The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-23
LABOR NOTES.

L
st. Louis BARRIERS are still struggling
against odds to establish a 15-cents scale.
Teeth extracted without pain !; go to him
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
Special efforts are making this season
to bring sailors into the Seamen's union:
The Buckeye and Elson glass works
at Martins Ferry are working full time.
The harness makers of Cincinnati have
won every point for. which they went
on strike.
The bill prohibiting child labor in the
factories failed to pass the Canadian par
lament. h.. .. Il
The Hamilton Labor union is fighting
the wholesale admission of Cinnamon
into Canada.
Carpenters of Baltimore, Maryland,
are receiving $3.50 per day. The city is
overrun with men.
Out of 5000 members in the Chicago
Bricklayers' union it is estimated that at
least $500 are at work.
Hartford, Connecticut, carpenters get
1925 to $2.75 per day. All members OF
the union are employed.
From 5000 to 10000 North Stafford
shire miners recently struck work against
a reduction of 10 per cent.
The Quebec ship laborers at thier re-
cent meeting passed resolution consti-
tuting eight hours DAYS labor.
The building trades in Denver are
generally pretty busy since the com
mencement of the pleasant weather.
Several mill superintendents in Taun-
ton, Massachusetts, were lately fined $40
and costs for employing children under
age.
A movement is on foot in the Knights
of Labor to celebrate the birthday of
the founder of the order, August 3.-St.
Louis Union.
Carpenters after a short strike at
Watervliet Arsenal, Utica, New York,
secured an advance of 25 cents day.
They get $3.50.
The bricklavers working on the New
Park theater building, Cleveland, struck
last week for an advance OF 70 cents,
and operations on the house are sus-
pended
The Boston Central Labor Union has
passed resolutions declaring election
days hereafter holidays and calling upon
subordinate unions to observe them as
such.
A general strike of the telegraph ope-
rators employed by the Western Union
company throughout the country is
threatened The men complain of low
wages, Sunday work without extra pay,
and a generally unfair and tyrannical
treatment.
The Furniture Workers Journal says
the furniture business in New York, as
far as custom work is concerned, has in
the last few months been the poorest
since the panic Of 1878.
At Des Moines, Iowa the coal miners
and the operators have substantially
agreed to adjust their difficultier, and the
strike is regarded as over.
A strike of the coal beavers at the
docks in Hamilton, Ontario, took place
recently for an increase of 20 cents per
ton. The bosses came to time.
The contractors of Chicago expect to
see union brlcklayers strike against non
union men earl y in July, and, conse-
quently, they are not to happy.
The shoe manufacturers and workmen
at Marblehead, Massachusetts,, are still
at outs. The bosses offered to concede
about one-half but the men were firm in
their demands
The Omaha Nail and Iron Works did
not shut down in conjunction with the
steel mills in the East, and will continue
in operation. No scale will be proposed
to the company.
There is strike at the Pennsylvania
Iron works, of Lancaster, and all de-
partments are shut down. The helpers
struck for an advance, and this forced a
general suspension.
A number of potters in East Liverpool,
Ohio, have accepted the offer of Louis
Schaeter, Of Canton, Ohio, who has do
mated the necessary land, and will erect
pottery on the cooperative plan.
Emigrants are pouring into this part
of Ontario pretty freely, bringing with
them little but poverty, wretchedness
and disease. They do not look as if they |
bad forfeited much IN leaving the old |
world, if they gain little in the new.
Hamilton Labor Union.
The outlook for the men engaged in
the mining of ore at Allentown, Penn
sylvania is not encouraging. The men
now work eleven hours underground for
81 and ten hours for seventy-fve and
eighty cents. AS many of the men nave
large families they are compelled to
accept these wages or starve,
Chinese labor is about to be introdu-
ced into Brazil. Twenty thousand in
dentured laborers are to be landed at
Rico at cost of little over 81 head
They will be paid II pence day, out of
which they will have to provide their
own food. The ultimate importation
into Brazil, of from 100000 to 100000
Chinese is anticipated.