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

we'll box factory, Chicago, have bee
found to be arnled with cavalry revoly
ers.
At PiJtaburg, Pa, the bakers hav
formed a national organization, and tn
master painters contemplate 81 simila
move.
The Blackstone, Mass, cotton mill
are rushing business at the presen
/ time, turning of large invoices Of prin
cloth daily.
/ The Clement Manufacturing Com
pany at Bay State, near Northampton
| Mass, employing I25 men, have closed
for az Indefinite period.
A boston Saddiers Assembly VS. or,
gained on Saturday night as a branch
OF the Knights Of Labor, with a mem
| bersiip of twenty-nine, and on last
Monday evening a Coopers, Assembly
| was formed in B ston, with a member
ship of twenty-f ".
On the 18TH inst, in the city Of Wor-
cester, the united assemblies Of the
knights of Labor held grand rally in
Horticultural Hall About | 900 per
sons were present. Gaien F. Atcher-
ton presided, and introduced Charles
Fl Hickman Of Marblehead, who ex-
horted every workingnan to join the
order.
In Western Pennsylvania, on the 14th
inst, the miners and coke drawers at
the Standard Coke Works in the Con-
nellsville region struck for a 10 per
cent. advance in their wages. The
Standard Works are among the largest
in the coke regions, and ii was expected
at the time that new Workmen would
be readily obtained.
At st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th inst,
the National Brickiayers and Masons'
Association, which had been in secret
session there for several days past, adj
journed. The eight-hour law was the
subject OF long discussions during the
sessions and a compromise was finally
effected by the adoption OF nine hours
foT q days work. This rule is TO go
into effect throughout the country the
first of next May.
At Gardiner, Me-, early m last week, !
\ committee from the knights Of Labor /
waited upon the lumber |
firm Of II. 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 viii not be profit
,bla TO continue operations at an adj
'anced cost. and the mill shut down On
he evening OF the 18th inst.
AT Norwich Conn, on the 9Th inst,
tne SnetucKeG Coffin Wills Wits, III which j
are employed some 900 people. were |
shut down because the Weayers asked |
to have reduction of ten per cent, |
made a year ago, restored to chem On |
she 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, t
md promising a like increase before
4 pril /.
AT Fall River, on the evening Of the
9th, the regular monthly meeting of
he Spinners' Union was held, aud it
vas voted to give SIS to the Dighton
stove moulders then on a strike. In
Jew of the present condition OF the
,rint cloth market the matter of de-
handing an increase in wages was con-
idered No definite action was taken.
IoWsyer, and it was voted to hold
pecial meeting this week to consider
he feasibility OF making the demand.
The appended dispatch came from
Pa, on the 18th last:
mere IS not man at work to-day in
nv department of the Edgar Thomson
teei Works. The works closed down
an. 10, the last of tine old furnace
took made before the strike at the
lrnace having been used on that day.
he men on strike are now building
lelr hope on favorable answer from
.ndreW Carnegie, to whom all appeal /,
no full statement of the case has baen
lade.
The Woonsooket Ii. / Yarn COM
any has advance orders sufficient for j
K months work Al kinds Of yarns
% made, aud the markets are largely
| the West. Production has been in-
,sased three fold since the introduce {
on Of aeloEed goods. The company /
rs one home customer, the Glasgow c
osiary Company, Front street, aud c
awtucaet also orders largely. Orders /
ave- been refused within the past fort Ii
gilS. About 100 hands are EMPLOYED. t
At Philadelphia, last SATURDAY. an
nleable agreement was reached be- :
seen An arbitration committee of the
nights Of Labor of Philadelphia and
g proprietors Of the Gloucester city :
7. ] Bingham works, aud 80 of the :
Q strikers resumed work at that estah- ).
'ilnleat on Monday The company !
needed an Increase ranging from T To :
per cent. IN the different depart
ents. The strikers agree that the 100 s
'n-union men now employed TO 81 !.
fsir rtancs shall re-,su5Y. Y