The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-27
CIGARMAKERS.


CIGA2MAKERs.
Trade is fair in Philadelphia.
Trade is poor in New York City.
There is strike against reduction OF
wages in Lanesville, Ohio.
The cigarmakers a6 the shops Of Het-
teman Brothers, Louisville, Kentucky,
are on a strike against reduction.
The Cigarmakers Union of Nashville,
Tennessee, recently passed a resolution
imposing fine of $25 upon members of
their union who peddle cigars for an
employer.
Trade is very dull at Buffalo, New
York, Baltimore, Maryland, Bingham
ton, New York, Toledo. Ohio, Evans
vile, Indiana, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Hornellsville, New York, Omaha, Ne
braska, Maysville, Kentucky, and De-
troit, Michigan.
Lorillard & Company, the tobacco
manufacturers who were boYcotted for
submitting their workers to sIavish con-
tracts and improper searching, presented
each employe Christmas present of a
weeks wages. 1t cost the firm S15,000-
but that will never wipe out the stain of
their former ofenses.
MINERS.
Trade in districts around Scranton is
generally fair.
The coal fields Of Arizona are estimated
to cover over 10000 square miles.
No. 3 drift, at Arnot, Pennsylvania,
employs over 400 men, and fifty mules
are required to bring out the product.
We learn that the miners recently on
strike at Des Moines, Iowa, have re-
sumed work, but on what conditions we
are not informed.
The bore at Ebervale, Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania, has reached a depth Of
415 feet, but without developing any
important additional coal seams.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal COM
pany's mines at SalinevilIe are doing
comparatively nothing just now One
new shaft is the only one running full
time.
The daily output of coal mines at
Walsenberg, Huerfano county, Colorado,
is about 400 tons Most Of this coal is
used by the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road
An assembly of the Knights of Labor
was last week organized at Coal Creek,
Fremont county, Colorado. 1t is COM
posed entirely Of miners, and promises
to be one Of the largest in the west.
During the year just closed, in England,
there were reported twentyeight mining
explosions, fifteen of which were fatal,
the number of deaths reaching 241, ex-
actly the average for the past thiyty-two
years.
\ correspondent at Cannelburg, In
diana, says: "The miners of this place
are still out, with good prospects. A
great many Of the non-union men are
quitting and wanting to join our order.
They have been working by the day"
The colored miners of the Silver Creek
district, in Ohio, at a meeting held on
the evening of January II, refused to
JON in the movement to resist the pro-
posed reduction of wages. This action
causes great excitement among the white
miners.
The recent miners meeting at Corning,
Ohio, was a large one, about 700 being
present 1t was unanimously agreed not
to accept the proffered price of 70 cents
per ton, but they will go in at 80 cents,
and take their chances for getting steady
work.
A meeting of the Knights of Labor
composed only of miners, was held in
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, recently
The question of increased wages was
discussed, and the Knights will make a
demand for scale of wages as fixed by
them and based upon the present prices
of coal.
GLAsswoRKERs.
The French Window Glass company
of Missouri, are running regularly.
! The glass works at North Wheeling,
West Virginia, are in full operation.
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