New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-20
THE LlBOR MOVEMENT.

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| SLEEP. AND EIGHT FOR RECREATION.
Nearly every one cf the many workingmen's organ
zaons in this city and State has recently seriously
than ever before discussed the feasibility Of reducing La
eight day. And those employers who have
trivial addition TO the current rates OF wages have IN
variably said and st say that is not the increase IN
cost OF labor but what may De expected hereaIler,
against which they are arTayed These gentlemen are
aware and their employees that the most formid
able, most remarkable, of all the strikes yet to come
The workngmens societies have viewed the Eight Hour
question IN all its bearings. The employers societies
have not The latter have counted their probable losses
under the eghthOur rule OF interest OH money invested
and of rents and the like. Briefly they have surveyed
the question solely from peeunlary sandpoh On ine
ether hand the Journeymen have estimated the probable
dmnuton of the products of labor under the adoption OF
the eigthour rule by given number Of men, the con
equent reduction Of the excess OF laDorers IN the
month; the gradual increase in the demand Tor labor
after the adoption Of the eghthOur rule which may war
ALL the lesSening Of the hosts OF men ana women
who, in glutted labor market, asking for bread
The speeches which have been made at recent meetings
of mechanics and the resolutions which were adopted on
Friday evening without dissenting voice by the W oik
ingmen's Union, the recognized representative OF an
workingmens organizations in this city ana vicinity,
show the temper In which Labor VIII enter upon TINS
fresh contest with Capital said thoughtful mechanic.
discussing merits eight hours days work The
law has been enacted; remains for US to make ts
combina on all worSngnen's societies, and they must
be prepared, though they were single Opuleht ctp
tast to put single trade strike not only here but
Throughout the land and by establishing the working
in trade in cooperative labor shops or by other
means support that trade till 10 shall have won the
hours We should take lesson from the disastrous
strikes in the West and that lesson should teach us
paenee-teach that precptate action is sure defeat
Ne have worked eight long years nscribe this law
statutes; like period may eapse before elght hOurs
shall be as generally recognized days work as ten Is
now" speaker at another meeting, who proposed that
all mechanics and aborers should combine In one vast
Industry until capitalists should concede the point
told that wOrkingnen could not entertain ms sucida
proposition: and another speaker at the same meeting
who proposed cooperation as preparatory step III the
direction OF the eighth0ur revolution. was roundy APP
plauded. Said n shipcaIpenter; 'Lct US u pos
Our society almost fatally crippled by the strike
Of for which we fought, but we have driven ship
building from shores. But where should we have
prepared go into Congress with demand for tarn
foreign ports II We could forced the enactment Of
heavy upon foreign bottoms and upon repairs made
in foreign ports employers could have given us al
that we asked and our Ship yards could have been alive
with the hum OF industry So H. IN ehectmg this radical
for tic contingency Of stoppagc at home or transfer OF
labor to other helds we may win But we must Work
breathe the spirit that is manifested in the remarks
which are reprodnecd above are as io9%s
rallied the people by making ,h. hours the Of legal
Bl is M tae benefit Of al who have Interests involved
tia the Transition noid l' made fh " le s Io.s 70 ne VA
i T. 1tps''a'n' made '''''H '''''' 'i' '''''4
Be.oirs na,rnch the legislature be- y sniei3g the
into Ar tlrpNl ne l"si", hi upon me L-ia ~
therefore consider 40 imperative duty 4 an early az to nae ~ op
allow What we a'e eneiT nur psieaeo nd p to be
e.po.,a 20 eoa1ate sn olr''i'e, tie tl2oa
considered prepared To- AM oporerate 18th u say,ng
oa i-n ehich arr prel :" ll a l@ aSI Oh zoe I
kl'e, to ~ r. .',9,,a '.1i s, - s , 10 H.
Meetings on SATURDAY EVENING.
At the meeting NJ the United peTrckmen's r. and u.
Unlon-Presdcut Cornelius Brennan in the chairit was
reported that employers declined 90 raise the derekncns
FROM s. Is to s. day. and that here ana thee an
EN-
number Of ordinary abOreIs has cOntriyed 20 prevent
The cessation of his work Objection was made To work
ing with nonsocety mem hui member Of the Union
reminded the meeting that on to passage oil the Note
which put the strike was also voted that ~
should be the priyilcgc-ndeed the dutyot any man 10
90 work whenever and wherever he could get inc AT
vance member having inquired whether the derrick
men on the new Court House receiving the advance
another member replied that the men employed on that
job arc getting from US to $50 week II was resolved
that the United Dcricmen. who have been on strike
since Wednesday morning last wiz stand out until en-
poyer- conccde s. day; President Martin joyce and
Mt Patrick Goding addressed the Cellar and Sewer
Diggcrs' Union in the Nineteenth Ward Hall, and com
mitee Of i've was appointed To canvass ana strive 10
persuade all cellar and sewerdggers 10 become members
% the Union. A. the meeting of the Plumbers and -
Union. Messrs Thomas Hughes Gilbert Hamilton ana
Andrew Welsh were appointed TO solicit SUBSCRIPTIONS IN
ha IL s s oU Oh b CsS spo The
Operative HorseshoerS' J.. aud b. Union resolved 70
his morning, and by strike for new scale OF prices
President Hunter and Messrs. Cushman and Patrick
dag evening. aud It was voted that and after the
Fourth u July next the bakers demand g day. The
Hunter President: Eugene Kerrigan Wee President;
James Watson. Recording Secretary; Thomas Qurk FL
nanclal Secretary, and william Fhzpatuck Treasurer
At the Laborers Union tho hodcauiers strike was re-
ported TO be- unfinished TIE Union Cooperative Build
ng Society met John W. Farmers Institute, and lis
tened Secretary AlnghaIns report showing that 22j
workngmen have taken shares valued at $4,000. The
Secretary added that Mr. John W. Farmer. the President
of the Association, Will accept the ONCE OF treasurer MI
Day presided M the meeting " the WOrngmens Mutual
Cooperative Association Of Brooklyn, and several me
chancs Who desire become their own landlords on easy
terms, their gnatrcs To the roll At the meeting
OF he brooklyn Wurklagu'n's Assembly. 10 was
Rs.re That Assruhr rom this tire onward dfsst nom
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