The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-09
Late Labor news.

j Late Labor News.
, By Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 2.-The new North Stat
fordshire Coal and Iron company has.
suspended work owing to the depression
in the coal trade. hecolliery employed
: 1900 men. r. % I.
I FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. "A large
meeting of spinners tonight, over zoo
being present, voted to strike, in ten
mills, ON Monday. The ten mills selected
to strike have total Of $3.50 operatives
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 2-Represen-
tative Hopkins, chairman of the house
committee ON labor, has, in compliance
with the petitions of various labor or.
CARNATIONS in the country, prepared a
bill which he will present in the house
for reference on Monday, providing for
the, enforcement of the eight-hour law.
He says the moral influence of the en-
forcement of the eight-hour law will
have the effect of reducing the hours of
labor throughout the country. This, to-
together with the prohibition of the i'm
portation of foreign contract labor, will,
in measure, relieve the workingmen.
The rest involves a financial question,
and rests upon the action of our tariff
committee and our fnanciers. Mr.. Hop.
kins says the labor interests demand
that the tariff should not be disturbed,
and that prolonged and uncertain agita-
ton is injurious, and that the question
should not be taken up until it can be
settled.
VIENNA, Feb. 2-Forty Socialists have
been expelled from the city and two
newspapers have been suppressed. The
police have compiled a list of foreigners
who are to be expelled from the country,
and have also closed Jacobin's printing
Office, at which the Socialist newspaper,
the Future, was published.
PARIS, Feb. 2.-Placards were posted
throughout the city yesterday evening
melting the dissatisfied policemen and
starving workingmen to arms.
Boston, Mass, Feb. 2-The non-union
lasters, while returning from work to-
day, were fred upon, presumably by
strikers The union offers to assist the.
police in discovering the assailants.
VIENNA, Feb. 3.-Several persons who
are foreigners have been sent across
the frontier Many suspects have es-
capped to Hungary. The Count Van
Taafe, president of the council, and min
lister of the interior of Austria, has in
formed correspondent that the govern
ment possesses information in regard to
the socialist dangers, which is far more
serious than any yet published.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. 4.-The Slade
mill, one of the Tecumsech mills, and
one of the Sycamore mills we're stopped
by the strikers. The Wampanoag, Bor-
der City, and the Chase mills will proba-
bly, close tomorrow ; also the Union mill.
This will throw $3.50 hands out of en-
ployment A di ference of opinion ex-
lists among the manufacturers as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of general shut down.
Many hold that instead of shutting
down, it would be better to keep running
and compensate those mills which are
closed Through the strike for their losses,
occasioned thereby. The dissatisfaction
is spreading to other classes of help.
The lock boys at the Metacomet mill
struck at noon, and stopped the mill.
throwing 325 hands out of employment.
The spinners make an appeal to the
weavers not to work with the "knob
STICKS" and they say that this strike was
only resorted to in the hope of warding
off industrial slavery, and for preventing
the cotton operatives from being lowered
to level with the Chinese.
LONDON, Feb 5.-A Berlin dispatch re-
ports advices have been received from
, Madrid to the effect that dangerous
symptoms of disloyalty are manifesting
themselves in the Spanish ARMY; and an.
other revolt is feared.
J VIENNA, Feb. 5.-Three battallions Of
infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and
two batteries of artillery are kept in read
! mess night and day for prompt action il
, case of disturbance.
: FALL River, Feb. 6.-The weaVers O.
the Pocasett mill struck this afternoon
, and the mill is closed. Theyemploy 7O(
: hands. The Brown mill is also closed
| Thirteen mills are now shut down.
! ALBANY, Feb. 1.-The bill making
Q twelve hours days work for street ca
: conductors and drivers passed the as
q sembly to-day, 80 to 80. The conductor
: and drivers may work overtime for ex
ira pay. Many legislators declared tn
measure clearly unconstitutional.
y VIENNA, Feb. 7.-As all known Social
= list agitators have been expelled or al
l. rested, the troops no longer are KEEP
under arms. Railway companies hav
been forbidden to carry explosives with
= = out permission from the government.
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