The Labor enquirer., 1883-02-24

Frimen now number 1872 lodges, ano
want to make it the even 200 before the
end Of the year.
The TaiIors union held their regular
monthly meeting in Duferin hall on
Monday evening last, Mr.. III. Geary in
the chair. Thery was a large and lively
meeting The annual report was read
(which shows the treasury of the union
to be well filed The following gentle
men were appointed delegates to the
Trades and Labor council: Messrs.
Robertson, Latimur and Hanlan. After
a discussion on topics relating to the
society's welfare the union adjourned
Toronto Advocate.
A girl employed as spinner in a
Lowell mill has taken the first price of
fered by the Boston Music society for
the best criticism of vocal and instru-
mental music.
Five hundred weavers at Schofeld's
Economy mills, at Frankford, Pennsyl-
vania, have decided by vote of the
najorltyto strike against proposed re-
duction of wages. f ....' lire.
The Massachusetts, legislative commit
tee on woman suffrage has decided to re-
port bill giving women the right, to
vote at municipal elections.
St. Louis Politicians must be hard
set indeed. A blacksmith was missing
the other day with $500 in his pocket,
and his wife "fears that the politicians
must have killed him"
The Cigar Makers Progressive union
of America has adopted label to be
placed on cigars manufactured by union
men. =
Over 100 cigarmakers are idle in Alan
town, Pennsylvania, owing to falling
off in the demand for their goods.
The Trades Assemblymen and Knights
of Labor Of Rochester held convention
Wednesday, February 2l, and nominated
ticket for city Offices.
Some days ago the journeymen tailors
of Brooklyn made a demand, on their
employers for an advance of wages At
the meeting Of the Tailors' Protective
union a few days afterthe committee on
wages reported the following named
firms had accededed to the demands of
their hands: G. W. Richardson, Crafts
& Son, H. E. Boehne and Westiu &
Kreinbrink.
Employees in New England factories
who have been prominent in strikes are
placed on the black lists Of their en-
ployers. r..
The labor organizations of Toronto,
Canada, are taking a hand in the cam
paign prior to the provincial election,
which occurs on the twenty-seventh in
stant.
A party of fifty laborers embarked
FROM this city Wednesday morning to go
Work on the Oregon extension of the
Denver and Rio Grande. They receive
$3.50 per day, and pay $6 per week for
board. The laborers furnish their own
bedding.
Delegates from the various trades so
cieties and labor organizations of Mis-
souri, met in Kansas City Tuesday for
the purpose of organizing federation
of societies. The chief object of the as
sociation is to secure more effective rep
resentation in the state legislature and
to secure such legislation as is proper
and Just in the interest of the laboring
classes.
Eighty men in the shoe shop at Sing
Sing prison have been locked in cells for
refusing to work.
One day last week 1000 starving vic
tins surrounded the government Inspec-
tor, Dr. Woodhouse, at Glencolumbkille,
Donegal. He made brief address to
the wretched multitude and counseled
emigration.
A dispatch from Halifax on the
eighteenth says three miners were killed
by fire damp i'll Cumberland county.