The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-13
LABOR NOTES +:
Notes From All Over Condition of ths
Labor Market.

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Labor Market
Manchester, N II !, has u, 600 knights
IF Labor.
The strikers at Iymansyille, +.
mills continues. NJ ss
Plainville, CT, contemplates q x ct
q assembly.
The Hamlet mills Woonsocket, r. u,
increased wages on the lst.
Plympton, Mass, has now an assem-
bly, Of the knights Of Labor.
Trades is said to be picking up in all
the hat shops Of Brooklyn.
Texas farmers are joining the Knights
Of Labor in thousands.
Haydenville. Mass, lis to have an as
sembly of the Knights of Labor. ss
8 An assembly of the knights of La
Dor has been formed at Rutland, vt. III
American print works, Fall River,
shipped 800 cases Of goods to New
z ork one day last week. a..5
Stubenville, o., will soon have a co
operative nail company, with a weekly
capacity Of 1900 keg.
81 The Texas Knights Of Labor have
ordered renewal of the boycott against
the Mallory steamship line.
The Brooklyn Central Labor Union
is composed Of thirty-five unions, rep
resention over 1900 men.
The Pacific mill corporation, Law
renee have decided to adopt the weekly
systemsof payment at an early date.
The knights VI Labor claim .
strength. OF II, 600 in Maine and say
they are daily adding to their numbers.
The knights Of Labor and the Rock
port, Me-, ice firms met last week and
satisfactorily arranged the paw lists.
Over 200 Chelsea, Mass, carpenters
and joiners met. on the 10Th ult., and j
formed abranch of the trade brother
hood. ss ..y
It is generally believed that Proyid
enee, r. Il, is about to see one Of the
largest strikes in the cotton mills it
ever witnessed.
On the 10Th ults. the weayers at the
Natick r. I. mills stopped work and
demanded an increase of five. cents
cut in their pay.
The Gloucester fishermen are report
ed to contemplate joining the Knights
OF aabor in order the better to protect
their rights.
There is no change reported in the
situation at Birming ham, Ct, the strike
Of the Derby Silver Company s. employ
| es continuing III. n
There are 5000 glove makers on
strike at Johnston. N. J. for restora-
tion Of 3 ten per cent cut down made in
| February. 1893.
I Vermont is to have a district assem-;
bly, 81 the Knights Of Labor, with Or
EXAMINATIONS at Burlington, Brattleboro,
Est. Adams and Montpelier.
| The Dunlear Furnace Company's
Emines, Pittsburg, Pa, resumed work on
\ the 9th ult., giving the employees the
advance they asked.
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Lowell manufactures, it was said
last week, were about to hold a meet-
ing to consider the question of adyanc-
ling wages in the mills Of that city.
The week ending Jan. 18th Lyon
shoe manufactures shipped $40 cases
of boots and shoes, against sos cases
for the corresponding period last year.
AT meeting Of the Rhode Island
manufactures last week, q committee
was appointed with full powers to take
action for mutual protection in labor
troubles. Il seaa "
The shoe shipments from Haverhin
this week have been 680l cases, q gain
Of 1900 over the corresponding week Of
last year. Hat shipments, 1O5 cases.
Flannels, ~ cases. s
The jacket shops at the American
Worsted Company's works, Woonsock-
ct B. 4, started up Monday on full
time after q six-week' 3 shut down, Civ
ling forty or sixty girls employment.
The Boston Operative Tailor's AS !.
sembly, organized six weeks ago with
six members, has now $40 on the roll
and 400 applicants for admission. The
organization is about To divide into
four assemblies.
Congressman Phelps has offered to
give an acre Of valuable land along the
railroad to any manufacturing company
that will locate in Englewood, N. j.
and give employment to workingmen
Of that place. S sl
Advance sheets from q biennial mill
eT's directory show net increase OF
1872 FIGURING mills ia the United States
and Canada as compared with 1854.
The gross capacity shows . slight In
crease over 1884
The Lucy furnace, Pittsburg, Pa,
employing 400 men, shut down on tho
29tn u1t., on account OF q scarcity Of
coke ensuing from the strike Id the
coke regions. IT was thought other
furnaces wl11ld ~. f.oyn f,n11nd IN s1f III ~