The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-22

which they call the Daily Capital. They
will make it lively for the rated States
man.
The miners employed at West Cheer,
Iowa, have nearly all signed an agree.
ment to contribute 81 per cent of theil
earnings to the striking miners of Cory
mine.
Nearly all of the molders of Milwau.
kee, Wisconsin, are busy. Some foun.
dries have made slight reduction in
wages, while others have shortened the
hours.
The Bridgeton, New Jersey, Window
Glass company, has raised Its scale Of
wages 10 per cent, and Joseph A. Clark
& Co., offer free house rent to their mar.
ried blowers.
The Comstock Stove works, at Keokuk
Iowa, who forced their molders to strike
by wanting to hold one weeks wages
out of four until the end of the year
have busted.
The cigarmakers lockout at Cincinnati
throws out of employment 1000 mer
and women. The Progressive and In
ternational unions are standing together
In the trouble.
Plasterers at St. Louis have advanced
their wages 10 per cent. The bosses
paid the advance without resistance, as
they wish to avoid trouble when the
building boom opens.
Tailors are warned to stay away from
Denver, as there is a strike against
Appel & Co., merchant tailors, owing to
reduction of wages.-Boycotting Com
mittee of the Trades Assembly.
Mary Slattery, who was discharged
from the Trenton pottery, has received
$72. She was insulted by her employer
and left, and was backed in her suit for
salary and loss of time by the Knights
of Labor.
The Pennsylvania railroad have dis
charged some of their oldest and tried
engineers because the doctor said they
were color blind. One of them had
served twenty-nine years ana never had
an accident.
The carpenters of Denver have adopted
the constitution and bylaws of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of North America, and the trade in this
city will be we'll organized when spring
building begins,
An exchange says that in free trade
England, strikes ON a large scale fre,
quently occur; IN protected America
strikes on large scale frequently occur
Now what has high tariff or free trade
Go do with the wages question.
The ship joiners in the good old
times" were numerous and strong body
of workmen. To-day, when work is
slack, the house joiners turn in and take
the bread and butter out Of their
mouths" A movement is on foot to
come to some amicable arrangement to
prevent this.
The annual report of the mine inspec-
tor of the Scranton district shows that
the Lackawanna Coal companies employ
2l,779 persons in the anthracite industry
OF this number 1864 work in the mines
and 7,l45 are employed outside. This
force mined 8,S45,74 tons of coal last
year.
A petition signed by 1000 laborers of
the Louisville labor and Trade Unions
has been presented to the Kentucky
legislature, opposing the hiring out OF
convict labor; Also asking that law be
enacted to prohibit the employment Of
convicts by the state IN any form that
would come in competition with the in
terest of the honest workingmen.
At the expiration of the summer sto p
last year, Mr. Yml, Of the flint G lass fac
tory at Montreal, Pennsylvania, started
up with forty foreign glass blowers un,
der contract. The men not being accus-
toned to making the class of ware Mr..
Yuil wanted, found after short trial
that they could not make enough wages
to pay their board, and some of them
Quit work. Yuil had them arrested and
the police Judge fined and imprisoned
them for refusing to work. The French
Consul carried the case to the higher
courts, which has just reversed the de-
cision of the lower court, and the men
have entered suit against Yuil FOR dam
ages. Twenty Of them have returned
home, and seventeen of them are out or
strike for union wages.
CORRESPONDENCE.