The Labor enquirer., 1883-02-10
LABOR ITEMS.

dentist, Opera mouse DlocR.
Around Scranton, Pennsylvania, trade
is fair, though not so fair as it was yeal
ago.
During the last year 400 miners were
killed and 1900 injured in the coal pits
of Pennsylvania.
1t is reported that the. coal miners in
Tusearawas valley, Cleveland, Ohio, have
agreed to accept the terms of the opera
tors. '... !
The miners at Kate's Rock coal works
near Moundsville, West Virginia, struck
for 81 cents, but went to work at % after
being out few days.
A coal operator who jprides himself as
being some authority on figures says rail-
road pits produce. 20 per cent more coal
in a year than river pits. -
+ The number of fatal accidents that
occurred in the First Bituminous Coal
district of Pennsylvania for 1881, was
twenty.three not fatal, forty-three.
The miners of Martin Ferry, Ohio,
have accepted reduction of one-fourth
cent per bushel, and Rainey's miners
there have been reduced 10 cents per
ton.
The miners at Brooks coal works, at
Moundsville, West Virginia, struck for
an advance of l cent per bushel for min
ing and got it. They are getting 81 cents
per bushel.
Both the large mines of the Wheeling
Creek Coal company, on the line of the
Tuscarawas Valley, Cleveland & Wheel
ing running tull time and putting out a
large amount of coal.
The Conowingo ore mines, near Car
margo, Eden township, Lancaster county
Pennsylvania, will be re-opened. New
works are to be built as soon as test of
the quantity of the ore remaining in the
mine is made.
The house coal miners at Johnstow n
Pennsylvania, were notified by the. ope-
rators of a reduction of 20 per cent, to
60 into effect Immediately, but held a
meeting to talk the matter over recently,
and refused to accept it. David Bee pre-
sided, with David James as secretary.
The average wages were about $1.75 per
day.
All the collieries in the Skuylkill,
Luzerne and Northumberland regions
suspended work recently. 1t is thought
there will be further suspensions ar
ranged by the Coal exchange, so as to
work off the large supply of coal on
hand without reducing the present
prices. The suspension of three days
week will probably continue until the
latter part of March
GLAsswoRKERs.
The Bellaire window glass works are
doing we'll.
TheEast Liverpool, Ohio, works have
again started work.
Trade continues fair in Brooklyn and
Williamsburgh, New York.
Best set teeth So; try him DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera house block.
The Mississippi glass works at St.
Louis, after stoppage OF eight weeks,
will open up again on Monday.
The Elson glass works caught fire a
few days ago from cinders, but it was
extinguished with little damage.
Hobbs, Brockunier & company's glass
works, at Wheeling, West Verginia, is
expected to start up again next week.
The glassworkers of Baltimore held
an indignation meeting few days ago,
to protest against the importation of
foreign labor.
A Pittsburgh correspondent reports
the state of trade there is good, with
very good prospects. The glass bottle
and tumbler shops are generally good.
Four glassblowing firms at Manchester,
New Jersey, have acceded 20 the de-
mands of their workmen, and the works,
after being closed down several months,
have resumed operations
The glassblowers working in the bottle
factories of Pittsburg have been mott
fed by employers, in view of the dull
trade, of reduction of 10 per cent to be
made in wages. The men will oppose
the reduction, and strike is likely to be
the result