Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-11
TRADE AND LABOR.
An Impending Strike Among the Goal
Mlners-Glass Mon In Council

MI06t8-dl08D mon IN VOODCSb-
What Shall tho Rsrvesr Ne?
A telegram from Pittsburgh says ro-
newal of the railroad coal miners trouble
is feared. Only half the operators have
accepted the decision of the umpire of the
trade tribunal fixing tho rate ct 81 cents
per bushel, and in tho other pits work is
continued at three cents. The operators
who accepted the decision now want their
miners to accept the: three cent rate also.
The Hartley and Marshall pits closed yes
terday because the miners refused this
figure, and other pits arc expected to fol-
low suit. In this event general strike
may result.-Mr. Charles Parrish an
nounoed in Wilkes6arre yesterday that
the Reading coal and iron company would
take charge of the Lehigh and Wilkes.
barre c0lleries in that region and at
Audenreid on August 1. Mr.. Parrish has
been asked to remain as general manager,
but his friends believe he win hereafter
devote himself to local manufactures
rather than mining.-The differences be-
tween the coal operators and their en-.
ployes in the Springfield district of
Illinois have been settled, except at two
of the mines, and these, it is thought, will
arrive at . settlement. The basis of
0kAOCuACuS 40 Ou00 VAAOO S0ASO POA OSA0AASA
shall be paid for mining and check weigh
ing.
The national association of window
glass workers met in annual session in
Pittsburgh yesterday. There were fifty.
nine delegates present, representing every
window glass factory in the United States.
Routine business was transacted at yes
terday's sessions. 1t is understood that
the question of wages will be considered,
with a view to a reduction of ten per
cent.-The Green and Amber bottle blow
ers of the western division, in annual
session in Milwaukee, yesterday adopted
the scale of wages in force last year. This
decision affects the bottle factories from
Pittsburgh to San Francisco.
The city electrician of Chicago has cut
all the wires of certain electric light COM
panies not under ground. The competition
has been SO sharp between the companies
that it is claimed they do not use properly
insulated wires, and that they string them
at random on the housetops, where contact
with them would result in instantaneous
death. 1t is said " this action has refer
ence to arc lights only, no danger being
apprehended from wires used for the
transmission of currents for inoandescent
lighting"
The St. Louis Post Despatch asserts that
the Brotherhood of Telegraphers will be
gin general strike next Monday for seven
hours as night work and extra pay for
Sundays. There are over 5000 operators
in the brotherhood. After an investiga
ton of the charges against the arrested
miners at Ely and West Fairlee, New
Hampshire, the state attorney has ordered
thoir release, there being no case against
them.-There is a report that silver has
been discovered in the Black mountain
range of the Adirondacks, in Essex county
New York.-Tho tonnage on the canals in
New York state for the first week in July
was 172, GLE tons, showing an increase of
%, ,047 tons over last year. The shipments
of wheat have increased 1900 bushels,
of corn, 23O, 600 bushels, and of rye, &C..
600 bushels.
The London agent of the agricultural
department telegraphed yesterday
Weather of first ten days Of July hot
and forcing. Wheat estimates increasing
generally throughout Europe"
Reports from great number of points
| in the West and Northwest state that a
general change for the better in all the
crop prospects has taken place during the
past two weeks, owing to the cessation OF
rains and the advent of hot weather. The
spring wheat and oat crops are unusually
promising, and are both now nearly as.
sured. 1t is believed that the corn crop
is rapidly coming up to its condition in
1882