The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-04-28
TRADES UNION ITEMS.


TRADES UNION ITEMS.
THa Charleston South Ca7olinGn chron-
icles new phenomenon in that city, namely,
q demand by the blacks for higher wages
A DAILY paper on the cooperative plan
has been started by the journeymen printers
OF Richmond, Va, who recently struck.
The Assembly ON Tuesday unanimously
passed the bill limiting the working hours of
New York car-drivers &C., to ten. We hope
that at the next session the bill will be so
amended as to apply to other cities.
One hundred and dfty printers at Wash
i1gton struck for higher wages on the 18th,
demanding three dollars and fifty cents, in
stead Of three dollars q day.
Co-oPERArIvE.-The Springfield Uuiou
says The meeting Of those interested in
establishing cooperative store in this city
was quite well attended kooday evening. A
committee to solicit subscriptions was ap-
pointed, and the meeting adjourned one
week.
The compositors in the newspaper Offices
Of Nashville, Tenn, have good reason TO be-
lieve that they viii soon be cared upon to
submit TO . Ia 60 reduction Of wages. They
request thu printers Of other parts Of he
country to keep away from Nashville until
this little affair is equitably settled.
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strike for eight hours, ne employers lave
declared their intention Of importing me
chanics from Liverpool. As il is the EN-
ploy ers who generally cry loudest for a tariff
o. protection for home industry, perhaps
these New Orleans EMPLOYERS will not refuse
70 pay duties upon tie proposed imports-
tion.
TEE working tailors Of London obtained q
partial advance on their wages, and The
great strike in England Is at an END.
A STRIKE among the brickmakers Of st.
Louis, took place last week.
In Troy the coach makers quietly obtain
ed their advance wages on the lst inst, in
every Union shop in the city.
TIE painters Of Hartford, who are on o
strike for $3 per day, have agreed to take
S2e5 for plain work.
TAE demand Of the Co-operators Union Of
Waltham, Mass, for an increase Of wages
has been acceded to by the employers Of
that city without strike.
THE applications from the artisans en-
ployed in the different dockyards for an in
crease of wages, has been refused by the
English Admiralty.
AT meeting of the Foundrymen's Assc
cation Of New Orleans, it was voted thai
Messrs. Mullaine Of the pattern-makers, Ho
ley Of the finishers, Mullaine Of the black
smiths, Powell Of the moulders, and the Pre-
sident, constitute committee to complet,
the purchase Of tile fcundry establishment
The appropriate Committee reported tina
the progress in subscriptions to the stocl
had been very satisfactory.
An Eight Hour bill was lost in the Char
lestown, Mass, Common Council by vots
Of 7 to g.
The Coal ShoveleTs OF the North River
in accordance With q previous notice, hsv,
struck for twelve and a-half cents per ton
and are now standing out for the demand.
THs recent strike of the sash and blind
makers Of New York, is proving successful
sixteen Of the employers, after holding out Q
week, having complied with the request Of
their workmen for an advance in wages
TIVE shoe business in Haverhil, Mass, .,
the present time appears in a dlapidated
state. Not much doing, and a great many
workmen lying around loose, and numbers
added to their ranks daily. The prospect
for lively business in this branch Of indus
try does not look very iattering for the
present.
THE Detroit Cooperative Association, held
its regular quarterly meeting on the 10th
inst, and is reported to be in dourishing
condition. A branch store is to be opened
Immediately The boot and shoe store
started some months since BY the association
is pronounced success. The Association
have started project to supply wood and
coal also on the cooperative principle; and
an amendment to the constitution has bean
adopted allowing non-members trading a
the store three-tifths as much percentage on
their purchases as is received bv members.