![]() ![]() The agreement then made expired on the 10th of February, 1891. That continued, I think, until February, 189O, when a general scale was agreed onĬovering wages in the Connelsville region and when other operators commenced to pay the same. Then after that date, we will say the 27th of July, theįrick Coke Company, who owned a large number of ovens in the region, were paying 1-1/2 per cent more wages than the The other operators, however, fought the strike out and won. In the meantime the Frick Coke Company granted the demands. That strikeĬontinued until the 27th of July, I think, that same year. They immediately struck against the award. Rendered a decision refusing the workmen the demand they made. The case was of course submitted to him, he Jackson, of this city, as the seventh man. We selected three men to represent us, the labor union selected three to represent them, and those six Trouble up until April 29, 1887, when, after having granted almost everything they asked and reaching a point where weĬould make no further concessions, we finally got the labor unions to agree to leave the demand they made at that time I think all resumed work.Īfter making that concession, they worked but a short time until they wanted something more, and we had continual We conceded an advance to the workmen of 10 per cent. Finally, on or about the 22nd of February, 1886, After the strike was once started other questions arose. January, 1886, we issued an order that women should not go with the men to work. On the State passing this law, which went into effect on the 1st of Piecework, we paid them for what piecework they did. Roll, yet the wives of these foreigners would go to work with their husbands and assist them. ![]() While we had never employed any women, never had a woman's name on our pay In 1885, I think it was, the State of Pennsylvania passedĪ law prohibiting the employment of women. In our employment, to assist their husbands on the coke yards. The principal cause was for the reason that we refused to allow the women, the wives of foreigners then The first strike of any importance that I remember occurred in 1886, in the coke region. Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie's right-hand man, was supervisor of the Homestead Steel Mill. Senate on November 24, 1892, during their inquiry into the The following statement was given before the U.S. ![]()
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