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Big Strike Started Over Boys' Wages

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, April L5.- A strike has been started In the Chicago Shipbuilding Company on the Calumet river on j count of the boys who heat the rivets. ] Yesterday a committee from the men j waited upon officials and asked for an advance in wages for the boys from Í50 to 75 cents and il per day. Thls was refused, and nearly all the foree of a thousand men at once left. Total suspension of work for some time Is feared, as the wages demanded cannot be pald I without incurring a heavy loss on the j company with its oíd contracta.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News