Labor Riots

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 15, 1913

At Burlington, N. J., on May 1 there was serious rioting when 150 American working men, under police guard, forced their way through a crowd of striking foreigners who tried to prevent them from entering the works of the East Burlington Iron Mills. The foreigners had placed women with babes in arms in front of them to prevent the American working men from breaking through their ranks. The police were compelled to use their clubs freely to protect from attack by the striking foreigners those who wished to work. In the same city another great iron-manufacturing concern was badly crippled by the strike of seven hundred employees. Seven hundred striking laborers on the Long Island Railroad in the borough of Queens, attacked their fellow laborers who wished to continue working, and also attacked the police who sought to preserve order. In Buffalo, N. Y., recently there was a strike of clerks. One large department store was closed on account of the strike, and a number of other business places were more or less seriously affected. There is a tie-up in the building trades in Auburn, N. Y. The builders had refused a demand for a forty-four-hour week and a minimum wage of forty-five cents an hour. The section men of the New York Central Railway in the vicinity of Auburn are also out on strike. At Rochester, N. Y., the members of the

United Brotherhood of Carpenters are on strike for a minimum wage of three dollars a day on a two-year guaranty. These are but a few of the strikes now in progress, some having been going on for a number of weeks. The conditions in the industrial world indicate that the world is no nearer to a mutually satisfactory settlement of such controversies than at any time in the past.