The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-06
LABOR NOTES.

Ihe deputy Snerlf OF o1IlouceSteT CounUy,
New Jersey, called upon the national
guard of that state to be ready at any
moment to shoot down the striking glass
workers at Malaga.
1t is announced that there will be no
more Sunday work hereafter in the mills
of the Albany, and Rensselaer, Iron and
Steel company. The steel works will
shut down on Sunday morniug and re-.
sumo work on Monday night.
The following notice was posted at the
works of the Phoenix Iron company re-
Gently t..on and after January 1 pud-
ding will be s4 per ton. All other mill
and yard hands wages will be reduced Z
I per cent. 4
Progress in the science Of government
has been slow and painful, but it has
been gradually for the better, from the,
dawn of civilization down. Bosses and
factions may impede it, but they cannot
prevent its symmetrical and timely de-
MISUNDERSTANDING.
There is enough and to spare for all.
Let, then, the men and women who
make the. wealth of the land bid these
bunglers who trade upon their misery
stand back let them trust to themselves,
alone, sinking all petty jealousies. race
hatreds, and personal selfshness in the
endeavor to secure health, home COM
forts, and true freedom Herald
Laber is like perishable commodity !;
the smallest overstock is sure to lower
the market in an undue proportion.
Take away but the trifing surface and a
fair remuneration will be obtained. The
emigration of the surplus labor of
Europe will, in few years, equalize the
wages of both by lowering American
wages to the English standard.-Ex-
change.
Work has been resumed in the rail de-
partment at the Allentown rolling mill,
several departments of which were
closed recently owing to scarcity of Or
ders. The guide and bar departments
are also again in full operation, and the
list of idle employees has been largely
reduced.
The suspension ordered by the Lacka-
\ wanna Iron and Coal company has come
to an end. Work has been resumed in
the steel mill: The company have a
large amount of new orders on hand, and
hence the suspension, which was to have
lasted until January l, had to be cut
short. 1t is thought that no trouble need
be apprehended at present from the men
wages. In the early spring. however,
the steelworkers will probably demand
that their pay be restored to the rate
paid until recently.
Mr.. Graham McAdam delivered lee
ture on "Protection and Wages" before
the New York Free Trade club of New
York City. He quoted figures from the
advanced census bulletinsin proof of the
assertion that wages paid to laborers in
the United States are smaller than those
/ paid for the same kind of labor in Eng
land. Arguments in support of Mr..
McAdam's views were made by Everett
P. Wheeler. the president of the club,
and Thomas G. Shearman, the latter
steting that Mr.. Hayes, Mr. Gafland and
Mr.. Oliver, of the tariff commission,
were directly interested in certain indus
tries which the commission had fur
nished with high protection.
When the glass manufactures in South
Baltimore started work in September, a
number Of the glass blowers refused to
resume work on account of reduction
of wages. The establishment of Baker
Brothers and King & Brother resumed
work with non-union men, and Swindell
Brothers imported a number of glass
blowers from Belgium. Since the latter
began work it is charged that the old
workmen have attempted by persuasion
to prevent the imported and non-union
glass blowers from working, and seven
teen of the union men were arrested,
charged with conspiracy, and held to
bail.
The miners at Packer colliery No. 8 of
the Lehigh Valley Coal company at Shen-
andoah, Pennsylvania, Struck because
the co1liery officials refused to allow
them to be hoisted up the slope prior to