The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
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I Notes From All Over Condition Of Il
Labor Market.
4 Biddeford. Me, has a *. of "a. Assem-
bly, Of ESQ women. A
i There are two assemblies Of colore
I. people at Little Rock, Ark.
There are four knights of Labor il
the Legislature OF Virginia.
4 The labor organizations Of Holyoke
Mass, have over 1000 members.
Manchester, N. II. !, has raised the pa
OF city laborers from 81. % to $l.5O pc
day.
Cocheco mill and print works, Dover
n. I'll, will pay fortnightly after thi
month.
The spool factory at SearsporS, Me.
turned out over 1900 gross Of spool
last mouth. n
The Exeter IN. H.l Manufacturing
Company have adopted the fortnight,
payment system.
The spinners In the Hamlet mill
Woonsocket, r. T., struck on the 4tf
for an advance Of a dollar week.
East Weymouth, Mass, has 600 Il
of T., and a women s assembly IS soon
to be organized
I The New York horse car men struck
on the 4th for shorter hours, and car
ried their point the same day.
The California Knights Of Labor ask
for assistance to fight Chinese competl-
ton on the Pacific slope.
Sixteen men in the Stanley works at
New Britain, CT, working for s1.l6 a
day, are on strike for more pay.
Il Che Lockwood mills, w ateryille Me-,
give employment to 100 persons, to
whom they pay monthly sss2, 900.
John E. Stoddard's .edgers, North
Weymouth, Mass, struck last week on
being notified Of 4 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 fin
ishers and dry good clerks have already
done SO.
Williamstown. Pa, mine rs 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. Ell. will be increased ten per cent. on
March I. There are 1900 operatives
in these mills.
It's thought that the cigarmakers'
strike in New York is drawing to an
end, as both employers and employees
ifU aGsdiiiTuus Vi a settlement.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Conn
,any and the Manchester mills, Man
chester, N. H, commenced fortnightly
payments with this month.
The Manyilie, II. T., Cotton Company
las advanced wages Ave and ten per
cent. and announced that it will pay
vice a mouth after the LIST prox.
The Great Falls Manufacturing Com
pauy of Great Falls, N. H., has notified
is help that they will be paid fortnight
y instead Of monthly as heretofore.
The strike at the Homestead Bessemer
steel works, Pittsburg, Pa, ended on
.th by the workmen accepting the ten
,ent. advance offered them.
The hands in the machine shop at
she Wanakuck mill in Providence
struck for an increase OF pay last week
BY order of the executive board of the
knights of Labor. ss se1s
The coke strikers in Pennsylvania
showed signs OF weakening last week
several works resnming operations. and
t was thought the strike was practi-
ally ended.
a number of of the miners who
we're eyicted from the company houses
II H. G. Frick s. CO., Uniontown, Pa,
AVE brought suit against the Company
or damages.
The employees of the Woonsocket, r.
s, rubber works complain that Presi-
lent Banigan is not keeping the prom
SEES he made them when their last
strike ended.
Furnaces and 2 OF the Cambria Iron
Company at Haiidaysburg, Pa, shut
Town on the 7th on account of a scar
ty of coke. This puts 800 men out of |
employment
The cotton mill of the Portsmouth |
Company at South BeT
wick. Me-, which shut down one year
lgo, resumed work last week with 8 |
ull force. Extensive improvements
lave been made.
Vlce-P President Shields OF the Nation
il Carpenters Union, in an address to |
he Salem carpenters last week, when
lie formed an organization with TWEEN
,y-eight members, favored eight hours |
or daY' Is work and $3.50 per day.
New Britain, CT, is agitating against