The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-07-03

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The freight handlers of Boston recently
presented to the railroad companies de.
mand for 25 cents an hour for extra work
% cents day more pay, and promotion
of employees according to seniority in the
service. The Boston and Albany Com
pany has compromised on Is cents advance
and 16 IL cents for extra work. The
other demands were agreed to.
| Jones q Laughlin's nail factory of Pitts
| burg have resumed work after being idle
thirteen months. This is the first factory
to start under the new scale arranged by the
Amalgamated Association. 1t has sixty
five machines and will employ twenty nail
ers and sixty-6ve feeders besides heaters,
rollers and packers. Preparations to start
are being actively pushed at other factories.
President Warren of the American Paper
Association announces that the differences
of the members of the pool in the matter of
prices had been overcome. The pool is re-
organized for another year, and a reduc-
ton in prices on certain specialties has
been agreed upon. All the members of the
old pool, Carey Bros. of Philadelphia in
cluded, continue in the pool.
The employees of the Web Manufacturing
company in Chelsea, Mass, propose to
establish a cooperative factory on the
Rochdale plan. The capital is to be $40
900 in shares of So each, and no person can
own more than 100 shares. Many of
the employees are English, with experience
in cooperative enterprises, and the officers
they have elected are all of this class.
There are 10 men and $50 women in the
company. They have bought 10000 feet
of land and will break ground for a factory
Immediately
All the week a terrible struggle has been
going on at Chicago between striking
switchmen of the Lake Shore railroad, and
Pinkerton militia men. The refusal of
the Railroad superintendent to abide by |
the treaty of a month ago, is the cause of
the strike. The strikers act very determin- |
eddy, aud cars are derailed, and collisions |
with Pinkerton's men are of frequent oc-
The sympathy of the whole
populace are with the strikers, knowing |
that the company broke faith with them.
Nevertheless the railroad managers say
they will not surrender.
Many of the men employed by the Third
Avenue Railroad Company who went on
strike are yet out of work, and their fam
lies are very badly off. Lawson N. Fuller
proposes to hold mass meeting next Tues
lay evening at the Cooper Institute hall,
The tickets for which will cost fifty cents
each. Addresses will be made by jackson
s. Schultz aud Mr.. Fuller on the subject,
Whether Trades Unions are a Benefit to
he Laboring Man or Not" They will
'dho Tie negative part OF Inc discussion,
md they will invite Mr. Powderly and any
If that gentleman's friends that he may
lesire to argue the question. The officers
If the Third Avenue Railroad Company {
nave agreed to take 500 worth of tickets.
The proceeds, after deducting expenses, !
will be divided among the families of the j
strikers. I
The two cigarmakers unions are still !
ighting, and Tuesday the Progressive I'm +
on sent to all its branches circular {
to fill the places of the striking I
Union men in Buffalo. The !,
ircular says that they have once refused to :
i'll these places, but that since that time +
he International has sent its Buffalo strik-
rs to fill the places of locked-out Pro-
ressiye cigarmakers in Hornelsville The
Committee of the Progressive Union say: O
"Unless the International Union, within v
ne week, Withdraw its men from our lock- r
ut shop in Hornellsville, and leave to us
he fighting out of the lockout, we will
ave to adopt the same course against their
MON; and, as first step, will take imme-
late measures to fill the Buffalo shops. Il
or the same reason we will also commu-
icate with Baltimore, with Boehm's shop
1 New York, and with all other places a
here the International Union is engaged D
a strike. \