Strikes and Lockouts

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 26.

Strikes and Lockouts

Three thousand lumber men will be thrown out of employment in the vicinity of Puget Sound during the month of July, as the result of a decision of the Puget Sound Loggers’ Association to reduce the output in order to maintain the price. . . . . The strike of hotel laborers in Chicago is still on, tho the hotels are running in almost their usual capacity. It is expected that this strike will be a failure, owing to the fact that other unions have not supported the strikers in their fight against the hotels. . . . . The strike at Morenci, Arizona, is at an end, but only a portion of the miners have returned to work. It is stated that the Italians will not be employed again. . . . . The strike at Randsburg, Cal., has practically killed the town for the time being. Merchants are giving no credit, and business is at a standstill. Some of the mining companies have sent their mules to pasture, and many of the men are leaving the place. . . . . There is a strike of freight handlers at Kansas City, Mo., on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, the Burlington and Rock Island, and the Santa Fe. The demands of the men have been refused, and negroes are being employed to take their places. . . . . The strike of laborers in the building trades at Omaha has come to an end, and building operations, which had been delayed for the past four months, have been resumed, the men returning to work at the former scale of wages. . . . . There is a threatened strike of miners in the mines near Mojave, in sympathy with the strike at Randsburg. . . . . The strike in the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass., has been officially declared at an end. The strikers have lost, and only a portion of them will find employment at their old places. The amount lost to the strikers in wages is stated to be $1,300,000. . . . . The strike of street-car men in Dubuque, Iowa, is still on, and the company is running its cars under the protection of four companies of militia.