The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
LABOR NOTES.

The drug clerks of New York have
formed a union.
New York Knights of Labor are agi-
tating for hall of their own.
The stove trade at Pittsburg presents
no rev feature. 1t is dull.
Work at the coal mines at Atlanta,
Illinois, has been resumed.
Buy Douglas coal, $500 Tor 1000 pounds.
Telephone 347; office 1862 Fifteenth street.
On May l, an advance of 25 cents per
day will be asked by the House Farmers
Union of New York.
TIE little city of Decatur, Illinois, with
po oulation of 5000 to 10000. has over
1000 Knights of Labor.
In Chicago 800 carpenters recently
protested against scabs, and discussed
demand for higher wages.
The new foundry of the Reading,
Pennsylvania, Hardware company, has
started up with forty-fve mOlders.
The stone masons of st. Louis will
hereafter demand 81 per day; and will
insist on semi-monthly payments instead
of monthly, as at present,
Local Assembly 274G, of Bav City,
Michigan, is about to establish night
school for the members Of the order.
An effort is being made in New York
to form union of porters, packers and
warehousemen. 1t will be successful.
Carpenters are asked to stay away
from Seattle, Washington territory.
The place is overrun with unemployed.
A meeting is talked of in New York to
give expression to the course the Trib-
une has pursued, and to push to the ut
most the bovcotting movement.
The chain makers in the New Jersey
Steel and Iron works announced last
Saturday that they have decided to stop
work until they get the price paid by
other firms.
A strike exists at Brown, Bonnell &
Co.'S mill, No. I, Youngstown, Ohio. A
pudder was discharged by a tyrannical
pudding boss, and the remainder came
out for his reinstatement.
Two important bills are being consid-
cred by the senate committee of the
State of Iowa, one to provide for the
proper ventilation of mines, and the
other to establish bureau of labor
During 1888 there was a total Of
eighteen strikes in New York City, in
volving in all 1880 men. Ten were
successful, one partially so, five were
failures, and two are yet unfinished.
All the flint glass factories in Brook
lyn, New York, are running, but trade is
dull. The men are only making half
time. They won complete victory IN
their strike at the Concord street factory.
The Metal Workers Union of St.
Louis has issued a call for a national
convention of metal workers in the
country, for the purpose Of organizing a
national association of all metal work
ers.
Another manufacturers association
has been started in New York City. 1t
STYLES itself No. 2. The organization is
progressive in the payment of low wages
and the employment of tenement-house
labor.
The Pittsburg Bricklayers' Association,
at a meeting, decided not to make a de-
mand for an increase in wages this year.
The rate at present is 81 per day for
common bricklaying, and $3.50 to S. for
pressed brick.
Leayenworth, Kansas, again has a
Typographical Union, after being STUN
bling-bloek in the way of Missouri yal-
ley printers for years. The Times is now
RUN as a square Office, with Joe Merri-
field as foreman.
The stonecutters to the number of 80,
az work on the addition to the Windsor
hotel, at Dallas, Texas, struck Monday
fer an advance in wages from $3.50 to 81