The Labor enquirer., 1883-02-10

He LABOR ENQUIRE
rator on penalty Of discharge to deal al
| together at apluck-me" stores, owned b.
employers. and to pay more for every
thing than they would be obliged t
elsewhere. They also had to buy all tht
tools, lamps, oil, powder. etc, out o
their wages, which averaged not more
than $3.50 per year.
Grand Secretary Knights of Labor
Layton employs thirteen clerks, and o.
this number eleven devote all their
time to answering correspondence and
preparing supplies for shipment. Be
tween fifty and one hundred letters that
require answers are received every day,
one day 1877 registered letters being receiv.
ed. The postal orders received during the
year 1882 footed up to almost $4,000.
An average of over $3.50 worth of post
afe stamps are used every week. One
day not long ago 4S6 registered letters,
each bearing 16 cents worth of stamps,
were sent out from the Office. Several
express companies have offered Mr..
Layton special rates if he will send his
printed matter by express instead of by
mail.
MISCELLANEOUS.
No idle printers in Detroit.
Lowell, Massachusetts, mills are on
full time.
Carpentering is reported as still dull
at Toledo, Ohio.
Most of the Massachusetts cotton mills
are fairly employed. =
Nearly every carpenter in Hartford is
a member of the union.
A carpenters union is being formed at
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
John Roach is employing about 1,700
hands at his Chester yards.
A letter from Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, states that business is, fair there
The Matthews Cotton factory, Selma,
Alabama, will make considerable enlarge
ments.
The Chemical works at Carondelet are
now running night and day, and employ
about thirty men.
Mississippi has eight cotton factories
with 944 looms, 1928 spindles, and a
capital of $1,222,14O.
The Susquehanna agricultural works
at Montrose, Pennsylvania, are running
up to their full capacity.
Carpenters would do well to stay away
from Chicago at present, as the trade is
very dull there at present.
There are now over 1000 mill hands
out of work in Manayunk, Frankford
and Kensigton, Pennsylvania.
The offices of the Courier and the Pal
ladium, at New Haven, Connecticut,
have been declared ''rat" by the union.
The Harrisburg Handle Manufacture
ing company has an order from Shef-
field, England, for 5000 pick-ax handles.
One hundred convlcts have been taken
from the penitentiary at Pine Bluff,
and put to work in the cotton
fields.
1t is currently reported that the boss
painters of Pittsburg will try to pull
down wages this season from So to $3.50
per day.
There is big printers strike pending
at Springfield, Illinois, and circular has
been issued, warning printers to stay
away from there.
The Cotton Yard Mems association, of
New Orleans, recently held meeting at
Exposition hall, and it was grand sue
cess in every respect.
Ancona Print works, of Gloucester
city, New Jersey, has started up aga {.
after several months Of idleness. Th
employ about 800 persons.
The idle employees of Hubbard, Blake
we'll & Co.'s axe factory, Pittsburg, are.
talking of starting a cooperative axe
factory. They have in view the purchase
of factory near Hollidaysburg
The January circular of Toronto Typo
oranhical union saws the Advocate,