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

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The Brooklyn Cooperative Watch Case Com
pany is getting along nicely, employing fifteen
men,
Out of a force Of about 5000 miners in the
Hooking valley and Ohio Central regions, less
than FOG were engaged yesterday,
A meeting of coal operatives and miners is
announced to take place i'll Pittsburg, on Dec.
Is to bring about mutual understanding.
The cigarmakers employed by Kalt & Co, in
East Sd ST., New " rk, struck successfully last
week for an increase OF so cents per thousand
cigars.
About seventy cigarmakers employed in
Ahren's shop in East 10th ST., New Y ork, are on
strike for an increase of $l50 per thousand
cigars.
It is estimated that 10000 labor union men
voted against Andrew j. White, OF New York,
because OF his alleged opposition to trades
uniOnists
1t is likely the strike OF the nailInakers,
which has been in progress six months, will
soon END, and the men viii get q ten per cent.
advance
Roach's ship yard, at Chester, Pa.,was started
Friday with a force of 49, which will be
increased up to a limit of 800 rs fast as neces-
sity compels
The union printers of Bradford, Pa, have
started al evening paper, the Call, in opposi-
ton to the Evening Star, which has been turned
into rat Office.
The Philadelphia & Readings Merriam col
hery at Mt. Camel, Pa. resumed work yester.
day, after 3 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 1868 the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at
Steeton, made {, 22l tons of steel rails. In 1888
they made 1925 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 factoryin the
world but its business is increasing SO fast that
two additional buildings are about being
erected.
Work il 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-
nautly 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 boon closed for the past two years while
being enlarged, has resumed operations with
large force Of men. The capacity Of the fur
mace is now about 800 tons week.
4 Swiss silk manufacturing firm has pur-
chased ground at Union Hill, Hoboken, ana
will erect & factory, in which they viii place 600
looms, to be operated, it is said by foreign
hands. who will 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 subordinate, however
inferior, the negligence of such agent is the
negligence Of the company, ard that they
must respond in damages"
Taking the amount Of work performed in
our WOODEN and cotton mills, we payless money
to the wOrkpeople than they pay for the like
service in England, but the higher. priced labor
OF mill superintendent makes the whole cost
of running mill greater in Massachusetts,
The differences existing between Typograph-
ical Unions No, and Z, and the German Her.
Il Mo-, {c lnI r.,
agreed 10y the proprietors Of the papers that
the compositors should belong to either Of the
unions, thus making the papers union Offices.
The cigarnakers employed in Breslins fac
tories, or 9th ST., New York, who demand the
restoration of their old rate of wages, and also
those in the employ Of Rosenstein, Perera &
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 shorter number of
hours Of labor.
The coal miners employed at the Filler, Haz-
ard & Ormshy 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 r cut and serious
trouble is apprehended.
Tue 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 workmeu the
company puts in another. The fund will pro
vide assistance for the injured, the widow aud
the orphan.
About LEO employees IN the watch factory st
Aurora, H., struck. They marched in g body
to the court house and adopted resolutions,
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 4Forkmen can
scarcely make q subsistence. 4 great many
have not been able to average more than
dollar q day in wages for some time, owing to
the machinery being out of order. When nails
we're $3.50 key, wages averaged 81 So day !;
now they don't average that amount with nails
at So. q keg.-Fall River Globe.
The Labor Standard of Paterson, n. J.. de
clares explicitly that there are establishments
in that city where girls work for 20 cents day
aud where girls do not receive more than 81 for
two weeks work Of z hours day. And these
girls are expected 10 pay board. dress decently
and lead an honest life. If boycotting is justi-
liable. as the Standard believes, why is not this
good chance for applying it?
Father MeGabe, Vioar-Generat of the Diocese
of