Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Labor Notes.

Labor Notes.
 The boycott against the Mallory steamship line has been raised.
 A general demand for the eight hour system is expected in the Chicago brick yards.
 The Boston labor unions connected with the building trade will insist on the adoption of the eight hour day.
 One of the labor unions of New York re- solved to fine any member found riding on Third Avenue car g.
 Several Milwaukee furniture factories are closed in consequence of a strike for the eight hour day at the old wages.
 The special committee of Congressmen to investigate the Southwestern strikes now said to be ending, has left Washington for the West.
 Five hundred miners of Mahoning Valley decided to demand on May ten cents per ton advance on the present price for digging coal -55 cents.
 Thirty-fve tailors, who have been .on strike and aided in boycotting firm in New York city, were arrested and held to bail for trial on charges of conspiracy.
 It is estimated that more than six hundred thousand individuals are affected by the pledge of the labor organizations to boycott the Third avenue surface road in New York.
 It is claimed that the conflict between the Knights of Labor and the Gould system will be at an end within forty-eight hours at the longest, and may terminate inside twenty-four hours.
 The strike among the sugar workers in the Williamsburg, N. Y., refneries continues. A party of strikers attacked truck laden with sugar and guarded by policemen, but were driven of.
 The directors of the Eagle Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, Ga., have voluntarily decided to increase the wages of their oper- atives ten per cent. on May 1. About two thousand operatives are affected.
 Among manufacturers of all classes in New York city there are serious apprehensions that & great and general strike is impending and will occur at an early day because of the al- most universal disaffection of workingmen. The strike of the switchmen on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road in Chi cago came to 8 peaceful end through an agreement with the company. The men against whom the switchmen struck continue | at work.
 The differences between the brewers of Philadelphia and the Brewers Workmen's | Union were satisfactorily adjusted. The | brewers granted the increase in wages asked | for, but insisted that ten hours should consti- | tute days work.
 The trackmen on the Lehigh and Hudson Railroad have been notified that on May l | their wages will be advanced from $1.10 to | S1 20 per day. The same advance has been l made in the wages of the trackmen of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Otto Herman, foreman of the silk looms in | a factory at Union Hill N J., was thrown out | of window by some of the one hundred girls | on strike in that factory because he would | not shorten the hours of labor. The girls stoned the factory aud broke the windows in it.
 | Information was telegraphed on the author. | ity of Dr. Reilly, chairman of the Citizens | Committee that the St. Louis strike was tc | be declared off. This was done at the request | of the Citizens Committee. Hoxie still re | fused to give assurance that the discharged | men should be reemp'oyed.