The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07
LABOR NEWS.
Notes From ALI Over Condition of the
/ Labor Market.


All members Of the Clothing CnttersI e ion
of New York are busy &
Philadelphia taii0rs report work good, and
very Few men Idle. S h. s
The d erman Metal Workers Union OF Phil.
adelphia ID discussing the eight-hour question
Monlders are requested to Keep away from
New York until the present strike is settled
AT d recent meeting the operative painters OF
New York discussed the eight-hour question,
ana resolved to fall into line on May next.
owing 10 the strike ii the Onion Stock Yards
at Chicago, coopers are requested to keep Q way
from that city 8s4 IL SS5s &c 3s Il SsS
II T,yo hundred coopsrs went OuAOn strike ~
Peoria. Ill. because Of q 2Gper cent cut N
wages. Tho distillers are relying on Indiana
manufacturers for their barrels.
The fires Of Cordelia furnace, Colu nlbia, Pa,
owned by Isaac McHase, were lighted recently
AFTER an idleness Of eleven months. HI
The bricklayers Of Philadelphia have dedf-
Gated their new hall. The building cost SSa
is free OF all membranes. and was paid Tor
by the members Of the union.
AT d meeting Of the New York Central Labor
Union several OF the delegates reported that
the ostrich feather workers IN the employ Of
lsidor Cohnfeld had had their wages reduced
40 per cent. 8 #
4 AT a meeting of the Seamen's Union in Chi
cago, it was decided to raise the wages Of sea-
men from 81 to 81. 50 per day for the remain
der Of the season, the change to 60 into effect
at once.
Over $50 new members Joined the New York
Furriers' Union in three days, two shops
marching to the headquarters headed by brass
bands. There we're six shops in which Onion
men were not employed. 4.
Railroad builders are replacing wooden
bridge structures with iron, and this gives q
great deal Of work TO structural iron makers
and bridge builders. Steel rails are to be made
from odd rails by special process.
\ The hands employed at s. Riddle & Sons
mill, Roekdale, Pa, have struck for an advance
Of wages, and the mill has been stopped. The
cause 81 the dissatisfaction among Riddles
employees is that Burn1y s Son have advanced
their wages 10 per cent. 558
The strike in Seigers cigar factory. Grand
street, New York, is settled The strikers
have received an advance OF 81 erthousand.
The strike In theacigar factory of z. +. Bochu
& Co Second avenue and Sixty second street,
is also settled. The hands will receive an adj
vance Of from sixty-fve cents to 81 per
thousand. aFS
The strike Of the lshirtmakers employed BY
the Keep Manufacturing Company, at Broad
way and Blocker street. New York, against q
ipfo Init "a
result. Some of the girls returned to work at
the reduced rate, while others have obtained
employment in other factories
A correspondent says: AT the close OF the
strike on the Wabash Road the knights Of
Labor claimed compromise, but the public
test is failure, for the officials are taking back
only few of the old men. There will be more
suffering and misery among workingmen here
this winter than ever before.
After six months itlleness work is being re-
s,,med in the window glass factories at Pitts
burg Five factories started up few days
ago and three more will begin operat tons soon,
giving employment to several hundred per-
sons. A number OF other factories are firing
zip and win commence work shortly.
The striking prescription glass blowers Of
r irfgtn1fn OF
the manufacturers to return to work at the
old wages. p,oySding they would allow one
half the non-inion men now employed TO re-
main in their places The proposition was
discussed at length, bntno definite action taken.
The strike, which has lasted over a year, has
created 4 famine In bottles. &
Of the Fourth Pool miners ut Pittsburg, six
mines having resumed operations on the terms
offered by the operators. The operators claim
that the backbone OF the strike is broken in
that pool aud that q general RESUMPTION will
take place in few days. Starvation IL said
to be the cause Of the break There u no
change in the situation In the three lower
pools, but 1t is impossible for the mon to hold
out much longer.
About aixty-fiye of the eighty striking wGav-
era from John Greer a. Co.'s cotton-goods mill
at sixteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia,
returned to work last week, the remainder re-
fusing to work until their demand for y 10
percent advance Is granted In addition to
the weavcrs about $50 employees who were
thrown out Of employment during the strike
rytnrned to work. Nj. Greer said that he could
not i've the advance q he was ut present pay
ing ~ high wages o. other manufacturers
am0ns the textile and other manufacturers
looking u the prevention Of strikes tfs pro
posed TO make with each employee a contract
In writing setting forth the amount Of wages to
be paid and the number OF hours to be worked