The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26
LABOR NOTES.

A trades and labor assembly is talked of TO
Toledo, Ohio.
Indianapolis carpenters complain of dull
times andno work.
A mixed assembly of Knights Of Labor |,
talked Of in McKeesport.
Boston carpenters now work nine hours {
day. They are organized.
The st. Louis shoe makers are still locked
out. No iron-clad in theirs.
Best set of teeth S.; try him; DR.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
Over 5000 men are idle in st. Louis, be-
cause of recently closed mills and shops.
Best set of teeth So; try him Dr.
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
An unsatisfactory compromise has put an
end to strike of cartmen, at Havana, Cuba.
Most of the chain makers locked out at
Akron, Ohio, have secured work elsewhere.
The bookbinders, silk ribbon weavers and
carpet weayers' strikes are still on in New
York.
The Lancaster, Pennsylvania, gingham
mills have made reduction of 10 per cent in
wages.
The painters of New York report trade
fair, and the unions increasing in member
ship.
Judson Grenell has been elected to repre-
sent Detroit typographical union, at New
Orleans.
A 10 per cent reduction went into effect at
the Trumbull Iron works, at Girard, Ohio, on
Monday.
The district assembly of the Knights of
Labor of Detroit has been legally incor-
porated,
The amalgamated carpenters now number
e2,3e9 members, with $50 branches, all over
the globe.
The mill men at Scottdale, Pennsylvania,
have aecepted-a 50 cents ton reduction, and
resumed work.
The annual strike Of the ice haryesters, on
the Hudson river, for an increase of wages,
has commenced.
The trades assemblies of Cincinnati and
Dayton, Ohio, are moving to form a State
Labor Association.
Twelve coal miners have been arrested
near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, charged with
conspiracy to cause strike.
There are three well organized assemblies
of Knights of Labor, in Alpena, Michigan,
with membership Of nearly 500.
Carpenters report poor wages and little
work about Pittsburg. They are one OF the
hardest Organized trades In the country.
A new assembly of the Knights Of Labor
was founded in Lynn, Massachusetts,, last
week, with membership of over 800 girls.
The scab iron workers of the burned Mt.
Hickory mills, at Erie, have been receiving
charity. They have no friends and no work.
The majority of the iron masters In the
north of France, are reducing wages and 10
per cent, and many furnaces have been blown
out.
The following notice waspublished by the
Baltimore Typographical union, January Is:
1.-THE Baltimore Herald, from this date, en-
ploys union men,"
Screens have been introduced at some OF
the Dubois mines, and as the men have been
paid for the run Of the mine, it amounts to
a reduction Of wages.
One hundred and fifty miners have been
discharged from the Cole City, Georgia,
mines, on account of the increased number
of convicts received.
The wire drawers employed BY Oliver q
Roberts, consent to accepting 5per cent re
duction until April1. The owners wanted tt
knock of 10 per cent.
The iron workers at Stockton-on- re
fused to take holiday In honor Of the prince
of Wales visit, or to subscribe 10 q fund to
decorate the town. Sensible.
} The coal-screen committee Of Ohio, will
recommend that screens with smaller meshes
be used, in order that the miners may receive
pay for coal now classed as nut
The strike Of the shoemakers, at Allen,
town, Pennsylvania, has been abandoned,
af3er holding out fifty weeks. The Knights
of Labor supported them during the long
i, strike.
One thousand men working under the iron
clad agreement in Armstrong county propose
70 Join the Amalgamated Association Of
Ainers, and agitate and work for their emsn-
cipation.
!. typographical IJnion M of New YnR3