The Labor enquirer., 1884-05-31

left because they did not get their wages,
and the company has busted up.
Every printing Office in New serleans,
with the exception Of the Chronicle, is
within the union fold. All the other
unions are comparatively strong.
The cigar trade is Dublin Buffalo, Troy,
Chicago, Youngstown, Covington, Morris,
Illinois, and Cincinnati. It is fair in
Philadelphia and bad in New York.
A number of Hungarians are en-
ployed at Locust Gap, Pernsylvania, at
10 cents day and their board, the effect
of the se-caIled protection to American
labor.
The messenger boys employed by the
Bankers & Merchants Telegraph COM
pany of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, struck
for an advance of from S12 to SIG a
month.
The scab molders who were imported
to Cincinnati at the expense of foundry
proprietors, like the scabs the cigar
makers imported, have all taken their
hasty departure.
Exchanges will please take notice
that Hamilton, Ontaria, is bad place
for laborers as we'll as tradesmen of all
kinds to come. to at present in hopes of
finding employment.
Several of the English trade unions
are composed wholly of women. The
upholsteresses, shirt and collar makers,
sewing machinists, dressmakers and
milliners are thus organized.
A congress of workingmen's clubs was
held in New York on May IA, for the
purpose OF promoting the establishment
of such associations and for the further
ance of various plans for improving the
condition of the workingmen.
The labor trouble on the Grand Trunk
railroad has been avoided by the en-
ployes along the road in Canada accept
ing a reduction Of per cent in wages
for six months. The first offer of 10
per cent was peremptorily refused and
subsequently modified.
We have good authority for saying
there are $4,000 Knights of Labor in
| Michigan at this time. The order is
growing amazingly. The rush of, Office
seekers and huckstering politicians to it's
ranks is all in vain. 1t is not in the full
sense political Observation-Disclosures.
The Ontario Cotton Manufacturing
company, of Hamilton, has given their
operatives an unlimited leave Of absence
But it is not their intention to visit Long
Branch, Saratoga, or any of the fashion,
able watering places this summer on
account of the recent bereavment of the
Royal FamiIy.-Palladium of Labor.
The Carpenters of Chicago had rous-
ing meeting last Saturday night. P. ].
Mcclure, secretary Of the Brotherhood,
spoke. During the past month four
unions were formed and seven more are
being moved there. Since the strike
begun over 700 men have entered the
union The strike will no doubt end
this week and the men yet on will be
paid $3 day. One hundred and twenty
five men joined at this meeting. Pitts
burg Herald.
The proprietors of the foundries in
Cincinnati, who have, locked out their
molders, received lecture from Judge
Fitzgerald recently, which may do them
some good. 1t appears that when tue
aforesaid bosses imported scabs to this
city they purchased firearms for them.
Judge Fitzgerald objects to this, and
severely censured those who armed the
scabs, saying that the members of or
carnations had perfect right to their
part of the city without being menaced
on all sides by armed scabs.-Gncinnati
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