The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-30
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
The quarry operators of the Des-
PLANES valley. H., have decided to pay
III cents per hour, being raise Of %
cents for ten hours work over last
year.
The stove foundry of Sherman S.
Rogers & Co, in Buffalo. employing
five hundred men has shut down be-
cause Of the labor outbreaks through
out the country.
The Eagle foundry, at Port Chester,
Pa, employing about four hundred
men. was closed Monday morning in
definitely in anticipation OF a strike,
the employees having recently formed
an assembly of the Knights of Labor.
At the mass-meeting convention of
coal miners held at Youngstown, o.,
every mine in the Mahoning valley be-
ing represented, it was decided to ask
for an advance of 10 cents per ton in
the price Of mining, to take effect
May |.
or forty fOundrieS represented III q
molders' meeting at Chicago Sunday,
thirty were reported as favorable to
the eight-hour project. No returns
were made on the remaining ten. This
union has decided upon eight hours
after May l.
The strike at the Missouri Car and
Foundry company's works at st. Louis
is failure. All of the foundry men
and nearly one hundred shop men were
at work Tuesday, and the company ex-
poets soon to have fully half its en-
ployes back at work.
The strike at the Coleraine iron
works at Easton, Pa, ended by Super
intendent Carter giving the men the
a Dgly aI 70, In ~
day. The labOrerS will now receive
$1.1O per day instead of 80 cents, and
furnacemen $40 per day instead Of
$1.20.
The Rev. j. S. Meynardie, master
workman of the knights of Labor of
Georgia, says that there will be no
strike in the cotton mills at Augusta if
the presidents will confer with the eX
ecutive board. All that the knights
want is fair wages for their work. They
want arbitration.
The coal operators of the st. Louis
district have averted a strike of several
thousand miners by granting an in
crease of q cents per bushel. Thirty
grinders employed in the Deere plow
factory at Moline, Illinois, walked out
Monday because the scale of 1884 was
not restored.
The strike at the Miami Stove Works
at Lawrenceburg, Ind, is nowfully on,
and about 100 men are out. The pro-
prietors will not yield to the demand
of the union that the works shall be
turned into union shop again, OF,
at least, they will not for some time
yet, and so the fires are all out.
Hold Carriers Association at Harris
burg, Pa. ordered strike Monday
morning, and large number of brick
layers are thrown out of work as a re-
suit. The men demanded an increase
from $1.75 to 50 per day. which the
boss bricklayers refused. Building ope-
ratiOns are generally suspended.
The Miners and Laborers' associa-
tions of LuZerne. Lackawanna, and
Northern Schuylkill counties, Pennsyl-
vania. held u grand demonstration in
favor of eight hours at Wilkesbarre
Saturday afternoon. All the collieries
i'm LuZerne county suspended work for
the day, and about twelve thousand
persons took part in the parade.
On warrants issued by Recorder
Smyth the police of New York arrested
thirty men for boycotting clothing
house. Several of the largest furniture
factories in Milwaukee closed rather
| than pay full wages for eight hours
work. The rolling-mill of Oliver
Brothers q Phillips, in Pittsburg, shut
down because of a demand for in
creased pay.
The movement among the stove
molders of st. Louis for an advance of
| 10 per cent i'm wages will no doubt re-
suit i'm arbitration between the Mold
| ers' union and the stove companies and
| the establishment of new scale of
prices, both sides being anxious to
make such an arrangement. and de-
| iinitely settle the matter of wages i'm a
manner satisfactory TO all concerned.
The strike of the railway car drivers
at Baltimore ended Tuesday, and for
the first time in two weeks the cars of
the Frick lines are running at night.
Many of the old drivers have been
taken back, but the new men will not
be discharged to give places to those
who struck. The ply will be $1.55 for
twelve hours work, the company re-
fusing to give 81, for which the strike
was inaugurated.
The master masons of the Master
Builders association at Boston have
| issued long report to the Brick-Lay-
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