The Labor enquirer., 1883-07-21
LABOR NOTES.

LABOR NOTES.
Tailoring is reported dull in the east
The cigar trade on the whole is not
brisk.
The miners convention meets on the
first Of August.
New York hardware factories are
fairly employed.
The molders Of Bells foundry, Wheel
ing, are still out.
There are great many idle printers
in St. Louis at present.
The cigarmakers of Rock Island, Hi
nois, have organized.
Best set of teeth IS: try him; DR.. Drury
dentist, Opera House block.
A fPittsburg correspondent reports
mining generally dull.
Best set Of teeth 5 s:,try him /; DR.. Drury
dentist, Opera House block.
New York Typographical union No.
6 has membership of $500.
The miners at Sparta, Illinois, are on
strike for d cents per bushel.
The mines at Franklin Hill, Maryland,
are doing very little at present. Z
The stonecutters of Dayton, Ohio,
are talking of organizing a union. -4@
Teeth extracted without pain go to him I;
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block. 1|1
Carpenters and bricklaYers in St.
Louis and vicinity are doing we'll. ..
The Goshel coal mine, near New Phil
adelphia, Ohio, is running steadily.
The lockout of the Cincinnati boot
makers still continues in two shops.
The St. Louis Wire Fence company
are running their works full-handed.
The Vulcan steel works, at Carondelet,
is again in full blast and running full
time.
The South St. Louis Foundry company
are busy filling orders for ice-making
machinery. @ *.
The Keystone iron works, of Reading,
which have been idle for some time,
have resumed.
The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Iron
company, employing about 5000 men,
has shut down.
The new mine at Justus Station, Ohio,
is 115 feet deep, and has vein over six
feet in thickness.
The printers at Omaha lost their
strike, and the Offices of that city are
now filed with rats.
The Cigarmakers' union of Rochester
issue $50 weekly to the women locked
out by Kimball & Co.
A strike of the messenger boys Of the
wi Of
pany occurred July II. O.
The iron and steel manufacturing es.
tablishments, in all branches, in st.
Louis, are rushed with work.
A test coke oven will be erected at
Savanna, Indian Territory, to test the
coal there for coaking purposes.
The large sewing machine works at
Downington, Pennsylvania, are to be
converted into extensive stove works.
The various window glass houses of
the country have drawn their fires and
will remain idle for six or eight weeks.
Sixty. -four furnace men employed by
the Newark, New Jersey, zinc works
have struck against reduction Of 10.
cents day.
The Potomac mines, at Barton, Mary
land, are working nearly full time,
while the Swanton mine is doing little
if anything,
Most of the striking helpers of the
Penn Iron works, Lancaster, Pennsy1
vania, resumed work without securing
the advance.
Some of the Illinois coal operators
threaten to import negroes from Vir-
ginia to the mines if the miners do not
accept their terms.
The miners of Carver Iowa, are on
strike against a screen II inches wide
between the bars and the taking of
2,76l pounds for ton.
The New York stonecutters main
tanned the eight hour system for days
work all through the depression of
trade caused by the panic, notwithstand-
ing the inducements of employers to
work ten hours day. I
The Bricklayers International union
will consider the advisabllity, at its next
annual meeting, of taking apprentices
under the special protection of the local
unions, thoroughly instructing each one
and making them in every way first
class workmen.
Land as Public Property.
Land, mines, petroleum wells-in