Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-04-26
New York Tribune.
PITTsBURG, Pa. March "a, 1850.

PITTsBURG, Pa. March "a, 1850.
A Working Mems Congress is to assemble
in this city on the third Monday of April next.
The design of this gathering is to effect Il union
among working-men of all branches, so that they
may start an Institute, get Lecture-room, Ii
brary, etc. Immense results will follow our
. success in the undertaking.
We are getting along goriousy now. |
will tell you about the Associations of Work
ing-mcn. The Puddlers have two already or
ganized and the members are at work. One
is located in Sharon, Mercer County, with a
capital of 100000. The largest amount held
by one man is $4,000. There are about sixty
stockholders, all Working-men. Each man has
one vote and no more.
The other Association is here-about three
miles up the Allegheny. The capital is only
$4,000; but the members have refused more.
The leading man wants to invest few thou
sands in addition, but the Company will not let
him. A third is organizing, to be located in
Steubcnville, Ohio. A fourth is preparing to
start on the Allegheny, about four miles up So
much for the Puddcrs.
The Engine Builders are preparing for an or
ganizaton, with capital of 100000.
The Shoamakers have opened their books FOR
Joint Stock Company.
/ The Mouders have purchased ground in Ale
ghany City to build Union Foundry upon.
The Slver-P atcrs have been in operation
with Joint Stock Company for about year.
There are two Glass establishments belong
ing to Working-men, but | know very little a
bout them.
The Tailors intend to do something soon.
The Printers applied to the Legislature for a
charter for a Joint Stock Company; but the com
miltee reported against it twice. 1t will not al
ways be so.
A Bricklaycr told us yesterday that he was
engaged i'll getting up Company of Journey
men to work for themselves. So we 90.
If the Congress can be established, we will
do something in this city that may astonish you.
Yours, /. ID.
Association has been resolved upon by the
Journcymen Bakers of New York. On Tues
day night they held meeting to consider the
grievances and adopt some measures for relief.
They say they suffer degree of oppression eX-
ceeding that of any other class of Workmcn =
that the time of work depends altogether upon
the will of the employer, being ii, Is and even
Is hours per day; that they are deprived of the
usual rest of the Sabbath; that they have no
standard Of wares, their remuneration being uni
form only in one point, and that is its unreasona-
bly, low rate; that the present system enriches
the selfish at the expense Of the unfortunate,
and causes those to be oppressors who wish to
be just They have therefore resolved that they
will form themselves into an Association to OBJ
tain the following objects:
|. TO limit the number of hours labor per
day to y, including meals; the time of labor to
b. from o'clock to o'clock, and from the
first of August, 1850, that night-work be abol-
ished.
Q. The minimum rate of wages to be 50 per
week.
3. Employment to all members wishing to
work.
A. To advise and protect newly arrived en-
igrant Bakers.
5. Fraternity with all useful classes.
1t is their determination, if their employers
still refuse to give them their rights, to form
themselves into Cooperative Companies, under
such regulations as will insure them the rev d
of their labor. This, after all, will be the final
issue on which to settle quarrels between Capt.
tai and Labor. n. y. Tribune.