The Labor enquirer., 1883-12-22
LABOR NOTES.

busy.
The Pittsburg cigar shops are all under
the control of the union.
Best set of teeth s.; try him; DIR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
The iron molders of Toledo have suf-
fered reduction of wages. Business is
dull.
Teeth extracted without pain go to
him; DIR. Drury, dentist, Opera house
block. GrEE
The Manchester Iron & Steel company
suspended operations on Monday, and
l50 men are out
Bricklayers' Union No. 4, of New York
city, appropriated 500 to the silk ribbon
weavers on strike. e-,
The molders of Hamilton, Ontario,
have accepted the reduction of 20 per
cent and will not strike.
A Typographical society with fifty.two
members has been formed Hobart
Town, Tasmalia, Australia.
The Albany and Rensselaer, rail mill,
employing 4O0 men, has been shut down
owing to lack of profit in the trade.
James Marshall & Co.'s foundry, in
Pittsburg, started up on Monday week
at reduction in wages of lO per cent.
The International Union of Brick
layers meets in Cincinnati on January
1.-THE second Monday in the new year.
The strike of collier boys in the York
shire mines, England, has extended
l4,OOO wOrkmen are idle in consequence.
Best set of teeth S. try him; Dr.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
The Rogers Locomotive works have
discharged 200 men, and threaten TO In
crease that number to 1000, II buslneas
does not improve. .,- i
The carpenters of New York city have
won several strikes during the past two
weeks, against reduction OF wages, ow-
ing to shorter hours.
-Four hundred bricklayers are reported
on strike in Des Moines, owing to the
refusal of the contractors to pay for an
extra hour on Saturdays. ,5s I
There are over forty printers assem-
blies in existence in the United States,
A movement Is ON foot to organize q
painters district assembly.
Times are still dull at the Colorado
Iron Works. Some of the force have
been idle for several weeks; others are
working two and three days week.
The constitutionality of the tenement
house cigar law was up before the court
of appeals at Albany, New York, re,
Gently. No decision was reached.
The mills at Chattanooga, Tennessee,
with the exception of the Tredegar nail
works, are doing nothing, and prospects
are anything but bright for the winter
The building trades of New York are
keeping close watch over the Clark
building, and the contractor who insists
ON hiring non-union plumbers is without
men.
The Carpenters union, of Baltimore,
holds monthly public meeting for the
purpose of explaining the benefits OF or
ganization to the non-union men OF their
trade.
Miss Anna Dickinson, who Is in the
city, authoratively denies the statement
that she has signed with the Knights OF
Labor for series of lectures.-Chicago
Inter-Ocean. (
The freight handlers strike, at New
Orleans, has ended in victory for the
men, and hereafter the union is to be
asked to get all the men which the rail-
road may need.
The printers who struck at kellogg's
patent outside and inside establishment
are still out, and intend to remain out
as long as that concern is run on the
starvation plan.
Carl Schurz has severed his connection
with the New York Evening Post. The
paper is rat sheet and objected TO
Schurz writing editorials favorable to
the working people. 4
The Evening Journal, of. Wheeling,
commenced, recently, using plates and
the union sat down on it as bad habit
Wheeling is one of the strongest union
towns in the country.
The glass blowers of Pittsburg and the
employers are alike tired of the strike
and during the week have been in con-
ference on the subject of wages. A sat
isfactory result is looked for. -t i
The Granite Cutters union is one OF
the strongest unions in the United states
II has an aggregate membership OF 5,36O
and 5000 In bank to sustain them In
uble-individual and collective.
The girls in Maeennes' cotton factory,
at New Orleans, who make 90 cents
day, went on strike Oh "Wednesday
against going to work before daylight