Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — MANY MEN NOW OUT. [ARTICLE]

MANY MEN NOW OUT.

THOUSANDS ADDED TO RANKS OF THE STRIKERS. **■ Labor Troubles in Nearly All Parts of the Country Building Trades Employes Especially Conspicuous—More Images and Shorter Hours Demanded. Strikes have recently been inaugurated in all parts of the country, except the extreme" South and-the Pacific slope. As a consequence. 23,600 idle men have been added to the thousands of budding trades’ workers and machinists long idle at Chicago and Cleveland, and to the strikers of New England. New York and other Eastern States, who have been out of work from two to four weeks. It is conservatively estimated that 75,000 union workmen are now on strike in various parts of this country. The latest additions to the list- of strikers are. .as follows: At Philadelphia—3,ooo building .tradesworkmen; for eight hours and 25 per cent increase in wages. At Kansas City—l.ooo hod-carriers, plasterers, tinners and quarrymen; for increase in wages. At Buffalo. N. Y.—3.000 car repairers, 700 shop men. 1.000 freight handlers. 150 Bell telephone linenien,-300 exiuwdtioH-la- ■ borers; for increase of wages. At Duluth, Minn. —700 building trades workers; for .eight hours and increase in wages. At Savannah, Ga.—SOO Imiraiiig trades workers-; for eight hours and increase in wages. At Minneapolis, Minn.—l,loo woodworkers; for the discharge of non-union men. • At Oniaah. Neb, —500 carpenters; for eight hours, increase in wages and exclusive use of union materials. At Cincinnati—Boo architectural iron workers: for nine hours at old pay. At Racine, Wis. -250 carpenters, hodcarriers and masons; for eight hours and increase in wages. At Denver, Colo. —700 carpenters; for eight hours and $3.50 per day. At Pittsburg. I'a.-T.rOL I’.uiTding trades workers; for eight hours and increase in wages. At East St. Louis, Ill.—-1,000 building trades workers: for increased wages. At St. Pa ul7'Minn.- = 5Wr rijnon plumbers; for shorter day and increase -in wages. At Great Falls, Mont.—Freight conductors and brakemen; against the new schedule of wages. At Ludington, Mich.—2oo freight handlers; for increased wages. At Detroit, Mich.—lso coremakers; for increased wages. At Milwaukee, Wis. —100 carriage and wagon carpenters and 200 iron workers; for a new wage scale and against nonunion men. At Memphis, Tenn. —500 iron molders; for high c r wag e-. At Port Huron. Mich. 300 ship builders and machinists; for Tricreased wages. At Springfield. Ohio—2so ironworkers in six shops; for a uniform -scale of wages. At Barberton. Ohio —600 boilermakers and molders; for increased wages. . At Boston—-2,500 brewery employes; to enforce the demands of engineers for eight hours and higher pay. At Constable, smelter employes; for nine hours.