The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-09
LABOR NOTES.

The house painters of Cincinnati have
formed union.
Printers report work fair in St. Louis
with nearly all men at work.
The granite-cutters of Cincinnati have
been authorized to form union.
Best set of teeth So; try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
The throngs of idle men on our streets
seem to be increasing,at discouraging
rate.
Twelve coal miners have been arrested
near Pittsburg, charged with conspiracy
TO cause strike.
The New York Tribune is being thor
oughlY boycotted all over the country.
Even Denver has taken hand.
There is no change at the Colorado
Iron works. There are still working
short forces in all departments.
The Exeter, New Hampshire, Manu-
featuring company will, on the eleventh,
reduce the wages of its employees.
The president and secretary of the
Miners Amalgamated association of In
diana, haye started out organizing.
The Victor Stove works, at Salem,
Ohio, has resumed operations, the men
accepting the 10 per cent reduction.
Over 100000 persons are employed in
American factories or in some way get
their living from the cotton industry.
All the leading machinery foundries Of
Milwaukee, are now busy, and have con-
tracts sufficient to last them all winter.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
miners in the bituminous, and 10000 in
the antheacite, regions of Pennsylvania.
Best set of teeth s.; try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
Pratt & Whitney, machinery manufac-
turers of Hartford, Connecticut, dis
charged over 200 men recently, owing to
slack work.
The iron manufactures of Portland,
Oregon, have given notice ofa reduction
of l24 per cent in wages. The order
affects 420 men.
The Cameron colliery at Mt. Carmel,
Pennsylvania, is being prosecuted by the
mine inspector for violation of the laws
relating to ventilation.
Five hundred hands have been thrown
out of employment at the Franklin COL
liery, near Treverton, Pennsylvania, by
the suspension Of work.
The Millert Iron company's pipe mills,
at Reading, Pennsylvania, has closed for
the winter, owing to the cold weather.
Three hundred men are idle.
Since the weather is warmer work has
been resumed on many jobs, and many
men are now busy who have been idle
for weeks.-St Louis Advocate.
Andrew Roy, mine inspector of Ohio
has submitted his report to the governor
1t puts the output of coal in the state a
3,225,OOO tons as against s,450,00O toni
last year.
The Boycotter says the morning pa
pers of New York city all pay unior
prices with one exception-the pape
published for the "bstter class"-th
New York Tribune,
The miners in Lehigh county, Penn
sylvania, are receiving from 81 cents
80 cents per day, and as they can onl
work when the weather permits, the
do not make full time.
The blacksmiths and stonecutters {
Hartford, Connecticut, have good OF
ganization. The latter craft have ever,
man who work at the business withil
the folds of the union.
At Buffalo last week 1000 men qui
work on account of reduction of wage
in the sugar foctories. These men reT
resent loss of $1,000 day to familie
in that city and over 1000 to the en-
ployers.
What next? The firm of Marx
Brothers, New York cap fnishers, pr
pose to reduce the wages of their en-