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Waupaca Record

October 31, 1907

 

CONSTRUCTION MEN STRUCK ON TUESDAY

Difference Comes About Length of Hours

Returned to Work This Morning to Finish Job

 

            Sixty-five Bulgarians, employed in the construction of the Waupaca-Green Bay railway struck for nine and a half hours with ten hours pay on Tuesday. After remaining out until Thursday morning they again went to work without any concessions form the management of the work.

            The true cause of the unrest is either that they are unaccustomed to the rigor of our climate and wish to go south or that the interpreter has been offered a bonus by some construction company for furnishing men.  As none of the men can talk English the real situation could not be learned.  However, upon the refusal of Mr. McGrath to pay the strikers until November 10^th they resumed work with the understanding they were to remain until the work of construction was completed.

 

 

Waupaca Post

October 31, 1907

 

            About thirty Bulgarians who have been working on the Waupaca Green Bay railway left their work on Wednesday morning. They wanted pay for the time it took them to get to their work from their boarding house and the contractor couldn’t see it that way.

 

Waupaca Republican

November 1, 1907

 

            Between Thirty and forty Bulgarians who are doing work on our new railroad struck Wednesday morning because of some disagreement as to hours and wages, but finally returned to work agreeing to stay until the work which they are doing, is completed.