STRIKES. 



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March 3. Coal-handlers refuse to handle coal for 

 Steam Company ; police called upon for protection. 



March 5. ('arts carrying coal are upset by strikers. 



March 8. Conference between Steam Company and 

 committee of strikers, but no result reached. 



March 10. Steamboat men refuse to remove Steam 

 Company's ashes. 



March 16. Strikers defeated, nou-union men hav- 

 ing filled their places. 



Stone-Cutters. Washington. D. C. May 3, 1886. 

 Stone-cutters strike for eight-hour system. 



Chicago. Dec. 19, 1887. One hundred and thirty- 

 three stone-cutters strike for more pay. 



Philadelphia. May 26, 1887. Three hundred stone- 

 cutters strike against scab labor. 



New Jersey. May 3, 1887. General strike by the 

 stone-cutters of the "State for more pay. 



Stone-Rubbers. New York City. Sept. 25, 1886. 

 About 500 stone-rubbers strike for discharge of a non- 

 union man. 



Store-Men. Brooklyn. April 15, 1886. Over 2,000 

 store-men on the water-front strike for increased pay. 



April 29. Strike ended. Warehousemen having 

 yielded all that strikers demanded. 



Stove-Workers, Philadelphia. Sept. 13, 1886. Con- 

 ference between Knights of Labor and Stove Manu- 

 facturers' Union. Knights demand 10 per cent, advance 

 in wages. That being refused, they demand 5 per 

 cent, advance ; refused. Strike. 



Oct. 26, 1886. Stove-workers return to work, after 

 five weeks' strike, on terms of employers. 



Pittsburg^ Pa. Sept. 9, 1886. General strike of 

 about 3,000 stove-raolders for increase of 10 per cent. 



Reading, Pa. Aug. 19, 1886. Strike of several 

 hundred molders at Alt. Penn Stove- Works settled, 

 after duration of some months, by strikers returning 

 to work voluntarily. 



Troy, JV. Y. Feb. 15, 1886. About 2,000 molders 

 in stove-factories strike for more wages. 



June 21. Stove-molders return to work, their de- 

 mands being granted. 



St. Louis, Mo. April 11, 1887. Five thousand 

 stove- molders strike because required to cast patterns 

 for a shop at which there is a strike. The strike be- 

 comes general throughout the country. 



April 18. The strike spreads to Pittsburg, Sharon, 

 Louisville. Cincinnati, and Akron. 



April 26. The strike extends to Osweoro, Syracuse, 

 Albany, Troy, Peekskill, Lancaster, Reading, Wilkes- 

 barre, and Philadelphia. 



June 1. Nearly all shops outside of St. Louis refuse 

 patterns from St. Louis, and men return to work. 



Sept. 5. Strike settled on mutual concessions. 



Sugar-Eefinera. Brooklyn, N. Y. April 16, 1886. 

 Havermeyer & Elder warn their employe's not to join 

 Knights of Labor. 



April 20. Committee of Knights present list of 

 grievances, and demand 25 per cent, increase of pay 

 and ten hours a day. Employers refuse to recognize 

 Knights. 



April 21. Two thousand five hundred men go on 

 strike. 



April 22. Considerable rioting and some bloodshed. 

 Police and rioters both injured. 



May 3. Employers make some small concessions, 

 and strikers begin to return. Strike gradually col- 



Louisiana. Oct. 5, 1887. General strike through- 

 out the State for more pay. 



Nov. 23. Fatal rioting. Twelve men shot. 



Tailors. Newark, N. /Sept. 4, 1886. Cutters and 

 trimmers strike to assist strikers in New York city. 



New York City. April 16, 1886. Cutters and 

 trimmers employed by Cavanagh, Sandford & Co. go 

 on strike. 



April 28. Forty -seven of the strikers are indicted 

 for conspiracy. 



May 18. Three hundred journeymen tai ors strike 

 for ten hours on five days and nine hours on the sixth. 



May 24. Strike extends to all the shops of the 



Contractor Tailors' Association, affecting about 8,000 

 employe's. 



May 27. Conference between bosses and journey- 

 men. 



June 13. Strike settled by mutual concessions. 



Aug. 25, 1886. General strike of union cutters to 

 compel masters to employ no non-union men, and to 

 take only such apprentices as union allows. 



Sept. 7, 1886. Arbitration committee of Knights 

 offer to send men back to work if scabs are discharged. 

 Employers refuse. 



Sept' 9. Men return on employers' terms. 



Philadelphia. May 10, 1886. One thousand cut- 

 ters and trimmers strike for the adoption of eight-hour 

 system. 



Feb. 5, 1887. Ten thousand tailors employed by 

 members of the Clothing Exchange are locKed out to 

 anticipate strike. 



May 28. Men return to work on their own terms. 



Tanners. Salem and Peabody, Mass. July 14, 1886. 

 General strike for day of ten hours. 



Aug. 6. Considerable rioting. 



Aug. 9. Police from other towns placed on guard. 



Aug. 11. Considerable rioting. 



Aug. 12. One tanner yields to demands of the 

 strikers but resumes his former opposition next day. 



Nov. 25. Considerable rioting. Several scab tan- 

 ners beaten and one striker shot. Strike declared off. 



Woburn, Mass. Sept. 9, 1886. Employe's in Dun- 

 can's Leather Factory strike against increase in day's 

 work. 



Newark, N.J. Jan. 7, 1887. Employe's at New- 

 ark strike for revisal of wages schedule. 



Aug. 10, 18S7. General strike for recognition of 

 the Union. 



Sept. 7. Strike settled by mutual concessions. 



Telegraph-Operators! Omaha, Neb. July 12, 1886. 

 Telegraph-operators strike for increase of wages. 



Terra-Ootta MakerBi New Brunswick, N. J. Aug. 

 19, 1886. Strike of employes of Perth Amboy Terra- 

 Cotta Works to secure reinstatement of discharged 

 union man. Settled ; employers yield. 



Tinsmiths. Memphis, Tenn. Sept. 10, 1886. Jour- 

 neymen tinkers strike for recognition of rules of 

 trades-union. 



Sept. 13. Bosses yield. Strike ended. 



Toy-Makers. Chicago. April 30, 1886. Employe's 

 of St. Nicholas Toy Company strike for eight hours. 



Tube-Makers. Chicago. April 30. 1886." Employe's 

 of Crane Brothers strike for eight-hour system 1,100 

 men affected. 



Harrisburg, Pa. July 30, 1886. Strike of em- 

 ploye's of American Iron Tube Company declared otf 

 strikers being defeated. 



McKeespori, Pa, March 18, 1880. Strike by em- 

 ploy s of one department for an advance ol fifteen per 

 cent, of wages. 



March 20. Extended to all employe's about 4,000. 



Middletown, Pa. July 21, 1886. Five hundred 

 employes of American Tube and Iron Company strike 

 for rate of wages prevailing in 1883 and for reinstate- 

 ment of two discharged union men. 



MillviUe, N. J. Aug. 8, 1886. Employe's of R. D. 

 Wood's foundry strike for reduction in piece-work. 



Aug. 13. Employers offer to make reduction if 

 men will leave Knights of Labor ; offer refused. 



Youngstown, O. April 17, 1887. Three hundred 

 workmen in American Tube Company strike for re- 

 instatement of discharged employe 1 . 



Wire- Workers, Norwalk. Conn. April 26, 1886. 

 Wire-workers strike for advance in wages. 



May 30. Strikers return on employers' terms. 



Wool-Workers. Louisville, Ky. July 27, 1887. 

 Strike for more pay. 



Sept. 27. Strikers return to work on employers' 

 terms. 



Marlboro, Mass. April 21, 1887. Five hundred 

 employe's of Chapin & Co. strike for shorter hours. 



Philadelphia, Pa. Sept. 4, 1887. Employe's of Star 

 Mills strike for more pay. 



