The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-26
LABOR NOTES.
Notes From All over---oondition Of The
Labor Market.

. ploys 500 men
1 Chicago has thirty two assemblies Of
/ heKnights Of I.aboT.
! The strike at Kimball Brothers shoe
/ factory at Gardiner, Me-, has been adj
justed,
! Knights of Labor assemblies were
formed recently at Portland, Ct, and
! Stafford Springs, Ct,
/ The Beverly r. |. mlll, which has
been shut down some time for general
repairs, started up again last Monday
Assemblies Of Knights Of Labor
were formed at Camb1idgeport, South
Natick, Rockland and Midway since
our last issue.
DistricG 80, Knights Of Labor Of Mas
sachusetts. now has over $50 assemblies
or lodges whose membership ranges
from SO to 1900 each
The coal miners strike in the Monon-
gahela valley is virtually atan end. al
most every mine in the fourth pool is in
operation at the reduction.
Some Of The weavers III Eddy's
WOODEN mill. Fall River, are employed
until 10 o'clock four nights a week in
manufacturing a special pattern of
goods.
The Central Trades and Labor Union
| is lately strengthened by the accession
of the painters, and expects soon to
| have all the building and kindred trades
represented,
| TheLochiel iron works at Harrisburg,
| Pa, resumed operations on the 10TH
| after being idle over a year. One hum
bred men were put to work in the manu-
! facture Of skelp iron.
Slavery is slavery, whether partial OF
complete. Men and women should be
obliged to sell nothing to their employ
ers excepting their labor. They too
often sell their independence.
Typographical Union No. 8. Of New
| York. has elected Everett Glockin,
president, and Theodore @. Wildman,
secretary and treasurer. They favor
| the continuance of the boycott policy.
| The Within machine works, Whitins-
vile, Mass, are running very Irregular
| ~. Some work eight hours, some nine
hours ana others ten, and the foundry
! ~, or, ,,ycrix tl,ron RI VIC yyoaly
| Representative OF the Warren wool
len mill strikers at Stafford Springs.
| CT, visited Willimantic on the Sth, and
raised some $50 for the strikers, chiefly
among their Irish American friends.
| The Federation of Labor Unions Of
the United States and Canada in session
at Washington, on the 10th, after con-
sideration, adopted the resolution pro-
yiding that the eight hour rule shall
! take effect FROM May /, next.
/ The dwight Manufacturing Com
1 pany of Chicopee, Mass, recently took
a vote of their employees to see which
system OF payments they favored week
] ly, fortnightly or monthly. The vote
resulted as follows /: For weekly pay
ments, 426; monthly, 20; fortnightly
/ 942.
I Work has been resumed at. the cigar
| factory of Straiton 81 Storms, New
York, which employs over 40 hands
and which was closed about month
ago to force t. e raising Of the mysteri-
Gus boycott which had been imposed
upon their cigars throughout the New
England states.
An agreement was reached i'll the
Chicago, Burlington u Quincy railroad
switchmen's strike on the 10th, and by
S O'Clock that day all the men were at
work. The company promises to pay
each man in full for all the time put in
under the orders Of the company,
whether actually ut work OF not.
The Glen Manufacturing Company
which recently wanted to build pulp
/ and paper mills at Rumford Falls, Me-,
I but could not make satisfa Glory ar
rangements with the railroads. has To-
Gated at Berlin Mills and is putting in
| a 500 600 plas for manufacturing both
wood pulp and paper. Thecompany IS
composed of capitalists from Boston,
| Lowell and Lawrence.
The spinners Of the Lippib Wooden
Colnpany's mill, Woonsoeket, y. l.,
| numbering twenty, Went ON a strike on
the 10th on account of the alleged dis
charge of the overseer, Charles f. Lar
kin. Superintendent Bailey of the mill
says that Larkin was not discharged
| but only reprimanded for allowing poor
work to be made, and chat he then left
| of his own accord, without a moment s
notice.
At public meeting in Phoenix Hall,
Roc<land, Mass, ON the 10th, under the
auspices Of the Knights of Labor, a.
/ a.. Carlton. chairman Of the executive
| board of district so, made al address.
He stated that the fundamental prin-
ciple on which all hinged was the re-
ductoB of the hours OF labor: that nov
Tabor and eapitgl were warning, and
| that, unless some change occurred
within a few months. more strikes
| would occur than ever throughout the
country
ReT. thomas Barry, pastor Of the
Church of the Visitation Lehigh ave-
Iaue aud Front street. Philadelphia,
Pa, speaking Of the knights Of Labor,