The Labor enquirer., 1883-08-11
LABOR NOTES.

Buffalo CelephOnlSIS are JolulAS tno
Brotherhood.
: Best set Of teeth So: try him: DR.. Drury
dentist, Opera House block. 1~
Suits for damages are piling up against
the Western Union. H., -
Best set of teeth S s: try him DIR. Drury
dentist, Opera House block. - 3
"a The Brotherhood Of Telegraphers pay
their members on regular pay days
during strike. " =.
I s. Upwards of 5000 men were in line on
the occasion of the labor demonstration
at Toronto, July 81. .Et5 H.
Nearly every town of any consequence
in the country has donated to the aid OF
the striking telegraphers. r. l.}=
The Union rolling mills, of Cleveland,
Ohio, is still idle Work will not be re-
\ sumed for several weeks.
The Chicago Typographical Union
voted 81 900 per week to the Telegraph
ers' Brotherhood during the continuance
of their strike. s5
& Pueblo Typographical Union No. IT'S,
at last Sundays meeting, adopted reso-
3 lutions of sympathy with The telegraph
ers, and appropriated $25.
San Francisco printers union initiated
- 120 members one day last week, not
withstanding the refusal of the Bulletin
and the Call to recognize that body.
When the boys went back to the
American Rapid they found cards con-
tanning the telegraph alphabet on each
desk, where learners had been trying to
work.
The coopers' strike at St. Louis ended
in complete victory for the men. All
the factories acceded to the demands of
the workmen, and all are again running
full-handed.
The Evansville, Wisconsin, tack fac
tory will turn out its first tack in few
weeks. One of the live citizens has con-
tracted for the first ounce made, for
which he pays IS.
The restaurant walters in st. Louis
went on strike against reduction from
So to 81 week. Some proprietors gave
in to the men, while others run in ne
groes to take the strikers places.
St. Louis Typographical Union voted
$500 to the telegraph strikers at their
last meeting and it was also decided
that each member would pay an assess
ment of 81 per week if necessary.
The Western Nail association met in
Pittsburg on the seventh instant and
ordered a general resumption of the
mills for four weeks from next Monday.
The suspension of the past four weeks
} has greatly diminished stocks.
Nugent Brothers, of Newark, New
: Jersey, still refuse to discharge Reilly,
the non-union man with whom fifty men
refused to work, and on whose account
they struck. The strikers refuse to work
if he is to remain in the shop in any
capacity whatever.
A strike seems unavoidable by the
coal miners of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl-
vania. The workmen in several depart
ments complain of injustice in the
matter of weight and hours of labor,
and on Wednesday presented a bill of
grievances to the officials.
The New York cigarmakers difficulty,
which was reported settled last week,
seems to have broken out fresh. There
are great many stories in circulation
as to the causes of this trouble, but at
this long range it looks little like the
Progressive Union" is off color.
A strike among laborers on the sewers
in Washington, D. c., took place Mon
day. Over 200 men took part in the
strike They organized and formed for
the purpose of visiting places where
large numbers of laborers were at work,
but the police interfered and the men
were forced to disperse,
At meeting of Socialist workmen in
Geneva, july 20, violent speeches were
made, summoning the state to provide
employment for workmen. The assem-
bly, afterwards proceeded to the town
hall, but the officials refused to receive
deputation, whereupon the leader of
the procession unfurled red flag.
The molders at VOLTS shop, Syracuse,
New York. all are out. The firm have
been docking their men for months for
so-called defective work. AS the men
were never permitted to see the con-
demned pieces, but were charged what
ever the firm saw fit, the union thought
it about time to call halt, and did so.
Carpenters Union No. 6, of st. Louis,
has withdrawn from the Trades Assem-
bly, and also from the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners. 1t is said Nos.
II and "A will soon do likewise. They
claim that their affairs are more imme-
diately under their control as local Or
ganization, and that they were more
prosperous while outside the Brother
hood. The per capita tax seems to figure
little in the case.