The Irish standard., 1886-04-24

The tailors of Boston are confident
of success. Three more firms signed
their list last week.
Carloaders at Grand Trund sheds,
Portland, Me-, were last week given
advances Of from Is to 25 cents.
Goodyear Gossamer Company, Hud-
son, Mass, employs ninety hands, SIX
ty-6ve girls and twenty-five men.
Thirteen lapsed assemblies. at Pitts
burg, Pa, recently applied for reissue
Of charters, all in one week.
BY the shutting down Of the Bigelow
carpet mill at Clinton, Mass, last week,
700 hands were made idle.
The miners at Mount Pulaski, ILL.,,
are still on strike for 722a cents per ton,
as against 70 cents per ton formerly re-
ceived.
Hereafter the plumbers and gas-ft-
ters of Brooklyn, n. Y, viii only work
niue hours per day and eight hours on
Saturday.
1t is expected that the Moulders'
union, which numbers 900 men. will
unite with the Knights OF Labor before
the year is out.
Highland Railroad company, Boston,
Increased regular mems pay to ss2.25 a
day last week. The men, however,
complain of too long hours.
S. Baron & Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
manufacturers of cardigan Jackets, have
granted their employees an increase OF
II per cent in wages.
Redcliffe Bros, manufacturers Of
woo]len goods at Shelton, Conn, have
reduced the working hours of their
employees from il to 10 hours per day.
The employees of the Brunswick
Bake -Collendar Billiard Table Com
pany, $50 in number, Chicago, struck
for 20 per cent advance last week and
got it.
The 10 per cent advance demanded
by the iron moulders Of Pittsburg,
Pa, has been conceded by the great
majority of firms, and all danger Of a
strike has been averted,
The New jersey hod-carriers have
decided on nine hours as a days work,
except on Saturday, which will be only
eight hours. The wages will be $3.50
per day, and no nop-union bricklayers
! are to he served.
1t is reported that the Toronto street
railway is hagrantly violating the con-
ditions upon which it's employees re-
Gently resumed work, and considerable
influence is required to keep the men at
work for the present.
The Massachusetts Senate last
Wednesday rejected the bill forbidding
the employment OF children under IS
and women in manufacturing establish
ments more than hEty-slx and half
hours per week.
The Connecticut Legislature, on the
9Th, passed Il bill exempting wages to
the amount of 500 from attachment,
also bill requiring corporations to pay
weekly 80 per cent of wages due when
! re quested by employees.
| Work began in the Edgeworth Falls
factories OF the Boston Rubber Shoe
Company yesterday, 2,coo hands being
employed. 1t is stated that the mills
will run all summer, AS they have a
large number Of orders to fill.
| The following states have regular
bureaus for the collection Of statistics
On the labor question California, Con-
necticut, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Mary
land, Massachusetts, Missouri, Michi-
gan. New Jersey, New York, OHIO,
! Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Fifty representatives Of leading hat
| manufacturing firms met at the Metro
politan hotel, New York. to organize
ar association. Z. 4. Lyons, Of Lyons
Bros, presided. a committee was ap-
pointed to effect a permanent organiza-
ton. The object of the association is
not to antagonize the Workmen in the
trade, but for mutual benefit. 1t is
said that most CT the manufacturers
are on tie best OF terms with their
workmen, and that there is no dissatis
faction among the latter as to wages.
| In spite Of all his opportunities Mr..
Powderly is still poor man. lie lives
in a very modest cottage On the out
skirts Of Scranton, and it is doubtful if
the house, lot, and furniture would
bring more than $500 if put up for sale.
The salary of his position is only 81 500
year, but his travelling expenses are
paid by the organization. Mr.. Pow
derly does not appear to be changed by
bis advancements. He has the same
kindly greeting for bis friends as when
he was an ordinary machinist. He is
not without ambition, but it is believed
to be confined entirely to The cause
which he represents.
The Trades and Labor Assembly Of
| CHICAGO has adopteu a resolution de-