The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-12
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LABOR NOTES.

local labor organizations are eited 10 contribute
items for this column. -
The quarrymeni at Joliet, Ill.,, are still in
beligerent- mood.
4 The New York Legislature has defeated
the contract labor bill
New York house painters demanded So. Sc
| per day from their bosses and got it.
ALI the coal operatives at Coehocton, o.,
about 800, are on q strike against ten per
cent reduction.
The morocco fnishers who are striking
| for higher wages from their employer, G.
Nugent, Newark, are still out
The 5000 river miners in and around
Pittsburgh who struck for the three cent
rate have brought the operators to terms
and are at work again.
Wages at the Somerset Pottery Works,
Fall River, Mass, were reduced ten per
cent. Tuesday, with some talk OF shut
down in about month.
The Delaware and Hudson canal boat
men at Kingston, N Y, have asked that
rates be restored to seventy cents, the sum
paid last year, and gotit.
II is estimated that of the %, 600 men
employed in the Pittsburg district at least
5000 eligible to membership In the Anal
/ gamtted Association, but the union has not
more than ], 800 members.
The Pittsburg miners have Just won a
suit compelling the coal operators to pay
them in money, instead of goods at the
operators stores, where they were forced to
pay twice what goods were worth.
About 100 girls employed in the Newark
silk mills have struck for restoration of
old prices. During the latter part of Au-
tumn and throughout the Winter work was
suspended, and when 1t was resumed re-
duction Of ten per cent. was made,
About twenty brass polishers, employed
at Riley 4 0sboynes works, in Newark.
have quit work because the firm reduced
the price of polishing brass from 81 to
60 cents gross. At the old price they
could not earn more than about 81 SO per
day.
Over 1000 hands employed in the Nc
Cormack Reaper Works in Chicago, have
struck against continuous reductions that
reuch forty per cent Of their earnings six
months ago. Skilled mechanics, under the
latest reductions. can not earn more than
$1.36 per day.
When the hat finisher's employed in r.
Il A. M. Fulcher's factory, Newark, went to
the shop on Monday morning they found
new List Of prices posted up. The new
prices made Q reduction of from five to
fifteen per cept. q dozen on certain work.
The men at ONCE refused to submit TO the
reduction and struck. Tuesday they were
told TO return to work at the old prices.
Jersey City drivers and truckmen have
organized by the election of John j. Burns
as President; William Winters, Secretary;
David Lang. Treasurer, and p. Griffin, Ser
geant-a Arus, to retaliate upon the New
York truckmen, who have secured the pas
sage Of an ordinance there forbidding non
residents to engage in trucking, by urging
the passage of similar ogdinaape here.
The Trades Union builders, of New York,
claim that they should be allowed forty-fve
cents an hour for nine hours's work each
DAY, when eight hours work should be the
limit. The master builders are willing to
allow forty cents an ho4r, and will consider
before pext Tuesday, when another meet
ing will be held, whether or not the addi-
tional five cents asked for shall be granted