The Labor enquirer., 1883-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Henry George is to lecture in Detroit
soon.
New Orleans has 10000 organized
workingmen.
The tack factories of Taunton, Massa-
chusetts, are all busy.
Pittsburg painters say the outlook for
a good season is rosy.
The lower house of the Ohio legisla-
ture has passed law prohibiting convict
Contract labor,
The Legislature of New Jersey has
passed bill compelling the stamping of
all goods made in the state penitentiary
as so manufactured.
New Jersey has passed a 4aT prohibit
ing children under IA years, who have
not been two years to school, and under
II in any case, from Workingin factories,
The Goodyear Rubber company'sshoe
shops, at NaUgatuck, Massachusetts, was
indefinitely shut down Thurday, the
fifteenth instant. Fifteen hundred
hands were thrown out.
In consequence of the summary dis
charge of Boss Benson, Of the New York
mill at Bridgeport, Maine, about $50
weavers left their looms and refuse to re-
tu.n unless Benson is reinstated.
Since 1878 the average wages of work
ingmen in the New England states have
been increased 6 9-l0 per cent, while
the average cost of the necessities of
life have increased 2l 2-1O per cent.
The large shoe factory of Martin,
Clapp & French, at Tapleyville, Massa-
chusetts, $50 by 40 feet and five stories
high, was entirely destroyed by fire. 1t
throws $50 hands out Of employment.
The total loss will probably exceed
100000.
The new wire mills at Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania, will begin operations
about the middle Of this month at the
latest, first with ninety hands, and as the
buildings are completed and machinery
put in position the force viii be increas-
ed until employment will be given to
from 25O to 300 men.
Forty employees of Pelgram & Meyers
silk mill, at Paterson, struck recently
because the firm refused to accept work
which, it is claimed, was soiled in the
weaving, without making such reduction
as would pay for cleansing it. If the re-
duction was insisted on they said they
must have better prices and this having
been refused, they quit work.
The employees of the New Jersey
Southern Railway, which is operated by
the Central Railroad Of New Jersey, are
dissatisfied with their wages, which are
below those paid to the men on the Cen
trail, and have demanded an increase of
pay for all overwork. Superintendent
Blodgett refused to grant the increase,
and the engineers and firemen threaten
to stop work. If the men strike thew
will probably be prosecuted for con-
spiracy.
The Buffalo Sunday Truth publishes
the entire speech of Grand Master
Workman Powderly, delivered in
Buffalo, on Wednesday, January II, and
It contains some remarkably solid sense.
as we'll as many eloquent passages. He
tells US that the order has been estab-
lished in England, Wales, Ireland and
Mexico, and infers that its spread in
Europe will be-rapid. He reported it to
be in a very fourishing condition, with
an astonishing boom" in the formation
of assemblies, showing an unbr3ken
chain from the Atlantic to the Pac;fc
anu from quebec TO Durango. 1t is very
clear to us that before this wear has
passed, Germany, France Belgium and
nollano Will oe In line with us, as the
ptinclples OF tne knights of Labor meet
/ win great favor among them. May God
speed tne good work along Labor
Herald. En