The examiner., 1886-03-20
THE WORKING WORLD.

The Pottstown Iron Company will also increase the wages of it's employees on April l.
 All the cloak makers in New York city, numbering 1,500 went out on strike They merely demand the abolition of he con- tract system, desiring to deal directly with the employers.
 The great railroad strike is ended, for the present at least, the corporation agree ing to leave to arbitration the case of the discharged man over which it is said the strike was precipitated.
 The Champion Bar and Knife Company of Springfield, O., has issued circular refusing to treat with any committee of strikers, or to employ any one who is member of the Knights of Labor.
 The loom fxers in the Durfee mill weave room of Fall River have struck because, having charge of 172 looms each, they re- ceive only si, ,O5 per 100 cuts, while upper room fxers, with only 150 looms receive $1.10.
 The Warwick Iron Company of Potts town, Pa., wiil voluntary restore the wages of it's several hundred employers on April 1. This is an increase for IaOorers from $1 to $1. 10 per day, and others in propor- tion.
 The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel-Workrrs propose to es ablish at
 
 store from which supplies of provisions, clothing. tobacco, etc., twill be distributed to subordinate shops tFiroughout the country either at minimum whelesale prices or on commission, to be resold at cheap rates for the benefit of organized labor.
 The Won.en's Educational and Indus trial Union, "A Boylston street Boston, Mass, cautions all women to be wary Of advertisements and circulars promising, on receipt Of a stated sum-. work at home, with large earnings. As means for pro- tectiDg the public against any fraudulent advertisements of this kind the Union an- nounces that it twill gladly investigate, free of charge, advertisements offering to women work at home.
 A juvenile strike occurred at Boston Tues day, which was an amusing affair. The boys of the Boston District Telegraph Company struck for 4.50 per week and 10 cens an hour for overtime. The superin-s tendent sent for their mothers who soon appeared upon the scene of hostilities. The boys dodged through the alley-ways
 with the mothers in pursuit. The little
 rebels were finally captured CT surrend-
 cred. but would not agree to go to work
 until the company agreed to pay the 10 cents an hour overtime demand, and promised to consider the other. None of the boys wanted to strike, but couldn't help it, as sst'other fellers'' made them. + A Protective Association of Brooklyn Rlled at the works of the New York Steam Com pany Tuesday to confer with Manager Elm l cry, with view of settling the differences between the strikers and the company. I Manager Emery would not confer with the committee, and when it departed he wrote out this notice and posted It up on inc glass entrance doors of the office The Ar bitration Committee has just been sent away. The terms of the company are simply, let us alone. We will on no con- dition employ again any Of the strikers. When firemen getting g per day for eight hours work strike 10 protect indolent, threacherous engineers, it is time to say, No surrender. Other officers of the com pany said that the strikers hereafter would be driven away if they came near the com- pany's offices or peers or stables. Tired policemen guarded the carts as usual, but
 nobody made the slightest attempt to in
 terfere with the work.
 A dispatch dated Milwaukee wis. says: the trouble which has broken out between 1 the Cigarmakers International union and l the orer the IDtF0dcfion 1 Of new label iu opposition to the Inter
 national label bids fair to result in serious rupture which may cause A formidable split in the labor ranks The trouble has began recently with the organization by
 the Knights of Labor Of an assembly of cigarmakers, to whom vas promised the Knights of Labor label. A protest against l this action of the organizer was forwarded
 to Master Workman Powderly, but it is said to have been unheeded- and 5, 5,0OO of the Knights white labels have been received here. The International ciearmakers claim that as a body their names have merged
 into the Knights of Labor, and that fully | 10s090 of their men are Knights on their own responsibility, but may be called out Of the order by resolutions of their union if this attempt to override their label is not abandoned. The union men say that if the Knights insist on interfering by intro ducing another label it will seriously com plicate matters to the damage of labor gen. orally and cigarmakers particularly. Since the success of the horse car strikes | in New York and Brooklys nearly every man employed on horse railroad in Brook Iyn has joined the Knights of Labor. Be fore the strike the attendance at the lodges of Knights was so small that often no bus mess could be transacted. A driver said recently: Each meeting of Knights which takes place now packs the hall like sar- dine box. While the Richardson strike was going on, one delegate alone proposed seventy five men in one night in one of the lodges. Seventeen of the Adams pressmqn employed by the Burr Printing Company went on strike Tuesday. They have been receiving S16 per week, and are striking for an increase to S20, which is the union scale. At meeting of sash and blind makers, it was determined to demand fewer hours for days work on Monday next They will demand nine on every day but Saturday, when they will work but eight Hours. A committee was appointed to communicates to every shop the result of the meeting. Some dozen yonng girls enl- ployed in a cracker bakery went out with out any grievance, but .sto help the boys, on strike. They were sent back by their parents. HONOR TO WoRkMEN.