The Irish standard., 1886-11-06
GENE LABOR NEWS.
Labor Notes.
Labor NOtes.
The knights in New Hampshire are
moving for a ten-hour law.

moving for ten-hOur law.
The American print works at Fall
River are running thirteen machines.
The Vermont Marble Company is
opening a new quarry at West But
land.
-Four million bricks have been made
in the town Of Penobscot. Me-, this
year.
All the strikers at Conners' woollen
mill, South Holyoke, have returned to
work again.
& ine paving quarry has been opened
near the California House at Vinal-
haven, Me.
The long morocco strike at " Whining
ton. Del, is ended. The men have re-
turned TO work.
The secretary and treasurer OF the
knights Of Labor are each paid d salary
of So, 900 a year,
From all accounts it would appear
that the steel industries are in a flour
is}ling condition.
The west end OF the Fall River iron
works started up lastweek, after shut
down Of five months.
The Marlboro Stationary Engineers
Association bas received it's charter and
the organization Is completed.
The badstead factory at Moultonyille,
in Osslpee, n. H., is about to start up
making 800 bedsteads per week
The Consolidated street railway EN-
ployes Of Boston have accepted the ten
hour proposition Of President Powers
Six hundred hosiery operatives have
Joined the strikers at kensingtou, Pa,
aud The total number now out is about
1000.
The Amsterdam IN. " Knitting
mills, it is said, are gradually supply
ing themselves with non union opera
tiycs.
The Nonotuck Silk Company's mills
il. lIaydenville, Leeds and Florence
have been reduced to three~quarters
time.
John z. Mahoney and Jeremiah
Clark Of Lowell have purchased Che ma
cllinery in the Henderson woollen mill
at Merrimack, II. III,
The possibility Of a. lockout in the
textile mills in Philadelphia and vic!n-
itv is intimated 1t doue it Will de-
rr;ye abous. IS ,0M persons Of work.
One hundred employees Of the Silver
Plate Cutlery Company Of Shelton: Ct.,
have struck because Of the discharge OF
two men. The matter will probably be
amicahly settled.
The Westbrooh lMe.) Paper Com
pany are putting up several new build
ings in addition TO their already extern
slVe mills. They are now at work OF.
large orders from New York firms.
The general executive board Of the
Knights Of I4abor has been authorized
to purchase home for the family OF
the late uaiah s. Stevens, founder Of
the order Of the knights Of Labor.
The knights OF Labor convention
appropriated $50, 900 10 establish per-
1nanenb headquarters for the general
officers OF the order at Philadelphia
l,h., knights own a lot upon which it is
proposed to erect substantial build
ing.
The knights Of Labor find thaJ
negro labor is badly paid, because the
negroes, having been slaves SO long,
can be kept down; and that this poorly
paid labor is coming jn competition
with white labor to the detriment Of
the latter. .
The resolutions recently adopted by
the general assembly of the knights Of
Labor at Richmond, calling on cigar
makers vino are members or the lnter-
national Union and also knights to
choose which Of The organization they
shall follow, says q Sedalia, Mo, dis
patch, created great deal Of comment
in this city. All Of the cigarnjakers
here are members Of both orders aud to
"A man will renounce allegiance TO the
Knights Of Labor.
President John Egan Of the Bay
State grinders union went to Turner'S
Falls, recently. to adjust a difficulty be-
tween worklnen and their employers in
the cutlery works at that place. Some
of the Workmen refuseda to join the
grinders union and were called
'sscabs,'' and the other men refused TO
work with them. Mr.. Egan gave as
his ultinatum that the so-called
'scabs'' must so or join the union, and
the employers accepted the terms, MI.
Egan agreeing to.furnish all the skilled
labor required.
at the Richmond convention resolu-
tions were adopted strongly opposing
bringing convict labor in competition
with honest labor, and appealing to