The Labor enquirer., 1883-12-29
LABOR NOTES.


Drury, dentist, Opera house block. [
The Knights of Labor haye settled the
shoemakers' strike in Philadelphia.
Z Best set of teeth SS: try him; DIR
Drury, dentist, Opera house block. 7
In Milwaukee many machinists and
iron workers are idle. Workshops are
overcrowded. Wages are low.
! The strike of the molders of OshaWa,
Ontario, still continues. They complain
that their work is being made in the
states. -.s
One hundred and eighty men were
discharged from the Albany. New York
capital last week The major portion
being masons, stonecutters and helpers
Teeth extracted without pain; 60 to
him; DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera house
block. " - +
The striking spinners of John Blood
& Co.'s mill, Philadelphia, have gone
back to work at the old prices; the
proposed reduction having been with
drawn.
Work continues dull in great number
of trades in Cincinnati, but it is thought
the first of the new year will bring &C
tivity in many branches of industry that
are now stagnant
The Knights of Labor are very strong
in Akron, Ohio, there being five assem-.
blies in that city alone. The county and
city roll up a membership of over 1000,
and still increasing.
There are six printer local assemblies
in New York and vicinity. It is only
about year ago the first one was formed
in the Bowery with from sixteen to
eighteen members.
The workmen of Ohio are circulating
a petition to the legislature to compel
employers to pay twice week. The at
tempt to pass such law IN that state
was made at the last session and failed,
MI. Flavin, one of the staunch ad-
yertisers of the San Francisco Call and
Bulletin, boycotted by the union, has
Withdrawn his patronage from those pa.
pers and presented the union with SlOO
to aid in carrying on the fight.
The Cincinnati trades union has re-
solved to communicate with the Central
labor union of New York, in regard to
cooperating, with. the intention of in
forming emigrant union men who arrive
at Castle Garden to beware of agents
who desire them to work in scab con-
Germs.
A number of the employees o. the late
Tauszky yeast company, which was sold
to wealthy corporation recently, have
formed themselves into a company, fol-
the manufacture of yeast. We advise
Our readers to purchase of the Union
Yeast company, as that is thename they
have selected.-Cincinnati Unionlst.
Ship carpenters, look out for the Sagi
nav valley. There are more men here
now than there is work, and wages have
been reduced 50 cents per day. If you
should see an advertisement for shlI
carpenters, you can make up your minc
that the object is to reduce wages again
Bay City, Michigan, Vindicator.
The Pittshurg Dispatch people are
stated to have given orders for
number of Davids' type matrix compos
ing machines, each of which, 1t Ii
claimed, will do. the work Of four com
positors. They are mounted on stanc
about the size and style of sewing ma
chine, and are manipulated like the typ'
writer. Steel dies punch the letters in
soft metal plate, and from the matrice
thus formed, stereotype or electrotyp'
plates are made. Printers can be dis
pensed with then almost entirely, and I
girl can do the work of four men. Th'
facts in the case has come through tirs
hands, and if they are true, are yer,
significant, all things considered.-Pitts
burg Labor Herald.
4 John Swinton says of the rating 0
the New York Tribune office: 1t wa
the hour when the toilers were leavin
their workshops and offices, thei
benches, their lathes, their cases. Th
air was full of life, and excitement IA
high. Something was expected. Pre-:
emily shout went up; Here they come
Surely these are not American citizens
But look at them. Seven-what? Men
Perhaps. Yet there they were, marehln
along, with blue coated guardian o.
either side, and guardians front and real
The.clanking of their chains could a
most be heard. Downcast cravens, wit
their heads bent N shame, they wer
marched through the crowd of worker
I'D to the front door of the Tribune ami
the jeers and the Kisses of the multitude
and they were engulfed in darkness. w
shall not attempt to analyze the feeling
of such men.