The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
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LABOR AND LABORERS.
Matters of Interest to Employers and EN-
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Matters of Interest to Employers and EN-
Philadelphia Record
THE organizations of labor are progressing al
the rate OF 300 per month";" said Richard F.
Trevellick. the labor organizer, yesterday after.
noon This veteran reformer, like Grand Mas
ter Powderly, was refused permission to work in
the ship yards of Detroit some thirty years ago.
and he entered upon his career as an organizers
and reformer, and has ever since kept faithfully
at his work He is the ablest labor orator in
America, an admirable debater, and raises en-.
thusiasm wherever he goes.
The most powerful district Of the Knights OF
Labor is No. 30, in Massachusetts. with POI as
semones and 10000 members The other day
I9o assemblies were represented at Lowell by
zoo delegates. The order is spreading through
South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
Last Sunday 300 candidates were initiated in the
Tailors' Assembly at Boston. All the industries
are falling into line. The sailmakers are among
them. The clerks in the dry goods houses are
following after them. The building trades of
Albany are being compactly organized and the
towns along the Hudson are coming in. AS
sembly No. 1862, Of Branford. Conn.,, has l50
members, one-tourth of them girls. A good
many assemblies are moving out of their
cramped quarters into larger halls. The boycott
of certain make of Philadelphia hats has ex-
tended to Montgomery, Ala, and is working well
throughout the West All of the boycotting
movements in operation are producing good re-
suits. from the boycotting standpoint at least.
mittee meets in New York to fix up the boycott
on watches. An assembly of working girls has
been formed in Wheeling. The hodcarriers
there have also organized. In Southwestern
Colorado the order has taken root. Four assem-
blies per week are organized in Texas. The
Farmers Alliance and the Knights are prepar.
ing to put up 500 900 Touring mill in Tarrant
county. Tex, and the farmers will open co.
operative cotton-yard. The prescribed classes"
in the Knights of Labor are rum-sellers, specu-
lators, lawyers and politicians. The leading
spirits are endeavoring to inculcate abstinence
or at least temperance as to intoxicating drinks,
by making it impossible for workingmen who
drink to become members Efforts are being
made in Baltimore to organize the car drivers,
and reduce their hours of labor from sixteen to
twelve. The Federation of Labor will petition
the Legislature this winter that eight hours be
made legal days work, and to abolish the
contract system in prisons, and to forbid the
contractors engaged in marble-cutting, stove
mounting and shoemaking from using convict
labor. The Buffalo organized laborers have in
duced the common council to compel the natural
gas company to increase the rate of wages from
81 to 81. so per day, and employ only men who
have been in the city one year. The Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers and Fremen has had
committee in session in Richmond for several
days. working for restoration of 10 per cent re-
duction. made eight months ago on the O. q o.
road. The Cleveland printers are boycotting the
Argus. In St Paul, Mimi. all trades are in q
better than average condition for this time of
year. The railroad blockades have furnished
hundreds with employment City contractors
are to be required to pay as minimum wages $l. so
per day.
The protest against the passage of Mr.. Haw-
ley's copyright bill at Washington was signed by
over 10000 members and 260 unions and labor
organizations of various kinds.
In several New England towns workmen are
demanding an advance of wages Weekly pay
ments are being made by great many manu-
facturers. and legislation to that end is probable.
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Massachusetts, and bill to that end has just
been presented
The Hooking Valley miners have established
nine hours as days work, and have succeeded
in establishing wages. A MINER in commenting,
on the numerous strikes of that valley during the
past two or three years. says: SHOULD famine.
ever come upon this Nation it will find the
Hooking Valley miners in good condition. on
account of the training they have had for
Every cardriver and conductor in New York
was SURPRISED last week at the action taken by
the managers of the streetcar lines in refusing to
abide by the twelve-hour law and So dollar per
day rule. The executive board of the knights
of Labor called to make peace, but on failing
tiled up" the Sixth and Seventh avenue and the
Broadway roads. The strike included l. 700 dri-
vers and conductors. The Fourth avenue road
was tiled up" on Wednesday night At 10
o'clock on Thursday morning the Sixth avenue
Company gave in. Their the Seyenth-avenue and
the Broadway lines followed. and at l o'clock
the same day Cornelius Vanderbilt, OF the
Fourth avenue line, yielded.
The brush-makers are organizing all over the
country. The Granite Cutters National Union
is out after the proprietor of Batterson's works,
at Westerly, Long Island, with tomahawk, de-
claring that he is seeking cheap notoriety by
posturing as the great inventor of the so.called
cooperative scheme He has, however, found
sixty men to accept his terms.
The cigar makers are still squabbling and
quarreling and preparing for complete break
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tional men left New York last night for the Pa
cifc coast to help fight the Chinese out of the
cigar making trade
A labor correspondent writes: IF 200, coo
cigar, makers in New York city will take 81 each
out of their whisky and beer money every week,
they set fifty factories at work in a year,
with capital of $40. 600 each"
The bakers meeting with success in re-
ducing their hours of labor from sixteen to
twelve. Last year 3, 937 new buildings were
erected in Brooklyn, costing $4,000 000 Fifty
per cent. of the new buildings were built in the
immediate vicinity OF the elevated railroads.
There is less disposition to enforce objections
able contracts upon iaborers than two years ago.
The growth of organization is not causing the
expected overreachng practices on the part of
organized labor that manufacturers anticipated.
As organization grows conservatism grows with
it.
small concerns with capital OF
So. 600 to $4,000. They consist of foundries,
tool shops machine shops, furniture factories
and wagon works. Many of them are started by
young men who have made their capital within
five years. The demand for architectural iron
has led to the increasing of the capacity of sew
eral works in this State and in the West. Archi-
tects are using architectural iron much more
largely than heretofore, particularly some Of the
new designs recently brought out.
Bishop from the People.
London World.
DR. Moorhouse the new Bishop OF Manches-
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