The Labor enquirer., 1883-03-10

I New York, during the past year found
employment, for 28,49l men and 8,O97
women, at wages ranging Fl ON $1,O0 to
srs5o per day fox, men, and $8.00 to $40
per month for wtnen.
| It is runlored hat a number Of Fail
River manufacturers have signed CON
tracts with steantbiD companies to bring
Eover; about / ,20f emigrants to work in
the factories of Lowell, Lawrence and
New Bedford. This will force many of
the present operatives out Of work.
/ The Massachusetts, house Of represen-
tative8 have REQUESTED the senator's and
representatives at Washington to- en-
deavor to secure the passage ofa law,
prohibiting the employment of conTicts
upon works or property of the United
States. This is t. do away.with the con-
vict labor now employed on the Missis-
sippi river improvements.
The WessOn ctt0n mills, at Wesson,
Mississippi, are il need ofoperatives.
! The Craighead and Kintz Manufacture
ing company have located at Ballardvale,
MASSACHUSETTS. They will manufacture
chandeliers and will employ 800 hands
at once eventually 3OO
New England iSfollowing lively in the
footsteps of the WilIlmantic Cotton COM
Ipany in erecting ne-story factories. An
immense flax mil on this plan has just
been opened at jamaica Plains, near
Boston.
Two hundred and fifty Of the Italian
scowmen connected with Street Commits
sioner CoIeman's district, New York,
struck work, last week, and demanded
higher wages.
The Framer8' union, Of New York, re-
solved that all members taking work on
a new job must report at headquarters
and receive a working card. All mem
bers shall uphold the union rates OF
wages under a penalty Of s. fine for every
violation.
A meeting of the retail grOcers' associ-
alton was held at Central Turner hall on
Tuesday evening of last week, which was
well attended. A letter from the New
York retail grocer8' union was read. 1t
stated that at meeting Of the union a
resolution was unanimously adopted
thanking the St. Louis grOcers for their
sympathy with their New York brethren
who have been arrested for selling adul-
terated cream of tartar and other articles
boGght and sold in good faith as pure
st. Louis Union,
The trades unions Of Albany, Troy
and Cohoes, New York, united in a dem
on8tration, Tuesday nighteof last week,
against contract labor in the state pris-
ons. Three thousand men paraded.
A strike at the Pullman car works, at
st. Louis, occurred Tuesday. 1t is stated
positively that none Of the strikers will
be taken back, nor will any of them be
allowed to work in any other Pullman
shops. About ninety men went out
leaving some twenty Of the best work
men, who refused to join the strike.
The jury on inquest finds that fourteen
children suffocated and the four remain
ing crushed to death during the panic
recently in the German Catholic school
house in New York city The jury add
that the school building was insufficient
to accommodate 700 children, the aver.
age attendance, and that a stairway
should be provided with hand rails on
both sides.
A Springfield, Illinois, special states
that between 500 and 500 men, employed
in the Springfield rolling mills, are on a
strike because of the employment Of
nOn-union men in the same department.
Some non-union men have joined the
strikers. All departments except the
pIow and plate mills are shut down.
Let Your Light Shine.
DR.. Wagner, the celebrated specialist
of Denver, Colorado, 343 Larimer street