The Labor enquirer., 1883-07-28

The DOX-makerS or New YORK nave
/ decided to ask for an increase of 20 per
cent on August 1.
Union No. PA, of Detroit has been
suspended from the Iron Molders' Union
of North America.
E.. About fifty longshoremen at Brooklyn,
New York, struck last week for an in
crease of cents an hour.
The carpenters at Louisville are said
to be very poorly organized. Those OF
Denver are worse than that.
The engine-wipers employed by the
railroad at Reading, Pennsylvania, have
been reduced to 81 per day.
A hundred negroes have arrived at the
White Breast coal mines, at Cleveland,
Iowa, to take the places of the strikers.
Rats control the printing business in
Montreal The printers of the Star and
Telegram have been beaten in their late
strike.
The Crystal Plate glass works,of ST..
Louis, owing to the unprecedented de-
mand for glass, will continue to run all
summer.
Arrangements are being made for a
grand labor demonstration on the third
of August, at the Crystal Palace grounds,
Hamilton, Ontario.
The printers of Springfield, Illinois,
are raising fund of $4,000 to start a
paper in opposition" to the Journal of
that city, which has been rated.
1t is charged that the Journeyman
Builder is printed in rat office. If the
report is true, little boycotting will
have to be dished up to the j. B.
Trackmen on the Staten Island rail
road have had their wages increased to
$1.25 per day from $l.l5, and employees
who have been paid $35 per month now
receive $40.
The Labor Herald is making a strong
fight for the establishment of free
park and free baths in Pittsburg. 1t is
rather pointed in recent editorials on
the subject.
There are fifteen coal mines on the
Knoxville and Ohio railroad, between
Knoxville and the state line, and there
is daily average receipt Of sixty car
loads in that city.
A correspondent of Our Organette
writing from Austin, Texas, states that
the Knights of Labor are growing rap
idly in, that place, and the carpenters
have lately organized union.
The Knights of Labor of Buffalo, New
York, are making a success of co-opera-
ton scheme in coal. They furnish 1000
pounds for ton, and sell it at $l.l0 per
ton less than the schedule market price.
Over one hundred members of Indian
apolis Typographical union No. l have
never paid a single cent for the pleasure
of reading Our Organette- most of
them have read it, all the same.-Our
Organette;
About sixty members of the Detroit
typographical union, having failed to be
present at one meeting during the pres
ent quarter. viii have to pay 25 cents
more for dues than those who were
present.-Spectator.
The nail makers of Pennsylvania
gained their fight for reduction of
working hours to ten day, and the
Western Nail association has author
lied a stoppage of the machines for one
month to restrict production.
At the inquest of the union molders
shot by scabs in Troy, New York, Will
lam Sleicher, proprietor of the Malleable
iron works, refused to testify, because it
would criminate himself. Sleicher is the
. man who offered SIS to SIS for every union
molder shot.
The Trades Union Congress of Eng
land, which will meet in September, will
adopt resolutions looking to more dis
tinct political action. They want to see
better legislation on behalf of the labor
ing classes and Limitation on the rights
of landlords.
All the printers in Denver have been
busy during the past week, and subs
have been in demand, with the supply
not half equal. Three morning papers,
of sixteen pages each, require big force
of compositors. There will be a few too
many after this week.
The plasterers of this city complain of
dull times. They say the buildings do
not 90 up fast enough to keep one-halt
of them busy. The principal trouble
lies in the fact that the plasterers have
no organization here; which would regu-
late, to a great extent, the supply OF
workmen.
The editor of the British Medical
Journal has made tour OF inspection
in Donegal, Ireland, as physician, and
found 1900 people living on 2 cents
worth of Indian meal each day, the
money having been sent from the United
States and being distributed by the
parish priest. LII ,,
The stonecutters have been little
disappointed at the condition OF thelr
trade in this city this summer, there not
being the demand for workmen which
was anticipated early in the spring This
Is principally due to the delav in begin