 Dallas Morning News
October 21, 1885 THE NEWS FROM SHERMAN A STRIKE This morning at 8 o'clock the day press force at the cottonseed oil mills of Tassey, McCulloch & Co., on North Willow street, walked out on a strike, their demand for a raise of wages from $1.25 to $1.50, having been refused by Mr. Tassey, manager of the establishment. The strikers informed a NEWS man that until about two weeks ago they had been receiving $1.50 per day of twelve hours and state that they are not allowed time in which to eat a dinner hour, but are forced to snatch a bite between runs. Mr. Tassey says that the amount of time lost by the walkout of the employes was not more than thirty minutes at the outside. The gin employes were transferred from that department to the press rooms, and while the ginnery is shut down the mill proper is running under full headway. The proprietors say they have several applications for situations. Dallas Morning News October 22, 1885 THE NEWS FROM SHERMAN SHERMAN, Oct. 21 - In a conversation with one of the strikers in the Willow Street Oil Mills this morning a NEWS reported was informed that the entire night press crew at the mills walked out last night at changing hours and joined those who had struck during the morning before. This additional reinforcement has given the strikers renewed confidence in their ability to effect terms with Mr. Tassey, and they openly avowed on the streets to-day that the night crew, which has been made up of the gin employes, should not go to work if it could be prevented. They say that if moral persuasion fails to keep them from work, physical force will be brought into use, and laugh at the idea of the police department and sheriff's constabulary stopping them in their undertakings. About 10 o'clock it became rumored that Mr. Tassey had telegraphed to Dallas for hands to run the mill and a crowd of about twenty strikers assembled at the Union depot to warn the newcomers of the danger they were running into by going to work. The Dallas party did not arrive, and the strikers dispersed to their several homes. Dallas Morning News October 22, 1885 A RUMOR NOT CONFIRMED The rumor on the streets to the effect that the proprietors of the oil mill has decided to raise wages on Monday lacks verfication. It is believed to be started by the strikers to let themselves down easy. No hostile demonstrations have been made at this hour, 8 p.m. and it is thought the threats made this morning were for a bluff, and that no violence was over intended toward either the proprietors or employes of the mill. The Dallas Morning News November 2, 1885 STRIKE ENDED. The disaffected workmen connected with the oil mill strike have all returned to work at the same price paid when the strike was inaugurated, a little over a week since, except a few who were refused employment by the management of the mill. The wages of the experienced and skilled employes were raised, but this was not a concession to the strikers, as they were all connected with the unskilled department. The majority of the strikers were colored. Sherman History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |