The Irish standard., 1886-04-17
Labor. Notes.

ers.
Chicago has twenty six assemblies,
K. Of l..
Milwaukee Knights are rapidly ln-
creasing their numbers.
Philadelphia street car employees won
their demands on the I'd.
The cloakmakers' strike in New Y Ork
ended last week.
Cove mills, Stamford, CT, increased
wages last week.
Morocco dressers at Wilmington,
Del, struck last week.
The Reading (Pa.) iron works gave
every one of it's 1000 employees an ad-
vance April /.
Pennsylvania coal mines nave laid a
statement of their grievances before
the governor.
Sixty Boston merchant tailors have
decided to hold out against the de-
mands Of the journeymen.
A big labor meeting, at which Mr..
Powderly is expected to speak, is to be
held at Music Hall, Cincinnati, on the
18th.
Because it was illegal, and is now
impracticable. Mayor O'Brien vetoed
the eight-hour bill relating to Boston
laborers last week.
A rumor prevailed last week that the
strike on the southern railroads was
engineered by Jay Gould himself for
the purpose of depressing stocks.
In the Fort Worth municipal elec-
tion lately every alderman elected was
knight of Labor, while Mr.. Broiles,
who was elected mayor, is looked upon
as a. sympathize1 with the Knights and
received their support. ...
The only classes excluded from the
ranks of Knights of Labor are the sa-
loon keepers and all persons who re-
ceive profit from the whisky trade,
professional gamblers, brokers, bank
ers and LAWYERS.
Senator Platt, of this state, is making
very serious mistake. We have, TO-
gether with the large mass Of working
men Of this state, believed Mr.. Platt to
be a. friend of labor. But his proposed
bill to increase the efficiency of the
army bv increasing it's strength to 50,-
O0O men, is not a good way to strength
en- that belief.
The Newfoundland Assembly has re-
ported the resolutions proposed by Sir
Ambrose Shea providing for railway
extension in order to find work for the
thousands Of idle men in St. Johns
and surrounding districts. A number
of petitions praying that work be found
for the unemployed were presented to
the Legislature, one of them signed by
1900 persons. The distress is becom-
ing daily more serious and some meas
ures for the immediate relief of the
suffering population are Imperative.
The laboring class comprises nine
tenths of the population of this coun-
try, and this being the case. does it not
follow that the workingmen are the
consumers? Now, one must be able to
buy or he cannot consume that which
others produce. Does it not neces-
sarily follow, then, that the people will
consume more when wages are higher
than Wnen they are low. When manu-
lfactulers all over the country reduce
the wages Of their employees, thereby
expecting to increase their own divi-
.dends. they show .an. astonishing lack
of sound <;:eh5s ,::fS;& it: would take but a
minutes thought to show them that by
every realueti0h. OF ::wages .they were
simply lsssepias th6: nqrchaslinS::p9wer
OF the consumer, and thereby curtail-
ing tie demand for their own manufac-
turers' wares. It is only when wages
are high that times are good.
The explored coal beds of Ireland
contain 2O9, ,O0O, 900 tons Of workable
coal, chiefly anthracite.