The Irish standard., 1886-07-17
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

Electricity is now applied to tn
bleaching Of cotton and linen fabrics.
The best female lacemakers of Sax
ony are not able to earn more than 81
cents q week.
Pittsburg capitalists are making ex
tensive purchases of pine and cypress
timber lands in Florida.
Six railroad strikers were acquitted
at Palestine, Tex, on Friday, and th'
cases Of twenty others noll pressed.
The Augusta (Ga.) cotton factor!
closed last week in consequence OF thu
hands IN the picker room striking for :
10 per cent advance.
The employees of the blast furnaces ii
the Pittsburg district will demand ar
advance Of 20 per cent. The matter
will probably be arbitrated.
The 1900 employees of the Rock Is.
land shops in the town of Lake, neal
Chicago, have returned to the ten-houl
rule. Wages were proportionately in.
creased.
No. Is, Plumbers international
Union, OF this city, has decided to give
up the struggle to obtain the reduc
tion Of the hours OF labor and the
lourueymen have gone back to work
ten hours at $3.50.
The $50 miners employed at McDon-
adds Station, Pa, by w. 2. Rcnd, on
the Panhandle railroad have gone on
strike. They now demand Is cents in-
stead Of 26 cents per ton for loading
coal.
The most important matter which
came before the session of the Window
Glass Workers at i'lttsburg this week
was cooperative scheme which has
been under consideration for some
time. It is The intention to issue shares
Of $50 each for the purpose Of erecting
new plauts.
Messrs. Dustin & Hough have begun
WORK oa their new slaue ehtering and
packing house in Miles City, Mont, to
replace the one recently destroyed by
fire. Twenty of the butchers have re-
turned to Chicago to remain there
until the new establishment is put in
running order.
The statute laws of some Of the
States make it q misdemeanor for any
ONE to contract for a greater rate Of i'll
terest than per cent. Why should not
the laws of Minnesota and every other
State make it & mist1emeanor to con-
tract tor more than eight hours as
days laborS This is the practical way
to deal with the eiEht-hour question.
Sunday, at Alinnehaha. the German
section of the National labor party, TO-
gether with the Scandinavian section
OF the same party, celebrated their
union under central local committee,
with permanent seat at Minneapolis, by
holding picnic. Songs, dances and
speeches were 1nterspersed with re-
freshments. At 10 o'clock the party
was addressed by Evart Nymanover.
There is no question that if the work
ingmen go to work in dead earnest
NOV" and lay aside all collateral mat
teys, and work early and late with a
singleness of purpose, they can make
the eight-hour day q SUCCESS and an ac-
complisfled fact long before the first
day of May, 1877. The IRISH STAND
ARD, however, does not believe it can
be done by strikes, iock-outs or boy
colts; it must be done by act of legisja-
ture.
1t is asserted that Jay Gould has
given the order that all knights Of La
bon are to be discharged from the Ele-
waited Railroad as fast as their places
can be filled by other men. If this is
not q boycott, what is it ? And yet we
don't see che papers Of New York
going wild over the lawless act of this
individual, who is dong O. thousand
times more harm than the poor men
who were convicted and sent to the
penitentiary for boycotting a vile con-
cert saloon.
4 labor demonstration took place in
London, Ont, Friday, in honor Of the
delegates attending the quadrennial
Of the International Moiders Union Of
America. The demonstration origin
ated with the trades unions and
knights of Labor. over two thousand
operatives walked in procession
through the principal streets, carrying
banners and American and British
hass, the visitors occupying the post Of
honor. The principal features of the
procession were wagons containing
workers at their different trades, ma
chinery in operation. and the presence
in carriages of young women, members
of the Knights OF Labor, wearing
badges of the order.
The Chicago Daily Sun, published in
the interest of the workingmen, has
suspended. The following is offered in
explanation: "Owing to complications
utterly beyond his control, the pub
fisher is reluctantly compelled to sus-
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