The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
LABOR NOTES.
Notes From AL ovsr--Oondition Of ths
Labor Market.

l Biddeford, Me, has q *. of q. assen
= bly, Of $50 women
e There are two assemblies Of colore
7 people at Little Rock, Ark.
f There are four knights OF Labor
} the Legislature OF Virginia.
: The labor organizations OF Holyok'
Mass, have over 1000 members.
Manchester, N H., has raised the pa
; OF city laborsrs from 81 rs to S1.50 pc
/ day.
{ Cocheco mill ana print works. Dover
n H., viii pay fortnightly after bhi
month
Il The spool factory at Searsport, Ne.
: turned out over 1900 gross Of spool
last month.
I The Exeter IN. H. Manufacturing
Company have adopted the fortnight,
/ payment system.
/ The spinners In the Hamlet mill
| Wsonsocket, r.. t.. struck on the At
for an advance of dollar q week.
| East Weymouth, Mass, has 600 X
OF H., and a women assembly IS soon
to be organized.
The New York horse car men struck
on the 9TH for shorter hours, and car.
ried their point the same day.
| The California knights OF Labor ask
for assistance to fight Chinese compete
ton OH the Pacific slope.
Sixteen men In the Stanley works at
New Britain, Ct.,. working for Sl.16 q
day, are on strike for more pay.
Ihe Lockwood mills, Watervilla, Me-,
give employment to HOO persons, to
whora they. pay monthly $4,000.
John E. stoddard's sedgers, North
Weymouth, Mass, struck last week on.
being notified of proposed reduction.
Dallas, Tex, merchants, after having
been visited by the Knights of Labor,
agreed to boycott the Mallory steam
ship line.
Boston sallmakers and carriagemak-
ers talk of organizing. The brass fn-
ishers and dry good clerks have already
done so.
Williamstown, Pa, miners voted last
week to work at present wages till
March /, when, unless they are given an
advance, they will strike.
Wages in the Cocheco mills at Dover,
n. FL. will be increased ten per cent. on
March l. There are 1900 operatives
in these mills.
1t is thought that the cigarmakers'
strike i'll New York is drawing to an |
end, as both employers aud employees
iig uesiiiUus vi settlement.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Com
,any and the Manchester mills, Man
hester, n. H., commenced fortnightiy
IL. L
The Manvilie, II. T., Cotton Company
las advanced wages Eve and ten per
;ent. and announced that it viii pay
vice mouth after the list prox.
The Great Falls Manufacturing COM
,auy Of Great Falls, N. H., has notified
is help that they viii be paid fortnight
y instead of monthly as heretofore.
The strike at the Homestead Bessemer
teel works, Pittsburg, Pa, ended on
til By the workmen accepting the ten
ant. advance offered them.
The hands IN the machine shop at
he Wanakuck mill iii Providence
truck for an increase of pay last week
y order Of the executive board Of the
Knights OF Labor
The coke strikers in Pennsylvania /
howea signs of weakening last week {
sseraf works resuming operations, and
was thought the strike was praeti- s
ally ended. I
A number of of the miners who
Tere evicted from the company houses
f II. G. Frick II Co., Uniontown, Pa,
ave brought suit against the Company
n damages.
The employees of the Wooasocket, r.
:, rubber works complain that Pgesi- !
snt Banigan Is not keeping the prom
les he made them when their last ,
srika ended.
Furnaces l and Of the Cambria Iron b
at Iialidaysburg, Pa, shut
own on the 18th on account OF scar f
y of coke. This puts 800 men out of J
r
The cotton mill Of the Portsmouth !,
manufacturing Company at South BeT-
lex, Me-, which shut down one year
20, resumed work last week with a 8
Ill force. Extensive Improvements .
ave been made ~
1t,
Vice-P President Shields of the II atom Z
Carpenters Union, In an address to j
lie Salem carpenters last week, when j.
g formed an organization with TWEEN !
'-eight members, favored eight hours {
II day work and $3.50 per day.
New Britain, CT, is agitating against :
hinese laandries' aud a circular has l
sen issued announcing that after q
[arch ] boycott will be declared y
,ainst all persons renting stores or Q
Ding business in premises where q z