The Labor enquirer., 1883-04-21
LABOR NOTES.

The Boston telegraph messengers threaten
a strike againstza reduction F.. 81
Best set of teeth So: try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
The mines in Coal valley, West Virginia,
are running about half time. Il @.'- .4.~+i
Bestset of teeth So; try him; DR.. Drury,
dentist, Opera House block. ...... .v
{ An assembly of Knights of Labor is to be
formed at WOburn, Massachusetts,.
The CentraII .abor pnion is agitating the
subject Of hghrentS in New York city.
Teeth extracted without pain; go to him
DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
Recent information veriies the reported
strike of oil in the vicinity OF Canon City.
Work continues dull in the mines at Flag
Ter, Iowa, butpr0SpectS seem to be bright
ening.
The Baltimore weaYerS have been receiv-
ing about $4 week, and have asked for an
increase.
Ali the mines in CampbelIs Creek, West
Virginia, are running at present with g0Od
M6Iders should keep away from Pittston,
PENNSYLVANIA, as a strike is in progress at
that place.
The San Francisco detectives searched the
Truth Office for dynamite last week none
was found.
A string of coke ovens nearly mile long
is to be built this summer near Indiana,
Pennsylvania. uo-
The pudding department of the Bay
View, Wisconsin, rolling mill has been smut
down indefinitely.
Work in the mines at StewartSville, Ohio,
has been slack recently, but it is expected 10
pick up right awry.
The foundry business is unusually Gull
throughout the United States, and the pros
poets anything but fattering. 90
The carpentry trade, which has been very
duh IN New York for the past rev mohUhS'
iSpickiRg up some at present.
About 1000 hat makers at Orange, New
York, are on strike against former mStruc-
tor OF conVictS, named Nichols
All the departments of the Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, Iron company',S works are
being run to their fullest capacity.
The Kentucky Glass company of Louis
vilIe through their president, have sued a
number of their striking employees for con-
SpiTacy.
The New. York Voice suggests Henry
George fer chief of the bureau OF labor
statistics, which has just been created III
that state
The AmaIgamated association of st. Louis
has given, considerable funds to the non
union men who are out with the Vulcan
works strikers.
The striking moIders of Erie, Pennsyl-
vania, are backed by their International
union and are prepared to stay out all sum-
,mer, if necessary.
The scheme to publish the New York
Voice as daily has been abandoned for the
present, An extra E. Iiti0n will, however, be
issued Sunday mornings. !
One of the nOn-uniOn men working at the
Vulcan iron works St. Louis, had his eye
put out by liquid metal last week. It's a
pity that those fellows can't get their eyes
opened instead of closed.
The employing painters use Wbalistic
signs in Baltimore on cards given men who
leave theiE employ, to prevent them getting
employment in other shops.
Latest advices point to an amicable settle
menL of the difficulties Of the Toronto. shoe
makers. The WageWOrkor says the employ
ers will concede the advance asked.
The Pennsylvania Steel company is run
ming it's works at Ste6ltOn, Pennsylvania, .
full double time. The frOgand switch shop
is full andthe rail mill is running on orders. .
An explosion of fire damp in the coal
mines at LOuICheS, department of the NOrd, |
on the fourteenth instant killed seven
miners and many others were severely in
jured.
The Cigarmakers Progressive union of
New York City has carried all but three of
the large SHOPS in the strike for 81 advance
per 1,O6Q and all are expected to pay it in a
short time
The organization committee of the Toronto
Trades Council are doing good work. They
average report of one new organization at
each meeting. The Tmsmiths' union was
the last formed by them.
An investigation has shown that the StTik
ing chain makers Of st. Louis were only re-
Ceiving from Sc to SIS per week, considerably
less than the eastern scale, which is only
bread and water figure.
Henry George is to lecture in Boston next
month under the auspices Of the Central
Labor union of that city. The trade and
labor organizations intend to have a great
demonstration in honor Of the occasion,
The Deer Creek coal fields, near San
Carlos reservation, in Arizona are showing
up well. The bed is full mile in width
and the coal is found in about fifty veins.
Seven shafts have been sunk in different
places ON the property, the deepest being
some 200 feet.
The National Convention of PIasterers
meets at Cincinnati July Il, 1888. The sec
retaTy, Joseph Kennedy, 138 Alabama street,
Cleveland, Ohio, requests all plaSterS' unions
to correspond with him, with a view to join
ing Ne National union, which is now in good
condition, q large majority of the local
unions being members. Labor papers please
copy,
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
Journeynen plasterers of Pittsburg have
demanded $3.50 a day after May !.
Three thousand immigrants passed through
Chicago Friday en- route for Colorado and
other western states.
Non-union men are taking the places of
striking tanners at PittSburg, and the usual
police force is on the ground.
The Connecticut house of representatives
passed bill Thursday limiting the hours of
labor for women and children to ten a day
The latest traitor to the Irish cause is a
depraved creature by the name of Lynch.
He ought to be treated to practical illuStra-
ton Of his name.