The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-27
LABOR ITEMS.
CARPENTERS.

ford, Florida, $3.50. - n
Union men in Philadelphia are doing
fairly, but good many are out of work.
Wages average from 81 to S2.75. +.
Carpenters in Australia work only
eight hours per day and get S2.75 per
day, and have half holiday on Satur-
days. II. IT. L.. ,.s3
Toronto Carpenters Union No. q has
suspended the following members until
their dues and fines are paid James
Smith, W. E. Pearce, James .Gorrie, w.
Jefries, James Dawson, j. Ferguson,
George Brefith, F. Reynolds, T. NJ.
Spitzinger and AIver Synolds.
Philadelphia Union No. has elected
the following officers for the current
term President C. H. Hudson; vice
president, James Brown recording sec
retary, W. F. ;Eberhardt; financial sec,
retarv, Con. Thorn corresponding sec
retary, George Mann treasurer, George
Grimes trustee, James McKimm.
IRON WORKERS
Trade is rather dull in Philadelphia.
New York machine shops are fairly
employed.
The Wayne Iron works, Tenth street,
Pittsburg, are on double turn.
The stop Of the Bessemer Steel works,
Cleveland, Ohio, is but temporary.
The nail factory at the Top MILL
Wheeling, West Virginia, is on full
handed.
The Central Rolling Mill company, Of
> Louisville, Kentucky, is idle, their pud-
dlers refusing to work for Pittsburg
prices.
The new rolling mill at Canonsburg,
Pennsylvania, has been started up Nail
kegs of sheet iron are to be manufac-
tured on a large scale.
Eighty-fve molders are employed at
the malIeable iron works of Delvin &
Company, Philadelphia.
The Trumbull Iron company is run
ming its rolling mill, at Girard, Ohio,
double turn in all departments.
The Chester Rolling mill, Pennsyl
vania, employs about $50 hands. The
prospects are said to be very ftattering.
Nearly all the stove works in St.
Louis started up during the week, after
- d short shut down to take stock, repair,
ETC.
The Cleveland Malleable Iron com
pany now employ over 400 men. A
branch house has lately been started in
indianapolis.
The Baldwin Locomotive works, Phila=-
delphia, Pennsylvania, are building en-
gines for old contracts at the rate of
eleven a week.
The Old Dominion Iron and Nail
works, at Richmond, Virginia, have COM
pleted and started ten double pudding
furnaces in their steam puddle mill.
The Central Iron works at St. Louis
are turning out a large number of en-
gines and boilers, and have many orders
ahead The works are busy in every
department.
Notices of 10 per cent reduction in
wages, to 60 into effect on the fifteenth
instant, were recently posted at the Fall
River and the Mount Hope Iron works
in Somerset, Massachusetts,.
All of the shops of the Ransom Stove
company, at Albany, New York, shut
down recently. 1t is said that they will
remain closed until about March l, and
400 men are thus thrown out of employ
ment.
About 300 molders of Pittsburg and
:, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on January Is,
decided to quit work rather than accept
the reduction ordered by the employers,
which goes into effect on the fourth Of
March.
Extensive iron works, to be estab-
lished at Victoria, British Columbia, are
spoken of, in anticipation of the market
to be opened down the line of the Cana
dian Pacific railroad. The capital pro-
posed is $4,000.
Work was resumed in the new portion
of the Oliver Wire mill. Pittsburg re-
Gently, in all departments, about 400 men
going to work. The factory will likely
work double turn, as before the fire.