The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-15

wages paid coal miners, as stated in q
previous issue, the miners at Reeds,
McLuney and Tunnel Hill, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, numbering about 200, have gone
out on strike.
The miners of district No. 1, of the
Ohio Miners Association, have decided
to test the truck store system before the
courts. and With that end in view have
employed counsel and ask helpSto carry
the prosecution to successful termina.
ton.
The stove founders of Cincinnati have
demanded of the Molders' Union a re-
duction in the price of moldlng. They
have been paying 25 per cent on the bill
and now ask reduction of per cent.
The molders haye refused to consider
the proposition at ALL
The miners employed at West Cheer,
Iowa, have nearly all signed an agree
ment to contribute,6a per cent of their
earnings to the striking miners of Cory
mine. Nearly every miner, whether a
member of the Amalgamated Association
or not, signed the contract.
!, All workingmeh are asked to boycott
the cigars made by Straiton & Storm, of
New York. The Progressive Cigarmak-
ers' Union asks this, and you will be
doing your duty to your brother by doing
so. This is the! firm that makes the Owl
brand of cigars. Boycott it.
The Reading Hardware company,
whose 125 molders have been standing
out six weeks against 10 per cent re-
duction, announced that they will re-
sumo in few days by introducing mold
ing machines, by which one man and:an
experienced boy can do the work Of
three full hands.
The trouble at Crescent mill, Wheel
ing, growing out of the proposition to
charge the employees for all tongs broken
in the rolls has been satisfactorily ad-
justed, and the forge department has re-
sumed operations. The finishing mills
will go on as soon as the work of anneal-
ing the iron damaged by the food is
completed.
The strike at the Sandusky Tool COM
pany is about ended. all the men have
returned to work. with the exception of
the plane makers. The company feel
very indignant that a lot of common
werkmen should strike against reduc-
ton; but even the tool company will
have to learn, sooner or later, that even
workingmen have rights that they are
bound to respect. The company have
won the fight.
Latest advices received from the strik-
ing drivers at Corning, Rendville and
other Ohio central mines, state that the
strikers refused to 60 to work, but asked
for an advance to $2.05. A telegram was
received from the company'S head
quarters IN Toledo, however, which
stated that the strikers would probably
go to work. If they do not do so gen.
eral strike is very probable.
A reduction of 10 cents per ton in the
wages of the miners employed by the
Delaware, Lackawana & Western Rail-
road company went into effect last Mon
day. There is terrible suffering in this
vicinity as many iaborerS must support
large families on $6 per week. The ne
cessity of the miners are such that it is
feared they will be obliged to accept the
reduction. The company pretends that
it is not reduction but scheme of the
continental colonies to equalize wages,
but the we'll informed ones know that it
is a squeeze all around.-Toledo Record.
The colored cigarmakers of Charles
ton, South Carolina, have organized a
union and applied for charter, This is
the first union of colored men organized
under the banner of the International
Union. We welcome them into the ranks
of organized labor as brethren IN toll.
We hope the example of these few men
will be followed by otEers, until all men
who labor, irrespective of race, creed or
color, will be enrolled under the stand
ard of equal rights to all and fair days
pay for fair days work.-Cigarmakers
Journal.