People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Small Strike at Whiting, Ind. [ARTICLE]

Small Strike at Whiting, Ind.

Whiting, Ind., Sept. 5. —Yesterday afternoon when the Standard Oil company’s whistle blew to quit work at this place all the men in the machine shop, numbering alfout 200, were told to go to the main office and get their time. The order was a result of a disagreement on wages. The company refuses to make any explanation, except that the shops have been ordered to shut down by the authorities above them and that they are closed indefinitely.