No Fun (and Little Pay) At the Sycamore Preserve Works in 1883

From the June 3, 2020, MidWeek  (DeKalb County, Illinois)  "Looking Back."

1883,   Many, many years a go.

"There was some commotion  at the Sycamore Preserve Works last Monday over the double discovery that, under the new superintendent,  the hundred women and girls at work must stick to their posts and not talk; also , that their wages were cut down some thirty percent from last year's rates.

"From thirty to sixty cents a day is all they earn at present prices.  Last year they had a kind of picnic there and lots of fun;  this year they say it is serious work and pretty poor pay.

"Quite a number quit work at noon and other at night.  Next day there was a slight advance in wages.

Sounds Like A Strike About to Happen.  --CootStrike