The Irish standard., 1886-07-10
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.
Minneapolis Typographical Union
No. AZ met last Sunday.

No, AZ met laSC SUNDAY.
James McCaw, the well-known tast
compositor, passed through Minneapo-
lis Tuesday en- route for Winnipeg.
The lasters at Richard 6. Haskill's
shoe factory, Weymouth, Mass, struck
Friday, owing to the employment OF a
non-union man. The strike will throw
out several hundred hands. ........-
The puddlers employed at Everson' S
rolling mill at Scottdale. Pa: have re-
fused to return to Work unless
the firm grant the anlalgamated scale.
The puddlers are non-union men but
demand union wages.
The proprietors Of FIVE rolling mills
at Youngstown, Ohio, have refused to
Sign the iron workers scale. brown,
Bonnell & Co., who are in the hands OF
areceiver, u agree to pay the scale price,
though they cannot sign tie scale.
The Victoria mills, at Newburyport,
Mass, shut down indefinitely Satur-
day, throwing out 225 hands. 1t IS re-
ported that the Ocean Mill, owned by
the largest corporation in the city, and
which has been idle eighteen months,
will start up in August.
The strike of the molders in the Jor-
dan l.. Mott foundry, New York city,
continues. At the Beekrnan street Of
flee it is said that the management is
disposed to confer with the strikers,
but not with delegates from any trades
union. -Four delegates waited on the
management, but they were told to
send their principals.
The general strike along the Baltl-
more 81 Ohio railroad, In which orlgln-
aIly all the miners in that section were
out. is now nearly ended. a short time
since the men at Che Osceola mines re-
suned work Their example has now
been followed by men of nearly all the
other mines, and they are all working
again with the exception Of those en-
ployed at Scott's mine.
In pursuance Of q recent decision OF
The workers to go on strike tor the
establishment Of the minimum basis OF
cents il regulating wages. the fifteen
hundred employees. iii the rolling mills
of James Rowland & Co.. Stephen Rob-
bins & yo., McFadden Il Co., Hughes
& Patterson and Marshall Bros. & Co.,
Philadelphia. left work Thursday eve
ming last week as the different gangs
flushed their days labor.
The fires in almost every glass factory
in pittsburg, We're put out June so, and
the workers given a rest Tor Two
months. This is the regular summer
shutdown, and includes twenty-seyen
winduw-glass factories, with 270 pots;
sixteen table glassware factories. with
379 pots. and sixteen bottle factories.
The ffty-l,lne factories employ 5000
men and have q weekly output ct 26,-
900 boxes Of glass, President Cline, OF
the Glassm makers7 Association, III speak
iny of the reduction in wages Of the
vindow-y}ass workers during the past
fifteen years, says wages have fallen off
80 per cent.
The meeting Of the Trades and Labor
assembly last Friday evening. July 2,
was principally devoted to a discussion
Of the proposition TO boycott the Min
neapo,is Industrial Exposition because
of the action Of the building committee
in refusing to pay its bricklayers union
prices. The general feeling seemed to
be that the Exposition should not suffer
hacause oil the action of tue committee
and the board Of directors, although
the sentiment seemed to be unanimous
" in favor of remembering the action
of the directors as Individuals. The as
sembly considered the case Of the work
man recently killed in the Palisade
mills, ssnd it was thought that the pro-
prietors should be prosecuted for dam
ages in the courts.
After having been out % hours the
j,,ry in the trial of the anarchist lead
ers at Milwaukee, Frank EIirtZ, Carl
Simon and Anton Palm, found them
guilty Of conspiring to bum The court
house and destroying the records and
of melting mobs to riot, For 20 hours
the ballet stood 10 for conviction and
two fo1 acuuittal. One Of the jurors,
who is alleged to be socialist, voted
for conviction after the FIRST few bal
lois. The maximum sentence for riot
or collspiring to riot is one years i'm"
prisonnlent or O. fine not exceeding $500.
Hirtz is IL cigar maker and was mana
ger of the cooperative factory started
lere after the great strike several years
ago. Simon is a barber and frantic
anarchist. Palm is hard wood finish
or.
The Chicago Sun has the following
4 greater outrage was never perpetrat-
ed by the police than that OF last night
in New York, when three Of these
-buttoned gentry walked into q
secret meeting Of the Knights Of Labor
and caused the meeting to disband on
account Of their refusal to leave. There
"a M f3n17ht thov uyn111 have heou So