GROUP I. STONE AND CLAY PRODUCTS.

BRICKMAKERS-EAST KINGSTON.

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With a demand for an advance in wages of forty cents per day, the laborers in two brickyards at East Kingston struck on June 24th, and marching in a body to the other yards in the vicinity compelled the men there to join their ranks or at least to cease work. According to press reports, the incentive to their action was the fact that brickmakers in yards further down the Hudson River were receiving forty cents per day more than those in East Kingston. The strikers were unorganized and were largely composed of Italians and negroes, who indulged in some rioting which resulted in the calling out of a posse of special deputies by the sheriff. Quiet being restored by the presence of the deputies the willingness of the large majority of those who had ceased work to return at once resulted in the resumption of work in one yard on June 28th and in the other yards two days later, without any negotiations between the parties. In this dispute 200 strikers lost 6,000 days' work and forced 800 others to lose 4,800 days more.

QUARRYMEN-ORLEANS COUNTY.

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Difficulty early in the spring between the local assembly of the Knights of Labor and certain quarry owners of Orleans county over a scale of prices and the time for payment of wages finally resulted in a strike on May 20th which ultimately involved some 20 firms and about 800 employees. The two main points at issue in the controversy were, first, the demand of the men that wages be paid every two weeks instead of monthly, as had been the custom, and, second, the question of employment of non-union quarrymen. On the former matter the men were insistent, maintaining that the retention of their wages until the end of the month amounted to a forced loan with no security