The examiner., 1886-03-27
THE WORKING WORLD.


 Seventy-five employees of Scotfs print | ing press works struck at noon Monday TOT an inccease of 25 cents per day. The Knights of Labor of New York are striving to secure the re-appointment of Railroad Commissioner O'Donnell-
 The Widdieombe furniture company, Grand Rapids, has adopted the elght-nour system, with no reduction of wages. The journeymen barbers of Brooklyn have organized the first union of that craft in the city. They want to stop work at 5 p. m., except Saturday.
 The difficulty in Pittsburg between the K. of l.. and the American Flint Glass | Workers Association has been amlcaoly adjusted.
 The New York Central Labor Union want the use of the 69th Regiment Armory for their Sunday meetings, as on their roll are 112 labor organizations.
 The master painters of Brooklyn have resolved, by vote of 34 to 27, to coneede the demands of the Painters Union for S3 a day for nine hours work, and eight hours on Saturday.
 The American Sheet-iron Works, one of the largest iAdustrie- in Phillipsburg, N.
 J., shut down Monday, owing to lack of
 coal caused by the continued strike in the
 bituminous coal regions.
 ADOuI Z,0Uo men were on S.EltAe AAoAu05 at the National Tube Works, McKeesport, I Penn. The firm offers an increase or I from F to 10 per cent advance in wages, but the men refuse less than F.
 | The yardmen and switehmen of the l Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Evans vile, Ind, struck Tuesday evening on ac-
 count of the discharge of a Knight of La
 Dor. Nothing is moving but passenger
 trains.
 rr1,o x.,--1-:,,.,,., <s r,rrx, ,u,ay, civ viefo-
 ries in one day last week. These were the
 stove mounters, over 800 in number, the street car employees, the printers, and the
 leaving in'' Of several merchants who
 were being boyco.ted.
 The Knights of Labor of Waltham, Mass. have been cautioned by Grand Master II Powderly against striking for petty causes
 or using the boycott without due cause. This notice was general, extending through out the whole country.
 The sash and blind makers of New York
 have succeeded in their demands for $3.25 per day of nine hours, while the union car
 penters receive $3.50. The Wood Caiyers Unions will demand the eight-hour day
 on May l. The clerks and book-keepers will join the Central Labor Union. NJ. c. Dizer & Co.,, the largest boot and
 shoe manufacturers of EasE Weymouth, Mass, employing TOO bands, recently in
 vited the Knights Of Labor to present ] price list covering all departments in their
 factory. It raised wages 14 per cent. and l will take effect on May 1.
 The fifth futile attempt of the Missouri Pacific to move freight frains out of the city occurred Wednesday. At o'clock
 an engine and caboose started out to pick l up cars at Papillion, just outside of the city.
 The Knights of Labor killed" the engine l and ran it on the Belt Line track, where
 they left it guarded.
 The great railroad strike of the south
 west remains unsettled, as we go to press, ) and fears are entertained of riot and blood
 shed before it is finished. Around St ] Louis the strikers do not seem to be as : successful as they are at other points in ! preventing the running of trains. The po- 3 lice and military are of course enlisted on l the side of the corporations.
 The Knights of Labor employed at
 Gouldipg's cotton waste factory in Maiden,
 Mass, were discharged last Tuesday. MT.
 Goulding hearing that several men in his ? employ were members of this organization. requested them to leave the order at once : or consider themst Ives discharged. The z men discharged have notified the officers
 of the Knights of Labor of Boston, of the l action taken by MT. Gonlding.
 The Missouri Pacific Railway has in- yoked the aid of the United States Circuit . Court against the strikers. 300 of them
 are charged with conspiracy, and the court
 has issued an injunction, and orders 10
 place the company in possession of their property and restrain the strikers from all
 interference. Ire case is regarded as a test one, and new move of capital to par 3 alyze the power of the Knights of Labor.
 A large meeting in the interest of the : Saturday half-holiday movement was pre- . sided over by Mayor Grace last week in s New York. Addresses were delivered by
 the Mayor, Rev. R. s. McArthur, Rev. Dr. l +Ao priest of St. Stephens church. Resolu- tions requesting the proprietors, of all stores in the city to close at o'clock on
 Saturday, and to pay their employees on r some O her day in the week were appointed.
 A committee of 100 members were adopted to urge the store-keepers to do as request
 ed. The committee is made up of numer-
 ous business men and members of all the profess ons. The members of the Free
 Baptist church in West Twenty-iffh street 7 have pledged themselves not to shop on Saturday afternoons.
 All the cloak pressers in New York city
 belonging to the Independent CfoakPressels g
 Union quit word Wednesday morning and I joined the str kers. The other striking cloak makers mel all day long a. TIT East Broadway and 77 Essex street. The firms of Scbwab Brothers, Davis 6 Haas, Roths- child Brothers, and Friedman Brothers
 asked for a conference with the Executive
 Committee of he strikers about noon, and later on Bohn Brothers & Greenman joined g in the request. The Commit ee reported at 5 F. NJ. that the last-named finn, Schwab Brothers and Friedman & Co.,. had signed an agreement conceeding all the s demands of the strikers and ab ,lishing the contract system. Friedman & O., also :, paid the initiation fees into the various unions amounting to S200, for 300 of their employees.
 A dispatch from Pittsburg Monday says , that the striking miners from Serveckly, x West Newton, and Irwin Station marched to Scott Haven that morning headed by a brass band and induced the men working at Scott's six mines to come out and attend 2 a mass meeting at Suttorville. The meet i ing lasted until late in the afternoon
 Scott's men decided by small majority to strike for an advance of half-cent Fer ) bushel. This makes the strike along the , Baltimare and Ohio and Pittsburgh.
 McKeesport and Youghi, gheny roads geu- eral; 2,0O0 men are idle. Another dispatch from LaSalle, III. says that one thousand , miners of this district headed by brass , band, left the city at 12 o'clock Sunday night and marched to Spring Valley, a new
 mining town six miles west, the object being to get the men to join the union. Eyerythiuo was orderly and a 11oiop xx-ae