Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-19
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
What the Wage Workers Are Doing
Different Parts Of the Country.

The Lehigh and Hudson, Pa, railroa
truckmen received an advance OF te
cents, or $1.20 per day after May 1st.
The coal miners OF the Mahoning Vale,
Ohio, have decided to ask for an advant
OF ten cents per ton, to take effect May Il
The leading cotton mills at Columbus
advanced wages 10 per cent. afte
May 1st. Two thousand operatives wi
be benefited.
Fifteen States and the Federal Cover
inert have the eight-hour day for publ
work. Chicago will adopt it in all mum
cipal days labor.
| All the master mechanics and shop supel
intendents on the Gould system have bee
summoned to St. Louis to appear befor
the Congressional Committee.
| The Labor Herald, of Pittsburg,- deprt
Gates the boycott fever, which, it eays, ha
become SO prevalent that men with griey
ances no longer try to procure an adjust
| ment.
Seventy girls went out on Saturday las
at Aurora. Illinois, for an advance of 1!
cents per dozen on the corsets they wer
making. They got it, and so did 500 other
in the same factory.
The men in every branch of trade con
nected with carriage making at New Haven
Connecticut, are now on strike. Abou
1000 mechanics are idle. Preparation
are being made for long contest.
The St. Louis plasterers have been receiv
ing 81 so for ten hours. They will accep
1915 and eight hours work after the 1s
prOx. This rate is an advance, however
OF 15 cents per day.
At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the mem
bers OF the Hod Carriers Association arr
on strike for an advance per day from
$1.75 to 81. The men have determined tt
stand out thirty days if necessary and
then to seek other employment. :
In the Kanawka Valley and New Rivel
coal districts, OF West Virginia, great de
preston exists. Only one-third of the
Ii, 900 miners are now employed. They
get two and a-quarter cents per bushel
and cannot make living wages.
During fifteen years OF long hours in e..
500 English cotton mills, employing 4OO,.
900 operatives, the increase of production
was only 28 per cent. In the next seven.
teen years the increase was 35 per cent.
while the working hours were decreased to
fifty y-four.
The Milwaukee cOopers receive only fifty
six cents per beer keg. st. Louis coopers
are paid eighty-five cents for the same W ork.
Milwaukee kegs are sold in St. Louis at
sixty-five cents each. The Milwaukee coop
ers propose a scale which will be within
ten cents of the St. Louis ate
The eight-hour movement grows IN activ-
ity and interest. One OF it's notable fea-
lures is the general sympathy expressed for
it by clergymen; The activity of religious
teachers generally on the topics of labor
organization is quite remarkable As a
rule, too, it is on the side of the wage.
earners.
The average annual wages of the cotton
factory operatives of Augusta, Georgia,
is about $3.50 per annu,n. There are
5000 of them, and they want an increase
of pay and some other ameliorations. The
factory management refuses to recogn ze
the grievance committee of the Knights
of Labor.
The anthracite coal mines have been
very quiet OF late, and they have been hus-
banding their resour ces. The reason is now
apparent. They are determined to press
the eight-hour demand. and may strike II
necessary. The Reading railroad men have
made their request but no conclusion has
been reached.
According to the census of 1880, there
were IL ,881 900 wage workers, embracing
Journalists as we'll as farm laborers. The
total aggregate OF wages paid was So, 3,542,-
300, 900. The total annual average of
each of the nine groups ranged from $500
down to $50. School teachers and Jour-
nalists are grouped at $4OO per annum.
Some of the building trades of Washing
ton have already succeeded in securing the
eight-hour rule. The plasterers, bod car
riers and tin.men are the pionaers. The
other trades propose to enforce the short
day after May 8. The employing builders
announce that they will resist the move
ment. But the prospects are fair for set
element without strike.
Hon. James B. Weaver, member of the
Forty ninth Congress from the Sixth dis
trict of 10 a. will deliver a lecture on Sun
lay evening, at the Grand Opera House,
Elm Place. near Fulton Street, Brooklyn,
under the auspices of the Central Labor
Union, on Labor VS.. Monopoly" He will
take for his text, "The foxes have holes,
The birds OF the air have nests, but the
Son of Man hath not where to lay his
head" The gross proceeds OF the lecture
will 20 to the benefit fund for the strikers
IN the Southwest.
The "blacklisting' of all railroad me-
,hanics and shop workers who belong to the
Knights of Labor and have been out during
The present strike on the Gould system has
oes un, it is reported, on other roads in the
West. Printed lists OF striking mechanics,
,tc., have been seen in possession Of super
ntendent and foremen. Men whose
names are found On them cannot obtain
work. Roadmaster Rockwell, on the Gould
loads, directs the discharge of all Knights
of Labor. It is admitted that the Wabash
,ystem has been administered by Mr.. Tai
knights of Labor from service thereon.
The employers boycott; the black list is
1ot extensively denounced, however widely
applied. In New York the Third Avenue
Railway Company have already announced
! boycott against the executive officers Of
;he Empire Protective Association.
Another notable sign of the times is the
.apid increase of what are known as labor
yceums. The movement in that direction
vas begun practically by the organization
known as the Socialistic Labor Party, and
ts chief success has been in Connecticut,
New Jersey and portions OF New York.
The city is full OF discussion on these ques-
ions, but it has not been so thoroughly
Not week has passed for
several months that the labor question has
lot been discussed, in one of it's aspects,
~ the Social Science Institute, the Consti-
;utional Nineteenth Century '.r McAdam
,lubs, the Society OF Ethical Culture, the
8owery Labor Lyceum and other bodies,
While every night in the week there are q
lozen or more OF labor associations, all of
whom devote portion OF each meeting
ime to the consideration OF some social
question. A labor literature is
'lso growing rapidly.
Kentucky Races.
LOUISVILLE, May 15.-The weather to-day
vas cool and fair; the track was stiff on
lccount OF last nights rain. The attend
nee was very good.
First race-Alexander stakes, five-eighths
II mile; Duke of Bourbon won by a
ength; Poteen, second; Stuyvesant,
bird. Time, 1:O1h.
Second race-One and three-eighths of a
nile; Lemon won by short head; King
George, second; Bootblack, third. Times
.:2sh.
Third race-Dixiana handicap, one and
,ne-fourth OF a mile; Lucky B. won by a
ength; Edith, second; High Flight, third.
Time, 2:11h.
Fourth race-Three fourths Of mile;
Pearl Jennings won by length; Conkling,
econd; Malveric, third. Time, 1:132,
Rsrtley Campbell Insane.
New YORK, May 15.-Doctors Field and
sitch to-day appeared in the Supreme