The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

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lpropcsed to osubstf tftute I system Of fsptesenta
don BY delegates
The attempt to reduces the miners Z
WazndA near Wheeling. was unsuccessful
Had tbs attempt sncceeded Ill other miner
in that district would have been reduced t
~ cents Per bushel.
The principal clear cigar manufacturers =
Albany have closed their establishments
They proposed to make . reduction from ~
to 81 per 10O for handmade cigars, an
from Ss to 81 per loo for form work.
A machine has been invented In Pittsburl
fH manufacturing hob-nails, which has ca
paclty Of one ton day, and Is operated b,
three men. The use Of these machines viii
throw thousands Of men out of employment
Thepay Of the operatives Of the Bates cor
pontions. Lewistown, Maine, was reduced
per cent. The weayers Immediately struck
and $50 looms are silent Harder times thar
Lewistown has ever experienced before an
imminent.
The steamship companies, at Marseilles
France, having again declined to accept the
conditions OF the striking seamen and stokers,
the strikers have induced those who hitherto
held aloof from the strike to join In the
movement.
Tn polkivnnra rov,rv,<,r;xnro oro oIovohIp
busy, carpenters, brickIayers painters, brick
makers, cabinet makers, paper hangers, ship
carpenters and plumbers are either idle or
doing very little. Iron workers and glass
blowers are comparatively busy.
The working people of the United States
produce more than twice as much food as
they can consume; more raw material for
clothing than would keep 10000, 600 people
and yet, how small fraction
Of this do they get t?-Iowa T Tribune,
The committee of the Manchester, Eng
land, cotton manufacturers have passed a
resolution declaring that it is necessary, for
the interest of the trade, to continue the
struggle with the striking weavers to insure
the reduction of 5per cent in their wages.
The annual convention OF the district as
,embly Of Knights Of Labor, had session OF
three days, at Decatur, Illinois, last week.
Robert W. Bennett of Rock Island, was re-
elected district master workman. There.are
|, 100 members of the order within the dis
,rict.
Two hundred and seventy men were dis
,harged from the shops of the New York
Central railroad, at West Albany. These to-
yether with 13O laid off Monday, made total
discharge of 400 in the last few days. The
men were told the lay off would only be for
! couple OF weexs.
Twenty blast furnaces In the Cleveland,
England district have been blown out on ac-
ount of the bad state of the iron trade, and
he miners have received notice that reduc- |
ion in the hours of labor would shortly take |
,lace so that the production of the mines |
would correspond with the decrease in the
lumber of furnaces in operation.
Plans have been prepared for the construc-
ion of large hall, to be called the Sale de
travail, or Labor Hall, in Paris, close to the
hotel de Vile, where men can meet their
Employers and arrange their terms, There
till be besides the central hall, eighty rooms
or the syndicates of different trades. The
ost of construction is berne by the city.
Secretary Martin of the Amalgamated AS
ociation, with headquarters at Pittsburg,
1as notified that the Pacific Iron and Nail
San Francisco, whose employees
re on strike, has sent to England for men.
Ie has cabled the secretary Of the Amalgac
lated association in Great Britain to make
le situation known and prevent impor-
itlon.
Nearly $4,000 men are enrolled on the books
{ the New York trades unions, Chicago
as an enrolment of 80 900 and San Francisco
1000. 1t Is claimed that there are over !, 1,00O,-
70 men in the trades unions of the United
tates. They haye three dailles, one English
nd two German, about sixty weeklies, and
monthlies published in their
lterests. 81 r
The Window Glass Workers Association
ave received letter from a gentleman in
-ew York, representing the Belgium govern
lent. He offers to transfer all the Belgium
lass blowers and gatherers in this country
ack to Belgium free of charge. A small
umber in Pittsburg have accepted the offer.
he manufacturers will be left when they
tempt to start up.
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