The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-06
LABOR NOTES.
Notes From All Over Condition Of ths
Labor Market.

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1 Hodkinton Aiass.) boot treers las
week demanded an increase Of 5 cent
a case. s$s 8s AZ. .5I NJ
After a shut down Of five weeks, tn
Winsted (Ct.) Hosiery Company startet
! up last week. "a.
| The Pittsfeld II. shoe factory il
again in operation, all troubles HAVING
been adjusted.
A general boycott has been ordered
against the Derby Silver Company o.
Birmingham, CT.
The trunkmakers Of Boston are con
| sidering the formation of a knights q
Labor assembly. 81
The carpet workers of Youkers. n
r., are said to be about to renew thu
strike OF last year.
The Weayers of the Walnsutta mills
New Bedford, Mass, voted last week t.
ask for increased pay. Il.
The differences at Beyer's morocco
factory, Lynn, have been settled and
the men are all at Work.
The mills at Salmon Falls, and Til
ton, N. H, are running extra time on
account of the press Of orders.
Tie coal miners at Irwin, Pa, held a
meeting last Saturday and resolved to
demand au advance of ten per cent.
The Laconia IN. HI Car Company
has taken contract to manufacture a
large number of freight cars this win
ter. sFt
There is likely to be further arbitra-
.tion required at Brockton, Mass, be-
fore the inishers' prices are settled.
The situation among the Pennsyl-
yania coke miners reported quiet and
orderly at the beginning Of the week.
The Hatmakers' Association of New
Jersey is up in arms against a reported
coming of Italian matters into that
state.
& The strike at the Readville Mass.)
cotton mill became general last week,
and all the hands, numbering about 26O,
we're idle.
The outlook is for long contest be-
tween the United Cigar Manufacturers
Association and its striking employees
in New York:
The Weavers of the Roy wooden mills
at North Bellingham, Mass, were given
ten per cent. advance Of pay at the
last pay day.
During last December, throughout
the country, there was formed 260 local
and two district assemblies Of the
Knights Of Labor.
A number of the employs Of the
Grand Trunk railway Wyro discharged
last Saturday for having. it is alleged,
asked for an increase of wages.
The strike at the Shelton Silver Plate
Company's shop, New Haven, CT,
ended on the 23d, the company granting
the increased wages demanded.
The Edgar Thompson steel works,
Pittsbnrg, Pa, which started UP last
week, again shut down, the helpers and
illers refusing to work for the wages
offered.
There is likely to be strike on the
Grand Trunk,railWay, as the employees
aave been notified that after the LIST
orox. wages will be cut and no overtime
allowed.
Rhode Island has between forty and
fifty assemblies of the Knights Of La
Dor, chiefly located at Providence, Wes-
,erly, Lonsdale, Woonsocket, Central
Falls and Pascoag.
Fall River bricklayers held a meeting
IN the night of the 21st to ratify the
recent decision of the union that after
,he LIST of May nine hours should con-
stitute days work.
A large proportion Of the men en-
ployed in the Union Pacific shops at
Omaha, Neb., numbering probably 300,
we're discharged Wednesday of last
week to cut down expenses.
On Friday of last week the joint
state convention Of Ohio coal opera
,ors and miners met in Columbus and
the schedu Of prices adopted
BY the Interstate Miners Union.
Sixty weavers at Lymanyille ca. IL
mills quit work last week because the
refused to recognize their
committee of arbitration in the settle
nent of differences between the en-
ployes and managers.
New Bedford is the third largest cot
Ton manufacturing city in the United
States, having 400 GOO spindles. coming
next to Lowell, which has SOC. 600, while
Fall River is the largest, having 1,7ls,-
BOO.
]" A Laundryman = says that the
National Association is
rapidly growing and viii soon take ac-
ton against the Chinese. He says he
has a dozen applications week from
poor women offering to work for 80
and IS cents day.
It is reported that the agents of the
Singer sewing machine establishment,