Labor Troubles | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1903

Labor Troubles.

At South Bend, Ind., on the 22d of the ult., an attempt was made by a mob of 150 men to wreck the power-house of the Indiana Railway Company. There were seven men at the house when the attack was made, and one of them, a watchman, was thrown bodily through a window, and another was badly beaten. Much damage was done to the property. A detachment of police arrived in time to make several arrests, among whom were some ex-employees who had been on strike. The railroad employees of Holland have decided to cease work with the object of preventing the adoption of the proposed law prohibiting railroad strikes. A meeting of the leaders of workmen's unions having a membership of 90,000 has resolved to support the railroad men. All the leading cities are said to be affected seriously. About eight hundred miners of Nanaimo, B. C., are on strike against the Western Fuel Company, which recently bought the coal mines at that place. The strikers are asking for increased pay for working in the lower level, which runs under the sea. It is said that the striking machinists on the Union Pacific Railroad are losing ground. They refused to do repairing on locomotives, and declared that no new ones would be allowed to run on the road. They counted on a sympathetic strike by the trainmen, but they have kept at work. Now that new engines have been brought in without molestation, it is thought the strikers will not hold out much longer. The strike against the Mountain Copper Company, in Shasta County, Cal., is on again, and the mines and smelting plant are closed down. The union men claim that the company has discriminated against union labor in re-employing men since the last strike. There is promise of a long and bitter contest. It is only a few weeks since the business community was rejoicing over the settlement of the last strike.