The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-20
LABOR NOTES.

is being organized at quincy oenter'
Massachusetts.
The Knights of Labor in st. Joseph,
Missouri, are growing rapidly, and now
number some hundreds.
An effort is on foot to organize the pot
tiers of the stafordshire potteries, in
England, into an assembly Of Knights of
Labor. s#e
District Assembly No! 3 Knights of
Labor, of Pittsburg, has over eighty local
assemblies and is reaching for an even
hundred. N ~
Charles D. Wind & Co. have started
to deal in railway and nachinists' sup
plies at 6l9 North Main street, st. Louis,
Missouri. P
A screw factory is to be established at
Ahston, Chenango county, New York,
Most of the necessary stock, $1,000 has
been taken.
] A cooperative enterprise has been
started by two local assemblies at Evans
vile, Indiana, as retail dealers in gen
eral merchandise.
Nail kegs of sheet iron are to be manu-
factured on large scale at Cannonsburg,
Pennsylvania. A number OF skilled
hands will be required.
The Knights of Labor in St. Louis are
rapidly increasing their numbers, and
the prospects for the order are more flat
tering than ever before.
Within radius of eight miles from
the center of Birmingham, Alabama,
6,2OO men are employed in foundries,
furnaces and machine shops.
The works of the Pottstown Iron com
pany, and the Potts Iron works, Penn
sylvania, resumed operations, January,
/. after two weeks of idleness.
The Spencer Rife company, of Hart
ford, Connecticut, will build new factory
at Windsor in the spring, on the site OF
an old cigar shop burned some time ago.
The Knights of Labor at Council
Bluffs, Iowa. have lease of their hall,
own the furniture and are decorating
the walls with appropriate symbols and
notices.
The Peoria, Illinois, Plow works have
bought site for a mammoth factory IN
the upper end of the city, which is
coming to the front as place for manu-
featuring industries.
The blast furnaces at Topton and
Kuntztown are unable to continue at
present prices Of pig iron. A reduction
of 10 cents per day has been made all
around. The Toptqn men struck, but
the others kept at work.
The Typographical union in Detroit is
gradually climbing up to its old strength
and it is only a question of time when
the Post and Tribune Office will be back
under the jurisdiction of the union, as
no stone will be left unturned to accom-
plish that desired end.
Sixty-fve bricklayers of Buffalo, New
York, organized themselves into aunion
on January 25, 1880. The wages preva-
lent were but 81 so per day. The union
has gradually grown stronger, wages
have climbed up, until now the union
numbers 62O members and the standard
of wages is s. per day. The union en-
braces nearly every bricklayer and
stonemasQn in the city. There are about
twenty-five who are not members, and
these are expected soon to join,
The Pittsburg correspondent Of Our
Organette says, Squire Robinson is max
Ing the Sunday Critic a square office.
He allows no man to pull offhis coat un-
less he can show clear card from No.
or 1880 or 23OO Knights of Labor-the
working cards of the two latter organic
ations being recognized in either book
or newspaper offices. No. 1880 is a news
paper printers assembly, and 23OO {
book and job printers assembly.
About month ago the West End Iror
company, New Jersey, closed their mines
owing to depression of trade in tht
iron and steel market. Since then th'
swayzee mine has beenrun on half time
but the Turkey Hill mine remained
closed until January 2, when the worl
ON full time was commenced in all o
the mines. One hundred men, VIII
have been lying idle for month, wer
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