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

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Labor Market.
The working men OF NJ llford, Mass, have
been organized. S4
The Plasters of Camden, ". u, have formed ne
u Protective Union. n; @
| About Z, 200 carpenters are employe in New
ark, N s., but they have ha Union. 0 0
Wages in Michigan numbering camsp this
winter are to be Sis per month and board
The cutters il the employ of Keene Bros.
Lynn, Mass, recently received an unsolicited
advance of So per week.
Over 1000 shoemakels at Bey arly, Mass, art
on strike for the establishment of a regulation
price for edge-setting
The miners of the Anthracite region of Penn
syvlania are joining the Miners and Laborers
Anal gamated Association in great numbers.
Moorehouse s. Brothers Paper msnufactory
at Bridesburg, Pa, where leo hands are EN-
ployed, is running to its ful capacity.
During thepast year the Knights OF Labor
organized 7a& assemblies, making about 9, 00t
which they now have in the States and Canada
A letter from Chattanooga, Tenn, says tina
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 aceeded tc
the demands of the striking miners by increas.
ing wages from 80 to go cents
Striking nai.ers 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 ane
Boston Railroad, have asked for an advance OF
% cents III their wages, making them 50 pei
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
and towns
Union sent to Lynn Mass, has made a report
on the boycott of St.aiton & Storm. II is rather
vague, but itsettles the fact that the boycott is
very extensive in the East.
straiton & Storms cigar factories in New
York are still closed, and their army Of en-
pioyes are idle. Many OF them visited inhu-
entail knights Of Labor, and tried to secure
their influence in having the boycott removed.
They met with little success, however.
The strike OF the Ohio miners mgy cause
trouble. During the past few days a number
OF cars belonging to the Hooking Valley syndi-
cate have been delivered at the mines on the
Panhandle railroad ODE loaded. The miners
say they are not willing to load them because
OF the trouble in Ohio, and meetings are to be
held at each mine to consider proposal to
boycott Hooking Valley cars,
There has been o boycott on the Providence
Journal for the past two weeks because the
proprietor refused to recognize the Typo
graphical Union. Manager Il. s. Rowland
agreed to submit the case to a board Of arbi-
tration. Two members will be appointed by
the union and two by the manager.
4 ADOul 1uU Gil ptOSt'S III Lu0 NdteI IaCLoEy III
Aurora, H., struck and marched in body to
the court house and adopted resolutions ap.
pointing a committee to wait upon the direc-
tors 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.
Forty-two cloth weavers are ont at Arrott
@,
because OF the employment of woman who
refuses to join the Knights of Labor, and the
proprietors refused to discharge her. The
strikers held a meeting yesterday, and resolved
to stay out until the obnoxious employe was
removed.
Recently the union blue-stone cutters and
fiaggers made demand in all The yards in New
York city for the enforcement of the nine
hour rule without any accompanying reduction
in their rate of pay. They had beon receiving
81 and worked ten hours day At their regu-
lar meeting last week it was stated that the de-
nlaad had been conceded by every firm.
Ata meeting of the white cigarmakers In
San Francisco u few days ago was decided to
push the matter of white made cigars, and to
do so to have 10000 circulars printed, in which
the public will be appealed to to smoke NC
other cigars than those bearing the white
men S association label The label committee
reported that 3,iss labels have been issued dur
ing two weeks, which We're equivalent to 26S,
$50 cigars made in white labor association shops
At II meeting of the puddlers of the East
ern division OF Pennsylvania it was decided
that demand be made ON ali manufacturers
for an advance of 50 cents per ton. The pre-
sent rate is $3.50. a similar request made By
the puddlers of the Bailey Central Iron Works
and the Mccormack works at West FairyieN
was refused because the movement was no1
general, and this led to the recent meeting. Il
the demand be ignored a strike is threatened
The strike of the slassworkers at the Bostor
Il Sandwich glass works. which has been in pro
gress six weeks, has ended, the men having
agreed to go to work as soon as the glass can bt
made ready for working. Frequent confer
ences have been hold between Manager Spur,
and the committee of strikers, and a confer
ence OF over three hous duration was helt
last week, when all differences were settled ant
an agreement satisfactory to both parties wa.
effected.
Astrike of eigarmakers is in progress in tn,
factory of Powell, Weningmann Il Smith. il
East Forty second street. between Third an,
Lexington avenues, foran increase of pay d
from 81 to ~ per thousand cigars. The strik,
OF the cigarmakers employed in the factory o
Herbs y spiess,a at Flfry-fonrth street and Thirv
avenue, for an advance Of wages on certai,
brands resulted successfully. About sevent,
eigarlnak ers employed in the factory of Schartz
colt 4 Co., at Sew enty-second street. and Firs
asen,ae, went on strike last week for an adyanc,
Of 81 for 1000.
There was short strike of bruad-silk weav
ers lastweeK at Jerome yaehers mill In Rive