TABLE XXI.-CAUSES, ETC., OF LOCKOUTS, BY INDUSTRIES-Concluded. Against demand for change from piece to day work Against demand for increase of wages.. Against demand for increase of wages and reinstatement of dis charged employees. Against demand for reduction of hours 1 Against demand of spinners' union for discharge of apprentice. Against nonunion men To compel employees to withdraw from union.. 1 To compel strikers in other establishments to relinquish demands. To enforce rule requiring employees to remove all clothing for inspection before and after work 1 Total.... 213 157 6 50 TABLE XXII.-SUMMARY OF CAUSES, ETC., OF LOCKOUTS FOR THE UNITED STATES. Cause or object. Against contracting with irresponsible heads of gangs of lumber shovers Against demand for adoption of new rules and new scale Against demand for adoption of new scale and discharge of nonunion employees... Against demand for adoption of union rules Against demand for adoption of union rules and union scale Against demand for adoption of union scale Against demand for a year's contract Against demand for better material Against demand for cash payment. Against demand for change from piece to day work Against demand for change of pay day..... Against demand for discharge of foreman.. Against demand for discharge of manager Against demand for discharge of members of another labor organization... Against demand for discharge of members of Cigar Makers' International Union. Against demand for discharge of nonunion employees.. Against demand for discharge of nonunion employees and increase Against demand for discharge of overseer and increase of wages Against demand for extra pay for extra hours Against demand for holiday.. Against demand for increase of wages Against demand for increase of wages and change of pay day Against demand for increase of wages and reduction of hours. Against demand for increase of wages or reduction of hours. Against demand for payment of wages overdue.. Against demand for payment of wages retained to pay for damages done to property through carelessness.. Against demand for reduction of hours.. Against demand for renewal of agreement.. 385 Against demand for restoration of wages. Against demand for Saturday half holiday. 18 385 1 18 Against demand for weekly payment. 1 1 Against demand of Chinese cigar makers against employment of white labor... Against employees leaving work before close of working hours on pay day. 173 173 Against employees receiving visitors during working hours Against fines assessed by union and to compel employees to sign 15 15 30 30 Against refusal of employees to use material furnished by establishment whose employees were on strike 1 a Not including 121 establishments in which lockout was still pending December 31, 1886. Not including 1 establishment in which lockout was still pending March 1, 1901. TABLE XXII. SUMMARY OF CAUSES, ETC., OF LOCKOUTS FOR THE UNITED STATES-Continued. Against threatened strike Against threatened strike against employment of aged union compositor at less than union rates 1 1 9 1 11917 1 Against threatened strike against employment of nonunion men.. Against threatened strike against reduction of wages.. 10 9 Against threatened strike against truck system and to enforce reduction of wages.. Against threatened strike against use of electrotype plates Against threatened strike against violation of agreement as to closing factory two months in summer.... Against threatened strike for adoption of union scale.. Against threatened strike for discharge of foreman Against threatened strike for discharge of nonunion employees. Against threatened strike for increase of wages and reduction of hours Against threatened strike for increase of wages and reinstatement of discharged employees... Against threatened strike for increase of wages and to compel em- Against threatened strike for reduction of hours and uniform scale 615 5 1 1 Against union men Against threatened strike to compel employers to sign annual agreement.... Against threatened strike to enforce agreement as to wages Against threatened strike to enforce union scale.. Against union apprenticeship rules Against union men and union rules. To compel acceptance of company's weight and signing of proposed contract To compel adoption of proposed agreement To compel adoption of proposed scale To compel blowers to work on machines with smaller crews To compel buttonhole makers to join Boss Tailors' Union To compel Cigar Makers' International Union to furnish labels.. To compel cigar makers to change shape of cigar without change of To compel deposit as security against striking without notice. To compel employees to buy machines and return finished work to To compel employees to do a larger amount of work To compel employees to do night work at same rate as day work.. To compel employees to furnish union labels for cigars made else- To compel employees to join certain union To compel employees to join the Knights of Labor To compel employees to leave one labor organization and join another. To compel employees to leave union and join stock company.. To compel employees to live in tenement houses belonging to em- To compel employees to make certain article for price offered.. To compel employees to pay shop rent 656 3 178 120 291 1 1 1 50 17 1 1 712 1 2 218 To compel employees to perform work for another establishment in which strike was pending 19 To compel employees to raise boycott.. 1 To compel employees to relinquish demand for back shops and to sign agreement not to strike during the year 30 To compel employees to sign agreement not to join union. 1 30 a Not including 20 establishments in which lockout was still pending July 1, 1894. 19 TABLE XXII.-SUMMARY OF CAUSES, ETC., OF LOCKOUTS FOR THE UNITED STATES-Continued. Cause or object. Establishments. Suc Succeeded. ceeded Failed. partly. To compel employees to sign agreement to work only for members of Iron League and change union rules To compel employees to sign agreement to work only for members of masters' association.... To compel employees to sign individual contracts 4 4 1 To compel employees to stop paying assistance to strikers in another establishment To compel employees to teach apprentices and to withdraw from To compel employees to use material from nonunion establishment. To compel employees to withdraw from Building Trades Council To compel employees to withdraw from one labor organization and join another To compel employees to withdraw from union.. To compel employees to work on boycotted material To compel employees to work on boycotted patterns. To compel employees to work overtime. To compel granite cutters to do quarrying. To compel men to make up Saturday half holiday. To compel miners to accept company's weight To compel miners to open abandoned veins.. To compel strikers in other establishments to relinquish demands.. To compel strikers in other establishments to relinquish demands and to break up labor unions.. To compel strikers to relinquish demand.. To compel union men to allow nonunion men to operate machines.. To compel union men to work with nonunion men and to enforce increase of hours........ 700 19 17 12 To enforce abolition of Saturday half holiday and force employees to work Sundays and overtime... To enforce agreement with cornice workers' union as to sympathetic strike.. To enforce change in method of doing work and To enforce change in method of doing work or reductioop system.. To enforce change of date for ending of yearly scale.. To enforce contract system.. To enforce employment of molders' helpers and abolish union rules. To enforce increase of hours and abolition of limit to output per day. To enforce modification of union rules as to right of employees to work with tools To enforce privilege of having sheet-metal workers do metalliclathers' work... To enforce reduction of hours to comply with State 8-hour law and consequent reduction of wages To enforce reduction of wages and against demand for reduction of hours a Not including 1 establishment in which lockout was still pending July 1, 1894. TABLE XXII.-SUMMARY OF CAUSES, ETC., OF LOCKOUTS FOR THE UNITED STATES-Concluded. To enforce reduction of wages and right to employ a larger number of apprentices.... 4 To enforce reduction of wages and use of machinery 1 To enforce rule requiring employees to remove all clothing for inspection before and after work. To enforce reduction of wages in other establishments in which strike: was pending. To enforce rule requiring plasterers to work for members of masters' association only.. To enforce rules To enforce rules of masters' union and against members of certain labor organizations To enforce rule to reduce force during slack season instead of alternating work among all employees... To enforce task system... 382 To resist strike against obnoxious foreman in another establishment. Total... 9,933 a 4,972 a 615 a 4,203 a Not including 143 establishments in which lockouts were still pending at the close of 1 of the 8 investigations included in this report. |