The Labor Riots in the States.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 13 July 1894, Page 2

The Labor Riots in the States.

■* — FRUITLESS ATTEMPTS AT ASSASSINATION, CAUSES QF aiiE TROUHLE. (J>EB PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) Washington, July 12. Strike matters in Sacramento are quietening down. Fruitless attempts have been made to stab, and kill by dynamite, Mr Wickes, Vice-President of the Pullman Palace Car Company, owing to h}s refusal tp sanction the dispute being submitted to arbitration.. ' ; "*' Thf cc thousand armed strikers marched in procession through the streets of San Francisco, declaring that they would nqt yield to the trqpps, and were waiting for their arrival. The populace cheered them.' The C44ef pf the Knights of Labor has ordered them not to strike at present. Peb.s, heqd of the I^aihy^y TJuipn, h^ been pqminitted fbc trial, liftil being H^ yruL not be tried till October-

As yet the cable messages have been singularly silent as to the grievances ■ which underlie the present extraordinary > upheaval of laboring bodies, but a Southern contemporary states them as < follows -' Thp pmployiSs qf thp famous Pullman £alsce Gar! Compaq, 'to 1 fhd : number pf abgut 4OQO, went put on i strike in May because of wage reduc* 1 tions to a starvation point. The con- | ditions in the " model " city had become ■ unbearable, nearly all the men being in I debt for rent to the Company, which J owns all the houses. The formulated grievances are— That the several " cuts " in wages muifi? &*> nmee 'fab tiLny, 1899, Kllouldbcxestored. TheseJ''cuW". s rau ifroni U3 to 50 per cent' of wages; -as « they existed prior to the vttvt^? Ui^otivnea. i