The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-02
LABOR NOTES.

The boiler makers of Brooklyn have Or
ganized,
Pittsburg is soon to have a Trades AS
sembly.
Tin can making is reported very dull in
Baltimore.
. Every cigarmaker in Toronto belongs to
Union No. 81.
St Louis cigarmakers say trade is wretch
edly dull there.
Business in the Pittsburg iron mills is said
to be improving.
The Cooperative Cigar company of Min
neapolis has failed. .
Ship captains and mates at Toronto pro-
pose to organize union.
Painting is reported fair in New York,
considering the weather.
Best set of teeth $S try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
The worksiof the st. Louis Manufacturing
company were closed during the past week.
Best set of teeth $S; try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
A half million names are on the petition
to abolish contracted foreign labor importa-
ton.
Boston Knights of Labor have resolved to
render financial aid to the locked-out glass
blowers.
Nine cooperative glass works have been
started by operatives as a result of the Pitts
burg lockout.
A number of men have started co-opera-
tive ak factory at Paris, Illinois. All are
practical workmen.
The night operators on the Dayton and
Michigan railroad have been reduced from
$40 to S95 per month.
Two shopkeepers in Boston have been
fined $50 each for keeping their clerks en-
ployed more than ten hours day,
The printers of New Jersey are very in
dignant over the proposition that the state
printing be done in the state prison,
And still the Order grows. Secretary
Turner reports that thirty-three new local
assemblies were organized during the month
of December.
Henry George has not sold his English
rights in Progress and Poverty" as was re-
ported. His new work, Social Problems"
is now in press.
The bakers of New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City are agitating for more pay and
shorter hours. Their organizations are
growing rapidly.
Any assemblies desiringto engage Brother
R. F. Trevellick to lecture, csn at any time
discover his whereabouts by addressing Mr..
George W. Downs, Sharon Pennsylvania.
Last week the printers employed on the
jamestown, New York, Journal struck work
because union regulations were not observed
in the office. The writing force turned typos
Italians and Hungarians have so flooded
the mining regions around Wilkesbarre,
PENNSYLVANIA, that labor is worth but Is cents
day. Hundreds of miners are tramping
the country.
st. Louis shoemakers do not seem to haye
a hankering for iron-clads. The slave
driving shops occasionally advertise for help
which is not plentiful is, of the char
acter they seek.
A meeting of the boilermakers of Soutt
Brooklyn was held last week, for the pur
pose Of organizing union. 1t was decided
to form secret organization to prevent the
men being black-listed.
A bill has been presented to the Connecti
cutlegislature fixing legal weight for bread
1t makes the weight of Il loaf of bread two
pounds, and half and three-quarter loaf il
the same ratio; penalty for violation, fin
of $40.
The Mechanics union, of Pittsburg, pro
pose, with the pecuniary assistance Of som
of the charitably inclined, and other labol
organizations of that city, to found work
ingman's library for the exclusive use Of tn
workingmen of Pittsburg.
The strike of the freight handlers at New
Orleans, has been settled by board of arbi
tation, composed of the delegates from TIL
unions, the cotton exchange, the trades as
sembly and the representatives of the rail
roads. The demands of the workingmel
were acceded to.
District Assembly No. s, Of Pittsburg, ha
elected the following officers: M. W. A. c
Rankin, Allegheny; W. F., John A. O'Nei
East Liverpool, Ohio; F. s., Homer L. Nj
CAV, Pittsburg; R. S., David j. Bowen