The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-30
LABOR NOTES.
Notes From All Over Condition 81 the
Labor Market.

the largest female knights OF Labor
4 assembly in the country.
4 The scabs' employed at the Max
well box factory, Chicago, have been
/ found to be armed with cavalry revolv-
4 ers.
/ AT Pietsburg, Pa, the bakers have
formed national organize ion, and the
master painters contemplate q similar
/ move.
The Blackstone, Mass, cotton mills
are rushing business at the present
4 time, turning OFF large invoices Of print
cloth daily.
The Clement Manufacturing Corn
pany at Bay State near Northanpt on,
Mass, employing 125 men, have closed
for an Indefinite period.
A Boston Saddlers Assembly W. or
ganized on Saturday night as a branch
I of the knights of Labor, with a mem
bership of twenty nine, and on last
Monday evening a Coopeys Assembly
was formed in b. ston, with a member
| ship of twenty-f llr.
On the 18th inst, in the city of Wor-
! cester, the united assemblies OF the
knights of Labor held d grand rally in
Horticultural Hall. About 1000 per-
sons were present Gaien z. Atcher-
| ton presided, and introduced Charles
| Fl. Litcll1nan, of Marblehead, who ex-
horted every workingman to join the
order
In Western Pennsylvania, on the 14th
inst, the miners and coke drawers at
the Standard Coke Works in the Con-
neIlsville region struck for a 10 per
cent. advance in their wages. The
Standard Works are among the largest
in the coke regions, and it was expected
at the time that new workmen would
be readily obtained.
At ST. Louis, Mo-, on The 18th inst,
the National Bricklayers and Masons'
Association, which had been in secret
session there for several days past, ad-
journed. The eight-hour law was the
subject Of long discussions during the
sessions and compromise was finally
effected by the adoption OF nine hours
for days work. This rule is to 60
into effect throughout the country the
first of next May.
AT Gardiner, Me-, early IN last week,
committee from the knights OF Labor
organization waited upon the lumber
firm Of H. w JeWett & CO., who en-
ploy sixty men, and asked that the
wages OF the employees be increased.
The firm claim that, owing to the low
state of the market, it will not be profit
able TO continue operations at an adj
yanced cost. and the mill shut down on
the evening Of the 18th inst.
At Norwich, Conn, on the 9th inst,
the Snstdcket Gortun Nils Mi iii W'iIilesn
are employed some 600 people, were
shut down because the Weavers asked
| to have reduction of ten per cent,
made a year ago, restored to chem. On
the 18th, however, the mills started up,
the superintendent, E. E. Page, COM
promising the matter by giving all the
employees an advance Of FIVE per cent,
and promising like increase before
April /.
AT Fall River, on the evening Of the
18th, the regular monthly meeting of
tho Spinners' Union was held, and it
| was voted to give SIS to the Dighton
stove monlders then on strike. In
view of the present condition of the
print cloth market the matter of de-
handing an increase in wages was con-
sidered. No definite action was taken,
however, and it was voted to hold a
special meeting this week to consider
the feasibility of making the demand.
The appended dispatch came from
Braddock's, Pa, on the 18th Inst:
There is not a man at work to-day in
any department of the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works. The works closed down
Jan. ID, the last Of tlIe old furnace
stock made before the strike at the
furnace having been used on that day.
The men on strike are now building
their hope on favorable answer from
Andrew Carnegie, to whom an appeal
and full statement of the case has been
| made.
The Woonsocket tR. II Yarn Com
pany has advance orders sufficient for
six months work. All kinds of yarns
are made, and the markets are largely
ia the West. Production has been in
creased three-fold since the introduce
| ton of colored goods. The company
has one home customer, the Glasgow
Hosiery Company, Front street, and
Pawtucket also orders largely. Orders
have been refused within the past fort
night. About 100 hands are employed.
At Philadelphia, last Saturday an
amicable agreement was reached be-
tween an arbitration committee of the
knights Of Labor of Philadelphia and
the prapsistors OF the Gloucester city
IlN. j. glngham works, aud 25O of the
| 400 strikers resumed work at that estab-
llishment on Monday The company
conceded an increase ranging from to
| lt per cent. in tho different depart
fnents. The strikers agree that the 100