The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-14
LABOR NEWS.
Notes From All Over Condition Of The
Labor Market.

Labor Market.
i A number of striking silk weavers of New
York viii go to work at cigarette making.
4 The Brooklyn Cooperative Watch Case Com
pany is getting along nicely, employing fifteen
men.
4 Out Of q force of about 5000 miners in the
Hooking valley and Ohio Central regions, less
than FOG were engaged yesterday.
4 meeting of coal operatives and miners is
announced to take place in Pittsburg, on Dec
Is, to bring about a mutual understanding.
i The cigarmaizers employed by Kalt IL Co. II
East Sd ST., New York, struck successfully las
week for an increase OF SO cents per thousanc
cigars.
/ About seventy cigarmakers employed il
! Ahren's shop in East 10th ST., New York are or
strike for an increase of $1.5o per Thousand
cigars.
lis estimated that 10000 labor union mer
voted against Andrew j. White. OF New York
because OF his alleged opposition to trades
unionists.
| 1t is likely the strike OF the naiimakers
which has been in progress six months, will
soon end and the men will get ten per cent
advance
/ Roach's ship yard, at Chester, Pa.,was started
! Friday with a force of 100, which will be
increased up to a limit Of 800 as fast as neces-
| SHY compels.
! The union printers of Bradford, Pa, have
started an evening paper, the Call, in opposi-
| ton to the Evening Star, which has been turned
| into rat office.
/ The Philadelphia & Readings Merriam col
| liery at Mt. Camel, Pa, resumed work yester.
| day, after 8 months suspension, giving en-
| ployment to 500 hands.
The Pullman shops near Chicago, are build
| ing thirty passenger cars for the Staten Island
| Rapid Transit road and sixty horse-cars for the
Broadway line in New York.
In 1858 the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at
Steelton, made 2,221 tons Of steel rails. In 1888
they made 148,62B tons of steel rails and now
give steady work to almost 5000 men.
The John Stevenson Company, of New York.
already has the largest street car factory in the
world, but it's business is increasing SO fasl that
two additional buildings are about being
| erected.
| Work in Galveston city and Houston was
everywhere resumed yesterday by the striking
knights Of Labor, pending the arbitration of
| ther grievances against the Mallory Steamship
company.
The Knights Of Labor in New York indig-
nantly deny that their colleagues had anything
! to do with the st. Louis dynamiters. Their Or
| ganization would not tolerate men who preach
| or practice violence.
Robesonia Furnace, at Robesonia, Pa, which
| has been closed for the past two years while
being enlarged, has resumed operations with a
large force of men. The capacity Of the fur
| mace is now about 800 tons week
| A Swiss silk manufacturing firm has pur-
| chased ground at Union Hill. Hoboken, and
will erect factory, in which they will place GOO
LOOMS to be operated, it is said, by foreign
hands who win be imported from Zurich for
the purpose.
/ The Supreme Court of South Carolina has
decided that when any of the duties Of the
master are delegated to a subordinate, however
inferior, the negligence of such agent is the
negligence OF the company. and that they
must respond in damages
Taking the amount of work performed il
our wooden and cotton mills, we payless money
to the workpeople than they pay for the like
service in England, but the higher. priced iabo,
of mill superintendents makes the whole cost
of running mill greater in Massachusetts.
The differences existing between Typograph.
teal Unions No, 6 and Z, and the German Her
aid and New Yorker Zeitnng is settled 1t was
agreed by the proprietors of the papers that
the compositors should belong to either of the
i unions, thus making the papers union offices.
The cigarmakers employed in Breslin's fac
tories, on 9th ST., New York, who demand the
restoration of their old rate of wages, and also
those in the employ of Rosenstein, Perera 4
Co., in Chambers ST., who are asking for an in
crease of SO cents per thousand cigars, are out
on strike.
/ The bakers of New York City, Brooklyn and
Jersey City, are pushing the work of bringing
the journeymen into the Union fold. Leaders
in the movement say that the time is rapidly
arriving when an attempt shall be made to Sc
cure higher wages and q shorter number OF
hours OF labor.
/ The coal miners employed at the Filler, Haz-
ard & Ormsby Mines. in Mercer county, Pa,
| have been notified by their employers that the
order to compete with Eastern operators, a re-
duction in the mining price is necessary. The
men are strongly opposed to q cut and serious
| trouble is apprehended.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company has es-
tablished a relief fund, into which the EN-
| ployees put voluntary contributions, and for
| every dollar contributed by the worknen the
| company puts in another. The fund will pro-
vide assistance for the injured. the widow aud
| the orphan.
| About LOO employees in the watch factory al
aurora, Ill, struck. They marched in q body
TIC the court house and adopted resolutions
i appointed committee TO wait upon the direct
ors of the company and demand redress OF
| their grievances The cause Of the strike is
the reduction made in the wages of some OF
the men.
According TO the way things have been run
ming at the iron works lately, the Forkmen car
| scarcely make a subsistence. great many
nave not been able to average more than 8
dollar day in wages for some time, owing tt
the machinery being out of order When nail:
we're $3.50 a key, wages averaged 81 SO day;
now they don't average that amount with naii.
at saa-T5 a keg.-FaI River Globe.
The Labor Standard of Paterson. N. J.. de
elares explicitly that there are establishments
in that city where girls work for 70 cents day
tro weeks work OF L hours day. And thess