The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-22
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strikers places are partly filled by
negroes, but the miners are hopeful Of
ultimate success.
Three hundred and fifty miners at the
Pike Run works, near New Philadelphia,
Ohio, have struck for an advance, of 10
cents per ton for mining. They we're
receiving IS cents.
The Buffalo Truth says the building
world need not be astonished to find be-
fore long the whole carpentering and
joining trade of Buffalo working under
the cooperative system.
The machinists of New York have Or
ganized union for the purpose of rails
ing wages back to the figures prevailing
few years ago. Then they received II
and even S., now but $3.50 or s..
An item in Boston paper says bust
ness is getting dull in that city. The
wire mill continues reducing the force.
The manufacturing business is not as
good as it has been in recent years.
The Belgium government will see that
no glassblowers will be allowed to come
to America in case of strike among thS
window glass blowers who refuse to ac-
cept the prices proposed by the manu-
| facturers.
| Three new assemblies are to be added
to the order-the stock filters, heel-bur
nishers and edge-setters, all branches of
shoemaklng. This will make fifteen as
semblies of that branch of trade.-Phil-
adelphia Labor World.
The coal miners in the Akron, Ohio,
district were victorious in their demand
for an advance of 10 cents per ton, and
they are now paid 93 cents. The strike
was lnaugurated on the first of Srptem-
Der and lasted about two weeks.
At a recent meeting of the district
! convention of the Knights of Labor of
Labor of Illinois, held at Peoria, it was
determined that strong effort should
be made to carry the state legislature
and elect candidates tcr congress.
Ironworkers are enjoying a revival Of
their trade. Reports from the various
mill and factory centers are to the eftec,
that majority Of the establishments
| have started OF soon will start up. and
the prospects for' good fall trade are
encouraging.
The Clinton foundry, in Troy, New
York, have spent $3.50 900 in fighting the
| MOlderS union, in which business they
have been assisted by contributions
from all the other manufacturers in the
city. And yet the signs portend their
ultimate defeat.
The Erkert mines, in Maryland, are
stocked with miners from Belgium and
elsewhere, who have taken the places Of
striking miners. Thev are obliged to
live in hunks placed around the mines,
each bunk six feet long by three wide !;
there they sleep and eat whatever they
can catch.
Since the first Of the present month
very much needed law has gone into eff
feet in Pennsylvania, namely, the miners
protective law. 1t provides for a three
months Imprisonment in cases where
unjust weight or failure to credit the
miner for all merchantable coal gotten
out by him is proved.
The harnessmakers of st. Louis are all
at work again, lhe 10 per cent advance
having been generally conceded. The
worst firm they had to contend against
was one having 225 convicts working
for them in the pehitentiary. Will the
harnessmakers bear this in mind at the
next election "a. Louis Union.
There is no material change in the
strike among the building trades of New
York fuckers non n-Society men have
most of them struck and joined the
unions. Work on all the large jobs is
virtually at a standstill, the season is
drawing to a close and, unless the con-
tractors yield shortly, they will be un-
able to complete the work before winter.
Carpentry is reported generally dull
east and south of here, being almost pros
trated in some places. Denver carpenters
have been better employed during the
past two or three weeks than at any
time since the spring trade opened.
There appears to have been a thinning
ont of the ranks of carpenters recently,
and yet there are plenty left to supply
the demand.