The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-05
LABOR NOTES.

present.
The iron trade is picking up at Milwaukee
just now.
Omaha. Nebraska, has more m0lderS than
can find employment
Seven hundred cigarette makers struck In
New York City on the first.
Best set of teeth IS; try him; Dr. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block
RepOrts from the principal centerS indicate
a general dulIneSS ir the shoe trade.
Best set of teeth IS: try him; DR.. prury,
dentist, Opera House block.
The Lathers union will ask an advance of
5Ocents day after May 1.-St Louis Union.
The Cigarmakers' Progressive Union con-
vention will be held in New York May IA.
Teeth extracted without pain; go to him;
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block,
The New Pratt coal shaft, at Birmingham,
Alabama, has a capacity Of 600 tons per day.
Work in the cotton and wOolen mills is re-
ported fair in the south, but unsteady III the
east.
George Evans & Co.'s glass factory, at
Pittsburg, will shut down for the summer in
few weeks.
Kimberly & Co.'s rolling mill, at Green
vile, Pennsylvania, is running full in all the
departments.
Two merchants have been arrested at
Clifton, Ireland, on a charge of conspiracy
in dynamite way.
The ladies assembly of Knights of Labor
of st. Louis is said to be one of the best
working in that city,
Edward Mock, the inventor of the present
system Of boiling iron, died at West GOungS-
town, Ohio, April 10.
Coal miners at Lehigh, Indian territory,
have had their wages reduced, and there Is
a strong probability of trouble.
At Kansas City the moIderS are still out,
and both sides seem determined not to yield.
MOderS should steer clear of there.
Cigar manufacturers of Louisville, Ken
tuCkV, have acCeded to all demands of their
employees, and there will be no strike.
James Fuller was killed and several others
seriously injured by a mine accident, at Ash
land, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday.
There is no preGeptible change in the build
ing trades, except in the case of strikes eISt-
where noted, but the prospect is not bad.
The hOd-camiers of Dayton, Ohio gave
notice of an advance to take effect May l.
We are not yet informed as to the result.
Two hundred brickmakers at St Joe Mis-
souri,, struck last week for 25 cents per day
advance and got it, without losing any time.
Miners averaged only about eighteen work
LILY udN uuIlllS Uu6 LIIOIlIL VI ndICll, tllu cU
the operator want to reduce WageS.-LabOr
Herald
All the cigar factories at WiIkesbarre,
Pennsylvania, closed on the tirSt, the pro
DrietOrS only being willing to pay 50 cents
advance
Tailoring is lively in Denver. The union
men-OVer one hundred-aTe all at work
The trade is reported brisk all over the
country.
Fifteen hundred extra men will be put on
the at the American Ship Building Com
pany's yards in Philadelphia in the course Of
a month.
In consequence of the refusal of manu-
tactuTerS to grant the advance asked all the
cigar factories of Lynchburg, Virginia, were
closed May l.
At Paint Creek, West Virginia, the Kama
wha Camel Coal company have now in Ope-
ration one of the finest coal mines along the
kanaWha river.
number of glass workers will come from
PittsbuTg to work in the Denver window
glass factory, which will begin operations in |
September next.
About all the manufacturers of cigars in |
Chicago have acCeded to the demand of |
WOrkmen for an advance of 81, and there |
will be no strike.
The Knights of Labor and Trades AS
DONCOILlllS
the Cleveland Baking company for ill-treat- |
ing its employees.
Edward Coleman was killed and Joseph |
StillWeu injured by a falling of earth at |
Kansas City, on Wednesday, while working !
on an excavation.
Authorities believe that the nihiIiStS are
preparing for simultaneous disturbances in |
various parts Of the empire during the COrO-
nation ceremonies.
The bTicklayerS of Buffalo are about to |
demand 50 cents per day additional wages. |
The plaStererS, stone cutters and plumbers |
will likely follow suit.
About fifty men are out of the Bunker |
Hill, Illinois, coal mines. for an advance of |
One-half cent per buShel. At present the |
price paid Is but24 cents.
On Monday last the Cigarmakers at Albany, |
New York, struck for an advance Of s. per |
l,UOO. Manufacturers say the are willing to |
give 81. All shops are closed.
The cigar manufacturers of St. Louis con-
Sented to pay the increased scale and every
thing passed off quietly. Only a very few
small concerns are holding out.
Denver board of trade are investigating
the SUBJECT OF starting large iron works in |
Ihl6 CITY, A committee have been inVeSti |
eating the McNair furnaces, at Golden.
The IInsmithS union at Troy, New York, |
mas ordered general strike. Seven hun
dred VIII stop work. They have been re-
celYmg 81 day, and now demand So.
The new Cooperative Coal company at
Ashland, Illinois, is pushing work with great
YIgor.. Machinery is all on the gr0uud. !
Practical miners compose the company.
Edward McCabe was killed and William
Scott severely, injured by being hurled down
an eleVaGor shaft at the Burton blast fur
mace, at Troy, New York, on Wednesday.
InfOrmerS in Ireland are thicker now +bon
iddlerS in hell. Each davis Tenorts swell
the number. Surely the struggling % irish
have need to be saved from their friends ~.
On Wednesday the union stonecutters and