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STRIKES. 



April 1. Committee of employes submit list of 

 twenty- two grievances to president of Brooklyn City 

 Railroad. 



April 2. Company reforms these grievances. 



Dec. 22, 1886. Strike of drivers and conductors on 

 eleven lines tor twelve hours' work and regular wages. 

 Settled December 24 by the companies yielding to all 

 demands. 



April 10, 1888. Drivers and conductors on Frank- 

 lin Avenue line strike for shorter hours and more pay. 

 This strike is settled after one half-hour by company 

 yielding all demanded. 



Columbus, 0. March 18, 1886. The drivers and 

 conductors of all the lines struck, demanding wages 

 proportionate to the number of hours of service, which 

 were fifteen hours and twenty minutes one day and 

 seventeen hours and ten minutes the next. The strike 

 was ended by a compromise. 



Dai/ton. 0. March 20, 1886. Strike by drivers of 

 the Third Street line demanding twelve hours and 

 $1.75 per day. 



March 23. An attempt to run a car was made, and 

 it was attacked by strikers, who completely wrecked 

 it. 



New York City.Veb. 3, 1886. General dissatisfac- 

 tion among the employe's of horse-car lines at the 

 hours of labor and rate of wages. Numerous confer- 

 ences held between railroad officials and Knights of 

 Labor. 



Feb. 4. Drivers and conductors on Fourth and 

 Sixth Avenue lines strike, but upon promise of com- 

 panies to grant demands resume work before night. 



Feb. 16. Fourth Avenue road, having failed to 

 keep its promise, strike is renewed, but settled before 

 night. 



'Feb. 17, 1886. Employe's of Eighth and Ninth 

 Avenue lines strike for twelve hours and increased 

 wages. 



Feb. 18. Strike settled, roads yielding to all de- 

 mands. 



March 2, 1886. Strike of employes on the four lines 

 of the Dry Dock Railroad for twelve hours and in- 

 creased wages. 



March 3. Attempts to run cars under police pro- 

 tection, and some rioting in Grand Street. 



March 4. Railroad commissioners warn the road 

 that failure to run cars will forfeit charter. 



March 5. General strike on all the other lines in 

 the city 15,000 men idle. The Dry Dock Company, 

 however, settled with its men before night, and strike 

 ended. 



March 11. The companies form an association for 

 mutual aid against strikers. 



March 11. Employe's on Twenty-third Street, 

 Thirty-fourth Street, and Bleeckcr Street lines strike 

 for regular hours and! pay. 



March 16. Strike settled by intervention of rail- 

 road commissioners. Companies grant demands. 



April 16. Drivers and conductors on Third Avenue 

 line strike against employment of non-union men. 



April 17. Railroad commissioners have a hearing 

 of both sides. 



April 19. General tie-up on all other lines in the 

 city, because of aid furnished by the railroad com- 

 panies to Third Avenue Company. Considerable 

 rioting along Third Avenue. Company oifers to arbi- 

 trate, but strikers refuse. 



April 20. General strike ended, other roads promis- 

 ing not to aid Third Avenue. 



May 6. Agreement reached by company and com- 

 mittee of Knights of Labor, but strikers refuse to ac- 

 cept it. 



Aug. 19. Financial report of Third Avenue Rail- 

 road for quarter ending June 30 shows deficiency of 

 $60,620 against net earnings of $25,544 last year. 



June 5. General tie-up, or strike, for one day, of 

 all the lines in New York, Brooklyn, and Long Island 

 City, to aid Third Avenue strikers. 



May 5. Strike declared oif ; strikers defeated. 



Aug. 23, 1886. Strike of employes of Broadway 



and Seventh Avenue lines to prevent reduction of 

 wages and increase of hours of work. 



Aug. 29. Compromise between strikers and rail- 

 road companies effected, and strike ended. 



Aug. 25, 1886. Strike of employes on Belt Line 

 Railroads to prevent reduction in wages and increase 

 in hours of work. 



Sept. 1. Strike ended by railroads yielding to 

 strikers' demands. 



Piltsburg, Pa. March 29, 1886. Strike of con- 

 ductors and drivers for more pay und fewer hours of 

 work. 



April 3. Strike settled by mutual concessions. 



Sun Francisco. July 16, 1886. Two hundred driv- 

 ers and conductors on North Beach and Mission and 

 City Railroad lines strike for shorter hours. Con- 

 siderable rioting. 



Dec. 27. Considerable rioting and use of dynamite. 



Toronto, Can. March 10, 1886. Street-car com- 

 panies lock out men because they have organized, and 

 agree not to employ organized labor. 



March 12. Considerable rioting, which the police 

 are hopeless to quell. 



March 13. Strike ends men taken back no ques- 

 tions asked. 



Troy, N. Y. March 9, 1880. Employe's of street- 

 car companies in Troy strike ; demands granted same 

 day. 



'Boston. Jan. 10, 1887. Drivers and conductors 

 strike for more pay. Demands granted in a few 

 hours. 



Feb. 7. Employ6s of South Boston and Cambridge 

 companies strike for more pay. 



Feb. 13. Considerable rioting. Strikers mob a 

 horse- car. Strike subsequently settled by mutual 

 concessions. 



Brooklyn, JV. Y. July 2, 1887. Drivers and con- 

 ductors strike for longer times for meals. Demands 

 granted same day. 



Cincinnati. Sept. 18. Gripmcn and conductors 

 on the cable-roads strike for reinstatement of dis- 

 charged men. 



Nov. 17, 1887. Strike of drivers and conductors 

 for discharge of superintendent. 



Indianapolis, Ind. May 28, 1887. Drivers strike 

 for more pay. 



Lockport', N. Y. Jan. 14, 1887. Drivers strike for 

 more pay. 



Baifroads (Steam). Chicago. April 18, 1886. Strike 

 of switchmen in yards of Lake Shore Railroad. Con- 

 siderable disorder. 



April 20. Gov. Oglesby visits yards, and advises 

 strikers to arbitrate. 



April 22. Conference between Knights and rail- 

 road companies, and after mutual concessions men 

 return to work. 



April 30, 1886. Freight-handlers and yardmen in 

 railroad yards strike for eight-hour system. 



May 3. Considerable rioting and some bloodshed. 



May 4. Serious riot about midnight. Police at- 

 tempted to break up anarchist meeting, and dyna- 

 mite bomb was exploded, which killed or wounded 

 thirty-three policemen and several other persons. 



May 9. Strikers very generally return to work on 

 old terms. 



April 30, 1886. The Chicago and Northwestern 

 Railroad settle with 1,800 striking shopmen by grant- 

 in? nine hours and full pay. 



^lune 23, 1886. Switchmen in yards of Lake Shore 

 Railroad strike because company has failed to keep 

 promises made to men to induce them to return in 

 April. 



June 28. Yards put under protection of body of 

 armed men known as Pinkerton's guards. 



Dec. 15, 1886. Difficulty between Lake Shore Rail- 

 road and strikers has been settled. The company 

 will take back all the old men, except those who en- 

 gaged in acts of violence against the corporation, and 

 will abolish the black list. 



Cleveland, Ohio. Oct. 6, 1886. Brakemen on New 



