Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — Big Strike Is Threatened. [ARTICLE]

Big Strike Is Threatened.

If it becomes necessary in order to enforce the New York agreement calling for a nine-hour workday on May 20 50,000 machinists will go on strike in all parts of the country. This has Just been announced by President James O’Connell of the International Association of Machinists at Philadelphia. The local members of the International Association of Machinists are making their preparations for the fight which is believed to be inevitable.

Great Fire in N-w York City. Fire Thursday night laid in ash** the two city block* -bounded by the East river, First avenue. Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, New York city. Nearly one-quarter of th* block on the south side of Thirty-first street, extending from First avenue to the river, was also destroyed, together with the vast expanse of lumber yards and coal and wood sheds running southward to Thirtieth street and along the river front. Chief Croker of the fire department and Capt. Patterson of the fire patrol roughly estimated the loss at about $1,500,000. It is impossible to make any estimate of the individual losses. For the first time in many years the alarm known a* the "two nines” was sounded. This brought into service, either at the scene of the fire or to relieve apparatus which had gone to the fire, all fire engines, water towers nd hook and ladder trucks located between Leonard and Eighty-fifth streets and from river to river.