The examiner., 1886-01-16
THE WORKING WORLD.

There are four K. of l.. in the Legisla- ture of Virginia.
 Washington Chicago and Baltimore are boycotting Chinese laundries.
 One thousand cigarnakers in Syracuse are on strike about the use of the label Ten cooperative associations were formed in Massachusetts during the year just closed.
 156 New Assemblies of the K. of l.. were organized during December and 12 lasped locals re-orgauized.
 | For the past few weeks it is said that over 800 carpenters have joined the Knights oI Labor in New Bedford, Mass.
 The bills introduced into Congress for public buildings in Michigan stipulate that no convict labor shall be employed.
 There are three Senators in the Massa- chusetts legislature, and twenty-seven in the lower branch.
 At Holyoke, Mass, the K. of l.. nomi- mated ticket for city offices, the Republi- whole ticket was elected.
 Since the beginning of the recent agi- tation on the Pacific coast 5000 Chinamen have been discharged and ordered to leave the country.
 Ma.ti-. A Fnran. of Cleveland has written novel to answer the economic questions raised in the 'fBread Winners" The work will be published late in the | winter.
 The New York cardrivers of the Secend avenue line had their number of hours for a day's work reduced to 12 ou Monday, without resortiDg to strike, and there was much rejoicing in consequence. A demand was made on the Third avenue for one | trip less.
 Spinney & Co.,, of Norway, Me, dis charged six girls who boarded with poor widow woman, because they heard that this poor widow woman sympathized with the K. of l.. telling them that :sif they would get another boarding place they could come back to work" | The Central Labor Union of New Brit ain ask.all moulders to stay away from that city at present, as there is strike at the P. 6 F Cor0in and Malleable Iron foundries-at the former for blacklisting Knights of Labor; and at the latter for an increase of wages.
 The following circular has been issued l by President Stassar of the International Cigarmakers Union: The Cigarmakers' International Union has approved the unity question by a very large majority. | I therefore call now upon all progressive members desiring unity to reorganize and l apply for charter. Members with pro- gressive cards will be received in the same standing and entitled to all the benefits in the International Union, as they have been heretofore.
 All cards must be deposited in the Union before January 1, 1886. The following is the official boycott list of the Knights of Labor Executive Board: Dueber Watch Case Company, of Newport, Kentucky; Fuller, Warren 6 Co.,, stove manufacturers, Rochester, N. r.; John B. Stetson Hat Co.,; Rathbone, Sard 6 Co.,, stoves and ranges; New York Tribune and Philadelphia Press; Perry & Co.,, stove makers, Albany, N. r.: Adams Bros, matters South Norwalk, Cann.; Brennan & White, shoemakers, Williamsburg. L. I. The firm of Haxall, Crenshaw & Co, four manufacturers of Richmond, Va, have been just taken off the list, the firm acquiescing in the demands made-the re- fusal to use barrels made by prison contract labor. There was much rejoicing in Rich mond over the result.
 A contest is raging in the little town Of Norway, Me-, between the firm of B. F. Spinney 6 Co.,, shoe manufacturers, and the anti-labor reformers on one side, and the Knights of Labor and their sympathi- sers on the other. The latter are being boycotted aud every possible means resort ted to to drive them out of the town. Spinney & Co. ale refugees frum the exac- tions of Lynn, Mass, trade-unionism from which they fled ten years ago, But the on- ward march of organized labor eventually overlook them, hence the battle. Master Workman Dutton of Massachusetts is taking the matter in hand, and many of the farmers who fought the shoe shop at its inception are on his side. A boycott of the firms goods will undoubtedly be ordered, which very likely will bring it to terms.