The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-20
LABOR NOTES.


st. Louis tailors are all at work at
present.
Jobbing carpentry in New York and
Brooklyn is good.
The Leadvil tailors were victorious in
their recent strike.
Best set of teeth S8: try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
The stove foundry at Schenectady, N.
Y has closed, and many moders are
out.
There is great demand for mech anics
of various classes in Montana this sea-
son.
Five thousand miners in Lanarkshire,
Scotland, have struck for an advan ce of
wages.
ANY tobacco bearing the mark Factory
No. |, 2Sth District, New York" is Kim
balls goods.
The National Tailor Association have
elected Robert Crow President, and
Charles Sparks Secretary.
In the Nelson coal pit, at Leigh, Eng
land, six miners were killed in the cage
by the breaking of a rope.
There is a lockout at Columbus, OH o,
and cigarmakers are asked to give that
city wide berth at present.
There is a rumor that the Baltimore
Evening News and Morning Herald are
about to become Union offices.
The Chicago building trades are about
to unite like those of New York. AN
injury to one is the concern OF all.
Fifteen thousand steel and iron work
ers of Glamorganshire, Eng gland, have
struck against reduction of wages.
The bottle blowers threaten to petition
Congress for reduction OF the tarlH on
bottles unless their wages are raised.
Cigar trade is first-rate in all the prin-
cipal cities, excepting Chicago. There
are $50 idle cigarmakers in that city.
The workmen in the glass factory at
New Bedford, Massachusetts,, have gained
their strike point and are now at work.
Teeth extracted without pain go 70 him;
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
About two hundred men were thrown
out of employment by the destruction OF
the H. and St. Joe car shops at Hannibal,
Mo.
The Rochester Truth deyotes two en-
tire columns to the sentence: contract
Convict Labor Must Go" set in large
type.
MANY machinists and ironworkers are
idle in Milwaukee, and factories and
workshops are overcrewded. Wages are
low in consequence.
Carpenters wages in Buffalo, New
York, have fallen to 81 per day since the
men have become so indifferent as to
neglect their union.
The strike of Cincinnati sausagemak'
ers is not vet ended, as has been re-
ported. Two factories still refuse to con-
cede to the demands of the workmen.
Best set of teeth s: try him DR.. Drury
dentist Opera House block!
The miners at Pratt mines, Alabama
demanded an increase of pay from forty
five to fifty cents per ton, which was &C
ceded by the company without discus
sion.
The leading brickmakers along the
Hudson river are about to suspend oper
atoms for the season. The season Of ~
has not proved so profitable as that ol
'S2 on account of over-productlon.
The Baltimore carpenters have sys
tenn which compels all men applying on
a lob for work to show their clear cards
and the man who is unable to show W
finds himself discounted at every turn.
Is The strike of the coalminers in Clay
county, Indiana, has been ended by the
agreement of the operators to increast
the pay from IS cents to 81 per ton: AL
the mines in the Brazil district will re
sumo.
The Knights of Labor at East Saginaw
Michigan, have made rates with one o
the butchers of that city for meat. The.
get reduction of four cents per pouh'
for best cuts, by showing membership
- card. The proprietor has had to hir'
three extra men to do the business.
A strike of the "roughers" at tn
little Rolling Mill in East St. Louis ha
been going on since the first The strik
seems to be confined to non-union mer