People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Big Strike on in New York. [ARTICLE]

Big Strike on in New York.

New York, Aug. 15.—Fourteen thou. Band jacket and pants makers went on a strike yesterday. Besides these, 1,700 other workers, classed as unskilled, are thrown out of work. The jacket workers demand a new “flfty-nine-hour-a-week agreement,” and a wage scale of from $6 to sl6 per week, according to the work done. By noon fully 9,000 tailors had quit work. The coatmakers and shirtmakers will probably go out in the course of a week or two, and swell the number of strikers to fully 20,000.