The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-04-25

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The Stone. oettsrs 81 Newark have struck
for "A 30 pen Nv ~ increase q hfty esnts.
In Buffalo, the snployes Of lsrss stsys
factory have atruck against = rsduction Of
ten per cent. In their wages.
AT proyidsnce, Ne, The 4hip-oarpsntsrs
have stopped work, and ask N incrsass of
wages.
IL New York, the Horssshoers, Soeisty
announces that they have no present inten-
ton Of demanding higher wages. and that
they are receiving ffom % IS to a day.
TIE strikes Of the carpenters and stone
cutters at Newark, N. j., still continue. and
many Of them are leaving for other places
TO sssk employment.
The stopa- cuttsrs Of Auburn, N. T., at .
meeting held last Thursday resolved that no
apprentice be taken for term lees than
| three years and no two be taken by any one
frm al the same time.
| In indianapolis. the rolling mill laborsfs
are on strike against reduction Of twenty
| per cent in wages, and al firss refused TO
concede more than fifteen per cent. Altar
consultation, tbs men csnsented to redue-
ton Of twenty per cent, but the owners re-
fused, and thus no matter stands.
There IL strike among the boiler makers
ct Wheeling, Virginia, and the employers
have been supplying themselves with work
from the Pittsburg mills. The boiler
makers in Pittsbnrg, Who sympathise with
the strikers at Wheeling, nov threaten TO
strike unless the practice 10 stopped.
TEE weavers In North Oxford, Mass, have
struck for an advance Of ten per cent. In
wages, and large number Of Vermont quar-
rymen are out Of employment from the same
cause.
TEE boiler-makers Of Wheeling have re-
sumed work at old prices. and have thus pre-
vented reduction Of wages.
In New York the coopers recently held
meeting, at which it was stated that their
wages ranged from $8 to "a . day. They
determined not to demand any increase OF
wages at present.
The carpenters Of Westchester county,
N. Y, contend that they ought have half
holiday on Saturday, and have given their
employers notice that unless they have IL,
they VII ouit work.
The plasterers' strike at Washington con-
tinues without any hope Of any adjustment.
This strike has now lasted over Eve weeks.
Over forty Of them have found employment
in this city.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, Goth inst,
says: "Since the commencement Of the
strike among the jSurneymen carpet weav-
ere, one hundred Of the employers have con-
scented 10 give the advance wages. The re-
naming manufacturers will probably accede
to the terms Of the journeymen this week. /"
ToREIaN.
A GENERAL LOCK OUT Of the ship joiners
employed on the Clyde is threatened.
TEE NEwcAsrLR bricklayers are at present
on strike for the nine hour system ct lis
cd. per week.
TEE OrsRArrva PAIzrfRs.-At q sum-
monsd meeting Of the Woolwich Branch
| 1oth) OF the General Association of House
Painter, 1t was moved and carried that a.
ter duly and carefully considering the ANAL
gamated rules Of painters. to seceds from the
General Association, and join the AmAlga-
mated House Painter5 Society.
Ar Vienne-the used-to-be China oil
Western Europe--a bi-weekly working
mans paper, Wiezser Arbeiter Zeitsng, has
been established, advocating social demo-
cracy, 1000 copies Of which were sold on
the FIRST day Gifts appearance.
THn Rev. E. Girdlestone, OF Hulberton
England, proposes that agricultural laborerl
should form "unions" similar 70 those Of
mechanics, in order to defend themselves
against the tyranny of employers. But
nine shillings, or about three dollars week
is now often given as wages in his neigh
borhood.
TIE Strike IN GENEvEsE.-It appears that
| the strike of the Gensvese working builders
has been met with lockout on the.part oil
the masters. In q letter addressed to the
workmen by the committee Of masters, dated
March 28, they say the nrms in the building
trade will be under the painful necessity Of
closing their establishments tomorrow
The working masons, stone -cutters, and
plsstersrs have completely left their shops
But few Of the working mechanics, founders
and locksmiths are at work, intimidated BY
those who have organized the strike. Undel
these circumstances, these is general stop
page in the building trade, a1d IL 10 impos-
sible to continue work in the other shops
without material sacrifices, which the actual
crisis viii nct allow the masters to undergo
At present it is impossible to get carpentry
joinery, or smiths work done for buildings
which cannot be any longer carried On.