The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-02-15
LABOR ITEMS.

TEE Cleveland Iron and Nail Works have
resumed operations, after being closed about
SIX weeks.
THR Lewiston Me-, baggiDg mill, which
las been manufacturing to about half its ca
pacitf for some months, 10 about starting all
its machinery again.
A YEAR ago, q shoe and leather company
in Worcester, Mass, adopted the co-opers-
tive system and last week the first fiivi-
dend was made. The profits amount to thrssr
thousand FIVE hundred dollars. A sunrser
was given to celebrate the event, and com.
pany Of FIVE hundred .persaas was invitedA--
including all the yworkmen ana their wives
and children.
A co-oPERArrvE stove foundry IA bepun
operations in Somerset, Mass,
THE California Legislature have passed
law that any person compelling minors in
his employ to work more than eight hours
a day, shall be deemed guilty Of INSIDE
meanor.
The Lewiston Me-, Journal says that the
demand for laborers for the mills in that CITY
Is increasing. The mills are all to be put in
motion very soon.
The New York Cooperative BUILDING Lot
Society held its first meeting on the night Of
the 10th inst, for taxing subscriptions at
farmers Institute, which was crowded with
workingmen anxious to enroll their names
and invest their earnings in q society whose
advantages are so many and 80 great. RE
managers are all workingmen. Fifty
week secures = aOt 1oxf00 fees, without
any other payments. .
fokles.
THE North Stafordshire ironmasters have
given notice that they will reduce the wages
Of their millmen 10 per cent. and the pud-
dlers Is per ton. The men win strike. under
advice from the South tsffordshire unions.
# the masters persist aud 10 there il little
doubt that the intention Of the employers
win be carried out, complete suspension of
work in the iron trade appears inevitable.
FoR some time past m attsnpt to ~eduee
the wages OF ironmolders throughout vsrio6s
parts Of Scotland has been resisted By the
workmen, and to the present time no salts
factory arrangements have been come to
by the contending parties. Under these
circumstances, we understand that, at
meeting Of the COMMITTEE Of the Employers'
Association. held on wednesday, IL wss re-
solved to call meeting Of the whole Of che
employers at al early day, and submit to
follow x resolutions That, in consequence
Of the Moulders' Union having struck Ger.
tain workshops IN Aberdeen and elsewhere,
because -unisn men have been employed,
resolved, that the services Of union molders
be dispensed with BY the trade on and after
ist Of February next. until an arrangement
has been made on the footing Of the general
notice Of the End Of January, 1885, Being
thus forewxrned. the Scottish Ironmolders
Society viii no doubt be prepared 10 meet
the emergency but we hope Che good ssnss
Of both parties will ring about an smicabls
settlement Of the matters In disyute without
q lockout or strike.
TIE London Tailors, Executive Committss
have determined 70 work the Act passsd Lass
Session TO regulate the labor Of Homsn and
children in this and other trades. Under
the. Act IL Is forbidden. 70 employ apy chill
dren under eight ~ . handicfaft, q any
child fcr more than six and a.hzlf hor--. o.
any woman or young psrson or more thAa
twelve hours, Nth a. ipkey4al At one md .
half h0un for meg1s - - SOD ~