The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-19
LABOR NOTES.

San Francisco has large number of
idle molders.
Prison labor is crippling the boot and
shoe trade in Indiana. -
Best set of teeth s.; try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
There are three "subs" to every regular
on the daily papers in San Francisco.
Best set of teeth s.; try him; DIR
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
Jobs are scarce upon all the roads
about Pittsburg and almost impossible to
secure.
The Flint Bottle Manufacturers Asso-
citation meets at Washington, D, G., on
January Is.
Efforts are being made to organize the
bakers of New York City and Brooklyn
into union.
The Maryland Coal company recently
donated a car load of coal to the poor of
Cumberland. u,
The Consolidated Coal company owns
fve-eights of the coal land in Allegheny
county, Maryland.
Prison contract labor must 60 in New
Jersey The legislature is said to be in
favor of its abolition. -~-s- = st--
Louisville cabinet-make are becom-
ing millionsires at ss per week They
have no organization. - rs
Tie striking weavers in North and
Northeast Lancashire, England, have in
creased in numbers to $1,000.
The cigar makers of Ltitz, Pennsyl-
yania, have struck because of a reduction
from 81 to $3.50 per thousand.
The Plumbers Union of Cincinnati, is
in fiourishing condition, and adding to
its numerical strength at each meeting.
A new branch of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners has been organ
lied in st. Louis, and chartered as Union
No. s. 1854 s St#E5s
AT Akron, Ohio, the chain-makers are
still out, with no prospect of settle
ment. Most of them have secured work
elsewhere. IS
The stove manufacturers last night
asked the molders' union for reduction
of from Is to 20 per cent on wages
Albany Union. --s .st5eI 81.
Seven of the largest English trades
unions have spent in six years $4,000
600 for the defense, support and relief OF
men out of work. a,
The Hampshire mine in Maryland,
continues to work full time, but the large
number of men in the mine is too great
for the distribution of cars. -
Last week nearly 2,200 workmen came
to Philadelphia seeking work, many OF
them in destitute condition and had to
be helped out of the city by friends.
The employees of the Clark Thread
company, of Newark, were last week
notified of contemplated reduction oi
10 to Is per cent. A compromise Is ex'
pected. s',.5f f. ~ fzaE a..
Cincinnati Carpenters Union with
drew its funds from the Western German
bank of that city because it advertised
in the Volksfreund boycotted rat
paper. s.-.E.".
The striking carpet-weavers employed
by Higgins & Co., New York, have gon'
to work, pending arbitration Of the disa
greement. They have been out Mint
months.
The strike on the Troy, New YORK
Times still continues. Nineteen mel
were hired in New York to fill the place
of the strikers, but only two put in al
appearance.
The Sunny Cline, a serio-eomic literar!
paper, recently burned out in Terrell
has removed to Dallas and opened anew
It is published by three deaf mutes, al
practical printers.
An advertisement for competen
printer was inserted in the New Yorl
Sun few days ago. 1t received over 20
answers in one day, from idle printers
all in the city.
typographical Union No. 9, Of Ney