The Labor enquirer., 1883-07-14
LABOR NOTES.
FURNACES shut down.

LA0Un NUlEO.
Glass furnaces shut down.
The trade dollar is. doomed.
The Saturday half holiday is waning.
The Knights of Labor are multiplying.
Send us the labor news Of your town.
New York bakers refuse to work on
Sundays.
Carpenters are said to be in demand
at st. Paul. Minnisota.
Best set of teeth s: try him DR.. Drury
dentist, Opera House block.
The iron molders strike at Utica, New
York, is still in progress.
The southern wage-workers are de-
sirous of being organized.
The carpenters Of Louisville are said
to be "too slavlsh to organize.
The molders at Bells foundry,
Wheeling, w. Va, are still out.
At the Burlington mines, Iowa, me-
groes are taking the place of striking
miners.
The engine wipers employed by the
Reading company have been reduced
to 81 per day.
It is reported that the slate quarry
men of Pennsylvania wish to be taken
into the Knights of Labor.
The Hamilton (Ont.) bosses have
acceded to the demand of the brick
layers for $S per day.
Owing tc the scarcity of work, about
one-hundred and fifty blacksmiths,
machinists, ETC., have been discharged
from the Reading railroad shops.
A movement is on foot in some assem-
blies of the Knights of Labor to cele-
brate, the birthday of the founder of-the
order, August 8.
Trenton, N. j., boss potters have an
agreement not to employ any one work.
ing for another firm unless the worker
can produce a release from his or her
last employers.
Best set of teeth So: try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
Emil Dorner & Co., SCALED employ
ment agents of Pittsburg, are in Jail on a
charge of having swindled lot of en-
of work.
: 1t is said that the Bethlehem steel
mill will be started next Monday, and
only workmen will be employed who
will sever their connection with the
Amalgamated association.
The printers of the Montreal Star and
Toronto Telegram have been beaten.
Both offices having been filled with rats
and girls. Montreal is bad town for
a printers strike, as it is full of rats.
EChainmakers assembly No. 25S7, of
st. Louis, has passed the following:
Resolved, That we do not, and can not,
recognize the necessity for any bandbex
soldiers, home guards, drill company,
state guards, militia, or home thieves,
and we cannot recognize them as true
Knights of Labor, and will not sit in
council with such in future.
The Kimball lock k-out, at Rochester,
New York, remains in about the same
condition as previously reported. The
cigarette makers are still confident and
cheerful, and the funds for their relief
each week promptly forthcoming. The
recent fair netted to assembly 1776 over
eleven hundred dollars, and other en-
tertainments are being planned that will
bring in money for the support of the
honorable men and women who ap-
preciate the Importance of this struggle.
Teeth extracted without pain 60 to him
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
7 The French minister of commerce
has published statement of the approx
innate daily wages of workpeople en-
gagged in the principal industries of the
French capital. These are some OF, the
figures in cases where no wages in food
or in any other form than money are
giveo: Jewellers, bakers, tilers and
blacksmiths, $1.30; butchers, carpenters,
-cabinetmakers, clockmakers, printers,
joiners, plumbers, stone-masons, metal
turner's and glaziers, 81 20; bakers, $l.33;
brewers, S5c bricklayers and shoemak-
ers 70c; saddlers, locksmiths and dyers,
90c; coachmakers, tinkers, cutters, stove
makers and bookbinders 10; coal
beavers, $l.S7; cartwrights, florists, farri-
ers, tailors, tanners, carpetmakers, coop
ers, woodturners and scayengers, 81;
stockingmaker, 45c ropemakers, tinmen
and weavers, Soc; gardeners, 75c; house
painters, $l.25 BARRIERS, 60c; potters, Tic;
sawyers, $117. Women's wages vary
from 40c to SOC.
Labor's Rights.
The following four bills in the interest
of the producing classes have been pas