The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23
LABOR NOTES.

The dulInes continues at the Colorado Iron
works.
The Chicago Telegram has been made a
union Office.
Children 10 years old are working in the
Ohio coal mines.
Chicago furniture-workers are organizing
to resist threatened reduction:
Buy Douglas coal, $3.50 for 1900 pounds.
Telephone S47; Office 1861 Fifteenth street.
Bricklayers of Cleveland, Ohio, will de-
mand $3.50 per day during the building sea
son.
The Knights of Labor have assemblies in
over thirty counties and seventy towns in
Kansas.
Stonecutters are notified to stay away from
Austin, Texas, as the town is oYerrun at
present
Building continues brisk in and about
Philadelphia, with wages ranging about So
per day.
The News, of Philadelphia, has been re-
deemed again and Is once more good square
union office.
A state labor convention will be held in
Chicago about March Is to discuss contract
prison labor.
The railway brakemen have organized a
brotherhood. Their headquarters are One
onta, New York.
An acknowledgment that he is union
molder is sufficient to cause mans arrest in
Troy, New York.
The Missouri Furnace, at Carondelet, will
start up in a few days. About htty men
will be employed.
A school for the teaching of mathematics
has been started by the Carpenters union Of
Washington, D. c.
Another Knights Of Labor assembly, COM
posed of boot and shoe makers, is being or
ganized in Cincinnati
Carpenters are pretty busy in New Mexico
Their wages are S2.25 per day. The work Is
principally on railroads.
All the miners at the Wildwood, Pennsyl-
yania, shaft who do not reside in company
houses have been discharged.
Trouble exists between the carpenters and
bosses at New Haven, Connecticut. The men
are unerganized, hence the trouble.
A cooperative society has been organized
by the San Francisco Knights OF Labor, with
acapital of 100000, in shares of $40 each.
Glassblowers are still locked out at CoY-
iIgton, Kentucky. The non-union men who
took their places have been driven out by the
flood.
The furniture workers of Chicago report
work very dull, and an attempt to reduce
wages to S1.50 per day is being made in some
shops.
Two farmers saw a couple of dudes on
street in Troy, when one of them exclaimed :
Gosh! What things we see when we don't
have no gun"
There are now 9,O41 assemblies of Knights
Labor affiliated with the General Assembly,
an increase of over 700 in year, or about
two every day.
Isaac Cline, president Of the Window
Glassworkers association, says the prospect
i. that there will be plenty of work In that
line for several months.
The Cleveland Union Rolling Mill COM
pany's blast furnace has received. a large
number Iof orders, and the threatened stop
page will thus be avoided.
1t is said the movement to establish a
printers district asse mbly of the Knights Of
Labor is gaining strength. There are over
forty printers assemblies.
The chain manufacturers pool has col
lapsed, and shutdown is threatened II the
reduction of 20 per cent proposed in theiMor'
rison tariff bill goes into effect.
The cigarmaSers of three factories In
Petersburg, Virginia, are still out and living
on rations supplied by their friends. They
re fused to stand reduction of a5 cents pei
1000.
The Trades Assembly OF this city intend
to hold another agitation meeting in the near
future. In the meantime the addresses OF
organizers and other information can be OBJ
tanned at this Office.
The employees of Higgins & Co., of New
York, carpet manufacturers, were out on a
strike for nearly TWO months against re-
duction of 10 per cent in wages, and returned
practically the Yictors. o.
The printers of Detroit have succeeded in
establishing their scale. They have secured