The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
per day The contractor has not acceded

per day. The contractor has not acceded
to their demands
The Lathers' Union, of Chicago, with
membership of 500, resolved to form
an assembly of Knights of Labor. A
demand for $3.50 day will be made.
They are now receiving $3.50, but year
ago got $3.50, and want to return tc that
price.
The miners in the anthracite regions,
crushed as they are and given only three
| days week work, are organizing in the
Knights of Labor and Miners and Labor
ers' Associations by the hundreds. The
operators show no haste in starting
their works. Z
AT the New York Central Labor Union
meeting a resolution was passed declar-
ing that the union regard as revolu-
tionary measure the bill of Senator
Comstoek making it a misdemeanor for
strikers to speak to non-union men seek
ing employment where a strike is in
progress. o.. y
Workingmen who know that the New
York Tribune pays printers less wages
than any other daily newspaper in New
York; and is doing its utmost to destroy
the printers union, don't take much
stock in Whitelaw Reid's hypocritical
cries of protection to the American
workingmen." ."-Boycotter.
The Reading Hardware company, at
Reading, Pennsylvania, whose l25
molders have been standing out six
weeks against reduction of 10 per cent,
announce that they will resume in few
days by introducing molding machines,
by which one man and an experienced
boy can do the work of three full hands.
A committee from the Buffalo Typo
graphical Union will attend the meet
ings of the different labor organizations
in that city for the purpose of stating
the difficulties now existing between the
Typographical Union and the Courier
The union desires no outside aid in tax
ing care of Its strikers, but wants the
active cooperation of all wage workers.
Last Saturday at ~ o'clock the time
was up for the striking nailers of the
fremont Nail works, Wareham Massa-
chusetts, to vaCate their tenement houses.
The last family went out at once. Nearly
all found houses in the villages, but
few had to depend on the hospitality Of
their friends. There is only a little suf-
fering among those who have been
evicted Herald.
A colony of twenty-five families left
Pit'sburg, April |, for Seattle, Washing
ton territory, for the purpose of making
it their future home. The foreign emmi-
grafton is driving them out Of trades,
giving EMPLOYERS an opportunity to
reduce wages. This is given as the
reason for seeking new homes. Several
hundred more will leave shortly, if re-
ports from the colony are favorable.
The people of Mahoney City, Pennsyl-
vania, are protesting against the crowd
ing of Hungarian paupers in that region
by the New York emgrant agencies. A
committee of the town council visited
twenty dens, in which 800 persons were
found. Most of the dens are old stables,
and few contain more than one room, in
which men, women and children were
huddl in sickening filth and stencil.
The COalburg Coal company, Coalburg,
Alabama, is flooding the country with
advertisements calling on miners to 90
there, claiming that they have steady
work for all that comes. The miners Of
that place say work is unsteady and is
liable to be 80 all this spring and SYM
mer. This company has built large
prison and from all that can be learned
intend to get 400 convicts very sOon.-
Akron Journal.