The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-23
LABOR NOTES.

The average price paid for mining coal in
the Dahoning valley is IS cents per ton.
The BIferfeld, Alabama, Coal company is
preparing to erset 200 ton coke furnace.
Work has improved somew hat at the mines
in the vicinity Of WesterDport, Maryland.
The wages of the lsboring men on the
Santa Fe road have been reduced to $l.15 a
day.
Caswell's new tack factory, at Taunton,
Massachusetts,, is being enlarged to twice its
capacity.
Business in the machine shops is generally
fair, but the manufacturing trade is rather
dull and unsteady.
Atths LaughIin mill, Martins Ferry, Ohio,
twenty-eight cold self.feeders and four hot
feeders are running.
New York cigarmakers csD upon congress
to pass bin abolishing tbs tax on tobacco
cigars and cigarettes.
Brown, Bonnell & Company, Youngstown,
Ohio, are filling large orders for links and
pins for railroad cars.
Work is going steadily forward in the coal
mines at Angus, Iowa, aud the district is
overcrowded with miners.
The miners a. Dell Roy, Ohio, have received
an advance of cent over last winters prices.
Work is very dull there at present.
+ The miues are all iu full operation at Rich
Hill, Missouri, and vast quantities of coal are
being shipped to all parts of the west.
The work on the new nal mill, at Mingo,
near Steubenville, Ohio, is about completed,
and the new pudding furnaces are working
well.
A dispatch dated St. Louis, December 10,
says: THE Vulcan Steel works, which closed
down December l, will remain closed all next
year"
The Lsckawanns, Pennsylvania, Iron and
Coal company, owing to a scarcity of orders,
for steel rails, has commenced working On
half time.
The demand for steel rails falling Oft, the
rail mill and one of the blooming mills in
New wburg, Ohio, will soon shut down until
the trade revives.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company has served upon It's employees notice
of reduction of 20 per cent in their salaries,
to begin January l.
To-, n kYOol tan ITyn
improvements at Big Mine Bun colliery, Ash
land, Pennsylvania. There ara about $50
men and boys employed at toe coliery,
The Vesuvius Iron works will add five new
pudding furnaces to their works at Sharps.
burg, Pennsylvania, which will increase the
total number to twenty-nine 10 that depart.
ment.
At Montreal, Canada, the boot and shoe
factories are nearly all idle. The manufact
urers are about to introduce machinery aud
employ girls to do the lasting the men were
engaged at.
The girls employed in j. D. Kings factory
at Toronto, Cauada, quit work because two
Russian Jews were impoyed on buttonhole
machines who worked tor two cents per dozen
lesss than the girls.
A large number cf miners at the Connell
bury mines, VrScennes, Ind, are on a strike.
Efforts have been made to fill their places,
bat the miners forcioly prevent new men
from going to work. The mines are now
gua1ded by the sheriff and posse,
A reduction in wages at the Albany ireu
works Of Troy, N. ". went into effect
recently. 1t was accepted with reservation
by the employees, numbering several thous.
ands. The reduction is from 10 to 25 per
cent. The men mean to bide their time
The trial of J. D. Watson, charged with
offering bribes to mem bers Of the Ohio legis'
lature, has commenced at Columbus One
hundred witnesses have been summoned.
The cases Of Representatives Block, of CIeve
land, and Wright, of Hooking county, for
accepting broes will follow.
We leasn that the Delaware rolling mill,
which was compelled tn suspend operations
owing to the failure of w. A. Levitt, of
Philadelphia, has started again, arrange.
ments to that effect having been made with
the creditors, The mill employs about; $50
hands, and has orders on hand which will
keep it running for quite long spell.
Michael Flynn, the last of the three men
arranged at Dublin for the murder of the
Haddys at Lough Mask, was Wednesday
convicted and sentenced to be hanged
January II. After Flynn received his
sentence he said to the Judge: "Thank you,
sir. am as willing to 60 there Cooking
upward) as 10 go home. wish you all good