The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-27
LABOR NOTES.

The coal mines of Alabama are doing
well.
The building trades are all reported as
being busy.
Best set of teeth S8: try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist Opera House block.
1t is said that the Cigarmakers' Inter
national union is to be incorporated.
The Pittsburg plumbers have sue
ceeded in their demand for $3.50 a day.
Best set of teeth 5 s: try him DIR. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
Molders may as well stay away from
Erie, Pennsylvania, as trade is very bad
there Just now.
Cotton operatives expect to be tempo
rarily thrown out of employment on ac-
count of production.
A Montreal glass blower was recently
fined $50 and sent to Jail for thirty days
for quitting work without leave.
The trouble at Youngstown, Ohio, is
settled, the company Withdrawing their
demand for ten per cent reduction.
Teeth extracted without pain; go to him;
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
A labor congress from all parts of the
Dominion is to be held in Toronto next
December, 10 discuss proposed leglsla-
ton.
The picture-frame makers of New York
petition for an advance of wages and
threaten to strike if such advance Is not
made.
Ten cotton factories and nine gold
mines are in operation within a radius
of thirty miles of Charlotte, North Car
Olina.
The new general secretary of the
Knights of Labor is Frederick Turner,
lock drawer II, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
ysnia.
A thousand employees are idle in the
Reading companys coal mines on ac-
count of the strike of boys in the differ
ent shafts.
Delegates representing thirty thousand
miners at Wigan, Wales, have demanoed
an immediate advance OF fltteen per
cent IN wages.
Batavia, New York, is overrun with
idle molders. Trouble is expected as a
consequence. Less hours work will give
work to more men.
The trouble in Hart & Co.'s shop, in
Utica, New York, is over, as the company
withdrew their demand for reduction
of ten per cent. Sensible.
The knights of Laboref Washington,
District of Columbia, are ahead again.
The street railroad company have rem
stated all the discharged men. GOOD!
Late heavy rains have given sufficient
water power to the mills of Manchester,
New Hampshire, that they are now run,
ming. They had been idle for several
weeks.
The yardmen employed on the Mis-
souri, Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads
at Dallas, have struck for an advance IN
wages. A large number of trains have
been abandoned.
The annual convention of the National
Carriage Builders association began at
New Haven, Connecticut, on Wednes-
day. Four hundred members were pres
ent from the various states.
Warwick, the boss scab miner, who
ran for ieutenant-governor on the dem
ocratic ticket in Ohio, has been defeated
by the workingmen notwithstanding tne
silver tone defense of Martin A. Foran'
Some ninety employees ofthe new cap,
itol at Albany, New York, were LAID on
the first of the week. The great MAJOR
ity of them were helpers and laborers
for whom the superintendent said be
had no room. ~
The Knights of Labor Of Bay City,
Alpena and Muskegon, Michigan are
publishing the names of dealers who
handle Kimball's tobacco; result, Kim
ball 4 Co. are selling no goods in North
ern Michigan. & :
Queensland is importing Chinese cool
les to work the sugar plantations: a
planter recently went to Hong Kong
with commission to engage thousane
coolies. A capitation tax of $50 has te
be paid on their arrival '.s .,.
On Saturday evening last we inter
viewed VIM. II. Eldredge, of Romeo
Michigan, who had been working a
Henry Giford's camp on the Aux Gre'