The Labor enquirer., 1883-11-24
LABOR NOTES.

New England shoe factories report
business good.
A Building League is being formed al
Guelph, Canada. sr
The Trades Unionists of England mum
ber over 100000. n.
Best set of teeth So; try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block. =
The Pittsburg cigar shops are all under
the control of the Union. p,
The laundrymen of Detroit are about
to organize into society.
All the flint and chimney houses oi
Pittsburg, are running on full time.
Best set of teeth s.; try him; DIR
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
Many representative typos are advo-
eating an insurance policy in the Inter,
national Union.
New Orleans molders are crying out
against the food of workmen being
precipitated upon them. -
The organized association of wage
laborers of New York and Brooklyn
number 81 900 members.
In Milwaukee, many machinists and
iron workers are idle. Workshops are
overcrowded. Wages are low.
There area great MANY idle printers in
the city. The job business is dull, and
the papers are cutting down their forces.
Teeth extracted without pain; go to
him; DR.. drury, dentist, Opera house
block. f..
Delegates representing thirty thousand
miners.at Wigan Wales, demanded an
immediate advance of Is per cent. in
wages. a-
The labor unions in st. Louis have re-
opened their headquarters at $50 Broad
way, and have established reading
room and lyceum.
The Government stamped envelope
works at Hartford, are running thirteen
hours a day, and made over 100000
envelopes last month. & .g-
The stove foundries at Lima, Ohio,
Dunkirk, New York, Rockford, Illinois,
and st. Thomas, Ontario, have been
closed for several weeks.
Coal miners are in demand at Braid
wood, Illinois. All the mines there
have opened up, and the prospect for a
steady winters work are good.
A reduction of ten per cent has gone
into effect in. the Brunswick billiard
factory, at, Chicago. Seventy men have
been discharged for lack of work.
The worst kind of rat is the union
printer who sustsins a rat paper with
his patronage. This may sound harsh,
but we mean Just what we say.15The
Craftsman.
In the next Ohio General Assembly
there will be forty lawyers, twenty eight
farmers and nine workingmen. The re-
mainder are business men and profes-
sional politicians,
The cabinet makers, of Baltimore
Maryland, ask their craftsmen to steel
clear of that city for the present, owing
! to the dullness of trade. A number oi
men have been discharged recently.
At Roebling's and the Trenton iron
mills, at Trenton, New Jersey, the wire
drawings are idle. Cause, poor prices
The outlook is not brilliant for the win
ter and many have left for Philadelphia
and elsewhere.
After January l, 1883, the Knights ol
Labor will have permanent levy O
five cents per month in support of strikes
and lockouts. The money can only bt
used by the consent of the executive
board of the G. A..
The average pay of those employed by
the Pullman Palace Car company of De
troit, is 81 .9S per day. This includes the
wages of managers and foreman, some
of whom get $5 and $6 day. A few re
ceiye as low as so cents day. Over S0(
workingmen are employed.
The Knights of Labor will present to
congress next winter, through the chair