Threaten to Go Out on Strike

New York, 1895

The girls employed as cutters in the gold and silver leaf shops at Hicksville are threatening to go on strike. They say wages have been reduced and they might as well starve as continue at present rates of pay. The two firms of Michael Schultz, in Eight street, and Schultz Bros., in Houston street, New York, control the work here. There is one independent shop which pays the old wages.


Pay Up or Stand Suit

The Standard seems to be in final distress again. At any rate, its creditors are pressing hard for their pay. The Vernon Valley Paper Company has been unable to collect its money for goods delivered. The company has sent its claim to Counselor Van De Water, of Flushing, with instructions to sue for its recovery.


Meeting of Highway Commissioners

The Jamaica highway commissioners held a meeting at the Town Hall on Tuesday. Commissioner Wolff presided. The meeting was for the purpose of receiving estimates from the district overseers of the amount of money needed for road repairs during the present year. Only two estimates were received and the matter was laid over until the next meeting.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 1.