The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-15

all went to work at the advance except
the workers in three small shops.
The Cherry Valley Iron company. o.
Leetonia, employ 700 men at their fur
naces, rolling mills, ore and coal mines
and coke ovens. They have 140 ovens
and produce 120 tons of coke per dey.
The carpenters of Charleston, South
Carolina, are organizing union, and
propose making demand for a uniform
price of So per day. Some of them have
been working for only 81 1.5O day. Work
lis brisk.
The tenth annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemer
will be held in Denver next week. The
meetings will be held in the city hall
The opening exercises will occur or
Tuesday morning.
The drivers on the Metropolitan lines
of street railway, Washington, D. c..
struck on Sunday last, and all travel or
those lines was suspended. The com
pany discharged five men and the Others
struck to reinstate them.
General Secretary Layton has issued a
circular to the secretaries Of the locals
warning them against indiscriminately
talking with reporters, as interviews with
labor leaders have become numerous
and not few have been so distorted as
to cause more trouble than good
There are thirty-three local assemblies
in Philadelphia. The oldest is the Gar
mentcutters No. /. This was the first in
the order, It having the honor to claim
as its leader and master workman
Uriah S. Stephens, Several of the
original six that founded the order are
still in working harness.
The men at the Churchill mine, near
Massillon, Ohio, have abandoned their
strike and gone back at the old rate.
The discomfort continues, however, and
another meeting of miners was called.
Some concessions were made by the
companies, and it is said no further
steps will be taken at present to receive
higher pay.
The harnessmakers Of St. Louis are
still on strike against the firms who re-
fused the advance asked. The man lave
been making 50 and $40 per week, and
asked for 10 per cent increase. The
strikers are at disadvantage. One firm
has 225 convicts at work in the state
penitentiary, at 40 cents a day, and
they can't strike.
In regard to the obligation exacted of
the returning strikers by the Western
Union, one man said to a reporter: We
signed the paper on compulsion, the al
tentative being to sign or starVe. | would
sign such documents until | was stricken
with scrivener's paralysis, and 20 on
strike again the next morning, should
the brotherhood order it."
The annual report of the trades
unions of Great Britain, issued from
Birmingham, September II, speak very
favOrably of similar congresses had in
the United States, whose purposes and
methods are the same as those Of the
English congress. There has been an
exchange of letters and reports upon the
objects of organization between English
and American societies.
There are rumOrs Of an impending
strike& among the employees of central
shops of the Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway company, at Milwaukee. There
are over four thousand men employed
there, and the trouble is caused by the
threatened discharge Of large number
of the force for reasons which are not
stated clearly, but which the entire
force consider Just cause for resentment,
and if it is persisted in a strike is pos
sibe.
The striking printers of San Francisco
are in the best of spirits. They are not
wavering the least in any part, but are
daily gaining strength. Public meetings
expressing sympathy, and entertain
ments for the purpose Of raising funds
are frequent, and, what is better still, a
thorough system Of boycotting is being
employed against the subscription and
advertising patronage of the Bulletin
and the Call.
An associated press dispatch dated at
Chicago, September II, says: ut is stated
that members of the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Iron and Steel Workers EN-,
ploved in the steel rail mills at South
Chicago sore time since asked for the
substitution of tonnage payment for the
DAYS wages system, has been author
lied by the association to treat with the
company for return to work at the
companv's terms, and that most of the
strikers want to 90 to work. 1t is stated
on behalf of the company, however
that the drmand for rails is light and at
present there is no immediate prospect
that the fires will be lighted"
Reunion.
Mr., Charles Belmont, of the Albion
botal bod q GRAND reunion of English.