The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-19
LABOR NOTES.

local labor organizations are invited to contribute
items for this coluHsn.l
The musicians of Newark have organized
union.
The paper hangers OF Buffalo are in arms
against fifteen per cent. reduction.
Cooperative stove works have been start
ed in Buffalo, giving employment to 100
men. ~
An organization has been recently formed
in Warren, N. j., known as the Knights of
Labor.
The Cigar Makers's international Union
is calling for proposals on the subject of
cooperation in that trade.
The payroll of the Walter A. Wood
Moving Machine Company, Hoosic Falls,
N. Y, for February, was over $50. 600.
They employ 1000 hands.
The st. Paul Trades Assembly have ap-
pointed a political committee of nine, and
propose to take hand in the city election,
which occurs in May.
About twenty of the employees of the
Insulated Wire Works on Hamilton street,
Newark, have struck against reduction
of twenty-five per cent. in their wages.
The Manufacturers and Workingmen's
League, of Albany, N. Y, has passed reso-
lutioHs thanking the Assemblymen who
defeated the Palmer piece-plan system.
The trouble existing at the Warren brew
cry, buffalo, has been settled, the proprie-
tors acceding to the demands of their men.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, out of $50 miners
employed by the Mclean County Coal
Company, 225 struck on the LIST inst. against
reduction in the price of mining Of rs
cents ton.
The paper mills at Midway, Mass, which
have been lying idle during the past six
months, have been leased by Morse & Somes
and have been put in operation in the
manufacture of heavy paper.
mass meeting of trainers and carpen-
tiers of New York and Brooklyn will be held
to-day at o'clock in Cooper's Hall, Jersey
City, for the purpose of helping the trainers
and carpenters of this city to organize a
union. Able speakers will address the
meeting.
Singer, Nimick & Co.'s melting shops, of
Pittsburg, has resumed operations after an
idleness of ten months. p. L. Kimberly&
Co.'S rolling mills, at Greenville, Pa, has
also resumed, giving employment to 300
men. The mill has been shut down since
last Fall.
The lumber kings of the Saginaw Valley
were all primed for 20 per cent cut, bat
the new union has alarmed them, and
number of offers of reductions have been
withdrawn. If the others insist, strike
will result. The men have been working
eleven hours for 81 '25 a day, and to pull 20
per cent. off that would be starvation.
The striking carpet weavers of Kensing-
ton, Pa, will be rendered q benefit in the
Frankfort Opera House on April 18 by the
working people of that place. The strikers
are as determined as ever to hold out
against the manufacturers.
At a meeting in Williamsburg on Tues
day the shoemakers declared their inten-
ton of resisting to the utmost the employ
ment of the convicts at shoemakinp in the
Kings county penitentiary, and also to pre-
vent free shoemakers working there for the
contractors for the purpose of teaching
prisoners the trade.
The Central Labor Union of New York
has received telegram from the Hatters
Union of South Norwalk contradicting the
assertion that the strike against Crofut &
Knapp and Solman is over. Neither the |
strike Of the Hatters' onion nor the boy |
colt instituted by the Central Labor Union |
and the New York Protective Association |
have been removed.
On February 2S the damask weavers en-
ployed in the Aramlngo Mills, at Frankfort, |
struck for an advance of wages of half q |
cent yard. The weavers Immediately con- |
nected themselves with the Knights of |
Labor. The manager sent for the COM |
mittee on March 81, and stated to them |
that MIR. Banes had concluded to pay the |
advance, and requested them to resume ;
The strike lasted five weeks.