From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/11/1866, p. 1, c. 4

STRIKES AMONG MECHANICS. – We learn that there was a strike among the workmen in the puddling department in the Tredegar Iron Works in consequence of a reduction of wages from seven to six dollars per ton.

There was also a strike in the nailing department of the Belle Isle Works in consequence of the employment of two men not members of the Workingmen’s Society.

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