The examiner., 1886-01-23

The shoe clerks Of SIXtn Avenue anu Broadway, New York, are agitating for shorter hours.
 John Hawes of Worcester succeeds A. A. Carlton, as District Master Workman of the Knights of Labor of Massachusetts, with the old and we'll known Labor Re former, Geo. E. McNeil, as.Secretarysand IT leasurer.
 The trouble in the Edgar Thompson steel works have been settled on basis of eight hours for days work, and three | instead of two turns 10 fill the 24 hours, In consideration, the men waived the ad- vance of 10 per cent demanded.
 The trouble between the operators and miners in the Piftsburg district being left | to Judge Thurman of Ohio for arbitration, 1 judgment was rendered ill accordance with | the demands of lhe men for 60 cents per l ton, instead of 50 cents which the operators thought sufficient.
 The other street lines in New York seem to be following, one after another, the ex- ample of the Third avenue line in cutting the hours of labor to twelve per day. A | former resident of Hartford and we'll known labor reformer is said to have been one of the foremost workers in bringing about the organization of the car-dfivers. They belong to the K. of l..
 The large clothing firm of Kaufmann Brothers of Pittsburg, Pa., after five months struggle against the Trades Assembly of Western Pennsylvania have at last capitulated in unconditional surren- der, signing document for publication that the firm had offered on divers occa- sions sums of money to certain trades within the Assembly to lift the boycott from their goods; retracting allegations that members of the unions had received monies from other parties to prosecute them; apologizing for offensive language towards the Committee of Conference and promising hearty cooperation in future with the aims and objects of organized labor.
 A dispa. oh from Scottdale, Pa., Tuesday, reported a serious strike raging among the miners and coke drawers along the Con- nellsville region. About !, ,OO0 men we rein volved, and troops were sent for. Hun garian laborers brought to fill the places of Ia i've miners three years ago are said 10 be the most violent and demonstrative of the strikers. Clubs, fire arms and dynamite have been used, men at work driven away and in many cases the tools and moveable property of the mine were destroyed. A mass meeting of the strikers had been called for Thursday. In the meantime many of the discontented are throwing down their toois and swelling the avalanche. On Wednesday the crisis was reached and a sanguinary conflict ensued between the strikers and posse of deputy sheriffs and armed policemen, in which one striker was killed and several wounded, and the mob driven to their quarters, from which the conflict was renewed, the women also taking part. The strike is said to be the most dangerous ever occurring in the coke region, the Hungarians being wholly unmanageable when enraged. The coke operators say that no increase of wages can be granted, as there has been no money made in the business for the last two years.
 The following is the House Committee on Labor, together with the bills intro duced on behalf of the laboring people in both Houses Of Congress-: Committee Messrs- John J. O'Neil, Martin Foran, Henry B. Lowering, James B. Weaver, Frank Lawler, John W. Daniel, Timothy E. Tarsney, William H. Cain, E. Fl. Fun ston, Darwin R. James, Martin A. Haynes, Franklin Bound, and James Buchanan. In :he Senate Mir. Logan introduced bill providing for the adjustment of accounts of laborers, workmen, and mechanics arising under the eight-hour law, and MT. Van Wyck submitted the following resoIu- tion, which was agreed to:-That the Com mittee on Education and Labor be directed to enquire how many hours are exacted per day from men and boys in the employ of the street car or other corporations in the District of Columbia; whether, in the judgment of the committee, the labor so demanded is unreasonable and inconsistent with former acts of Congress; and, if so, to report by bill or otherwise what remedy is necessary. In the House MT. Dingley introduced bill providing for the adjust ment of accounts of laborers, workmen, and mechanics arising under the eighs-hour law; also bill to prohibit the letting of Government work to the contractors en- ploying convict labor. MT. McComas in- troduced a bill to establish post-ofice savings bank as branch of the Post Office Department; also bill to establish postal telegraphic system in the United States. Mir. Lowering introduced bill for the ad- justment of accounts oflaborers, workmen, and mechanics arising under the eight-hour law. Mir. James introduced bill to pro- hibit any officer, agent, or servant of the Government from hiring or contracting out the labor of prisoners. MT. Foran in- troduced bill for the restoration of wages in the Government Printing Office; and Mir. Libbey introduced one to amend the law concerning mechanics liens in. the District of Columbia.