The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-09
La Dor NOTES.
Notes From All er-Oondition Of the
Labor Market.

| LAlilIl1I SfSa ANVo'
| South Norwalk, CT, reports a light improve
| ynent in the hat trade.
The strike in the Malleable iron works New
| Britain. CT, continues M 5st GS
| The CaryvilIe, Mass, mills shut down from
| the 24th to the 2Sth ult
| The value OF the produce Of the COOPER shops
FOR 1885 is placed at 81, $50 600.
Ole Myre Inns purchased the stock OF August
| Ops in the N northwestern shop.
The Manchester, N. H., locomotive works
give employment to 200 men.
The American print works, Fall River, sre
running at their fullest
Lyra shipped last yerr 2ss,os4 cases of shoes,
against 29G, 1913 cases in 1854.
A reduetion of ten per cent. has been made
in the wooden mills ct Comic, n. II.
An the excelsior mills at Union village Wake
field, N. a., are running on extra time
Hayernil has now twelve assemblies. The
fair.which closed last week was a great success.
The laber difficulties ut Stafford Springs, Ct,
has been settled, and the mills are now running
again.
In Pullman, ELL. the g model city, with its
despotic government. the knights of Labor
are growing fast.
A small fight took place last Saturday night
| at Dighton Mass, between the striking mould
arg md acme acnbs
There was no change reported last week in
the affairs Of the Derby Silver Company, Biz
1 mingham Ct, where a strike is in progress.
| Can that state of affairs where the majority
are trampled under foot in the mad scramble
for wealth be called high state of civilization?
| Shoe shipments from Haverhill, Mass, for
the week ending Dec. Is. 4473 cases: correspond
Ing week in 1884, 1886 cases. Shipments Of
hats for the week, 1868 cases; flannels, SO cases.
| The Hatmakers and Hat Finishers' Unions
| have issued circular addressed to all trades
and labor unions, requesting the members not
to purchase felt hat unless the union label is
| on it.
| Manchester, N. H., has four assemblies of the
| Knights of Labor, with a total membership on
the rolls Of 10000. They are talking of build
| ing q large hall, with reading room, library
| and meeting rooms.
The American Watch Company, Waltham,
Mass. was closed from the gath to the 2st ult.
The finishers in ellis department were notified
last week that their wages would be increased
| Is per cent. from Jan. l.
! Not for some years has the clothing trade
been so busy at this time of the year as now.
There will, however, be cessation of work
! for about two weeks, when the spring trade
will begin, and great preparations are being
made for large increase.
! The New York Sun gave up the greater part
Of it's first page last Sunday to lengthy his
| tory of the knights Of Labor, their aims and
objects. Organized labor now claims the at
| tention Of the public to q large extent.
| Edward Atkinson says that If capital was not
! s,vios o,nlfinGUlsiy feufuated iyy haaor we
should ''all be starving within one year, naked
within two and houseless within ten" " hich
Is, then, the more important, labor or capital2
The weayers OF Of Mineral Manufacturing
Company, Stafford Springs, Ct. stimulated by
| the success of Warren's strikers Of that place
peti,ioned to Mr.. Converse for a raise in their
| price list Their demand was granted, being
conceded on an advance Of 3-lo cents.
The year 1886 has come, and let US hope 1t
! will be memorable year in labor annals
Eight hours day Throughout the land will be
/ of md will MT
our country half century ahead In all that
| tends to make up true civilization.
| A cooperative company, with capital STOCK
Of 500 900, all of which has been subscribed,
has been organized by striking nailers and
| hardware dealers of Pittsburg, Pa. Five acres
| Of ground has been given them at Homestead,
and it Is their intention to erect factory at
! once.
! The United order of American Carpenters
reported last week that 1T will hold meeting
] on jan TO- in New York, to try and make gen.
| eral the rule that carpenters shall work only
| nine hours this spring. The carpenters re-
ported that their strike against the snb-eon-
tractors on the Puck building in East Houston
street was successful.
| The operatives of the Lonsdale r. l. mills
/ having asked FOR an increase of ten per cent.
/ in their wages, the company declined, alleging
/ that the reduction of the price of cotton had
| been followed by the equivalent reduction IN
| bleached goods. The reply Was read to a
/ meeting Of the operatives on the 23d ult-. and
| after some temperate discussion the matter was
referred to the Knights OF Labor to act In be
! half of the employees of the mills
One OF the forty-two shoe manufacturers al
CampeIlo, Mass, last week presented each msn
In the shop, who did not belong to the union
i with . turkey and the girls who were non.
4 union with SIS each He approached one female
/ and asked ..Do you belong to the uniong
ssYes. STR she replied Then" remarked the
{. manufacturer, the union can take care OF
you The workman say, nevertheless, that
neither turkeys nor money can induce them
away from the union.
! The rauyins under q common banner of 81
the workers Is full of promise. Farmers, manu-
faetursrs, laborers, ale hearing the summons
| and moving to the front, touching elbows as
they keep step to the STRIVING march. The
movement is immensely broader than any yet
I seen since the days Of the Free Soil Party be-
/ fore the war That party demanded practical
Ii what Monopo!fsts now fight for.
! Il short time ago tue West Publishing Com
pany of st. Paul was paying It's men By thu
4 piece, ana the men, not being able to niaks
I fair psges. demanded ~ cents per tnousan
4 ems, ali matter to be measured upon the re9i
4 lar scale This the company would not grant
Il hut later put the Rest men on by the week
shortly after this change the ofice began civ
Ing all the class of matter called ..phat,'' or