People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Big Strike Started Over Boys’ Wages. [ARTICLE]

Big Strike Started Over Boys’ Wages.

Chicago, April 24. —A strike has been I started in the Chicago Shipbuilding j Company on the Calumet river on account of the boys who heat the rivets, j Yesterday a committee from the men , waited upon oh i i ds asked for an advance in wages for the boys from 50 to 75 cents and $1 per day. This was refused, and nearly all the force of a thousand men at one*' left. Total sus- , pension of work for some time is feared, as the wages demanded cannot be paid without incurring a heavy loss on the company with its old contracts.