The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-20
IRON FOUNDERS CONVENTION AT
ALBANY.
Grand Combination of EmpIOyers-The
Union of working Men Resisted by
Cap1taltsts-ResuIts ia TrOy-Six Hun.
dred Men Quit Work.

Probably no city of its size in the Union will
have more interest in the results OF Che acuon OF
the recent Iron Founders Convention, at Albany,
than Troy, on the part Of employer and en-
ployed.
Fhe election of Mr.. Charles Eddy, of this city,
to the Presidency of the Convention, and subse.
quently OF the organization, was a fitting com.
plitnent to that gentleman IS extensive expert.
ence no less than an Acknowledgement OF the
prominent position Troy occupies IN the fore
most ranks OF the stove-manutactuiing trade.
Owing to such prominence of our city in the
stove foundry buriness, and of Troans in the
Association, we print below the main features OF
the "aIticles OF association" adopted by the
Convention, and compiled from the Official
printed documents.
In the convention Just closed three-fosrths of
all the large foundTies in the Union were repre-
sented personally, and assurances we're received
from all the others that the action OF the con-
vention would be acknowledged and subscribed
to by them. There are about a hundred large
foundries IN the country. A permanent organI-
zRtion was formed, under the title of "TRe
American National Stove Manufacturers and
Iron Founders Association and is to be com
posed of such iron founders as are engaged in
the manufacture OF stoves ana hollow ware as
shall subscribe to the articles of association.
The articles OF association adopted number it
teen.
The compact declares it to be the object of the
organization to protect themselves by union of
action against unreasonable exactions on the
part Of employees who may belong to trades,
unions, and also to maintain the right and pre-
control and manage his own business and direct
and regulate his own workshop.
The Association is to consist Of four grand
divisonp, TO be designated as the Eastern, West.
eTn, Middle, and Southern Divisions. The East
tern Division consists of the iron founders OF
the New England States. The Middle Division,
OF New York, and those whose foundIies are
located upon the great Northern lakes. The
Western Division, of the iron founders living
west OF the Alleghenies and contiguous to the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers; and the Southern
Division, OF Philadelphia, Baltimore, and any
other Southern cities which may des re to unite
with the Association.
Twothirds of the members of any division,
| when it shall be deemed necessary tor the COM
mon interests OF iron founders OF such division,
arc empowered to close all the foundies in said
| division, and suspend work therein, and the
Division Secretary is to notify the Secretaries of
the other divisions, who are to give the matter
| circulation in their respective districts.
In case of Suspension OF foundries in any one
| division of the country, as above provided, no
| founder residing in any other division can em-
| ploy any more moulders in his establishment or
| produce any more work, than he did before such
! suspension of q division.
| TO the Treasurer OF the Association is assigned
| the usual duties of that office. An annual fee is
| provided Tor, and each MEMBER is also pledged,
| ia case any emergency should arise, to call for
| larger sum to protect the interest of any men,
bers, 70 pay an assessment to be levied by the
! Executive Committee.
The following were the officers elected
President-Charles Eddy, of Troy; A c. Barstow,
Providepce VIoe-President Eastern Division; Gene.
raj j. f. Rathbone Albany, Vics-P resident Middle
division; DR.. MOBILES, Phi adelpha, Vice-President
Southern Division William ResOI, Cincinnati, Vice.
President Western DIVISION. General Executive
! Il. II. Jewett, Buffalo, Benjamin Burton, Albany,
Secretary. A. Bradley, Pittsburg Treasurer.
The following card was Yesterday posted up in
every foundry in Troy, Albany and in fact stimuli
taneously in every city IN the country
At the National Convention of Iron Founders
held at Albany N. Y, March IA, 1885, the following
resolution was UNANIMOUSLY adopteu:-
protection Of the interests Of the ron founders Of this
country to organize them3eyes into National Associa-
promotion ofa irendIy feeling and mutual confidence
resisting any and ali action of the Moulders' Union
which shall in any manner interfere with our right to
| cortrol our own workshops ana TO manage eur own
ResoIved That we viii proceed at once to introduce
into our shops all the apprentices helpers we deem
adyisa BILE, Lnd that we VIII not allow any Union Com
mittee in our shops and that We VIII IN every way pos
| part of our en- poyes.
Believing that the interests of both the employers
and employees Will thereby be promoted, the em.
Ployes Of this founsIy are hereby 9otifed that
coTdance with the spirit OF the above resolution.
Troy, March 10, 1865.
The posting of the above notices in the differ.
ent foundries yesterday caused the most ln-
| tense excitement last evening. A large meeting
of the moulderS and stove mounters was held at
Moulders' Hall, and a determination evinced to
fight the thing out twas decided to stop work
| at once, so long Us lne OBNOXIOUS CuChihF re-
mains posted. The moulders consider themselves
the injured party, and much bitterness was
manifested and spprehensions of trouble are
rife. There was much mUrmurng last evening,
and excited gatherings upon street corners OF
this large and industrious body OF our city work
men. About six hundred men will be thrown
out OF employment by the strike this morning.
| Mr.. Gladstone has announced in Parliament
that proposal will be made for erecting build
ings on some of the land at South Kensineton,
for the reception of certain collections (incud
ing the Zoological) OF the British Museum.
1t is stated in a Roman letter that an ar
rangement would in short time be effected be
tween the Pontifcal and Mexican Governments
The Emperor Macmillan had written to that
effect to Plus TX, and his Holiness had nomi
mated four Cardinals, among whom we're Fran
conf and Franchi in order to settle the terms o.
arrangement.
The London Reader says:-'It is erroneously
supposed that Robinson Orusoe' first appeared
piecemeal in the Original London Post, on
, Hedthcote's Intelligence, a snail folio journal
which was commenced on The 18th December
| l7ls. The first volume, The Strange Surprisins
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,' was publishe
in octave on the 25th OF April, l7l9: and thu
second, The Further Adventures, on the 2eth o
| the following August. Ii was not till the 7th o
| October, in the same year, that the Ortg9nd
| London Post commenced giving two pages o
> | Robinson Crusoe, beyond its two pages o
news, etc. The Further Adventures were no
concluded in that paper till the 18th OF October
1920. Mr.. w. Lee In Notes and Queries call
attentlon to this fact, we presume because ho
| b1nson Crusoe' as published in Hedttootes Inte
| hgenoe, is book sought after by book collectors
Z under the impression that it Is the purest text
s | and fetches almost ite weight IN gold when sol