higher wages. 



Philadelphia. June 30, 1886. Fifteen hundred 

 men employed in rolling-mills strike for advance in 

 wages. 



New Haven, Conn. July 20, 1886. One hundred 

 employes of Sargent's South Foundry strike because 

 of employment of non-union men. 



Reading, Pa. Aug. 4, 1886. Employes in Phila- 

 delphia and Reading Toundry strike lor discharge of 

 non-union employe's. 



Aug. 5. Strike settled ; employers yield. 



Nov. 4. Puddlers in Naomi Mill strike foradvanca 

 of five cents per ton. 



St. Louis. May. 3, 1886. Employe's of Vulcan 

 Iron Works return to work after strike of several 

 months' duration, mutual concessions having been 

 made. 



Troy, N. Y. July 14, 1886. Employe's in steel and 

 iron works strike for advance of wages of from 

 thirty-five per cent, to fifty per cent. About 2,000 

 men affected. 



July 16. Employers propose arbitration. 



New York Git//. July 2, 1887. Employe's of Dela- 

 mater Iron Works strike for reinstatement of dis- 

 charged employe's. 



July 14. Strike declared off. Strikers defeated. 



Pittsburg. Pa. Sept. 15, 1887. Two thousand five 

 hundred roll-turners strike for more pay. Strike 

 settled by mutual concessions. 



Reading, Pa. June 24, 1887. Two thousand men 

 locked out to anticipate strike for more pay. 



July 22. Employers grant more pay, and em- 

 ployes return to work. 



Jute-Workers. New York City. March 25, 1886. 

 Employe's of Chelsea Jute Mills strike for higher 

 wajres. 



March 31. Twenty of the strikers return to work. 

 After some disorderly conduct, strikers gradually re- 

 turn, and strike fails. 



Knitters. Amsterdam, JV. J 7 ". Sept. 6, 1886. Strike 

 of employes of Schuyler and Blood Knitting Mill for 

 discharge of obnoxious employe. 



Sept. 13. Strike extends to all mills, affecting about 

 6,000 persons. 



Cohoes, N. Y. Oct. 2, 1886. Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation threatens to close all mills if Amsterdam strike 

 is not ended. 



Oct. 11. Manufacturers' Association at Cohoes and 

 Waterford close their mills, 28 in number, until end of 

 strike at Amsterdam. 



Oct. 11. Manufacturers' Association of Hudson 

 threatens to close their mills if strike at Amsterdam 

 is not settled. 



Oct. 26. Knit-goods manufacturers refuse to recog- 

 nize arbitration committee of the Knights of Labor. 



Nov. Several delays prevent settlement of strike. 

 Refusal to discharge scabs, etc. 



Nov. 11. Manufacturers' Association dec'des to 

 allow individual owners to make the best terms they 

 can with the strikers. 



Knights at Amsterdam refuse to go to work until 

 employes of all the mills are taken back. 



Nov. 13. Strikers go to work in seven mills, their 

 terms having been granted by employers. 



Dec. 5. More trouble owing to manufacturers not 

 keeping their promises. Mills closed. 



Dec. 12. Several mills open under private arrange- 

 ment with Knights of Labor. 



Laborers, Mobile, Ala. Sept 5, 18S6. Laborers 

 employed on West Mobile and Alabama Railroad 

 strike for $2 a day. 



New York City. March 31, 1886. Laborers on the 

 new aqueduct strike for more pay and better precau- 

 tions against danger. 



June 21. About 2.000 men employed on the new 

 aqueduct strike because of removal of a manager. 



June 24. Strikers return to work upon request of 

 manager. 



Shenandoah, Pa. July 26, 18S6. Italian laborers 



