The Labor enquirer., 1883-12-01

Printing is dull at Pittsburg. f.,
There are great many idle shoemakers in
St Louis. { : E''
Ransom's foundry, at Albany, New York,
is closed to all union men.
Myers foundry, at Cleveland, OHIO, is
closed against all union men. Is. ...-.
Trade is fair on bench, stove and machi-
merry jobs in Detroit, Michigan.
Best set of teeth s.; try him; DIR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block. 4
The foundries of Akron, Ohio, are all
oversupplied with men at present H.
Best set of teeth r$s; try him; DR..
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
A gang of seventy men is soon to begin
work on the new Vanderbilt family mauso-
leum, Staten Island.
The men employed at Warmers pit, near
Wheeling have resolved not to accept re-
duction to t@o cents per bushel. .-.
The Cigarmakers' Union, at Cincinnati,
have resolved to work only when tight
enough, as they will not pay for gas.
In New South Wales, Australia, an en-
ployers' liability act has been passed and
also law to legalize trades unions.
According to John Swinton's Paper there
are 100, 900 women in the city of New York
who are struggling to maintain their lives.
The Printers Union, of Philadelphia, in
tends shortly to measure its strength with
the non-union newspaper offices of that city.
The Washington mills, at Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts, have discharged sixty weavers,
stopping over $50 looms for an indefnite pc
riod. III S.s.s. s,t4Esi-
The cotton mills of Canada have shut
down on account of oyer-production. The
number of hands thrown out of employment
is over two thousand. r
=, A Warsaw, Indiana, special says Lesh &
] Co.'s rim and banding factory burned Tues
day. Seventy men are thrown out of work.
: Loss, s75, 5000; insurance, $4,000. ...'
In Cincinnati the printing business is dull
in the book and job rooms, and the newspa-
per offices are full of "subs." Only those
with working-cards stand any show.
A large number of new window glass fac
tories are being erected in different parts OF
the country, and it is thought when the lock-
out is ended there will be scarcity of glass
workers.
A new phase of the glass strike in Pitts
burg is circular issued by the bottle workers
to the fleet that druggists and patent med
icine dealers using bottles without the union
seal would be boycotted.
A number of railroad laborers are on
strike at New Orleans to enforce the rule
that only the members of the Freight Hand
lers' Association shall be employed, or that
they shall be given the preference. Some OF
the railroads refuse this demand.
The employers in the shoemaking indus
try of St Louis will submit the iron-clad for
signature to all applicants for work In the
future. And yet there are foolish working
men in this country who are deluded with
the idea that this is ''freeman's country"
The cigar manufacturers last Friday met
and in response to demand from the Cigar
makers Union for the discharge of non-union
men, resolved ia discharge any union men
who refused to work in the shop with the
non-union men who received regular wages.
There are number of large silk manufae-
turers on Union Hill and West Hoboken, New
Jersey, which employ in the aggregate four
thousand hands. Owing TO gloomy prospects
for the winter they have reduced their run
ming time one-third, and further reduction
is expected. .EG.'
In answer to our query as to what had De-
come of the cooperative pottery scheme at
Canton our correspondent writes, ''the COM
mittee that went from Canton to East Liver
pool to investigate, saw the boss potters, sold
out, came home and kept their mouths shut" )"
Labor Herald.
The men in Gedney's carpenter shop, New
York, about forty in number, struck last
week against the employment of non-union
men. The men were out three hours, when
they were informed that the non-union men
had been discharged, and Immediately they
rstur ned to work.