Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-07
TRADE AND LABOR.
An Appeal to the Arbitration Act In Pitt
buF1h.

An appeal to the Arbitration Act In Pitts
burgh.
1t is said that the miners of the Pitts
burgh district are determined to press the
movement for an arbitration under the
Wallace act, and that they will petition
the court for arbitratora in a few days.
Should the operators join in the petition,
a settlement of tho difficulty may be ex-
pected.-The puddlers at tho Reading
iron works who struck for an advance of
25c per ton, have offered to resume work
at the old ratio if paid semi-monthly.-A
new schedule Of wages has been an
nounced at Mc1lvaine's rolling mill
in Reading, which reduces the pay
OF puddlars fifteen to twenty cents per
ton and of helpers three cents per tom
Tho Glendon iron company at Easton,
Pa, has notified it's employees that a gen.
eraI reduction of 10 to Is cents per day iu
their wages will be made on the 2Sth
inst.-The strike of the tobacco stemmsrs
and cigar makers in Lynchburg, Va, has
ended. the stemmcrs accepting tho terms
Of the employers, and the employers con.
oeding all but one of the points of differ
ence with the cigar makers.-The cigar
makers of Wilkesbarre, who struck week
ago, will resume work to day on terms
agreed upon with the manufacturers
Tie Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe com
pany, Of Naugatuck, Conn.,, idle since
February, will resume operations next
Thursday. It will employ several hun
dred hauds.-At meeting of the Central
Labor union of New York, it was resolved
to cal! mass meeting to oppose the open
ing of the Brooklyn bridge on the queen S
birthday. 1t was also decided to boycott
Kinney Brothers, whose hands are on
strike.
Commercial Topics.
Work On the Merced canal in California
is reported to be progressing rapidly. 1t
is designed to irrigate tract of land in
the San Joaquin valley, and is expected,
if successful, to transform $50, 900 acres Of
poor wheat land into good soil for the
cultivation of fruits and vegetables. In the
event of success, other canals will be made
in the valley. Hitherto, it is said, the
water sources have been controlled by a
few monopolists, who peddIed out water
at ruiuous prices. The state board of
silk culture, Of California, organized
under tho provisions of state law, has
been endowed by the Legislature with
$1,000 "for the first two years of its
cAistGBC6 GoWdIuS Cuo cSIaCllSEmenC OF u
silk reeling school." ."-The steamship
Alaska arrived at New York yesserday y
from Liverpool, having made the trip from
Queenstown in 6 days, 90 hours and 48
minutes. This beats her former time of
days, hour and so minutes, which had
been the quickest on record Of
the winter trade of the state of Indiana in
domestic furs show an aggegate of 173, 900
pelts, of which $4,000 were muskrats,
80, 900 coons, $4,000 minks, $4,000 minks,
12, 600 opossum and 10000 skunk.-The
steam ship Coptic, which sailed from San
Francisco yesterday for China, took out 1O3
Cinnamon, with return certificates. Thus
far g, 695 of such certificates have been is
sued.-The Pacific coal and iron company
was incorporated in San Francisco, on
Saturday with capital of $1,000, 900.