The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-13
LABOR NOTES.

An assembly OF lhnlSHlS OI IdpOI Has
been organized at Fort Worth, Texas. 1
Five Knights of Labor were elected to
the Michigaa state legislature recently.
An assembly of Knights of Labor has
been organized at Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut. sf
Two new assemblies of Knights of
Labor have been formed in Detroit,
Michigan.
All the boot and shoe factories in Mon
treal, Canada, were again in full opera
ton December 26. '...tL -
Ninety odd assemblies were organized
in August, over seventy in September
and eighty in October. -sI-. : -.. -.
The striking coal miners of Des Moines
resumed work last "Wednesday at the
old price, Al cents per .bushel. !
The molders in the Ontario car shops
are on stike; and all the shoe factories
at Montreal are again in full running
order. 2. r
The stove mounters in Gurney's
foundry, Hamilton, Ontario, have struck
on account of threatened reduction of
wages, - !
The flour trade is generally fair. From
st. Louis, Indianapolis. Milwaukee, st.
Paul and other western centers reports
arefavorable.
The cabinet works of the Remington
company at Ilion, New York, we're
burned and about $50 men are thrown
out of employment.
All the men employed in the Centralia
e. Illinois nail cutting mills have struck, in
order to strengthen the puddlers, who
went out on a strike the day previous.
A conference of miners in Cleveland,
on Thursday, concerning reduction of
10 cents ton for mining, resolved to
fight the reduction and urge the adoption
= of scale. .
On last Wednesday, President Shan
ning,Io Iof the Miners association, said
that strike of 5000 river coal miners
would soon be inaugurated, to resist a
reduction in wages.
The employees of the Wabash shops at
Moberly demanded their two months
back pay, and that there shall be a
certain specified day-in each month for
paying wages hereafter.
The cigarmakers strike at Louisville,
Kentucky, against non-union men was
successful. Union men are notpermitted |
to work in the shops with non n-unionists
All shops are closed against non-union
men.
Eastern trade is fair, but the prospect
is not encouraging, as reductions of
wages are expected, and no doubt strikes
will follow. Nearly one-half of the cot
ton mills in Philadelphia are idle at
present.
New York pianomakers have formed
an association for the purpose of estab-
fishing piano factory at Breslau. The
association numbers 400 men, and about
> sS175,OOO is to be invested in the new
enterprise.
The Lancaster Gingham mills, at Clin-
ton, Massachusetts which employ about
1000. persons, have announced general
reduction of three per cent in wages.
The employees have accepted the reduc-
ton for the present,
The superintendent of the South
Chicago Rolling mills says that in con-
sequence of the reduction in the price of
steel rails TO the lowest point orders are
coming in freely, and that the mills will
be started Immediately.
One of the hollowware glass factories
ofBodine, Thomas & company Williams
town, New Jersey, has gone out of blast,
owing to absence of demand for the
ware at present prices. This throws
fifty men out of employment.
The trades councils of England are
communicating with members of parlia
ment, with view to have female labor
abolished in the bolt, rivet, chain and
nail trades of England, as it's considered
disgraceful and degrading to the sex.
From France we learn that aC the
Riom assizes nine of the miners of
Montceau-les-Mmes were sentenced to
Imprisonment for terms varying from
one year to five years. with frecommen-
dations to mercy. Fourteen others were