The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-20

Inc seven nall mills IN MASSACHUSETTS,
whose headquarters are in Boston, run
about 300 machines.
Work has been begun on four new
pudding furnaces at the Laughlin mill,
Martins Ferry, Ohio.
Reiss Brothers sheet mill. of New
castle, Pennsylvania, with sixteen pud-
ding furnaces, is busy.
An order reducing the price of car
forking from 80 to S0cents went into ef-
feet recently at the Standard mines, Mt.
Pleasant, Pennsylvania
The Peoria, Illinois, plow works have
bought a site for mammoth factory in
the upper end of the city.
Both the Franklin and Phoenix mines
at Westernport, Maryland, are running
well, with good prospects. M
The coal works at Millwood, near La.
trobe, Pennsylvania, are still running
steadily with good prospects.
Wages and work are both declining at
Toledo, Ohio. Union carpenters get So 25
per day /; non-union men, $3.50. ! y
A dispatch from Troy, New York, says
there is No truth in the report of strike
of 1000 stove makers in that city. ~
A vein of coal five feet thick has been
developed on the Magoffn farm, in Pine
township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania.
The Knights of Labor of Topeka in
tend starting a cooperative store and
coal office The order is fourishing at
that place. -,
| Jobbing carpentry is generally dull
In New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey
City a considerable number of men are
only partially employed.
The Egbert Coal company, of Mercer
county, Pennsylvania, have their slope
in an advanced state of completion.
They will begin entry work at once.
The Dover Forge, at West Farms, New
Jersey, has shut down; throwing over 100
hands out of employment. Jackson's
mills, employing seventy nine men, has
also been shut down.
The wages of hagmen on the West
Jersey railroad have been reduced from
SAL to $50 month. A strike is talked
of, but will probably not occur, as the
men are not organized.
The iron molders employed at the
Golden State and Miners foundry, San
Francisco, have struck for an advance Of
25 cents day on present wages, which
range from 1926 to $3.50.
The weavers who lately struck at the
st. Henri cotton mills, Montreal, Canada,
have returned, and are now working by
the piece, and making about 25 per cent
more than by the days work.
The bosses of the Massillon district
coal mines have conspired to reduce the
price Of mining from 95 cents to 95 cents
per ton, and have appointed a commit
tee to confer with the miners.
The National Tube Works, company,
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has made a
reduction of wages from II to Is per
cent and also reduction of 81 per cent
in the number of men employed.
The situation of the potters's strike at
East Liverpool, Ohio, remains unchang-
ed. The potteries arerall idle or running
short-handed, except Chetwynd's, which
sometime ago consented to employ
Knights of Labor.
There is strike at Watson Brothers
coal mines, in Lower Allegheny, Penn
sylvania. The firm has been paying the
miners from $2.5O.to S2.75 per yard for
driving entries, furnishing the oil, sharp
ening the tools and loading the cars.
An organization has been formed lately
and the men now ask $4 yard. \
When the glass manufactures of South
Baltimore started to work September
last number of the glass blowers re-
fused to resume work on account of
reduction of wages, and sought to per-
suade non-union glass blowers from
working. Recently seventeen union
men we're arrested, charged with con-
spiracy.
The quarterly convention of the Long
shoremen's unions of Brooklyn and
New York City was recently held 'at
Irving hall Brooklyn. John Huggard
presided and spoke on the question OF