The Labor enquirer., 1883-11-17
. LABOR NOTES.

The building trades are not very busy
in this city at present
Best set of teeth IS: try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
The strike of the chain-makers at
Akron, Ohio, still continues.
Best set of teeth s: try him ; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
Plasterers are asked to keep away from
Toronto, as there is strike going on
there.
A fire at Shenandoah, Pennsylvania,
on the twelfth instant threw 800 families
out of homes.
Teeth extracted without pain; go to him;
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
Tailoring is picking up little for the
fall and winter trade There are plenty
of workmen here, however, at present.
A compromise has been arranged with
striking miners in East Tennessee,
and the men have returned to their
work.
John Roach, a prominent telegraph
operator and striker of Ohio, who was
black k-listed, has been elected to the legls-
lature.
The Rio Grande carpenter shops, in
this city, have closed for the time being.
There is nothing to do in that depart
ment at present.
The miners along the line of the Shen-
ange and Allegheny railroad, in Butler
and Mercer counties, Pennsylvania, have
gone to work at the reduction
The engineers and machinists en-
ployed on the British Columbia portion
of the Canadian Pacific railway are on
strike against employing Chinese.
Thirty laborers were injured by the
ditching of a work train on the West
Shore railroad, near Rochester, on Tues
day. Only one was seriously injured.
Sam. L. Lefingwell is working on the
Cincinnati Enquirer. He says there is
more money in handling type than
lingering the keys of Our organette.
The entire force of spinners Of the
Weybossett Woolen mill, of Providence,
Rhode Island, struck for higher pay
Wednesday morning and left the mill In
q body.
The printing house of Culver, Page,
Hoyne & Co., of Chicago. which recently
closed its doors, was rated" not long
since. Cheap" labor is sometimes the
dearest. .a#
A reduction of $40 per month has been
ordered in the pay of the hnemen who
remained with the Western Union dur
ing the strike. The strikers are not ef-
fected by this order.
The bricklayers' unions are fourishing
all over the United States. There are
now sixty-nine unions, with total
membership of over r. 900. Charleston, !,
South Carolina, will organize a brick
LAYERS union shortly.
All the white men, including earpen-
tiers, blacksmiths, engineers, etc., are on
strike at Wellington mines, D. u
because of the employment by the COM
pany of Chinese miners. Il
ftis charged that the striking employees
of the Panama railway ditched train on
that line one day this week. The fish
plates were removed for some little dis
tance but the rails were not disturbed
. II is also said the strikers fired into the
train, No one was seriously injured.
Over 800 switchmen lately on strike
in the vicinity of st. Louis, have been
"black- listed" by the railroad companies
The names have been sent to all the
yardmasters, with orders not to employ
them under any circumstances.
The strike of the miners near Rey'
noldsville, Pennsylvania, is in the same
condition as for the past two months
No one is working. The operators expect
to starve the men into submission.
The Baugh Steam Forge company, De,
troit, Michigan, are running their bar.
guide and puddle mills single turn, and
their axle department night and day
with an output of 100 axles per diem.
It is said there are now twenty-five
monthly journals in this country pub
hshed directly by trades unions. There
are upwards of sixty-five weeklies ano
four dailies in the interest of labor. The
Light is spreading