The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-09-26
COOPERATIVE NEWS.

tbs Bricklayers Cooperative Building
ciety Of New York report that one hundred
shares OF stock have been taken up ALREADY
a though the society has kept IL among
bricklayers alone thus far. It il intendc'
take il TO other trade organizations d
the coming months. When one-third
stock IL subscribed for, the society will
game permanently under the statute.
shares are SO each, 81 Of which Nv
down On signing the paper, and the re-r
four installments at the eau Of the boe 1 .t
management, about one month apart. IAa
New York operative plasterers report JlAt
the affairs OK the Union are III a III turisAIIg
condition, AL Of the 975 members beng al
work, with $3.50 and IS wages for eight
hours. The bosses find It dldicalt "a
men cut Of the Union, it is asserted.
DISCHARGES AT rus GovERNMENT pRIyu
OFFIcE--W Within few week past quite
number Of the comPos,tors a5 the Cover
ment Printing Office have been "furloughad
aud several hsve been discharged.
THE ASSOCIATION OF journeymen " tsn-iour
bricklayers o; New York, recently organizai.
has passed a resolution that henceforth OFT,
able-bodied men shall be eligible for adru.-
sion, and that s. instead of IS sha!l 1e
charged as admission tee. The society Y,
steadily increasing, at present haSiag 2J5
members. The +" eight-hour" bricksy-r-
xho are working on the New York County
Courthouse were notified on TUESDAY tLat
unless they worked ten hours hereafter lueir
services would DO dispensed with AloHt
two years ago the Common Council passed
an eight hour law, which none Of its officers
have ever tried TO enforce, aud which, IL y
now asserted, they openly violate
kTHE President Of the National Unlon of
Piasterers has sent letter 10 all subordinate
organisations, recommending the adoption
Of the following resolution in reference q
strikers: THAT any local union cOntem-
plating Ia advance privileges whereby a
strike may be incurred and support required
from the general union, that they shall for
ward 70 the general secretary an exact state
ment Of the privileges demanded, and tha
number Of the members, amount Of wages
paid, and the number or hours worked per
day. The general secretary shall send such
report to all other local unions, ard they
shall vote on the requisition and return the
correct number OF yeas and nays to the gen
eral secretary, aud II N majority 0f the
whole vote taken 10 in iAvOr OF the sane,
the president shall have power 10 levy per
CAPITA tax throughout the whole union suf-
fcaant to pay each member while On strike
the sun OF ten dollars per week"
The CARTMEN Of New York city are max
ing arrangements TO form q co operative
union. At meeting held ON Thursday
evening, for organisation, at which lily
members were present, II was stated that, az
the case now stood, mn honest icensed
cartman coulS not get enough 70 feed his
horses with, mucG less to support o family.
A licensed cartman 10 allowed 70 drive three
horses, whereas there were many unlicensed
men, with ten or twenty horses, who took
their trade away from them. The appeal TO
the authorities 10 have such intruderS ar
rested was useless, and they we're now de-
termined, as . body Of workmen containing
two hundred members, to see that justice
Was done them. The exact plan Of bringing
this about Is not yet matured.
R0RkI0N.
In aS4s. an. association Of masons was
formed 10 France. which 10 still in existence
and rrcsperous- At present the society has
eighty-fDur members. Two OF these are
manaeers-one for the building department,
and the other for the pecnniary adOinistra-
lion aud 4 third 10 assistant manager. Of
he remainder. two-thirds work with the
troweI, the others are soperintcndents and
distributors Of work. When this French
society had been four years in existence, y
did business, ia year, 70 the amount OF
nine thousand dollars. with q profit Of two
hundred dollars. Four years later, in 1888,
its business Amounted 70 &240, 900, and the
profits 10 $4,000. In that year i paid
dividend Of 10 per cent on the capita q its
members. 10 has built some "a tns1ness
houses IN Paris. Il usually employs De
twseu two rsuuIghros hundred wOrkmsn, wyUs
until lately. received, besides their waSps,
share Of the Prohrs-
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