The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-19
LABOR NOTES.
Notes From All Oyer---Condition Of The
Labor Market.

N, ii VIII De TGph1lL iGAt SPAAAAts'
The Boston Typographical Union has re-
moved the ban placed six years ago on the
Boston Post,
W. 8, Simmons, of Providence, has leased
mill at Hope Valley, II. L., 10 manufacture
yarns.
The Knights of Labor have spread fhern-
selves into Bangor, Me-, and formed a strong
assembly.
It is reported that the knights OF Labor Will
soon open o cooperative laundry IN Oanpury,
Conn.
satisfactory progress is said to being mace
in the effort to establish WOOL NM AZ "''A
diner, Ne.
In Patterson, N. j., the silk workers report
that there is plenty Of work. but Wages aso
very low.
Az ADVANCE of 10 per cent has been MADE III
+be nav of the lsborers OF the WanshucR, H. ~
midi.
Howard & Co.'S shoe factory, brooR'on'
Mass. which gave work to iifty hands' Was o.
stroyed by fire last week.
Tho sr,ool mill Of Austin & Co, Wela' Me- 10
doing larger and more ren1unera'l' Z p''siiS'''
than ever before.
Abo,lt twenty pairs Of mules were stopped u.
the lade MILL Fall River, last week. Oh
of being short Of rowing.
THO Ka+andln iron works Mt Bangor Name,
I,7rnei two wears ago and since reonlis' seai'9"
M successfully on the lst
nv the burning, on the I'd, Of Russ shoe iac-
tory, at Salem Centre, N. H., forty operatives
vera thrown out of employment.
so,7tn Norwalk, Ct, reports the hat trade re
covering. Nearly al the SHOPS s1e 1T VIZ '''-'N
zo,ue are running full time.
cc-cperative nail factory, with capltai OF
sroo coo. has been established at Plttspurs anu
Stevenviile, 0.
The French Canadian workmen OF haon'ie't
demand that assisted eInigrauoI'' eAcep' AoA
AGRICULTURAL labor, shall cease.
In yineland, NJ, a cooperative grocery
store ia to be established. The hnignVs OF
y,ahor have originated it and promised TO sup
polt it.
Tn Manchester, N. H., the knights OF Labor
are circulating q petition for weekly payments
nv the corporations. They intend TO ger zo'Ooo
signatures
The eiear1nakers' progressive union, ne"
York, viii continue it's boycott OF S'traltoh "
storm, though the Knights OF Laoor hs'S 70
moved theirs
THE California Jute Company reports tha1
they have hired Chinese and white lapot iof
.oe eide nv side and find the white LABOR III
cornparabIy superior.
new weekly paper the Rochester Leader
iss,1ed IFS first number at Rochester, N. H.. on
rho 1st and will espouse the cause OF labor
Cate s. Horne are publishers.
President Harrison, of the AInalgarnated AS
,ocistion has been establishing lodges near
wiIkesparre for week past. 1t ls SAID tna'
nearly 1000 laborers have 3olned Inc oruei
During November 6,404 cases OF BOOTS ana
shoes we're shipped from Hobrook, Mass,
factories, as against 5,o46 cases during the same
fine last wear ard 1907 the year before.
The freight brakemen on nearly ali 'he todtae
IN pittsburg and Allegheny are joining ehe
itfen1eil Le.. DO siesIe7 oeeenFlE hfp''T
red in the West for mutual protection.
There is great distress at Logansport, IND,
,yer the failure OF the Riverside company.
hundreds of Swedes and HuDgarians are iett
O stsrye and two months wages due them
Nv order of the Knights Of Labor, issued on
he Sd, nearly 100 operatives left heene BROS
actory. Lynn. on that day. The firm threatens
q remove its business to Showhegan, Me, as
con as possible.
The vote of the Cigarmakers' Progressive
Union of America on the question OF amalga-
nation with the international Union is nearly
III in, and shows that nearly two-thirds are ID
ayor of reconciliation.
The strike among the Eastern coal miners Is
expected to end soon. Considerable SUFFERING
among the miners has been caused and many
If the mines are already in operation at the
operators terms.
An assembly of the Knights of Labor was
orIned in East Bridgewater, Mass, by a. a.
carlton on the I'd. Another assembly was
ormed in Taunton, Mass, the same evening,
which makes seven now in that city.
There are now four lively assemblies of the
Knights of Labor in Newton, Mass, and two
more IpFWllUS. iuS aA1ehio eiA0a h.~e
,ver the election of Mr.. Kimbali as mayor, to
whose success they largely contributed
The Queauechan mill, Fall River, which last
week announced its inability TO meet its habiii-
les. had capital of 100000, ran sos looms,
:aye employment TO 275 persons when in fun /
.uuning order and produced $500 pieces an
luaily.
The Chinese question is still disturbing the |
people of the Pacific Coast. The President OF |
he Cigarrnakers' International Union of San |
Francisco is coming East to make arrange
nents with white oigarmakers to take the /
places OF the Mongohans.
A new wooen mill enterprise at East Madi- |
,on Me-, has given quite boom 10 the ousl-
aesr of that pleasant village. New streets are
9eing laid out, house lots are selling rapidly
IND the villagers are looking forward to be-
,ofning manufacturing community Of Inn
1ortauce,
The prescription giassbiowers employed at
he Hamilton factories IN Piitsburg, Pa, have
been or, strike for one year and two days for
IN advance of % per cent TN the I'd COM
promise of 10 per cent. was accepted, and the
men will return to work as soon as possible.
At the national labor convention at Fits
burg last year. resolution was adopted
against foreigners crowding home working
men out. AS consequence 200 foreign glass
blowers nave been forced to return home with
in the past six months. being unable 10 secure
smploymeatin American factories.
The Brocaton strike is practically ended. At
hers OF the arbitration committee came out of
room Il and Is at Hotel Belmont For nearly
hfteen hours the conference lasted, during
,rL;.,b +fa sar,s Of q settlement yarr agreed