The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-28
LABOR NOTES,
Notes From All 0ver---Condition Of The
Labor Market.

T! been organized
! The Plasters of Camden, N. j., have formed
/ 81 Protective Union.
| About 2 200 carpenters are employed in New
| ark IT. J., but they have ha Union.
Wages ia Michigan numbering camsp this
winter are to DC siS per month and board.
The cutters in the employ Of Keene Bros,
Lynn, Mass, recently received an unsolicited
! advance OF 50 per week.
over 2.000 shoemakeis at Beverly, Mass, are
on strike for the establishment OF a regulation
price for edge-seuing.
The miners of the Anthracite region of Penn
syvania are joining the Miners and iaborers'
Analgamated Association in great numbers.
! Moorehouse Il Brothers 2aperinanufactory,
al Bridesburg, Pa, where $50 hands are en-
ployed. is running 70 its sun capacity
During the past year the Knights of Labor
organized 7s2 assemblies, mtsling about 1000
which they now have in the states and Canada
a letter from Chattanooga, Tenn, says that
miners employed by the soddy Coal company
at the salt Creek mines have struck for higher
wages.
Rend s. Co, large mine-owners and operators
in the Hooking Valley region, have acoeaed to
the demands OF the striking miners by increas-
ing wages from 80 to 80 cents.
striking n;ti.e Of Pittsburg have issued
circular calling upon trades unions to boycott
the manufacturers employing non union men
The strike is six months old.
The drivers and conductors on the Lynn and
Boston Railroad, have asked for an advance of
- cents III their wages, making them 50 per
day for from fourteen TO seventeen hours
work.
The effect Of the boycott on the shoes manu-
featured by Brennan & White. Williamsburg,
n Y, tits claimed by the organized working
men, is very disastrous in manufacturing cities
snd towns
Committee OF the international CigarrakerS
Union sent to Lynn, Mass, has made q report
on the boycott of 5traiton & storm. II is rather
vague, but itsettles the facr that the boycott is
very extensive in the East.
Straiton & Storms cigar factories in New
York are still closed, and their army of en,-
pI0yes are idle. Many of them visited inf,l-
entiaI knights Of Labor and tried to secure
their influence in having the 6oycotr removed. |
They met with little success, however.
The strike of the Ohio miners mgy cause
trouble During the past few days number
Of cars belonging to the Hooking Valley synd- I
care nave pceh deilHered ar inc MINES On the
11Ig .rail IN ,aIe aaI |
cav tt,ev arc nor ,vtt,i,,e +o ,oad the,n bncausa
OF tbs, trouble in Ohio and meetings. ara IN be
held at each nina IN consider . r,,.n,nstl 10 7
bovcott Hooking Valley cars
1AAeEe Ai"s peei q ""Seotl on tae ffoYlachce
3oariihi ZOE inc phss Two weeks because me
proprietor refused 10 recognize the Typo
4Ureed tf ,b,rit tf,a case tn y hoora If orhi I
fratiop. Two members win be apnoj,ted nv
fhc ,1pion and two Nv fl,e MANAGER
Aoou' ~ GU p'oSs's ~ lae Ma.eh iaeloss ~
: - ~ Si1o i'i'iciieu III a po0s I"
Ao Vo.li' hoise thl "'tis'tea RESOLUTIONS up
pothhins cohslhleiee 70 wait upon the afec-
wy - eiAe Company 'iia '1oinaaiu leo1ess o.
-helt grievances. me canse OF lhe strlke ~
men
fot's-tWo eiosh "eaSefs are out ~ ArroIt
Nie@s0h WIN FhiiaaeipAia. 3hey sFFdch
'eeause u 'he ehipioyllielit u woman VINO
refuses 10 JON the hnl2hts OF LABOR ana ne
propiietofs tet'tsea 10 di5ohaige nef Inc
s.iiNefs ueid y meeting sesteIhay,a ana resolved
10 StaY OUT antI me obnoxious efnploye was
removed.
's.,e..''s ~ ..'.on oisle7s'"he oustefs ai'i
- ~ -
~ - '1's 80 s'''i'e'''' y sa'e 't'ie
''io ''''s ii'S 'ioii
! - 80 :. pD' ,'@u 80"
= '''''' :" N9u YOU NUTS '''S. - 1helt fes'
''' ''' esh = ""o s't''e'' tH'A' tlie ~
"H'' ha'' pee'i 'oAeoacu ps every ltiih.
At a meeting of the white ciparmakers, IN
San Francisco a few days aro it was decided to
puah fbf, pntter NJ white made ,iuers and n.
:" ~ - navy 3o''Vo eieeuiits ptiA'eu' ~ Whieh
,t'e puplAe Wll oe Appealed 70 70 smoke no
1'iies oisats thah those bearing me "nte
-'ei ? ''ss.ois'Soi i"uei me iapel eotnlilittee
poi'eU t"'.' 80 i'peiS nave Deeil is7'isa o'is
~ t"o NseNss NlAch were equlSaieht 70 zoe'-
l''s'''e ~ "iiet oor assocatloii SHOPS.
AT meeting of the puddlers Of the East
,rn division OF Pennsylvania it was decided
hat a demand be made on ali manufacturers
or au advance OF 50 cents per ton. The pre-
cent rate is St,5o 4 similar request made BY
.he puddlers OF the Bailey cenrr,l Iron worss i
-. ~ ~ "9s~s . ISL rsiiANie"
: ''s - 'so" o@Ss'6se She movement was NOT
'''.', ''e ie'i = 'lie fsceils NEE II
~ 'e'''-' y s'ois's = s'tlae y threatened.
The strike Of rhe .-lassyorsers at rho eestor
s sandwich glass wor,s. witch nae has, n rro
yress SIX weeks. has sn,isa tba ,ner, ,os;rs