The Labor enquirer., 1883-04-28
LABOR NOTES.

The mOlderS OF Cleveland, nave SUI IuCh ull
the Cooperative Stove company.
Best set of teeth So: try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
Twenty-Five hundred cabmen, at Berlin,
struck Tuesday for an increase OF wages.
Teeth extracted without pain; 60 to him;
DR.. Drury dentist, Opera House block
Denver will soon have glass works in full
blast The premises are nearly ready for Oc-
CupanCy.
Our latest advices are to the effect that the
charter for the BarberS' union has not yet
been received.
The wOrkingmen of Berlin are organizing
and preparing for general strike for an III
crease OF wages.
The foundry business is unusually dull
throughout the United States, and prospects
are anything but good.
hethreatened strike of ctgarmakers at
Louisville was aVerted by the manufacturers
acceding to the demands of the men.
Eight hundred cigarmakers and 200 packers
and.suippprS If New York. .naugIrated a
strike MOn,Hly. Both sides are defiant.
Tine rigarm0Errs OF Portland, Maine, are
Stuk,nr for -, per 1000 advance. The
manufacturers propose to substitute girls
The situation ~ <DringticId Illinois, is un-
changed. Nom-uDn men are in the mills,
~
And now news comes that attempts are
being made to suppress the Clevland Mes
Senger, and this in a land Of free press and
free speech.
The cigarmakerS of St. Noe, Missouri,
struck Tuesday for ten cents per 1000 in
crease. This was promptly granted, and
work proceeded.
Between 200 and 300 cowboys ON ranches |
in the Pan Handle district Texas, are on Il
strike. The militia are on the ground 'tO |
preserve order"
The strike Of the Spanish and Cuban cigar
makers in New York for an advance of wages |
became universal Tuesday, the men in all |
the shops leaving oft work,
The National Federation of Labor Unions |
of Washington City has passed resolutions |
indOrSing the action Of the striking painters /
of that city, and pledging aid.
The marble cutters Of Philadelphia have
asked an increase of pay from 81. 50 to 50 |
day. and in addition demand a reduction in .
the hours OF labor from ten to nine.
Two hundred army bakers will take the
places of the striking city bakers at Vienna !
The strike Is extending to other trades. A |
man distributing pamphlets melting working .
men to strike was arrested.
Information from Mt. Pleasant, PennSyI- .
SyIvania, is to the effect that the Alice mine
is running. At LemOnt water in the pit has
caused a suspension. The Standard is run
ming 80 ovens. MOreWOOd has started with
all her ovens.
A new rolling mill is in course of construc-
ton at Toledo, O., by a company known as
the MaumRe Rolling Mill Co. In Detroit,
Mich, the machinery business is a little dull. |
All Of the fOunderieS in BrentfOUI, Ontario,
are running full time.
Reports from the PahandIe Texas, say the
star range OF Tunter X Munter and that Of
SanbOm, were burned by the striking COW
boys on the sixteenth. 1t is reported that
the strikers are out of money and willing to |
return to work at former wages
4 New England manufacturer, with one
hundred and twenty hands employed, in
creased his foEce by twenty new hands from
Sweden. Last Saturday sixty of the old
hands were discharged and 10 per cent re-
duction was ordered to take place at once.
Peter Osey, aged 50, was killed while en-
gagged in timbering up the Veto mine Shaft
in Gibson guIch, near Central, Tuesday
morning. The walls cayed in upon him with
out a moments warning. Patrick Collins,
who was assisting in the work, barely es-
capped.
The union shops at Milwaukee have re-
solved to grant the CigarmakGrS an advance
Of 81, after May l. and there will be no
strike. These shops, however, embrace all
the small factories, to the exclusion Of large
concerns, and trouble is feared in such
places.
The brcklayerS Of Dallas Texas have
struck for an increase of wages from 81 to
s. per day. The contractors, owing to a
pressure of work, have conceded the de-
mand. The carpenters have also demanded
an advance from S2.jo to $" which has also
been agreed to-
Several cigarnakers of the Boston CO.
operative factory waited on their employers
recently demanding an increase of 81 a
thousand, and being refused quit work. The
Boston CigaT-makerS will cooperate with
the Il, 600 Of their craftsmen throughout the
country in the proposed general strike.
A law will come into operation May l,
throughout Russia regulating the employ
ment Of MINORS in factories, Children under
y are not to he employed undeTany pretence,
while from - to II they must not be allowed
to work during more than eight hours. In
the latter case. moreover they must attend
school at least three hours a day.
Fhp union printers of GAINESVILLE. Ohio,
have been locked out Of the offices Of the
Daily Times and Weekly Visitor, and have
issued a circular appealing to their fellow
wOrkingmpm to withhold their support from
these Sheets. They have the Endorsement .
of CigarmakeTS' union No. l13, and l.. A. .
3,44, of GAINESVILLE, who promise not only |
their sympathy, but financial support.
Work has been resumed on the larger .
buildings now in course OF construction in .
Chicago and master masOnS assert that they
now have all the brick-laying help they re-
Quire In view Of the large arrival of
Canadians during the past two days, officers
of the BTiCkIayerS union assert that they .
are receiving great deal Of outside aid and
that the contractors will be compelled to
accede to their demands.
The convention of railroad coal miners at
Pittsburg, have decided to strike May /, .
against a reduction of half a cent. About
twO-thirdS of the pits were represented, and
committees were appointed to visit the
mines where men were working for three