The Irish standard., 1886-06-12
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

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Manchester On. ELL mills will not
grant the te1-hour system even.
With less than l,50o population, West
Medway, Mass, has $50 knights.
About 800 harness makers at Clncln-
natl struck last week tor more wages.
The Michigan Car works, Detroit, re-
sumed on the 18th ult.. taking back 4oO
of it's mer
Among the prominent personages at
Cleveland last week were James Red-
path and Henry George.
Bassett's straw factory, Franklin,
Mass, was injured by the recent fire TO
the extent of $4,000; insured for $l0,-
O0O
Eorty~seven hosiery manufacturers OF
Philadelphia. employing 1900 hands,
organized for protection on the 9th
ult.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers lately discharged twenty-slx OF
IFS members for participating In strikas.
,Yav Gould is alleged to have ordered
tie discharge Of all the knights OF
Labor employed in his southwestern
coal mines.
About /, 200 iron workers at the Ken
siurton mills. Philadelphia, demanded
yacent,y AL advance of about seven per
cent.
Boston plumbers still hold out for
eight hours, and President Ford last
week said there was no chance Of sur
render on their part.
General Master poWderly declined all
invitations to enjoy himself during the
holding Of the Cleveland convention,
and said he came there to work.
The stone contractors and stone ma
sons Of Pittsbury. Pa, have settled on
zline hours as "a days work, with one
hour less on Saturday, the pay remain
ing at the Old rate.
The leading wholesale and retail sta
tioners, tllte wholesale jewelers., watch
and material dealers, and the dealers in
paper hanging, upholstery goods and
window shades, OF Boston, have agreed
to close their stores during June, July
ard August on Saturdays at2 p. M,
aud OH all other days at p. N.
A. large number of local oranges, and
il, some states The body Of Changers,
have gone into the knights of Labor as
district assemblies. The farmers Or
dsts largely assisted the Knights in the
late strikes in tIls Southwest, and to
show an appreciation OF brotherly aid,
the general assembly appointed q conn
mittee 10 prepare an address to the
Grange, to be presented at its national
convention. Il committee on leglsla-
tion was also appointed. To this coma
mittee was referred a proposition OF
forty-hvt, pages Of type written manu-
script, iy Lawrence Harmon, of Peoria,
ILL.,, q lawyer, being entitled, The
Labor Problem, it's Relation to Inter
state Commerce a Plan Suggested for
it's Solution"
.Aulong those who were present at
the Cleveland convention was Rev. j
$. iyteynartlie, a Baptist minister from
Augusta, Ca, where big strike is ap-
pretended iii the cotton mills, who said
that whereas the Knights Of Labor
Numbered but about q score last Janu~
ary in Augusta, Ga. it now numbers
there about 5000 members in good
standing, being made up Of factory
hands, railroad men and merchants.
For the last 5hree CT four months, 500
a. week have joined the order. A list Of
grievances was presented to the pro
prietors Of the cotton mills in Augusta,
who refused to acknowledge the order,
and claimed as fact that the mills
were now earning bus little above ex-
pessses The demand was made that
an increase Of Is per cent. in the wages
OF the mill hands generally be granted.
A reduction in wages of from g to rs
per cent. was made two years ago" MIR.
Meynardie tells OF children $ years of
age working in the mills, SO small that
they are obliged to stand or kneel on
benches in order 10 reach their work.
They are kept working in the mills
from $40 in the morning to $50 at
night, the engine running all the time.
50 that they eat their dinners while en-
gagged in their labor. Children have
been known to go The mills barefooted
in the winter, These employees, who
are white people born in the South, eat,
as regular diet, pork, corn bread and
greens, fresh meat being a luxury. A
stiine'' from former employer is nec-
essary to obtain employment in the
mills. The employees are obliged to
trade at stores owned by the officers of
the mills, and are kept continually i'll
debt. Measles and typhoid fever are
now raging there, and consumption is
creating great havoc among the chill
dren. Mr.. Meynardie says: l have
preached four funerals in one day over