From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/10/1882, p. 1, c. 6

Strike at the Tredegar.

Sunday morning the workmen employed in the two rolling-mills and in the spike and axle-shops of the Tredegar stopped work in consequence of a disagreement with the proprietors.

The trouble has been brewing more than two weeks. One of the rollers was dismissed by the company for reasons which they considered adequate, but the workmen took a contrary view, and last week the Iron and Steel Amalgamated Associations – one composed of white and the other composed of blacks – took action in the matter, and resolved to sustain the roller. A correspondence between the associations and the company took place, resulting in the determination of the company not to yield and of the iron-workers to quit work until the roller was reinstated. So on Sunday morning the iron-working departments at the Tredegar came to a standstill, and about four hundred men are in consequence out of employment.

For three years past the Tredegar has been pushed with orders, especially in the car-building department, but lately there has been a slackness of orders. While there is even now considerable work in hand and unfinished in some shops, the officers of the company say that they will not be compelled to yield their position.

There is no matter of wages involved. The Tredegar company regard it as a question of discipline. The employees look at it in the light of injustice done a fellow workman.

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