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Blows From The Strikers

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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The strike of the carpenters and joiners in New York has been very successful. Ktriking etreet car men of Brooklyn, N. Y., were giautod all tl;ey asked. Km ; oyes of the malle ible iroa works in Chicago, demanded aa iucrease of wages, and went out untll their demanda were complica with, whlcli wa i the Becond day. The Fie I. W. Cook brewery company ol Kvansviile, Ind., employing 150, men have granted their demand ior loss kot.í and moro pay. Tbree hundred strect ear men in Cohoes, N. Y., went out on the lOth Inst baeausj th company refcued to make au e ara scale of wages for extia men or "trippers." Straet raüway employé in Pittsburg, tril] strike unless more pay and less hours are pranted by the company. Chicago boot and hoo manufacturera have agreed to dispense with convict labor, and the l.oycott against the manufacturera lias been raised. The coal miners in Peunsylvania are less succes;-ful taan the strikers in manv other industries. Some small concessions have been granted, hut not enough to give any hope to the stnkeri. The railway trouble in the southwest are extending.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat