Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — Labor and Laborers. [ARTICLE]

Labor and Laborers.

Two hundred carpenters in Bath, Me. v are on a strike against a reduction. The Cleveland Leader is now fighting a boycott movement. This is its second, tussle. Only one person in every two hundred in New York City owns the house lie lives in. The Dominion Government proposes toestablish at once a Bureau of Labor Statistics at Ottawa. Typoguaphical Union, No. 12, of Baltimore. Las ordered that all non-union ollices be boycotted. A co-operative stove company has been organized in Bloomington, 111., with a capital of SIO,OOO. Officers of the Window-Glass Workers’ Association are in New York waiting for the importation of contract workmen from Belgium. Twelve hundred hands have been discharged in two weeks in the Moquette Carpet Mills, at Yonkers, N. Y., on account of boycotting. The Jack Tars of San Francisco, to thenumber of 1,000, members of the Coast. Seamen’s Union, are idle, and many ships are tied up.