The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-16
LABOR NOTES.

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Chicago stevedores are striking for an
advance, of wages. 4 .. IL
Mining work is reported pretty good
at Virden, Illinois. @ a-t
Coal mining is exceedingly dull al
Frostburg, MARYLAND. @s~ sg .l@E
Work in the mines in some sections
of Pennsylvania IS dull. El.t t>#
Best set Of teeth So: try him; DR.. Drury
dentist, Opera House block.
The coal mines at Westernport, Mary.
land, are doing very little.
Best set of teeth $s; try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
The iron foundries of New York and
Brooklyn are fairly employed
The strike of the Philadelphia ship
caulkers and carpenters is ended.
Teeth extracted without pain; 60 to him
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
Pittsburg glass factories are all running
at present, but the trade is light.
The Trades and Labor Assembly OF
Montreal unites $4,000 workingmen.
The carpenters union in Chicago gain
ed over 10Y members in one month.
Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, miners
have resolved to organize and agltate
openly.
Reports from Coalton, Ohio, state that
the work in the mines is very slack al
present.
The tinsmiths of Washington, D. g.,
have won their strike, and now receive
So pei day.
The building trades are improving IN
the east, but it is said the season Will be
a short one.
The cabinetmakers of Grand Rapids
have formed union So also have the
furniture hnishers.
The bricklayers of Reading, Pennsyl-
vania, are going to ask for $2.75 per day,
an advance of 25 cents.
Several societies Of the Central Labor
union of New York have decided in
favor of independent political action.
The furniture workers at Quincy, Illi-
nos, are idle. They complain of being
overrun by lmportations from Germany.
The shoe trade. is reported generally
good, the factories being reported busy
in the manufacturing centers, with an
exception or two.
During last year the mills of Ohio
produced 1886 tons of railroad rails,
and it is expected a greater amount will
be made this year.
The compositors employed in Trow's
publishing and bookbinding house, in
New York, struck for 40 cents per 1000,
an advance Of cents.
The iron molders. employed by Rus
sell Wheeler, Son & Co., Utica, New
York, are locked out, the proprietors de-
manding reduction, which was re-
fused.
A Chinaman named Rung Roy started
a laundry in Paterson. New Jersey, and
began to cut on the prices. Seven of his
countrymen hoped onto him and
bruised him. They are in Jail.
The scale of the Amalgamated asso-
citation has been generally agreed to, and
the mills are nearly all running. The
non-union men have even braced up,
and refused to accept reduction.
On account of the daily rains for the
past two weeks building in Denver has
been almost at a stand-still Carpenters,
brieklayers, stonemasons and painters
have lost considerable time thereby.
The striking lasters and men taking
their places. at Dover, New Hampshire,
engaged in fight one night last week
in which one of the strikers was fatally
hurt. Two anti-strikers were arrested.
Assemblies of the knights of Labor
and other workingmen's associations all
over the country are resolving to not
purchase cigars manufactured by firms
which refused to grant an advance to
the Cigarmakers,
The Cincinnati bootmakers have gone
to work. on restoration Of the old rates,
and an agreement that hereafter if
either party desires to change the rate
of wages a notice be given two months
prior to the closing Of the season.
Twenty-eight carpenters struck at
Reading stove works because Of an order
that leach man must take an occount of
work done and time consumed in the
same" It is believed that if new men
are employed several hundred others
will Join the strike.
Tailoring is picking up some in this
city, and the men are nearly all busy.
A number of the surplus tailors have
taken their departure within the past
two weeks, and this, coupled with the
picking up of trade, has cut down the
number of unemployed to a very few.
THE COUNTY CONVENTION