Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-12
WORK AND WORKERS.

I FIVE hundred carpenters in Lynn, Massa;;
chusetts, are on strike for nine-hour day ana
S2.f3 wages.
The querrymens strike al Joliet, Illinois,
has been settled by the employers concedlng
the strikers demands.
THE carpenters of Pittsburg, at a meeting
decided MOTTO join in the cight-hour movement
Which is 10 be inangurated on May lst.
THE stonecutterS of Rochester, New York,
are oil strike TO decide whether they or the
employers shall fix the wages ofinferior work
men.
The painters in Binghamton, New York
have gone on strike for an increase III wages
from 81 to $3.50 pcrday and 80 hours to consi-
tute g weeks work.
At meeting of the Executive Board ofthe
United Mine Workers of America, held in
Pittsburg, it was decided to work for a reduc-
ton of the hours of labor on lines laid down
by other organizations.
Two hundred stone nlasons, 2l0 brcklayers
andabout250 laborcrs in Toronto are On strike
for higher wages. The stone cutters have given
notice that they want an increase from So to 40
! cents per hour af:er the Is: of June.
THE Mechanics Exchange in Providence,
Rhode Island, has resolved 10 stand by the
Freestonc Contractors Association III their eff
forts to secure a settlement by arbitration OF
: the trouble with the Ereestone Cutters Asso-
citation.
ONE hundred and seventy-fve artificial
stone masons in New York have demanded so
cents an hour and three hundred laborers
have demanded $3.50 for Il day of eight hours.
1t is said that about half the employers will
grant the demand.
JAMES w. TUFTS, sodo water fountain
manufacturer, oi Boston, has notified his I50
employees that, commencing June LIST, their
work day will be reduced rem ten to nine
hours without any reduction of wages, and
that extra time will be paid for pro rata.
At meeting in Pittsburg of the miners Of
the Irwin district, it was decided to acceptlast
ycars's rates, but not sign construct for the
year, as heretofore. The operators have been
notified, and if they refuse to agree to this Il
strike of the $500 miners in the district will be
ordered at once.
a FORMAL request, signed by forty leading
business firms has been presented to the
,Iourncymen Carpenters Council in Chicago
asking that the proposed strike for an eight
i hour day and an advance in wages be submit
ted to arbitration. \ similar request is TO be
presented to the Master Carpenters Associa-
ton.
NINE hundred miners of the Gogebic and
Penokee iron ranges met in lronwood, Michl-
, EuD, W lOTiIl UlllOli. lut utleSutcS PlcSSH1
represented COCO men, Committees were ap.
pointed to report at meeting to be held on
the 9th inst. 1.-The chief object of the union
is to direct blow at the system of physicians
and medical attendance prevalent at all Lake
Superior mines"
The leaders of the striking plumbers in
Chicago say that, if their demands are not
granted they will form aco-operative associa-
ton, and they can get plenty of capital to back
them. They say they will establish shops all
over the city for the employment of the men
on strike, and that they can pay the wages de-
nlanded and still declare 10 per cent. divi-
dcnds on the capital invested
A DISPATCH from Scotttale, Pa, 'ayz that
indications point to the shutting down Of all
the coke plants in that region. Master Work
man Kcrfoot and Secretary Parker differ
widely fromthc operators planto restrict coke
production. and state in positive terms that if
the Trottcr plant of 46l ovens is closed down,
as intended. there is probability that all the
works in the region will be put out Of blast.
Labor leaders assert that notice of closing the
ovens has caused wide dissatisfaction among
the nliners.